All credits goto AFluffyReshiram over at www.reddit.com/r/wiiuhacks

Hello everyone! I have decided to make a short guide about injecting and dumping save games to and from the Wii U using FTP

This method requires a device capable of FTP connected to the same network as the Wii U (a PC, an Android phone etc.). The Wii U also needs to haxe CFW (ex. Haxchi or Mocha). You have to have Mocha running first to make sure FTPiiU can access NAND files


1.Grab FTPiiU from (https://github.com/FIX94/ftpiiu/releases) and install it like any other homebrew app (Create a folder named ftpiiu in /wiiu/apps and put the downloaded file there)

2.Start your Wii U normally

3.Get into the Homebrew Launcher via your preferred method (You should know how to do this if you followed pretty much any wii u hacking guide - https://gbatemp.net/threads/mattkimuras-wii-u-hacking-guide.462121/unread)

4.Launch ftpiiu like a normal Homebrew app. An ip adress with a port should appear at the bottom left on both your gamepad and tv it should look something like this XXX.XXX.X.XX:XX where X is a number

5.On your device (connected to the same network as your wii u) open your favorite FTP client (on Windows you can even use the stock windows explorer by typing in ftp://XXX.XXX.XX.XX:XX/ [Replace X with the numbers from your IP]) and input the ip adress (up to the ":") in "host" and the numbers after : to port

WARNING! FTP HAS ACCESS TO A LOT OF YOUR NAND'S DELICATE DATA, REMOVING OR REPLACING ANY FILES COULD POTENTIALLY BRICK YOU. PROCEED WITH CAUTION AND I TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR BRICKS!

6.Go to the correct folder depending on the location of your game /storage_usb/usr/save/00050000/ for games on external drives (flash drives, external HDDs) /storage_mlc/usr/save/00050000/ for games on your NAND (the console)
(any folders in save other than 00050000 contain savedata for system titles. DO NOT TOUCH THEM)

7.Go to the correct folder of your game. You can find which folder corresponds to which game by looking at the title key site(you should know what this site is)


8.Go into user and select the correct user to replace the save file or into common to replace common data (folder ending with 50 should be the EUR version and 40 should be the US version)

9. Copy over the files from 50 to 40, and say yes to replacing the files.

10.After replacing turn off your ftp client and return to homebrew menu by pressing the Home button

11.Thats it! Launch your game to check. Let me know if you have any issues. I personally like this metod over saviine but do not use this method if you dont know what you are doing.


I think WINscp is the best FTP client for Windows. Get it here https://winscp.net/eng/index.php



Again, All credits goto AFluffyReshiram over at www.reddit.com/r/wiiuhacks

 

[puss2puss]

..not sure if someone can help me out, but when i try to ftp with 'ftpiiu everywhere', i see all the folders but i cant access any other then sd.. i tried with lots of ftp clients, and i'm running a cfw.
When i try to open a folder, it gives an error and cant have access..

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Nvm.. was an issue with my cfw..Mocha did the job.

 

[Xeonhawk]

Okay so I've done the procedure, transferred everything over but when I boot up BOTW, the game doesn't start at the intro which means there's save data on it, but when I attempt to load up a save they're all blank. I then reboot the game and the save from the beginning remains as if I never deleted it and never did the procedure. Did this multiple times and it acts like I never done it wtf?

It's like anything I do through the FTP client doesn't do anything because every time I load it up again and look through the directories the files that I deleted intact and the files I transferred are not there.

 

[bi388]

Okay so I've done the procedure, transferred everything over but when I boot up BOTW, the game doesn't start at the intro which means there's save data on it, but when I attempt to load up a save they're all blank. I then reboot the game and the save from the beginning remains as if I never deleted it and never did the procedure. Did this multiple times and it acts like I never done it wtf?

It's like anything I do through the FTP client doesn't do anything because every time I load it up again and look through the directories the files that I deleted intact and the files I transferred are not there.

Read the thread before posting about an issue, you'll find other people had the same problem

 

[Xeonhawk]

Read the thread before posting about an issue, you'll find other people had the same problem

I did. If you don't have anything helpful to say please don't say anything instead of assuming I'm too narrow minded to even read through the thread before posting for help.

 

[bi388]

I did. If you don't have anything helpful to say please don't say anything instead of assuming I'm too narrow minded to even read through the thread before posting for help.

Then you would have seen that multiple other people reported the exact same problem and there were solutions presented. If you've already tried those that's information that needs to be in your first post to give people the necessary troubleshooting info. And don't give me "don't say anything if it's not helpful" when your posting about an issue that's already been addressed in this very thread.

 

[Xeonhawk]

Then you would have seen that multiple other people reported the exact same problem and there were solutions presented. If you've already tried those that's information that needs to be in your first post to give people the necessary troubleshooting info. And don't give me "don't say anything if it's not helpful" when your posting about an issue that's already been addressed in this very thread.

My problem is that anything I do with the FTP has no actual effect on the data on the wii u. Idk if its a problem with only me but I haven't seen this addressed on this thread. You can go somewhere else if you're such in a mood to argue and try and prove someone else wrong.

 

[bi388]

My problem is that anything I do with the FTP has no actual effect on the data on the wii u. Idk if its a problem with only me but I haven't seen this addressed on this thread. You can go somewhere else if you're such in a mood to argue and try and prove someone else wrong.

Did you try the steps presented on the second page, do you have full ios u exploit or just userland, any more info to help figure out the issue?

 

[Xeonhawk]

Did you try the steps presented on the second page, do you have full ios u exploit or just userland, any more info to help figure out the issue?

I'm not too sure what the full ios u exploit is but I used mocha cfw

 

[bi388]

I'm not too sure what the full ios u exploit is but I used mocha cfw

If you're using mocha through hbl with the browser exploit and not cbhc/haxchii that's probably the problem. I don't think it has enough permissions due to being kernel and not ios u.

 

[Xeonhawk]

If you're using mocha through hbl with the browser exploit and not cbhc/haxchii that's probably the problem. I don't think it has enough permissions due to being kernel and not ios u.

Guide said I could use it through any preferred method. Huh, strange

 

[bi388]

Guide said I could use it through any preferred method. Huh, strange

I'm not 100% positive that's the issue but it seems likely, since you can run mocha through just the browser exploit where as haxchii uses a full system hack.

 

[Xeonhawk]

I'm not 100% positive that's the issue but it seems likely, since you can run mocha through just the browser exploit where as haxchii uses a full system hack.

I'll try saviine first then I'll look into haxchi. Thanks for the advice tho

 

[Xeonhawk]

Using saviine to inject worked! The program mentioned in this guide was useful to extract a save without needing to boot the EU version since that was long deleted. Now I can load up BOTW USA legit with my previous save data

 

[Sabishinbo]

Does this method work with all games?