Play GameCube imports on your Wii

We found an interesting little tidbit on the GameFAQs forums that some of you might not have heard about. In this case, it’s got something to do with playing import games for free, and once more people verify it, it should make for interesting gaming days ahead.

According to the forum post, Particleman08 wanted to see if his Naruto import games for his GameCube worked on the Nintendo Wii. When he originally bought the Naruto games, he also got a copy of a program known as Freeloader to play them on his Wii. Apparently, he can still use the Freeloader on the Wii to start up GameCube imports on the next-gen console.

He does offer a bit of caution though:

I inserted the freeloader disk, and selected it from the disc channel, the system read it and restarted. Went back to the disc channel again, selected the freeloader and the system took me to the normal freeloader screen and asked me to swap the disk like normal. I am assuming that the freeloader disc needs to be in the system from the start, or it may restart after the first read.

Still, if it works on your console, and you have imported GameCube titles, that’s going to be reason number 11 to grab the Wii A.S.A.P.

We found an interesting little tidbit on the GameFAQs forums that some of you might not have heard about. In this case, it’s got something to do with playing import games for free, and once more people verify it, it should make for interesting gaming days ahead.

According to the forum post, Particleman08 wanted to see if his Naruto import games for his GameCube worked on the Nintendo Wii. When he originally bought the Naruto games, he also got a copy of a program known as Freeloader to play them on his Wii. Apparently, he can still use the Freeloader on the Wii to start up GameCube imports on the next-gen console.

He does offer a bit of caution though:

I inserted the freeloader disk, and selected it from the disc channel, the system read it and restarted. Went back to the disc channel again, selected the freeloader and the system took me to the normal freeloader screen and asked me to swap the disk like normal. I am assuming that the freeloader disc needs to be in the system from the start, or it may restart after the first read.

Still, if it works on your console, and you have imported GameCube titles, that’s going to be reason number 11 to grab the Wii A.S.A.P.