Hacking dumping games from system memory?

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Hi guys I am trying to figure out how to dump my purchased and downloaded games from my Wii U onto my PC. I would like to also play these in CEMU. I was able to dump my Wii U discs with some help in the wudump thread, but not sure how to go about it with a game already installed on the system itself. Thanks
 

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You can use ftpiiu everywhere to extract the unpacked ("loadiine format") game files from USB or MLC, and use NusPacker to convert them to a nonlegit* installable ("wupinstaller") format

* you can go the extra mile, dump the original ticket with Tik2SD and a little manual work, and use the original eShop ticket to make a legit-for-your-console dump

No such thing as a wud of a digital game!
 

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Hey thanks for the heads up. ill give it a shot now, but do you know if there is a guide anywhere with instructions to make things easier?
 

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Well, you connect to ftpiiu-everywhere with some FTP software on your computer, and go to this path (paying attention to not accidentally moving/deleting stuff):

/vol/
storage_mlc/ OR storage_usb/ (depends on where you installed it)
usr/title/
{titleid-high}/ (you'll need to look up the titleid of your game. for regular applications, as opposed to updates, system apps, DLC... the titleid-high is 00050000)
{titleid-low}/

Then just copy the 3 folders inside (code, content, meta) to an initially empty folder on your PC, and that's your Loadiine dump!

To convert them to a nonlegit installable dump, create another empty folder, and use NusPacker with a command line similar to this:
java -jar nuspacker.jar -in {path to folder with code, content, meta} -out {path to empty folder} -encryptKeyWith D7B004{continue the wiiu common key}

No personal experience with dumping tickets... yet
 

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ive got ftpii everywhere running and connected to ftp on my computer, but when i try to access any folder besides the sd card. i get a permissions error saying access denied....am i missing something?
 

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ive got ftpii everywhere running and connected to ftp on my computer, but when i try to access any folder besides the sd card. i get a permissions error saying access denied....am i missing something?
Have you started a CFW first?
Plus there are 2 versions of ftpiiu everywhere, one is for Mocha, the other for the minicfw of Haxchi/CBHC (and the fw.img-based ones aren't supported, afaik)
 

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ITS WORKING ITS WORKING! :D thanks so much for being patient with me! Im kind of in a rush to do this, so I appreciate you working with me. I ran mocha cfw then ftpii everywhere and it is currently copying everything from the title folder in usr.

should i need to copy anything else from any other folders for any reason? i keep getting access denied errors with any of the "storage_odd" folders, and im not sure if i can copy the entirety of the "storage_mlc" or "storage_slc", as I got errors when trying to do that, so for now im just trying to copy the title folder where you said the games should be in. :)
 

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for now im just trying to copy the title folder where you said the games should be in
Yeah, more than enough for games :)

If you really want everything (maybe just for looking and learning, without the risk of messing with the live copy? never a bad idea) there's a homebrew that just copies all 3 nands at a file level to your SD!
(for a block-level backup, that you can restore with hardmod in the worst case, you'll have to create a rednand and backup it to your PC, then you can remove it from the SD, but this is another story)

all the "odd" partitions are for a physical disc, which you must mount first (after starting the cfw, make sure it appears in the wii u menu before launching the hbl and ftpiiu everywhere)
 

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SO I kept running into problems trying to backup the games. It kept erroring out, and in one case told me it was going to take 24 hours lol. As I said before I didn't have much time. I got rid of my Wii U. I did manage to make a backup of all my Wii U saves though, so i at least have that, and honestly i only cared for two games on there. ill probably just wait until i can find a buddy with the two games on disc to backup if hell let me do it. lol. Thanks for all your help though. Much appreciated. I did this to myself by waiting last minute. lol

Mods please feel free to close or lock this thread, whatever it is you guys do. :)
 

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FTP is such a slow thing, i hope someone creates a file manager that can simply copy stuff to sd/usb and from sd/usb it be easier to install anything, even straight up mods to the games like smash bros. If anyone could make a file manager, i appreciate it. :mellow:
 

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