Thanks for the info guys. So in the end...you need a JAP wii, either original or completely region changed. Maybe I'll write a page up for this if I get the time thisn weekend.

What Joseph said worked. I Installed Menu v480. After Installed Jap EULA v2 and Region Select v2. Now Wii no Ma works :D

Would it be possible to get things like The Movies you can buy on Wii no Ma for free?

If they are saved as a title on the wii, they can be dumped. If they are streaming video, then no, they likely not.

They are bought from the Wii Store

I don't think you can based on a quick google :( If there were a way to dump these, I'm sure we'd have a section of WADs for them by now.

If you use Wii no Ma wad from NUSD with _wwpacker-RegionFree, it will work on NTSC-U Wii without any other Japanese installations.

@cocomonk22
But can you still use the service?
ie downloads etc
I'm pretty sure this has been tried before, but if it work that's good info

Has anyone gotten Minna Nintendo Channel to work on non-J region Wiis? The closest I have gotten is to a 177404 error following the 協力します/協力しません section, which is just a 404.

I've taken a look at why Minna no Nintendo Channel returns a 177404:

On a Japanese Wii, the data is loaded from http://entj.wapp.wii.com/4/JP/ja/csdata.LZ
On a US Wii, the data is loaded from http://entj.wapp.wii.com/4/US/en/csdata.LZ

Since this is the Japanese server, US/en does not exist, so the channel must be tricked somehow to load from /4/JP/ja/csdata.LZ

I modified the Minna no Nintendo Channel to go to the JP/ja/csdata.LZ, but it fails to get http://entj.wapp.wii.com/4/JP/ja/message1 and http://entj.wapp.wii.com/4/JP/ja/message2

This was done by changing the US to JP and the en to ja, but it looks like csdata.LZ may contain data from multiple regions, so it is still sending the incorrect US data which is causing error 262000. It looks like the values of the region being sent to the channel needs to be faked as coming from a Japanese system.

I can download one channel or another and change pal to ntsc-u with freethewads?

Wii no ma doesn't work for me :|
I'm 4.2J softmoded and console itself is Japan Wii

Did you region change the console at one point? If you did, make sure you completely RC'd it back to Japan with something like ARC.

If that's not the case, verify that IOS31, IOS56, a Japan EULA, and a Japan Region Select are installed.

on the wii speak channel if your banned from wifi what bypass codes do you need to be able to use it

Last I checked you can't be banned from WiiSpeak...

What error are you getting?

20102

I'll be damned...you're banned from WiiSpeak.

There is a universal unban code for ocarina floating around the net. You can try applying that ocarina code using Gecko OS 1.9 or newer (it has a channel launcher), but I've had limited success with ocarina on channels.

There's also a file on your wii you can hack to change your identifier and unban the console, but I don't have the details on it ATM.

yeah i tried the universal unban no luck i mean you mainly only use wii speak for games but u should just want the channel to be able to work ya know

I had a bit of a google and all I can come up with
is it's an issue from 2009 that could possibly be
bypassed by changing your IP or mac address

I wish I could help,...sorry
Good luck with that and if you do manage to fix it let us know Earl

I can't seem to find the topic about the file editing unban. It was in a topic on GBATemp somewhere, but searching hasn't revealed much.

Only thing I can find is an unban for MH Tri that involved changing your Wii's ID number with the pinkfish disc.

Netflix Channel added.

just to let you know for this the only solution is to call nintendo and be unbanned so another way would need to be created to do it manually

yes i've just been "away"

Can someone get a Gecko OS Wad. Preferabally the one that can run games off the wii menu (even if there a Different region and there/you wii isnt RF)

Here: http://www.mediafire.com/?ym5mwzjgn1i I think it's RegionFree

wad manager 1.3 is on here? im on wii 4.3 and i use wad manager 1.7

If you look you will see it is actually a channel, not the .wad itself.
This is the channels page not homebrew and hasn't been updated in 4 months.

Apart from that, there isn't much difference between v1.3 & 1,7 anyway, they both install .wad's

Can someone upload "Nintendo Channel 2.0 v1792" please? I can't get it working... xD

could someone be so kind as to add the Kirby TV Channel on here, possibly region-free as well?
that would me mostly appreciated.

still waiting for someone to upload a .wad of the Kirby Wii channel...
what's taking so long? :(

need to add "for completeness"
HULU Plus channel(NTSC-U)
Zelda:Skyward Sword save fixer channel(NTSC-U)

can someone get the jam with the band speaker channel?
i've got an american wii so i cant get it from the shop channel.

wii no ma [ntsc-j] is a discontinued service