Hacking Wii U Hacking & Homebrew Discussion

[Chris_Highwind]

To be honest, I probably won't use the risky method. For one, I don't get enough opportunities to buy games to justify allowing the use of the eShop, and until the exploit is released and homebrew is developed, all I can really use my Wii U for outside of a few games that I either got for free or came with the console is Youtube.

 

[FM360]

I feel like that other people should try to find different exploits in the wii besides the webkit exploit. If this exploit were to get patched, then we would at least have another exploit to use. I don't know when another exploit will be discovered or who will discover this new exploit. This webkit exploit will get patched eventually.

 

[Marionumber1]

I feel like that other people should try to find different exploits in the wii besides the webkit exploit. If this exploit were to get patched, then we would at least have another exploit to use. I don't know when another exploit will be discovered or who will discover this new exploit. This webkit exploit will get patched eventually.

There aren't that many places on the Wii U that take user-controlled data and give it such a level of control. As I've said before, the browser is our best bet for code execution. A specific bug can be patched, but we can find more.

 

[TotalInsanity4]

I very highly doubt that the "garbage" files could get installed to the Wii U. Every file on NUS will be digitally signed by RSA and SHA-1, meaning that the chances of a garbage file being properly signed are approximately 1461501637330902918203684832716300000000000000000 to 1. It should download the garbage, then check the integrity, then delete the files if the signature is invalid and install them if it is valid. For there to be a decent chance of the signature actually being valid, there would need to be around 1.46 * 10^48 Wii Us in use. Now, if Nintendo had sold that many Wii Us, then they would be richer than Microsoft! So, granted it could happen, but the chances are higher that you will get killed in a car accident today! (If you don't believe this, then think about these facts: There are about 100 people killed in car accidents each day. If the odds were really as high as the random file signature being valid, then there should be 1.46 * 10^48 people on the earth, and only one should die in a car accident.)

Yeah, I know that the odds of the checksum being identical are impossibly low, but knowing my luck someone will follow my guide and it will brick their console and they'll try to sue me or something (another extreme case, but you know what I mean). I was just trying to make people aware of potential risks and cover my own ass in the process

But yeah, the reason I'm so cautious about it is because like Cyan has said, the "garbage data/fake update" (call it what you will) actually does make it to the point right before installation before the console actually verifies the file and decides to either keep or delete it. I'm not sure why Nintendo would allow something like that to occur, but they do, so yeah

Another thing that would be interesting if one could somehow manage to get checksums to match up (which I know is next to impossible, especially without knowing what type of checks the Wii U uses, but this would be cool all the same) would be hosting a fake update file containing a CFW that could be downloaded and installed by the console

 

[NWPlayer123]

or, ya know, just use emuNAND/IOSU to run the CFW

 

[Ray Lewis]

or, ya know, just use emuNAND/IOSU to run the CFW

I know that's the future; -)

 

[Antonio Ricardo]

5 months without update WIIU is a good or bad sinal to hack scene NWPlayer123?
On 3DS Nintendo always release a update to stop hack scene but i think on WIIU Nintendo lost interest to support the console, the concern is only release games like WII.

 

[Marionumber1]

5 months without update WIIU is a good or bad sinal to hack scene NWPlayer123?
On 3DS Nintendo always release a update to stop hack scene but i think on WIIU Nintendo lost interest to support the console, the concern is only release games like WII.

I don't think it's a bad sign for the hacking scene, unless Nintendo's spending a lot of time on an update that will fix many vulnerabilities at once. While I don't yet believe Nintendo has lost interest in the Wii U, if they have, it's good news, since we won't have to worry about exploits being patched anymore. If Nintendo is taking long for some other reason (maybe they just don't have anything to do), that's good as well, seeing as we have two working kernel exploits and a browser exploit being developed.

 

[VinsCool]

What the fuck why is ray lewis banned lol?

 

[A Plus Ric]

I don't think it's a bad sign for the hacking scene, unless Nintendo's spending a lot of time on an update that will fix many vulnerabilities at once. While I don't yet believe Nintendo has lost interest in the Wii U, if they have, it's good news, since we won't have to worry about exploits being patched anymore. If Nintendo is taking long for some other reason (maybe they just don't have anything to do), that's good as well, seeing as we have two working kernel exploits and a browser exploit being developed.

Zelda is not even out yet. They will patch away until then at least. Although I doubt they ever really find exploitable things and patch them often, unless they actually have people testing for those sorts of things (which I still doubt).

What the fuck why is ray lewis banned lol?

Probably a long time coming. About time too. But GL on more Updates for this project.

 

[TheZander]

Do we think nintendo will preemptively screw up the exploit? Or do it just consequentially? Since nothing was released they don't really have anything to go by right?

 

[Mr. Mysterio]

I think Nintendo is waiting until the next exploit is released before they release their update so they can patch it.

 

[NWPlayer123]

They know what it is if they wanna dig through this entire thread Some idiot mentioned the function forever ago

 

[Mr. Mysterio]

They know what it is if they wanna dig through this entire thread Some idiot mentioned the function forever ago

Or, they could let Google dig through this entire thread for them!

 

[spirited one]

They know what it is if they wanna dig through this entire thread Some idiot mentioned the function forever ago

I read the last 40 pages of this thread to catch up. A guy said spin something. Didn't he say he worked for Nintendo? Nintendo will know once they can see your codes being used.

 

[NWPlayer123]

If they even care at this point

 

[AboodXD]

If they even care at this point

Why wouldn't they?

 

[NWPlayer123]

Because there hasn't been an update in 4 months, and usually they're constantly adding new features and fixing bugs.

 

[TheZander]

since it's been said that to run the other exploits you need a browser is that enough info for them to change the whole thing up? or since this project to me seems like it would be very little on their radar, its not an ode or something. is the idea that once some stuff is released then they will finally update? thats weird to think some nintendo narc reads this forum or thread, can you really see that being a paid job? if they had the inclination gbatemp is harboring screwery couldnt they go all dmca over everything like back in the rom days?

but afterthought they were quick on that smelum ninjahack, then again it was on a bunch of tech news feeds. i mean the first i saw it was on google news.

 

[NWPlayer123]

There's no point in changing the browser, it's just more work when they have better things to do. I know for a fact they won't go through the trouble of making a new browser just so some skriddies can't run stuff, it won't matter enough to their profits to care. Instead they'll keep quietly patching bugs (assuming there are any new firmwares after this).