So Nintendo Europe goes "hey, you know what, guys? Modification chips are bad."

The people who applied the mods laugh and go "yah sure u cant stop me lol I wanna play Super Paper Mario now and not w8 until Novmember fro it". So they import the game and they play it and... "Hey! My Wii broke! NINTENDO YOU STUPID COMPANY!"

Turns out that there's a firmware update in Super Paper Mario NTSC, and when the people in Europe (who, as you might now, use PAL consoles/TVs, not NTSC consoles/TVs) mod their Wii to get rid of region coding so they can play NTSC games, and then put in Super Paper Mario NTSC into their PAL Wii which was modified (you know, it was modified!) and the game goes "well, okay, this seems to be an NTSC console... let's apply the update!"

But see, the thing is, the guts of a PAL Wii are a little bit different than an NTSC Wii. When the game applied a firmware patch for an NTSC Wii to a PAL Wii, it broke the Wii. It's called "bricking" in the mod community. It's irreversably dead.

Of course, there are a few morons out there who are upset that Nintendo didn't include some sort of checking system to make sure it doesn't update a PAL Wii... Well, uhm... They did. It was the region coding system you disabled so you could play NTSC games. You disabled the very mechanism for checking what version of Wii you had.

Nothing quite makes my day like little kiddies who think they're so awesome to hack their consoles, but totally destroy them in the end... teehee.