Playing US GameCube games on a PAL Wii

Oooh, this is exciting. No need for Freeloader, just a bit of good timing:

• Put a PAL GameCube game into the disc slot
• Enter the Disc Channel screen
• Point at the start button - but don't press anything yet
• Press the eject button
• Press A on the start button as late as possible, just before the button's disabled
• Take the PAL disc out and put the US disc in as quickly as possible
• The US (or, indeed, Japanese) GameCube disc should then load
  

Courtesy of Dolqube. No idea yet as to how this affects memory cards - bear in mind that with the GameCube you needed separate memory cards for Japanese and Roman characters.