Homebrew [How-to] Load a fw.img for Any File Dumping + WiiUBru status update

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Anyone can do this now using the above booter, BUT if you use random fw.img's lying around, that's at your own risk.


I'm a little confused about this. I'd like to try this out just to cure my curiosity, but this has me thinking that even though it's loading from the SD card, that it could still hurt the console. Can someone explain it to me in more depth? All I can really duduce from everything in the top post is that it "could do something bad", no specifics.​
 

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I'm a little confused about this. I'd like to try this out just to cure my curiosity, but this has me thinking that even though it's loading from the SD card, that it could still hurt the console. Can someone explain it to me in more depth? All I can really duduce from everything in the top post is that it "could do something bad", no specifics.​

The risk is that some of these fw.img floating around don't have restrictions on modifying system files. Don't modify system files - just dump things and you should be fine.
 
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The risk is that some of these fw.img floating around don't have restrictions on modifying system files. Don't modify system files - just dump things and you should be fine.
Ah, thank you for explaining it. So everything should be fine if I create the fw.img myself?
 

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With this does this mean we no longer need to be self hosted from another device to launch homebrew?

I read the post and don't understand what this allows.
 

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With this does this mean we no longer need to be selfish hosted from another device to launch homebrew?

I read the post and don't understand what this allows.

This does not allow a cold boot into cfw yet. But we can alter system files (not with this exact build) so a cold boot is probably in our future.

This particular build allows us to look at system files.
 
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