How to play N. American games on a JPN Wii?

Question

I live in Japan and have a Japanese Wii but there is a game back home in North America that I want to buy. Is there an easy/simple way to get my JPN Wii to play North American games?

Answer 1

ok, this might sound risky but, open up your wii untill you get to your harddrive, look around for the gold looking bar under where you plug in the gamecube controllers remove it and put it back together, you should be able to play any game you want, but make sure you remove the right thing

Answer 2

Wii is region locked. Legitimately, no, there is no way to do this and all of your games would have to be imported from Japan.

You could mod your Wii and play them, but then there's the chance your console will disable itself when you update it - which is mandatory when playing Nintendo published titles.

Answer 3

There is no easy, legal way to play a US game on a Japanese Wii, due to the region lock.