Nintendo of Australia confirm that copies of Animal Crossing: Let's Go To The City are incompatible with the DS...

Confirming our report last week, Nintendo of Australia have issued a press release stating that Australian copies of Animal Crossing on Wii are unable to connect to Animal Crossing on DS. To quote:

"Nintendo Australia has identified an issue with the ability to transfer data between Animal Crossing: Let’s go to the City (Wii) and Animal Crossing: Wild World (Nintendo DS). It is not possible to exchange data between Animal Crossing: Let’s go to the City (Wii) and Animal Crossing: Wild World (Nintendo DS).

"No other game functions are affected. Nintendo Australia is investigating this matter, and apologises for any inconvenience to our valued customers. Any further information will be posted on the Nintendo Australia website as soon as it is available. This issue only affects Australian consumers."

The issue has arisen due to the fact that copies of Animal Crossing on sale in Australia for the DS are actually a relabelled U.S. version of the game, and thus Nintendo's own region-locking is keeping Aussie copies of Animal Crossing on Wii from connecting.

We're not sure how Nintendo can fix this... a downloadable patch for the Wii version maybe? More if and when it breaks.

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Comments

Cipher Says:
December 8th, 2008 at 05:04 || Total Comments: 280

The only way they can possibly fix this is to release a patch for the game's save file unlocking DS-Wii region compatibility so that LGTTC can interact with US copies of Wild World. That, or replace the LGTTC game discs if a patch doesn't work. Normally, I'd say it's good that Nintendo (Australia) is doing something about this. But they're expected to in this case, because it's their cock-up and it shouldn't have happened in the first place. They knew Wild World was a US relabel, so why not just make LGTTC a relabel as well and fix the matter? We'd be none the wiser.

Tphi @ N-E Says:
December 8th, 2008 at 05:59 || Total Comments: 417

I think they genuinely forgot. I really hope this doesn't get swept under the rug now but I fear the worst :(

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