I figured I would post on the thread in case people want to do something similar in the future:
I myself wasn't able to a new 80000001 user, probably because of some conflicting issue with that account having a NNID attached to it. But I was able to get back 80000002 which I also deleted when trying to get the other account back.
If you want to give it a shot, make sure you have FTPiiU Everywhere installed in your homebrew launcher and some sort of FTP software on your computer (I use Filezilla). For some reason you have to run Mocha CFW first before using FTPiiU, so make sure you do that before tying to connect to your PC.
So put in the IP address and port that FTPiiU gives you into your FTP software and hit connect. Once it connects, just navigate to here in the filesystem:
storage_mlc\usr\save\system\act\
(I just realized you probably already know the above stuff, since you know the user id numbers, but I'll leave it there on the off chance that you don't.)
Hi SwimyGreen,
Thanks for your effort detailing this awsome explanation!
I'm an advanced user, I know how to get access to WiiU by FTP, but I don't use Mocha. I use Haxchi CFW instead.
I was just afraid to mess with system stuff, that's why I looked for help before trying anything!
I will check what number I have on "PersistentIdHead". I think I will have 8000000b because I was trying to create several new accounts to see what happens after 80000009!
My main user is 80000003 because I deleted in the past the old users I created with stupid names (when there was no exploits on wiiu scene)
I never thought users will be linked with "PersistentIdHead" numbers, game tickets, saves, nnid...!! Arrrhhh!
This user 80000003 (Me) is associated with a NNID and I bought a DS game to install Haxchi on it.
I think if I delete this user, I will lose Haxchi right? I think the DS game becomes unusable (corrupt)
But I can try to create the user 80000001 and keep 80000003 until I have everythink ready for user deletion.
So, you never figure out why you are unable to recreate the user 8000001, but can you still link a NNID to your user 8000002?