Playing Imports

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The Gamecube comes region locked from factory, and the region lock is governed by the IPL ROM (Gamecube "BIOS").

However the hardware is mostly 100% identical across regions (apart from perhaps some NTSC/PAL hardware differences in the Video Output chip).

Due to NTSC-J/NTSC-U being so similar, you can perform a Region Switch mod to get it to play Japanese on NTSC and vice-verse.

Gamecube Regions Where is it for? What is needed to play Imports?
NTSC-U USA Switch for NTSC-J, Freeloader/Modchip/Homebrew for ALL
NTSC-J Japan Switch for NTSC-U, Freeloader/Modchip/Homebrew for ALL
PAL Europe & Australia Freeloader/Modchip/Homebrew for ALL
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