We need a definite answer, I can trade in 600 coins at club nintendo and get w101. Nintendo is really making it hard not to upgrade the firmware with club nintendo final rewards and metroid trilogy for $10 only.
We need a definite answer, I can trade in 600 coins at club nintendo and get w101. Nintendo is really making it hard not to upgrade the firmware with club nintendo final rewards and metroid trilogy for $10 only.
Did anyone get a setup going with Gecko on the internal gamecube ports and look into fail0verflow's discovered 'Design flaw'?
its hard to follow their video, with the bad English and showmanship, but they seam to have found a way to write custom data between the CPU's signature vacation. I think this is what they were aiming at when the made that '3-core' scene challenge. they keep saying there is only one bite thats needed to change between signature vacation to allow vwii to have full access to all wiiu hardware. I dont mind buying a modchip or launching a wiiu homebrew from vwii
Fail0verflow were looking at exploiting the system for different things than we are. Because of their approach, they were limited to hardware IOs like the sensor bar output and GPIOs. We're exploiting the browser, so we can just do RPC over wifi.
That being said, yes. We've done most of the things they explained in their video.
For me it's more the installation than the purchase. Even if it was no solder or whatever, the concept of opening up my system to install an extra chip is somewhat hard to take.
I love ripping mine apart haha the 1st thing i do when i get a new console is tare it down and upgrade the cooling (thermal paste, extra vents, bigger fan)
Timing hacks are really low-level and thus out of the scope of what most of us want to do. We're working top-down rather than bottom-up, I guess. ('we' in all of these cases being everyone who's currently publicly working on the wii u)
so its not as simple as loading a custom bootloader with key checks removed and fake the signature using the timing hack?
An RGH-style approach like that would definitely be interesting, but nobody's tried yet afaik. We'd need to be able to decrypt and tweak stages of bootloader in a given system to be able to pull that off, and I don't know if the encryption for each BL level is well-documented or not.
Also RGH on the 360 utilized a line which could be asserted to dramatically lower the system clock (by 128 times). Not having an analog to this on the Wii U would make glitching the bootloader basically impossible.
haha i recently sold my rgh console. nothing to do with it without live. you would not need to use this rgh with slower clocks, Fail0verflow did it with just the gecko. dont forget you have a whole other CPU in the system to handle the timing. The 360 did not.
Fail0verflow did not do a glitch hack like what I'm discussing, they just threw the CPU into a weird state by asserting SRESET for too short of a time. This has already been done and released publicly.
Also the 360 DID have a secondary CPU to handle the execution of various hacks. The original SMC ("JTAG") hack used the SMC (which is just a general-purpose CPU) to trigger the exploit. This wasn't used for the glitch hack, though, because its role in the system didn't really facilitate what was needed to trigger that exploit.
I know they did not do anything like a 360 rgh type hack. they were able to do this before they tried to get the keys for fun. (yes before they found the "drunk CPU" bug)
they showed the system has a design flaw, allowing you to fake signature checks. this can be done at any point of the boot chain.
edit: we need someone to make a re-dub of that video in english lol
Probably the #1 reason why I want the Wii U hacked is piracy. The #2 one (dead serious) is playing Super Mario 64 on the GamePad.