Hacking [RELEASE] Wii U USB Helper, a small eShop for Windows !

[Hikari06]

Hi, first of all thanks for this huge program,
it seems like even using the new feature of press play in the gui of wiiusb helper, the dlc and updates do not install(or at least in mario kart 8 and super smash bros wii u the version does not change and dlc does not appear)
any idea?

Would it be possible to have the option to tell the program where our version of Cemu is that we already have instead of downloading a new copy of the emulator? I tried testing this out by downloading "New Super Mario Bros. U", and the newest update. (I already had the game on my PC, but couldn't figure out how to update it, so I wanted to try the auto-update feature) I set up Cemu to treat my controller as a Pro Controller, since it can't do Wii Remotes, and I would like to try and set up multiplayer. The game didn't run the update, and the controller was completely useless.

Since you're asking for the directory contents for the other person with the same problem, I need to ask: what exactly do you need in the directory? I went to the same directory and got a single folder marked "10101d00". Inside of that is the "code", "content", and "meta" folders for NSMBU.

Thing is the app automatically manages the installation of Cemu in order to facilitate the installation of maintenance for inexperienced users. It also enables the app to update it if required. By the way, after some reading I think only the latest version of Cemu, which is not yet available to the public, supports dlc and updates.
Unfortunately you will have to wait for it to be released
Ps, I would suggest that you import your settings.bin from your Cemu to DATA/EMULATORS/Cemu/BIN

 

[xZabuzax]

By the way, after some reading I think only the latest version of Cemu, which is not yet available, supports dlc and updates.
Unfortunately you will have to wait for it to be released

This is correct!, the latest version Cemu v1.7.3d is the one that supports Updates and DLC, that version is not available to the public yet, only the Patreons supporters have that version.

BTW, I've recently (yesterday) found out about this Wii U USB Helper program and my gawd, this program is way too awesome to pass, can't believe I've never heard about this program before. The GUI of this program is pretty awesome and to top it off, this program is pretty darn easy to use! can't get any better than this!

Would be nice to have the option to be able to install the Updates and DLC from this program directly to our Cemu directory, this way the program doesn't have to download a new Cemu version.

Anyways, thanks for this awesome program Hikari06!

 

[IMRAN_PETER]

Dear, can you add a separate tab which shows downloaded DLC and Updates thus can unpack these without adding them to download again. Currently they do not show in download tab thus cannot be unpacked. Only full games which are downloaded are shown.

 

[chr0m]

That's fine then, it's just one more step. What I'd really like is for the ability to copy just the save to USB without copying all the game data, I don't know what experimental drug Nintendo were on when they did that.

Ridiculous hey? Sony did the same thing with the Vita


On another note, is there any way to check for new updates/dlc for games that I've downloaded?

 

[briantho]

Hello and thank you for your message.
It appears the issue only occurs when the user has more than 8GB installed.
Could you please tell me how much memory is actually used by the app, as reported by the task manager?

Hi, I'm the app is currently using 215MB, sometimes hits 240, but never goes past 300MB, currently with everything else running, including the os, all background programs, and the browser i'm writing this post on, I'm using 40% of my 24gb of ram. I'm currently downloading lego batman 3 as a test, and it's about 90% done. when I first started the app, my ram usage was 24%, so ya....
Let me know if there's any other info I can provide to help you fix this memory leak

 

[nexusmtz]

I'm using 40% of my 24gb of ram. ... when I first started the app, my ram usage was 24%, so ya....

Your system should use available memory for file mapping and things like that. Is the process' working set and commit growing enough to cover the RAM usage? Have you looked at what your memory is allocated to using something like sysinternals RAMMAP? Observing that your computer is using its RAM doesn't mean that there's a memory leak in the program.

 

[Kurt91]

Oh, so only the newest version of Cemu supports updates? Alright, then. I can wait. I thought it was just DLC that was supported. I have a little brother who was really disappointed that I couldn't set up a multiplayer game with him last weekend. That's why I was wanting to get updates working.

 

[malikoman]

Hey! Thank you so much for this awesome tool. Everything worked perfectly, from the download to the installing, PERFECT.

I have a question out of pure curiosity. What does it mean when the game or DLC or whatever has the "CFW ONLY" tag? I'm a total newbie when it comes to hacking and modding. So simple concepts and explanations if possible hahaha.

 

[Edgarska]

Hey! Thank you so much for this awesome tool. Everything worked perfectly, from the download to the installing, PERFECT.

I have a question out of pure curiosity. What does it mean when the game or DLC or whatever has the "CFW ONLY" tag? I'm a total newbie when it comes to hacking and modding. So simple concepts and explanations if possible hahaha.

It means you need to have a custom firmware installed on your wii u in order to use it.

 

[malikoman]

It means you need to have a custom firmware installed on your wii u in order to use it.

Does that mean that when installing it, I have to first pop up the sfw.img and then WUPInstaller? Or that I must start the .img before using it every time?

 

[Edgarska]

Does that mean that when installing it, I have to first pop up the sfw.img and then WUPInstaller? Or that I must start the .img before using it every time?

Every time you run it. Though I only run Mocha CFW from homebrew channel, which works fine for me. But I don't know if it's dangerous doing it that way or not.

 

[malikoman]

Every time you run it. Though I only run Mocha CFW from homebrew channel, which works fine for me. But I don't know if it's dangerous doing it that way or not.

Ok, I'll ask the author and see if he knows. Thanks!

 

[EpicLPer]

Alright guys, greats news!
Starting from v194, USB Helper will automatically apply updates and dlc (if you have downloaded them) when you hit the "Play" button !
This way you can now play the games on your computer in one click
Please note that I'm unfortunately unable to test this on my computer so it'd be awesome if you could check it out and report so I can make adjustments if necessary

EDIT : Apparently only Cemu 1.7.3 which is not yet available to the public supports that. Your version will be automatically updated when it's released.

