Originally Posted by Chippers (Post 5294709)

I come bearing good news this time!

On the Gamecube, I had a disc called a Freeloader. This allowed me to import US games and play them on my UK console (and vice-versa... eg. UK games on a US console). It worked faultlessly with every single game I imported. The creators, Datel, are hard at work developing a Wii version, so I wouldn't sell those UK games just yet. :)

Originally Posted by MandD (Post 5294546)

We should try and set up some kind of swap shop, for people going to Canada and people coming back.


Shall I start:
Who wants to swop a british Wii for a canadian one??? :p

Originally Posted by giggimickey (Post 5450089)

Hi,

We are looking to move to Canada in Jan/Feb next year but our sons want a Nintendo DS this Xmas. As these are portable, and thus do not link up to a TV, is there any difference between the Canadian and UK versions? If so, will I be able to buy games in Canada that work on a UK console?

Any help is greatly appreciated - thanks.

Originally Posted by or4ngecrush (Post 5450333)

You won't have any problems you can buy games for these in Canada for your UK machine and they will work fine, I buy American/Canadian games all the time for my machine. You will just need a plug convertor to charge it but when I was in Canada I just used my friend's plug in my UK machine and that worked fine too.

Originally Posted by Oakvillian (Post 5294348)

A word of warning on the PAL-to-NTSC decoder: we tried this solution for our PS2, but quickly gave up. There's about a half-second processing delay in the decoder which means by the time you see what's going on on screen you've already crashed/been shot/fallen in the swamp/insert appropriate phrase for your game here! After a weekend of much head-scratching and frustration we swapped our PS2 with a friend who was heading back to the UK, in exchange for some other goodies that wouldn't have been much use to him in 240-volt-land.