These replacement Wii drive board D2C can be used in any Nintendo Wii console from any region, it does not matter what version drive board was in before, you can just replace the damaged Nintendo Wii DVD board with these D2C ones.

With a lot of people damaging their Nintendo Wii consols while trying to install chips, these D2C Nintendo Wii drive boards are possibly the best way to repair the damage that was done without having to replace the whole drive. Complete Nintendo Wii drives cancost almost twice as much as these Nintendo D2C  model Wii DVD board, so these really are the cheapest way to fix damage from installation error.

If you are replacing a damaged D2C board with this D2C one and you were trying to install a D2C.Key or any of the D2C chips on the original board, you will now need to get a chip like the WiiKey to make them work. With that being said, these really are the cheapest and best way to repair a damaged board without having to replace the entire drive mech.