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Play Zelda BOTW with All DLC for FREE without CFW

It's confirmed. It works!

This guide uses the FREE DLC "Language pack" to do the trick. You need download it on eshop.


In this tutorial I'll show you how to play Zelda BOTW with all DLCs unlocked without start a CFW or something for this. It should work with others games with multiple DLC like MK8, Wii Sports Club, Super Smash Bros, Hyrule Warriors and others. Of course you need a legit DLC from game you want to play.

For Super Smash Bros detail follow this link:

https://gbatemp.net/threads/tutoria...-without-cfw-or-aocpatcher-on-sysnand.464178/


For MK8 detail follow this link:

https://gbatemp.net/threads/tutorial-play-mario-kart-8-with-all-dlc-for-free-without-cfw.464407/#post-7173356

What you need:
  • Zelda BOTW "Language Pack" downloaded from eshop. You need the latest update and download it from game options (needs a legit DLC)
  • Mocha CFW, Haxchi CFW, or any other (just in the beginning)
  • WiiU App Store (or Tik2SD + FTPiiU_Everywhere + WUP Installer GX2 +
    Mocha CFW + Homebrew Launcher
    )
  • WiiU USB Helper
  • SD Card
  • PC
  • Hex Editor (HxD for Windows)
1 - First if you have any illegitimate Zelda BOTW DLC installed, just delete it using using Data manager on WiiU Config
2 - Download the DLC on eshop
3 - Make sure your SD card is formatted in FAT32
4 - Download the DLC of Zelda BOTW of your region with WiiU USB Helper and put it in your SD card in na folder called "install" in the root.
5 - Go to Homebrew Launcher and choose App Store or go to wiiubru.com/go on you browser and choose App Store. If you don't know what's Homebrew Launcher is give a look in this guide (parts I, II and III) and choose start App Store.
6 - In App Store Download Tik2SD + FTPiiU_Everywhere + WUP Installer GX2 + Mocha CFW + Homebrew Launcher
7 - Launch Homebrew Launcher and go to Mocha_CFW (use default options). Then go to WUP Installer GX2 and choose install the DLC of Zelda BOTW you just download wherever is your game (nand or USB).
8 - Back to Homebrew Launcher, go to Tik2SD and backup your tickets. Put your SD in PC and look at tik2sd folder. Open keys.txt and search where your Zelda BOTW DLC is installed. The name you need to search is 0005000c101c9400 or 0005000c101c9500 or 0005000c101c9300.
9 - Now it's time for hex editing.
Use the link from www.marcrobledo.com/wiiu-tik-fixer/ (thanks @marc_max )
open the folder and in tik2sd wich the ticket from you game is , than drop on the site above, you gonna see 2 tickets, click in fix, and download the file , than go to step 10.
If you want to do manually, then thanks to @Rahzadan we have a VERY detailed tutorial for it. Go to this thread and after the hex editing go to step 10 below.
If you followed the @Rahzadan tutorial or used the @marc_max website above, go to step 10. I'll keep this part only for log
purpose.

Locate your ticket in your SD card according with keys.txt. Open with an hex editor (in my case it's on 0009 folder and the name is 00000015.tik. Backup the ticket.

Look that you gonna have 2x finds in the key.txt file. In my case 0009/00000015.tik@0x6a0 and 0009/00000015.tik@0x0. The number after the "@" shows where the ticket starts inside the tik file. It means probably the fake ticket is in beginning of tik (0x0) file and my legit ticket starts in 0x6a0 (note is in hexadecimal).

The fake ticket is like this, a lot of same numbers:

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In this case it shows SSB ticket, but for Zelda BOTW ticket is the same thing, just another Game ID.

Pay attention in the blue highlight. It shows the game ID. If it says a number other than 0005000c101c9400 or 0005000c101c9500 or 0005000c101c9300 it means the ticket is from another game!

The trick here is swap the fake ticket with the legit ticket, that way the legit ticket always come first in the tik file! This picture can demonstrate what I mean:
rVtT6FJ.png


In this case it shows SSB ticket, but for Zelda BOTW ticket is the same thing.

Maybe there's another game ticket inside the tik file, maybe not. Anyway, just copy and past with your hex editor the fake ticket with the legit ticket. Pay attention and don't touch other game tickets in the tik file!

