Hi,

I'm having a very bad week gaming ..... First on sunday I got the infamous 3 red lights on my 360, I took that in as it was still under gurantee on monday, hopefully that will be ok.

So today I bought a Japanese Wii, I didn't get a converter with it so I guessed it didn't need one .... well I was wrong, luckiy I hadn't plugged it into the Wii yet, so I'm sure the only thing wrong is the fuse blew up in the AC adapter (the Ac adapter rattles now with the sound of a fuse, also it knocked my Electric off) ... Is this a very easy thing to replace, that any electrical shop can change ??? I don't really want to go back to the place I bought it, cos it's too far (MBK), especially if it will only cost less than 200 baht to fix near me ..... or is it a big job, or do I need to change the whole thing which is worth me travelling all the way back into town ?!?!

I would like to know why they sold me a console without a converter, I can remember while buying it he asked me if I had broadband already, I said yes and thought it strange why he asked this question ?? I can only guess now that he got his English mixed up and meant to ask me if I had a Converter already ??

Also in my defence the 360 doesn't use a Step down converter and my one is Japanese, but my PS2 does and that is Japanese .....

Please tell me this is an easily rectifible problem

Send a motorbike taxi back there with the adaptor & receipt?

Easier to buy an AC/DC adapter that converts to 220 instead of 110. They don't cost much and are a better idea than buying a converter to change 110 to 220.

Make sure you check the DC output on your console and get an adapter that is suitable for that output.

Pretty sure I've seen the Wii Power AC Adaptors for sale at MBK

My wife blew up my first Gamecube the same way so I guess this happens enough for them to be able to sell them

Also I'd take the Wii back and ask if you can upgrade to the US version... that way the games you play will all be in english.

At present the Wiikey chips do not handle all regions so Japanese Wii's only play Japanese games and US Wii's only play US games.

Yeah the adapters are 900 baht to buy, but I don't really want to buy one if it's only say 100 baht to replace the fuse or I can replace the one I got for free cos I only bought it yesterday, and it was hardly my fault as they didn't tell me anything about having to have a step down converter.

Also Ian B you're wrong about the Wiikey not being being All Zone comaptible, 99% of US games can be played on the Japanese Wii, the only game that doesn't work, well it the US version works but it changes the Wii back to Japanese is Cooking Mama, and I'm not really into cooking anyway !

All the other US games are in English, I saved 3,500 baht in getting the Japanese version, the Wii console menus are in Japanese but the games are 100% English.

I bought an american chipped Wii last month - it was only 1000 baht more than the japanese. the 220/110 volt converter was 400 baht.

I will get a 220 power supply though to stop any accidents inadvertantly happening.

GameCube power supplied work with the Wii, a friend did the same thing.......