Anyregion Changer Wii - Gamebrew

AnyRegion Changer is an application which allows you to make non-temporary changes to various region and language settings on your Wii's SYSCONF and setting.txt files. You may call this a "Region Mod", i.e. the settings will persist. It also allows you to install the System Menu of another region if you so desire.

There is a YouTube Video demonstrating this application's basic functionality. A full description of this utility can be found in the README file.

Important Warning:

• The 3.3rev03 update to the shop channel breaks shop country region changing. Be warned that your Wii may be stuck in a certain region for the shop for the time being.
• The 4.2 update will brick your Korean region changed with a 003 Error brick, unless you remove the Korean key using KoreanKii first.

What it does

AnyRegion Changer lets you easily make and save changes to the volatile SYSCONF and setting.txt files.

setting.txt (/title/00000001/00000002/data/setting.txt):

• AREA setting - Used to determine which region the System Menu should be--normally the cause of full bricks.
• GAME setting - Used to determine which region of Discs and channels the System Menu will boot.
• VIDEO setting - The Wii's video mode setting. Seems to be used universally.

SYSCONF (/shared2/sys/SYSCONF):

• IPL.LANG setting - Used to determine what language to use for various things. Sometimes contingent on AREA setting.
• IPL.SADR country setting - Used to determine region information for the Forecast/News Channel and the Wii Shop Channel.

Notes

AnyRegion Changer will also install System Menu 3.2 and the appropriate IOS for any of the three main regions.

The system menu installation feature should work universally. That is, regardless of what System Menu you have installed, you should be able to upgrade/downgrade to 3.2 for any region with this feature. This is accomplished via a temporary patched IOS which incorporates bushing's IOSDelete patch and Waninkoko's AddTicket version check patch. This IOS is only installed if necessary, and it is deleted immediately after use.

Precautions

This software comes with no warranty whatsoever. You may use this software at your own risk. Author take no responsibility for any damage caused by this application.

Please take note of the following:

• If setting.txt is corrupted for any reason, it is entirely possible that your Wii will no longer boot.
• If you change the GAME ("Game Region") setting, you may no longer be able to boot discs!
• Be careful not to change Video mode to a mode unsupported by your display.
• If you change your Country code, you will be unable to receive any pending gifts you have in the Wii Shop Channel. (The shop will also warn you of this)
• Important - Setting the AREA setting ("Console Area Setting") to a different region than your System Menu WILL cause a Semi-Brick! If for some reason your System-Configured flag is unset (via some installation, or a corrupted SYSCONF) your system WILL become FULLY BRICKED.

It may be a good idea to backup your :/title/00000001/00000002/data/setting.txt|setting.txt with tool (SD card required). The setting_replace tool will also restore your setting.txt from a backup on your SD card.