Red Steel 2 (on Japanese Wii)

[PewPewLaser]

Hello everyone. I recently bought the US version of Red Steel 2 to play on my Wii. This Wii was bought back in Japan one year ago.

Before this, I had bought Muramasa: The Demon Blade, and running it with Gecko OS and Force NTSC on worked perfectly. I'm not sure why it doesn't work this time.

Wii Info:
Info: Black Wii from Japan
Version: V4.1J
Gecko OS Version: V1.9.3 (I thought about updating, but there seemed to be only one minor change that should not affect compatibility with games)

Can anyone give me some help with this?

[WiiPower]

Did you try force NTSC + force english language? If that doesn't work, it could be the country string stuff, sadly Gecko OS doesn't support patching it. Country string patching is for example required to play Punchout NTSC-U or PAL on a japanese Wii, could be that Red Steel 2 needs it as well. But first try the language thing, 95% of games work that way.

Edit: Replaced japanese by english, you have to force a language that's present in the game.

[PewPewLaser]

Hi, thanks for the reply. I tried it earlier today - and it doesn't work. Here are the settings I put:

"Game Language: English
Force NTSC: YES
Force PAL60: NO
Force PAL50: NO
Gecko Hook Type: Default
Load Debugger: NO
SD File Patcher: NO
SD Cheats: NO
Gecko Pause Start: NO
Bubbles On: NO"

Could there be something else I have overlooked?

By the way, what I get when I launch the game is a green screen.

[wiiztec]

you don't need to force NTSC and forcing english could be your problem

I know forcing english on TvC:CGoH causes it not to work

[WiiPower]

I suggested forcing english, because for a lot of japanese games on PAL and NTSC-U Wiis you need to force japanese language. Yes forcing the language can reduce the compatiblity, but i think the 1st test was without forcing the language.

[PewPewLaser]

Yeah, I was using the default language originally, and tried combinations with forcing different regions (or forcing none), etc, and those didn't work.

Thanks for the 'country string patching' thing though! That worked! I'm glad I didn't waste my money on buying the game. ^^

Thanks for your help everyone!

[WiiPower]

Yeah, I was using the default language originally, and tried combinations with forcing different regions (or forcing none), etc, and those didn't work.

Thanks for the 'country string patching' thing though! That worked! I'm glad I didn't waste my money on buying the game. ^^

Thanks for your help everyone!

So in the loader you are using it work with County String patching on and if that's turned off, the game stops working?

[ricky23i]

Hello everyone. I recently bought the US version of Red Steel 2 to play on my Wii. This Wii was bought back in Japan one year ago.

Before this, I had bought Muramasa: The Demon Blade, and running it with Gecko OS and Force NTSC on worked perfectly. I'm not sure why it doesn't work this time.

Wii Info:
Info: Black Wii from Japan
Version: V4.1J
Gecko OS Version: V1.9.3 (I thought about updating, but there seemed to be only one minor change that should not affect compatibility with games)

Can anyone give me some help with this?

Trying updating to latest gecko

[mechaturtle]

sry im very new to this what is 'country string patching' i just got a jap Wii and red steel 2

[WiiPower]

sry im very new to this what is 'country string patching' i just got a jap Wii and red steel 2

Too bad PewPewLaser did not tell if it is required or not.

Country String patching is patching the main.dol(the executable of the game) to circumvent some unregular region protection. Most import games just run fine on all Wiis when using the correct video mode, but some sadly don't. The only confirmed one that needs Country String patching until now is Punch Out (NTSC-U or PAL) on a japanese Wii.

Anyways, you only need this if the game is not japanese, so from which region is your game?

[mechaturtle]

its american, i live on base in okinawa so i have very easy access to bolth american and japinese games. do i need the usb gecko to use country string patching? the only website that i can find them is in sweeden and i can only order from american companies with any hope of actuly receving my order

[WiiPower]

its american, i live on base in okinawa so i have very easy access to bolth american and japinese games. do i need the usb gecko to use country string patching? the only website that i can find them is in sweeden and i can only order from american companies with any hope of actuly receving my order

The only non backup loader that would allow to use Country String patching is Riivolution, and there it would be a bit complicated to do. And usb gecko won't help you with this, usb gecko is only required for coders and people that create Ocarina cheats.

[mechaturtle]

any way to backup to an SD card i could go get a 32Gig but then i might aswell just get a new dam wii