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IOSU Hack (homebrew and more) planned to be released for Wii U on Dec. 24th
- Thread starter Joey Ravn
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BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
All I really want is ripping my own discs.
I mean, if piracy is already out of the bag for the world at large, at least I get that legitimate use.
I mean, if piracy is already out of the bag for the world at large, at least I get that legitimate use.
Elaugaufein
Member
Hah, yes. My use of my hacked systems has decreased incredibly since Digital releases became standard. I just want to be able to do things like play GC/Wii games on the Wii U without region locks (allowing me to remove my Wii) while still being able to actually play new games (I'm still deciding if I want to keep a Wii U on 5.3.2 and buy a new one for Tokyo Mirage Sessions or if I should just suck it up and upgrade ).
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
I'm the kind of person who should probably go digital with my purchases, since I value having all games loaded on the console. I don't even display my physical games or everything... it all goes into storage. But I still buy discs because "collecting!" or whatever.
And yet I'm the kind of person who loudly decried the original Xbone scheme that would give you a digital copy of the game when you bought it physical. I am literally the worst.
Late-life cycle hacks are my friend, then, because I absolutely love taking my real discs and ripping them.
You already can, with Nintendont and a vWii softmod
^ and yeah, get on that. You can rip all Wii/GC stuff to Wii U and it's glorious. I really love how it upscales nice, clean and bright.
I only keep my Wii for its 240p output for VC games. Everything else lives on the Wii U.
Elaugaufein
Member
You already can, with Nintendont and a vWii softmod
Yeah I know but at the moment I'm stuck between 5.3.2 for that and new stuff (like Tokyo Mirage Sessions) as I said. Since I'm kind of in a nebulous undecided state I haven't bothered to commit.
blu
Wants the largest console games publisher to avoid Nintendo's platforms.
Ok, that was quick. I didn't expect anything till summer of later.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
I don't think the state of the Wii U firmware affects anything to do with the Wii/GC side of things. You can probably get that stuff going ASAP, and deal with the Wii U side later.
Elaugaufein
Member
The Wii side stuff has sometimes messed with Wii U updates in the past, don't know if that's been resolved. It probably has. I already have a hacked Wii and a pretty decent laptop with a good Dolphin setup , so I'm not really in a rush. I really should bite the bullet at some stuff.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
I specifically heard the opposite. That Wii U updates didn't even touch vWii. But perhaps that was only for the last few years of updates.
Wii U updates applied stuff to the vWii if I recall correctly. Nothing that ever broke home brew, mind.
that's not true.
the vWii side hasn't been updated in years. i think the last update was being able to output DPLII over HDMI and that was a longass time ago.
i've had homebrew on the vWii side and kept my console updated at all times and nothing every broke on the Wii side. i know because i almost already forgot how that stuff was installed, meaning i still have the original install i did in 2013.
My smartphone can handle PPSSPP easily. So for sure.
It is possible nowadays... in vulnerable firmwares. But it's completely possible once you get kernel access.
Funny thing: NWPlayer1234 (aka Twi) was testing injecting a DS Pokémon game (I think it was Black & White, or maybe HGSS) into the DS emulator for Wii U. It somehow triggered the anti-piracy protection Nintendo had implemented in the original releases.
Elaugaufein
Member
It'd be completely natural to trigger Anti-Piracy in those games because they all have distinctive on cart hardware that its easy to check for that Nintendo would have no reason to work around (all those games have an extra IR chip for Pokewalker in the case of HGSS and for some of the pseudo-streetpass functions of BW). Also due to the extra hardware they have a somewhat unusual memory layout for the save area on the card. It'd actually be more surprising if those games didn't trip AP and a strong indicator that Nintendo was planning to release them on the VC (I believe there's like 2 or 3 other non-Pokemon games that had onboard IR chips .but Pokemon was by far the biggest franchise that used them).
Set the DNS to smealum's tubehax one. It blocks all updates on 3DS and Wii U.
107.211.140.065
Oh wow, I'm going to have to try and get EBA up and running.
Pokemaniac
Member
There definitely have been updates that touched vWii. I don't think it's happened for a while, though.
Of course, there haven't been many Wii U updates for a while, either.
Looks like something is happening.
http://gbatemp.net/threads/hey-listen.424936/
Edit: NWPlayer's Twitter
https://twitter.com/NWPlayer123/status/727339300564533248
http://gbatemp.net/threads/hey-listen.424936/
Edit: NWPlayer's Twitter
https://twitter.com/NWPlayer123/status/727339300564533248
Yep. The kernel exploit for 5.5.1 is in the wild. It's not IOSU, of course, but that's the best we're going to get for the time being.
I won't link to it here, since I don't know if there's anything "not so legal" in those files, but you know where you can get it. Wololo, Hackinformer, GBATemp, r/wiiuhacks, etc. are all talking about it.
Edit: Is there any chance that a mod could change the title of this topic? We could turn it into the Wii U equivalent of the 3DS and Vita homebrew threads, now that the vast majority of users will be able to get their hands on an exploit.
"Wii U Homebrew Discussion Thread: Still waiting for IOSU" or something like that would be nice. Otherwise, I'll just create another thread so people can start discussing the kexploit there.
I won't link to it here, since I don't know if there's anything "not so legal" in those files, but you know where you can get it. Wololo, Hackinformer, GBATemp, r/wiiuhacks, etc. are all talking about it.
Edit: Is there any chance that a mod could change the title of this topic? We could turn it into the Wii U equivalent of the 3DS and Vita homebrew threads, now that the vast majority of users will be able to get their hands on an exploit.
