With the release of UDPIH it is now possible to unbrick CBHC bricks without requiring any soldering!

Requirements​

• A FAT32 formatted SD Card
• One of the devices listed below
  Note: Any other linux device capable of USB device emulation should work as well.
  Prebuilt releases are only available for the Pico and Zero.
  I will add more devices below which are confirmed to work.

Supported devices:​

• A Raspberry Pi Pico or Zero
• A Nintendo Switch capable of running udpih_nxpayload

If you don't have a supported Pi or Switch, I recommend buying a Raspberry Pi Pico. They're the easiest to use and only cost around 5 bucks.

Setting up UDPIH​

Head over to the UDPIH post and follow the Intructions for your device until you're booted into the Recovery Menu.

Changing the coldboot title​

Once on this screen make sure the cursor is on "Set Coldboot Title", and press the POWER button on the console itself (not the controller or GamePad)

Press the EJECT button on the console until the Wii U menu entry corresponding to your console region is highlighted.
If you don't know your console region, check the second letter of your serial number on the bottom of the console:

• "A" (Australia) (Australian consoles are running EUR firmware)
• "E" (Europe)
• "J" (Japan)
• "W" (North America)

Then press the POWER button.
If everything worked out you should see the following screen:

Now press EJECT and you should be back on the main menu. Navigate to Shutdown using the EJECT button and press POWER.
Your console should power off.

Now remove the Pi from the console, and power it back on. Your console should boot back into the Wii U menu.

And yeah that's it!

If this helped you to unbrick your console, feel free to support me on ko-fi!

 

[Cool_all]

Help solve problem 160-0103. I do everything according to the instructions but it does not work.

 

[zurgeg]

Does anyone know if this works with the RPi 400 or just the zero/pico

 

[GaryOderNichts]

Does anyone know if this works with the RPi 400 or just the zero/pico

Should work. I don't think anyone has tested it so far though.

 

[Danook28]

There are no recovery menu in my game pad it show app and satting and my game only not boot in recovery... Is it usb or some thing wrong.

 

[Harukiii]

Wow this looks awesome, UDPIH can be used to change the the coldboot OS? I locked myself out of any applications due to permanent region modification (from US to EU) years ago.

 

[netsurf012]

Thank you so much @GaryOderNichts for this.

My Wii U was back to life after soft brick due to overwrite the system menu title from another region. Work well with a Pi Pico (the one coming from CN with Type-C).

 

[netsurf012]

There are no recovery menu in my game pad it show app and satting and my game only not boot in recovery... Is it usb or some thing wrong.

You need to unplug all the USB cables from the console and use only 2 front ports for this hack to work. I have same issue when keep usb cables plugged in the back ports (just cable and no hdd attached to it), it just stuck at Wii U logo. After unplugged all usb cables and try with front port + right timing (need a few tries) as mentioned in the guide, the recovery show up.

 

[Alexander1970]

Good Morning,my dear Sir @GaryOderNichts

Got the Raspberry Pi Pico today.
The Entry worked on the first Hit.



Hopefully,I do not ever need it for my Wii U.
But good to know,there is "simple" a Solution.
Sounds weird everytime....

Nobody see´s the hard Work and time behind this.
And how People are working together to achieve at the End a "Noob proofed" Solution,that´s very,very nice.

Awesome Work,my Friend.
Thank you very,very much.


Of Course also many,many Thanks to the awesome

@Maschell
@rw-r-r-0644
@QuarkTheAwesome
@vgmoose
@ExJam
@dimok789

Have a very nice Day,my dear Sirs.

 

[Danook28]

No the console never show wii u logo... This is not working in this console

 

[nolan0605]

the recovery menu crash while it was on wii u now my console show no screen and i can't load the recovery menu because i have no screen can someone help me ?

 

[nolan0605]

recovery menu crach while it was open now my console dosen't show screen can someone help me ?

 

[Dueiriel]

Just to registry it.

Solved my 160-0103 error, unfortunately display image didn't work on neither builds so I had to count how many ejects I pressed to change things but in the end it worked

 

[Halleys-queiroz]

I tried, but my Wii u, just turns off, i think it isn’t reading the sd card, i tried two different cards.

 

[JediAviator]

If the game pad isnt synced to the Wii U will this still work? I have tried a few times, some get the error 106-0103 and some have the switch load correctly and I get a black screen on the TV. I have tried formatting the SD card to fat 32 with both the "recovery_menu" and also tried renaming the Revovery_menu_dc_init to "recovery_menu. Nothing has worked, please let me know if this can be done with out the game pad to navigate

 

[BeanBurrito]

Does anyone know if this can help with the "delete all content and settings" error? I had no problem using the recovery menu but my wii u still loads the "delete all content and settings" screen and afterwards stays stuck and the sound stops.