Nintendo Wii Bought New Nintendo Wii in Japan have printed off english translation - can I play English Games???? Having trouble, load game and screen comes up with question mark and Japanese writing???? Please please help have very sad 9 year old and frustrated confused mother!

The Japanese Wii does not have a language change option. Also, games will of course be completely in Japanese and you cannot play games in English without breaking the Wii and modding it.

Hi,

I am sorry but the Japanese Wii has no option for English language menus. All Wii menus will be in Japanese.

Actually, I believe that if you go to the same language of video game sites as your Wii is (and translate with Google Toolbar) you may be able to purchase games for your Wii that would work. Or, if you want to play specific region-protected games (e.g. English game on Japanese Wii), you can enable homebrew, which is running unauthorized applications on the Wii. One of these apps is one that can disable region-protection on your Wii. But be aware, because if you don't know what you're doing with homebrew, you could screw up your Wii.

It's a faulty batch - if you call 505 Games, they will send a pre-paid envelope out to you so you can return it, and then they will send you a new one (plus a free game for your troubles, which is nice!)

The freeloader is not guaranteed to work because Nintendo updates its firmware thus preventing games from other regions to be played.

No unless they have it already as a language that you can play it as. Other than that, if the game is not programmed with English already in, then the best thing you can do is get a dictionary or someone who can read japanese.

The games are made for different region formats, so what works in Japan doesn't always translate (hardware-wise) that it will in the North America.

No it does not. You can't play European games either for that matter, only Japanese games.
However there is a way around it, though it's a bit complicated and you'll need Zelda Twilight Princess (japanese version in your case) and an SD card.

Information can be found here: http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Twilight_Hack#Download (used to install the Wii Homebrew Channel)
and used in combination with this:
http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_Channel/Help (Wii hombrew channel install files)
and finally this:
http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_apps/GeckoOS (homebrew application allowing you to play games from other regions)

If you need any help I'll walk you through it. This isn't endorsed by Nintendo whatsoever. No warranty on this at all. I have done it myself and there have been no adverse effects.

OMG!!!! well yeah... bad news for you who bought Japanese and Chinese consoles.
It's most possible that there isn't english language in there.
Even if there is, all your games won't be in English and you'd have to buy games only from Japan only due to the region lock.

And with that, I advice you people not to buy Wiis from other regions no matter how cheeper they are. It will spell trouble later when trying to play the console or find games.

As on english game it is PAL but others are diffrent so i am afraid you will need to buy japaneze games. Hope this helps...

it's finding the region code only way around would be a wiikey