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Title: Aussie Animal Crossing for Wii Can't Link to Wild World
Post by: Chessa on December 05, 2008, 09:56:46 PM
US region coding of Wild World is to blame.
 http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/newsArt.cfm?artid=17307

 Recently many Australian Wii owners have complained over an apparent glitch that prevents them from importing their Animal Crossing: Wild World character into the newly released, Animal Crossing: Let's Go to the City.    


The cause of the issue was discovered to be a region mismatch. Australian copies of Wild World were in fact identical to the American release, including region coding. As a result, Let's Go to the City does not recognize the game on import.    


Nintendo has yet to comment on the issue.

Title: Re: Aussie Animal Crossing for Wii Can't Link to Wild World
Post by: Dasmos on December 05, 2008, 10:42:00 PM
It's basically a useless feature, but you think they would have at least checked it out.
Title: Re: Aussie Animal Crossing for Wii Can't Link to Wild World
Post by: stevey on December 05, 2008, 11:50:48 PM
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Australian copies of Wild World were in fact identical to the American release, including region coding.

and yet still took a month to be repackaged....
Title: Re: Aussie Animal Crossing for Wii Can't Link to Wild World
Post by: TheYoungerPlumber on December 06, 2008, 09:38:53 AM
Why is a Wii game checking the region coding of a DS game, anyway? The DS, like all other Nintendo portables, is not region-locked. This breaks that promise. If I buy Wild World in the UK on a vacation, I should be able to link it to my US copy of the Wii game.
Title: Re: Aussie Animal Crossing for Wii Can't Link to Wild World
Post by: ThePerm on December 06, 2008, 02:13:24 PM
yet another reason why this new animal crossing sucks
Title: Re: Aussie Animal Crossing for Wii Can't Link to Wild World
Post by: Morari on December 06, 2008, 10:20:43 PM
Quote from: TheYoungerPlumber on December 06, 2008, 09:38:53 AM
Why is a Wii game checking the region coding of a DS game, anyway? The DS, like all other Nintendo portables, is not region-locked. This breaks that promise. If I buy Wild World in the UK on a vacation, I should be able to link it to my US copy of the Wii game.

Um... Nintendo products ARE region locked. Sorry, but Sony actually gets points for leaving the PS3 open.
Title: Re: Aussie Animal Crossing for Wii Can't Link to Wild World
Post by: TheYoungerPlumber on December 07, 2008, 01:15:08 AM
No. The Wii is region locked. Not the DS. Where I buy my DS game is not supposed to be an issue.

I'm not sure why you're trying to make me look like some anti-Sony Wii owner. I have a PS3.
Title: Re: Aussie Animal Crossing for Wii Can't Link to Wild World
Post by: yoshi1001 on December 07, 2008, 09:25:16 PM
So in other words, something is "just nawt roit" with the Australian version of AC.

(Sorry, I've been holding onto that one since the last Radio Trivia-congratulations if you got the joke)

If I understand this correctly, when you say region locked, you mean the Wii disc is meant for an Ausisie Wii, but it's expecting a US DS game. Weird.
Title: Re: Aussie Animal Crossing for Wii Can't Link to Wild World
Post by: MegaByte on December 07, 2008, 09:30:41 PM
Quote from: yoshi1001 on December 07, 2008, 09:25:16 PM
If I understand this correctly, when you say region locked, you mean the Wii disc is meant for an Ausisie Wii, but it's expecting a US DS game. Weird.
No, it's expecting an Australian DS game, but they sold a repackaged US version in Australia.
Title: Re: Aussie Animal Crossing for Wii Can't Link to Wild World
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on December 08, 2008, 01:00:10 AM
Aussies should've cried 'foul' once they saw the spelling of "color".
Title: Re: Aussie Animal Crossing for Wii Can't Link to Wild World
Post by: Mario on December 08, 2008, 10:21:50 AM
I thought Mom was the name of a random villager.. but all along it's been my mum!
Title: Re: Aussie Animal Crossing for Wii Can't Link to Wild World
Post by: redgiemental on December 09, 2008, 08:28:52 AM
That's pretty shabby all round.

Youngplumber is right btw. It really should work regardless of regional coding in the DS game.
Title: Re: Aussie Animal Crossing for Wii Can't Link to Wild World
Post by: BeautifulShy on December 19, 2008, 02:42:55 AM
Problem Fixed (http://Http://vooks.net/modules.php?module=article&id=13640)