I recently received a Japanese copy of TTYD as i want to start speedrunning it, my homebrew wii is set up to ignore region lock(can play Japanese Mario Sunshine with no problems) but when i went to play TTYD, it started up fine, but then showed this screen http://imgur.com/tW9HZg4 where it would normally talk about loading/starting a new file. I tried this with a memory card and without, but nothing changed. Anyone experience problems like this/any solutions?

Ignoring the region lock will work for all JP GameCube games except for TTYD and F Zero GX. So for TTYD and F Zero GX, you need to actually change the game region of your Wii. You need homebrew to do this, and I have a guide on how to do it on the resource page.

The memory card you use for this will also be formatted to Japanese, so I would recommend using a separate memory card for JP TTYD. All of this is also mentioned in the guide.

http://www.speedrun.com/tools/Wii_Game_Region_Changer_hrqgm.zip

Thank you so much Zephiles, I figured it might be something like that, but was confused why my meathod didnt work as it had worked for everything else! THANKS :-)