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CommunityAnimal Crossing Wii/DS Region Locked
on 05.12.2008 at 00:52
Posted by Jorge Ba-oh (jb)
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Animal Crossing, Let's Go to the City, Wii, Nintendo, Bebo
Posted by Jorge Ba-oh (jb) Tags:
Animal Crossing, Let's Go to the City, Wii, Nintendo, Bebo Recent News
Fans who bought their DS copy of Animal Crossing: Wild World in a different region may have problems with Wii transfers.
It looks like Australian fans who have waited for the Wii version of Animal Crossing won't be able to use their DS saves to transfer rare items across using the briefcase feature.
Whilst using imported DS games with your Wii is not advised due to differences in regions, it looks like Nintendo has been caught out: The Australian copies of Animal Crossing DS are infact US versions with a different sticker. When prompted at the beginning of the game, your cat chum will politely note that the game is incompatible:
More on Animal Crossing: Let's Go To The City (Wii)
Developer: Nintendo
Publisher: Nintendo
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Azzy
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playing Final Fantasy IV DS.
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Wow. Proof then that at least Australia should be getting Nintendo games at the same time as North America.
Linkyshinks
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Linkyshinks is pissed off with his browser
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Azzy said:
Wow. Proof then that at least Australia should be getting Nintendo games at the same time as North America.
Wow. Proof then that at least Australia should be getting Nintendo games at the same time as North America.
Not at all, Importation taxes are high in Australia, it's a simple as that, the fact it is the same product means nothing.
( Edited 05.12.2008 06:31 by Linkyshinks )
Canyarion
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has finally finished his report... onto the next one!
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Ouch. I guess Nintendo will be replacing Animal Crossing DS games then.
Kafei2006
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playing Tatsunoko vs Capcom, Megaman 9, Riz Zoawd, Tales of Phantasia (SFC)
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Plus, Australia uses the same TV format as Europe : PAL ! In fact in think that Australian Wii AC are just NTSC games forced into PAL Mode by some tweaking (you can do it using an homebrew tool so it has to be possible to do it in 100% official games as well).
I used to be Umaro in my previous life. Really !!!
SuperLink
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... Screw this. Go Team Sea Slug!
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Even less reason for me to get this then. My ACWW is NTSC.
EDIT: Nintendo majorly screwed up huh?( Edited 05.12.2008 13:50 by SuperLink )
EDIT: Nintendo majorly screwed up huh?( Edited 05.12.2008 13:50 by SuperLink )
jb
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says spread the C3 word! 2009 - More members!
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SuperLink said:
Even less reason for me to get this then. My ACWW is NTSC.
Even less reason for me to get this then. My ACWW is NTSC.
Ya, it will likely not work - will try it out though.
jb(at)cubed3.com
zcollvee
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sleepyy....
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Wow this is epic fail, Why do things become region locked anyways?
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