"Wii U Homebrew Discussion Thread: Still waiting for IOSU" or something like that would be nice. Otherwise, I'll just create another thread so people can start discussing the kexploit there.
DownGrader
Member
Weren't there problems with Wii eShop downloadables on systems with homebrew installed on vWii?
Muskieratboi
Member
Figures that GAF is the one to tell me to update the OT of the Progress thread on GBATemp...
Zomba13
Member
Happened to me. One of the things on the vWii messed up updates on the Wii U side. It wasn't until I fixed it that it worked again and updates downloaded normally.
EDIT: Just to add something since apparently what I experienced was impossible. I had homebrew stuff on the vWii for years, I eventually got Rock Band 3 and eventually decided to try and get custom songs working, like I did years ago with Guitar Hero 2 on the PS2. I eventually gave up but after I changed some things I couldn't get updates on my Wii U. Patches wouldn't download and it wouldn't get DLC and the like from the eShop. After some google searching I eventually found some info that pointed to one of the IOS things either being broken or incompatible or something, I reinstalled the stuff I started with on my vWii and everything was back to normal, homebrew vWii and downloads on the Wii U side.
The kexploit for 5.3.2 enabled cheaters in Smash and Splatoon. There's nothing new here, just the ability to run the exploit on the latest firmware.
As for the kexploit itself, I've been able to run Loadiine, but not the HBL. It fails every single time. Weird.
DrROBschiz
Member
You already can, with Nintendont and a vWii softmod
I Have nintendont and Vwii installed
Outside of allowing the use of WiiU backups what benefits does this hack offer
Can we actually just load EVERYTHING from the main menu now?
Oh, so nothing of note? Guess it takes time, but on the other hand i enjoy playing smash online...
Plus not really in the mood to fry my brain like it was with 3ds
Honestly, a kexploit doesn't offer much, really. At least not without people actively coding for it. I guess there are a few emulators out there, but Wii U backups is the main draw of having this exploit released publicly.
This is nothing like the 3DS. It's a kernel exploit, not IOSU. In other words, this is the Ninjhax of the Wii U, not the downgrade-to-install-CFW. You can have this set up in less than 5 minutes: put a few files in the SD card, install Java, run a command line, use the Wii U Internet browser to load the payload... presto.
As for playing Smash online, you still can, even with this hax, so...
DrROBschiz
Member
Loading from Wii Mode isnt really a huge inconvenience but having direct loading from the WiiU for all software would be nice i suppose
Doesnt look like development is anywhere near that point though
Until we get IOSU and someone implements an emuNAND (or sysNAND with patched checks), we won't be able to launch anything from the Home menu itself. Even with this kexploit you still need to open the browser to load the Homebrew Launcher or the application you want to load. There's no icon for the application, like you have on 3DS.
Elaugaufein
Member
Smeas's iosuhax has a primitive EmuNAND but since there's no public iosu exploit no one can use it.
so this shit was ridiculously easy to set up.
Literally as simple as going onto a website and clicking a link. Homebrew channel loads up instantly. Backup loader works with no extra setup required. There's an app to dump your digital titles, and ROM injection is hilariously easy (drag and drop a ROM, rename and edit an ini file).
Look, banjo on my Wii U:
Banjo works perfectly. Even the framebuffer tricks that homebrew emulators struggle with (jigsaw transitions) are displayed flawlessly. Just gotta mess with the settings to fix the scaling and gamma, and it'll be perfect.
It's time for a Wii U Homebrew thread. I would do it but I am restricted for another month yet.
Literally as simple as going onto a website and clicking a link. Homebrew channel loads up instantly. Backup loader works with no extra setup required. There's an app to dump your digital titles, and ROM injection is hilariously easy (drag and drop a ROM, rename and edit an ini file).
Look, banjo on my Wii U:
Banjo works perfectly. Even the framebuffer tricks that homebrew emulators struggle with (jigsaw transitions) are displayed flawlessly. Just gotta mess with the settings to fix the scaling and gamma, and it'll be perfect.
It's time for a Wii U Homebrew thread. I would do it but I am restricted for another month yet.
Some more images:
to load it, just go to http://loadiine.ovh on your browser. done. have the homebrew launcher on your sd card under wiiu/apps/
https://github.com/dimok789/homebrew_launcher/releases
max firmware is 5.5.1
to load it, just go to http://loadiine.ovh on your browser. done. have the homebrew launcher on your sd card under wiiu/apps/
https://github.com/dimok789/homebrew_launcher/releases
max firmware is 5.5.1
RowdyReverb
Member
Just out of curiosity, are you able to dump the ROM as well for VC games? I wonder what the legality would be of possessing a ROM you dumped from a VC release as opposed to dumping it from a cartridge. The data would be ostensibly the same, and Nintendo got paid either way
yes.
for nintendo DS games, it's hilariously easy.
see that? that's what the DS emulator loads. It's a NDS rom in a zip file. I just renamed it to .nds and it works on retroarch and on my 3DS in an R4 flashcart. I also replaced it with chrono trigger...and it works on the Wii U!
I don't have it, but it's safe to say it will run perfectly.
Damn, this is literally all I wanted from Wii U homebrew. The DS emulator is fantastic, I just needed to be able to use my own ROMs with it - and Nintendo made it ridiculously easy to do so. This doesn't even count as ROM injection.
And you can make custom loading screen graphics and even custom DS overlays too. They're just basic tga image files. Might make a DS Lite overlay later.
only one game at a time?