Wii Accessories

If I purchased Wii Accessories, balance board etc. in the U.S. would they work in a UK purchased system? I'm thinking they have the same kind of connector, but not sure as this is all new to me. Thanks in advance!

No, the games and the hardware're region coded.  The only way around this is getting your system chipped, which I wouldn't recommend as this would nullify your warranty & possibly rend your machine unusable.

That's why the systems & games give region coding: PAL, US, EU etc.

No, the games and the hardware're region coded.  The only way around this is getting your system chipped, which I wouldn't recommend as this would nullify your warranty & possibly rend your machine unusable.

That's why the systems & games give region coding: PAL, US, EU etc.

you are correct the games are region coded but the accessories the poster asks about are not.  Therefore if you purchase controllers they will be fine.  The Wii fit board will work too however it ships with a game which will not.

We have a Wii and will be moving to the UK next month.  Right now, we are planning to purchase a small NTSC(right? anyway, a local) flatscreen TV so we can watch our DVDs, and buy a PAL TV for local use.  I understand that the games we already have will not work on a PAL TV, but would any games bought in the UK work on our existing Wii? To be more clear...Can our Wii from the US be connected to the PAL TV and run PAL games?
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We have a Wii and will be moving to the UK next month.  Right now, we are planning to purchase a small NTSC(right? anyway, a local) flatscreen TV so we can watch our DVDs, and buy a PAL TV for local use.  I understand that the games we already have will not work on a PAL TV, but would any games bought in the UK work on our existing Wii? To be more clear...Can our Wii from the US be connected to the PAL TV and run PAL games?
Thanks

I don't know about the Wii, but I don't think you'll need two TVs. I've had no problem playing US DVDs on a UK TV and vice versa once the DVD player is region-free.

A modern "flat" television, one that is not a CRT, should have no problems playing both PAL and NTSC.

Just buy a flat screen here and it should work fine. Our tv has NTSC and PAL. Also buy a region free DVD player. For the Wii, since you have the US Wii it will not play UK Wii games... which sucks!

Many of the current flat-screen TVs on the U.K. market will accept NTSC (American) or PAL (British) video formats directly.  Even if they don't support NTSC video on the composite video input, they will almost certainly work if you can connect via component video (either RGB or Y/Pb/Pr), since that bypasses the NTSC vs. PAL color encoding issues and just leaves the vertical & horizontal scanning rates to consider, which are close enough that practically all modern TVs will accept either format.

I would just like to add in my first-hand experience that a US Wii (with US games) works on a UK-purchased flat screen TV.  I ordered a UK power supply online (like 15 pounds with shipping, I think) , hooked it all up, and was playing Wii sports before DH got home on the day the power supply was delivered (quite literally two days after I ordered it).

I have read that there are software patches that you can download to your Wii to make it "region free" but have not actually done that myself.

you are correct the games are region coded but the accessories the poster asks about are not.  Therefore if you purchase controllers they will be fine.  The Wii fit board will work too however it ships with a game which will not.

This is correct...same with all game counsels.  Controllers and hardware aren't coded and can be used on any system.