Wii Firmware Update Breaks Freeloaders

Posted by x3sphere at August 7, 2007, 9:56 pm

Bad news, the Wii update last night appears to have rendered Freeloaders inoperable. It’s understandable why Nintendo blocked it, the Freeloader is an unlicensed product after all. However, what I don’t understand — why go through the trouble to block it? The disc only allows you to play games from another region on your Wii.

Certainly a minuscule amount of users are actually using it. Plus, the disc cannot be used for piracy purposes… so what’s the deal here? All I can see is that this will piss off importers.

Wii Update Breaking Freeloaders [Kotaku]

Comments

Junit says:

There probably going to make there own and sell it retail

August 7, 2007, 9:00 pm

x3sphere says:

Probably not... seeing as Nintendo was the one to enforce region restrictions in the first place.

I guess if you are an importer the only way to play games from a different region is to chip your console :| Which is now pretty much illegal in most places...

I give a plus to Sony on this. The PS3 actually has no region restrictions on games (only movies).

August 7, 2007, 9:08 pm

Junit says:

What about xbox 360 does it have region restrictions ? I wouldn't mind importing some games from ebay

August 7, 2007, 9:55 pm

x3sphere says:

Yea it does. No way to get around the region protections on the 360 atm.

August 7, 2007, 10:36 pm

MenaceInc says:

didn't know the ps3 was region-free....thats really nice of Sony... :|

August 9, 2007, 8:32 am

Cheezeball99 says:

Yeah, actually the X360's region-locking differs from game to game. I have a compat list somewhere around here.... Ah, yeah, HERE it is.