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[Rumple]

I want to buy a Wii.

If I buy a Korean Wii, can I get games in English? In other words, is there a language setting for say, Wii Sports or Wii Fit?

[Sapa]

menu - korean
games - english if you get english version.

I posted something similar only a couple of posts below this...

http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=134195

[Rumple]

Will American games work on a Korean Wii?

If not, do Korean Wii games generally come with multiple language settings?

[Sapa]

most of the American games have worked, some haven't, i'm trying to work out why but I have only had it a week so know very little.

[hanguker]

Search this forum. There are a lot of threads concerning this and other questions about Korean Wii.

[Rumple]

[skconqueror]

English setting on wii itself... No

but if you get it modded, and you buy or download english games.. then the menus on those games will be in English.

[Rumple]

[Drew345]

You mention Wii Fit in the original post. I was told at Yongsan that the balance board is not yet available in Korea. Were you able to find one for Wii- Fit?
Thanks

[skconqueror]

[Underwaterbob]

Rather than start another Wii thread I thought I'd post my question here since eslcafe has become the definitive place to talk modded Wiis in Korea (google it and it's close to the top).

Anyhow, my question: Can modded Korean Wiis play burned, North American Gamecube games? I'm thinking of buying a Wii but There don't seem to be enough games for Wii I want to play to warrant the purchase, unless I can count Gamecube games. I've never played a Gamecube before and there are some pretty cool looking games for it.

[Poemer]

I could be wrong, but I think that the Wii is not backwards compatible. It is one way they kept the price down. Xbox 360 is still working through the xbox catalog, I think, with most titles good to go. The PS3 is fully backwards compatible with PS2.

Anybody know for sure?

[Sapa]

The Wii is fully backwards compatible with the gamecube. It even has four gamecube controller ports and a slot for gamecube memory cards. Whether you can on the Korean one I am yet to work out. It has all the ports anyway. I might give it a go in the next couple of days

edit

I just had a quick google and the first few results mention that gamecube compatibility was disabled for the Korean Wii. Seems odd. Maybe someone else can say otherwise.

[skconqueror]

The Korean wii (and ONLY the Korean wii) is not backward compatible. So you can NOT play gamecube games.

[Underwaterbob]

I had a suspicion. It's probably cheaper to make them non-compatible and the Gamecube was never officially released in Korea so...