If you want I can share my Donate version with you as long as you don't share it further. They check the donation key and when they see it's being used by a lot of people they'll block it.

 

[Hikari06]

If you want I can share my Donate version with you as long as you don't share it further. They check the donation key and when they see it's being used by a lot of people they'll block it.

Thanks for the offer, I guess I could try to see if it works in advance then, that is if I manage to at least emulate a game up to the main menu xD

Hi, I'm the app is currently using 215MB, sometimes hits 240, but never goes past 300MB, currently with everything else running, including the os, all background programs, and the browser i'm writing this post on, I'm using 40% of my 24gb of ram. I'm currently downloading lego batman 3 as a test, and it's about 90% done. when I first started the app, my ram usage was 24%, so ya....
Let me know if there's any other info I can provide to help you fix this memory leak

215MB seems pretty normal for me at the moment. Considering the very nature of C# apps, memory is only cleaned up when the system is out of memory. I have actually very little control over that and the more memory you have the less likely it is that your OS will trigger garbage collection. It shoud not be an issue though since memory is managed automatically and freed whenever required.

 

[st0nedpenguin]

Man this thing makes dealing with Wii U updates and DLC so much easier.

Is there any chance of an option to specify separate locations for the downloaded and installed game directories though? It'd be nice to toss the games on SSD and keep the downloads on a spinning drive.

 

[EpicLPer]

Improvement suggestion: The program should first look if the game was already extracted after downloading (via the optional option) and then use these files instead of extracting again when you hit "Play".

 

[Kladde]

In the video there is a step before the WUP installer. It is CFW.LOADER. is this step mandatory?

Because when i click that nothing happens. I only see a white screen with Wiiu logo and under WiiU menu.


EDIT: I skiped CFW and it worked.

 

[briantho]

Thanks for the offer, I guess I could try to see if it works in advance then, that is if I manage to at least emulate a game up to the main menu xD

215MB seems pretty normal for me at the moment. Considering the very nature of C# apps, memory is only cleaned up when the system is out of memory. I have actually very little control over that and the more memory you have the less likely it is that your OS will trigger garbage collection. It shoud not be an issue though since memory is managed automatically and freed whenever required.

Hi, so are you saying this is normal? I'm currently trying a few more downloads again, and I've noticed from the time I started the program to now the overall memory usage of my system has grown from roughly 5gb to 18gb of total usage. Still Task manager says Wii U USB Helper is only using about 200mb of ram. I've also noticed that after I close the program ram usage will stop increasing, but will not go back down. Also, I've had this happen twice now, but my computer crashed because it ran out of memory, when I was downloading a large game and I went away for a while, I came back and it said a warning came up and said the computer was out of memory. I noticed at that point that the mouse became unresponsive, and I had to force shut down my computer. This was roughly a month ago, so I've limited the amount I download at a time, to prevent the ram usage from increasing too much. Is there anything that can be done about this? Also, so I don't know much about C# programming, but are you saying that this is normal behavior?

 

[Hikari06]

In the video there is a step before the WUP installer. It is CFW.LOADER. is this step mandatory?

Because when i click that nothing happens. I only see a white screen with Wiiu logo and under WiiU menu.

EDIT: I skiped CFW and it worked.

CFW only is required for titles marked as "CFW only" in the app.

Improvement suggestion: The program should first look if the game was already extracted after downloading (via the optional option) and then use these files instead of extracting again when you hit "Play".

Man this thing makes dealing with Wii U updates and DLC so much easier.

Is there any chance of an option to specify separate locations for the downloaded and installed game directories though? It'd be nice to toss the games on SSD and keep the downloads on a spinning drive.

Thank you for your suggestions, I'll see what I can do.

Hi, so are you saying this is normal? I'm currently trying a few more downloads again, and I've noticed from the time I started the program to now the overall memory usage of my system has grown from roughly 5gb to 18gb of total usage. Still Task manager says Wii U USB Helper is only using about 200mb of ram. I've also noticed that after I close the program ram usage will stop increasing, but will not go back down. Also, I've had this happen twice now, but my computer crashed because it ran out of memory, when I was downloading a large game and I went away for a while, I came back and it said a warning came up and said the computer was out of memory. I noticed at that point that the mouse became unresponsive, and I had to force shut down my computer. This was roughly a month ago, so I've limited the amount I download at a time, to prevent the ram usage from increasing too much. Is there anything that can be done about this? Also, so I don't know much about C# programming, but are you saying that this is normal behavior?

No it's clearly not normal for your computer to run out of memory given your amount of RAM. The app does use a bit of memory, but normally not that much.
What puzzles me though is that apparently the amount of ram usage reported by the task manager doesn't go above 200mb, which is relatively normal.
I have been able to download Xenoblade Chronicles X (which is one of the largest wiiu games out there) on a computer with 4GB of ram without any issue.
So obviously something is going on here, although I must admit I'm not exactly sure what since a memory leak of such magnitude would normally be directly indicated in the reported ram usage of the process.

 

[bigballs1981]

You must have been using a reaaaally old version of the app though since the last time I changed directory structure was in December

no, only installed within the last few weeks, weird! maybe i messed with the folders when a bit wasted lol but i don't think i did. anyway, it's working great now, cheers
could u implement something to help us determine which system the newly added titles are for? i'm sure you have plenty of time to change stuff you've kindly brought to us already lol
wouldn't it be nice if one day this application also supported the switch

You can easily use the import feature if you want the app to automatically rearrange your wii u games.

thanks man this is sweet as others are saying great for keeping things up to date!
the power of this thing is snowballing!!