If your legit ticket comes first you don't need swap the tickets! You already can play with all DLC unlocked! I believe it can happens if you download the free DLC after install the fake DLC.

After the swap save your ticket in your PC.
10 - Now put your SD back in WiiU. Open Homebrew Launcher and launch FTPiiU_everywhere (make sure you had launch Mocha CFW or other CFW before that)
11 - Go to your Zelda BOTW ticket location inside WiiU memory using a FTP browser like FileZilla or even Windows Explorer with the IP of your WiiU. Its in "storage_slc/rights/ticket/apps/xxxx/xxx.tik". Replace that ticket with the one you just modified.
12 - Open your Zelda BOTW game and enjoy play with all contents without CFW!

TL;DR: Download the free DLC, install all DLC packet with a fake ticket, locate your ticket inside WiiU, swap the legit ticket with the fake ticket inside the tik file so that the legit ticket appears first.

Thank to @nexusmtz and @Madridi
 
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Through eShop, it's just that you need like 2+GB of free space in order for both the update and DLC to download and install properly.
Thx.

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Run NNU Patcher, and then the game will update like normal.
Thx. Do you deleted update folder before updated ?
 
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Thx.

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Thx. Do you deleted update folder before updated ?
Nope, no need to delete it.
As soon as you enable NNU Patcher and try to boot up the game, it will automatically download the update before boot.
Then, at the title screen, the game will try to redirect you to eShop to download the DLC.
Simply try to go to the eShop, then exit, and try to boot the game again, the DLC will start downloading now.

The first download is only the update data, the DLC comes afterwards.
 

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yes there is : use CFW.
i do use CFW, but there is no download for master trials only, on Wii u usb helper you cant choose dlc to add. you get the whole 943mb package (841 free language pack + 102mb master of trials accoding to eshop). can i tell them appart and only install master trials with Wup installer gx2?
 
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ah, yes, you are right, the DLC are separated only on eShop.
the language pack is not separated in the data manager once installed? (to delete just the language pack)


seeing the game can update the DLC, maybe you could install all, delete all, launch the game and hope it re-download the dlc only?
or maybe of eshop helper let you choose the DLC version, don't take the last one, only the first version, and let the game update it (it will probably not get the language pack)
 
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hey OP can you tell us what files are in free dlc, maybe if i leave those out and only install the rest, i will get master trials dlc without the useless Language files.
 

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hey OP can you tell us what files are in free dlc, maybe if i leave those out and only install the rest, i will get master trials dlc without the useless Language files.
Now that you bring it up, I remember now that it is possible to leave out the language pack files when installing the DLC. However, if installing the DLC the way this thread describes in order to be able to launch the game without CFW, the language pack will need to be installed at least once at the beginning of the process.
 

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Now that you bring it up, I remember now that it is possible to leave out the language pack files when installing the DLC. However, if installing the DLC the way this thread describes in order to be able to launch the game without CFW, the language pack will need to be installed at least once at the beginning of the process.
i always use cfw so thats no issue, i just hope that when the second dlc comes out someone will hopefully release a full dlc package excluding language files. since the game is installed to nand i have to also install dlc to nand with only 642mb free space.
 

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i always use cfw so thats no issue, i just hope that when the second dlc comes out someone will hopefully release a full dlc package excluding language files. since the game is installed to nand i have to also install dlc to nand with only 642mb free space.
You would just need to download the full DLC package from Wii U USB Helper and then delete the language pack file(s).

Edit: If you follow the guide in the first post, you could update the DLC from the Wii U itself without having to use Wii U USB Helper each time. You would only have to download the language pack once, and it would be by itself. After that, you can remove it and install the DLC pack without the language pack.
 
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I read somewhere that apparently there was a 1.3.4 update for BotW.
Has anyone updated yet? Is it even real?
I tried to update yesterday by enabling NNU patcher and opening up the game, but no update prompt appeared at all.
 

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I read somewhere that apparently there was a 1.3.4 update for BotW.
Has anyone updated yet? Is it even real?
I tried to update yesterday by enabling NNU patcher and opening up the game, but no update prompt appeared at all.
Yes it's real , i just downloaded the v160 version (1.3.4) with wiiu usb helper... but haven't try for now...
1.3.4 is just bugfixes. Nothing major.
 

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