Workaround for mass installation to external HDD

[Menacer]

Was using the search option but nothing came up.
So it's possible to mass install stuff from PC directly to a HDD for Wii games.
As far as I know there is no software available that does this for WiiU games, but maybe there's a technical workaround to replace what wup installer does?
As far as I understand extracting the games from the app files is one step and that's easily replicatable on PC.
The other step would probably be to somehow register the installed title in the system so it appears in the main menu. Does someone know in which file this information is stored?
Possibly it's just an XML file you'd have to edit.

 

[godreborn]

System config tool can batch install, I don't use wup installer.

 

[Menacer]

I'm specifically looking for a way to do it on PC. I'm talking about large amounts of data.
Transferring to SD and then on wiiu extracting from SD to HDD takes a lot of time.

 

[godreborn]

I'm specifically looking for a way to do it on PC. I'm talking about large amounts of data.
Transferring to SD and then on wiiu extracting from SD to HDD takes a lot of time.

I'm not sure if that's possible. The issue is that it needs to be indexed.

 

[V10lator]

That's not possible: You would need to have write access to the USB drive but that's encrypted, so the PC can't write to it. Also you would need to have write access to the Wii Us internal memory, so soldering the Wii U to the PC. Even if you would go that route Wii Us internal memory is encrypted, too, so you wouldn't be able to write to it.

Your best bet is to do batch installs with NUSspli (Lite) or SCT but for this you need to have the install files on either SD, USB or internal memory already (or download them with NUSspli. You can batch download and install some games with it overnight).

 

[TheDerpyDolphin]

System config tool can batch install, I don't use wup installer.

Slightly off topic but why should we not use WUP Installer? Is there a reason other than wear and tear on the SD card?

Edit: I’m sorry, I read your post wrong. My small screen led my small brain to not see the “I” and I thought you were telling us not to use it

 

[V10lator]

Slightly off topic but why should we not use WUP Installer? Is there a reason other than wear and tear on the SD card?

Cause NUSspli (Lite) and SCT are able to do batch installs, are able to install from any folder on any storage medium (while WUP Installer is able to install from the install folder on the SD card only) and more.

This goes into self advertising but you asked for it, so: NUSspli (Lite) does a ton of a lot more than any other installation method. It clears tickets, it makes sure to uninstall a title with the same ID before installing the new one (homebrew channel updates made plain stupid), sanity-checks the title.tmd and title.tik files before even trying to install (and hell, it is even able to do error correction on these files! It does this completely invisible in the background through but so far it fixes things like broken DLC tickets created by older NUSspli versions and broken title.tmd files made by older Teconmoon's Injector versions) and stuff like that.

Lastly WUP Installer is an old, unmaintained and buggy beast. This is esp. true for WUP Installer GX2 (use WUP Installer Y-Mod for the most bug-free experience between all WUP Installer variants. I examined the codes of all of them for months, so trust me on this).

 

[TheDerpyDolphin]

Cause NUSspli (Lite) and SCT are able to do batch installs, are able to install from any folder on any storage medium (while WUP Installer is able to install from the install folder on the SD card only) and more.

This goes into self advertising but you asked for it, so: NUSspli (Lite) does a ton of a lot more than any other installation method. It clears tickets, it makes sure to uninstall a title with the same ID before installing the new one (homebrew channel updates made plain stupid), sanity-checks the title.tmd and title.tik files before even trying to install (and hell, it is even able to do error correction on these files! It does this completely invisible in the background through but so far it fixes things like broken DLC tickets created by older NUSspli versions and broken title.tmd files made by older Teconmoon's Injector versions) and stuff like that.

Lastly WUP Installer is an old, unmaintained and buggy beast. This is esp. true for WUP Installer GX2 (use WUP Installer Y-Mod for the most bug-free experience between all WUP Installer variants. I examined the codes of all of them for months, so trust me on this).

That’s actually pretty cool ngl. Glad I asked then. I might have to make the switch and try it out one of these days

 

[V10lator]

@DerpyDolphin In case you're anti-piracy try NUSspli Lite: It is NUSpli without the download function. This has been created on request by the homebrew appstore devs when no WUP Installer for Aroma was available (so NUSspli Lite is Aroma only. Would be too much maintainance work to make it Tiramisu compatible).
Anyway, this means NUSspli lite is available through the homebrew appstore: https://apps.fortheusers.org/wiiu/NUSspli-Lite

 

[Menacer]

That's not possible: You would need to have write access to the USB drive but that's encrypted, so the PC can't write to it. Also you would need to have write access to the Wii Us internal memory, so soldering the Wii U to the PC. Even if you would go that route Wii Us internal memory is encrypted, too, so you wouldn't be able to write to it.

Your best bet is to do batch installs with NUSspli (Lite) or SCT but for this you need to have the install files on either SD, USB or internal memory already (or download them with NUSspli. You can batch download and install some games with it overnight).

Thanks for all the input. Especially, thanks for the hint that NUSspli can install from USB, was not aware of that.

But some things to add: I think you can access the internal memory unencrypted via FTP. That way I patched my Jap WiiU to make the menus english.
I also made some research meanwhile and the encryption of the HDD does not seem to be the problem. There's wfs-tool that can read data from HDDs connected to the PC.
The problem seems to be that the WiiU filesystem is not (enough) documented for a tool to support writing data/files.
So for now it's a dead end, unfortunately.

 

[Ettino]

you can access the internal memory unencrypted via FTP.

Well yeah sure, if you want to live dangerously.

 

[V10lator]

Well yeah sure, if you want to live dangerously.

Would be more safe to upload installable content to the USB drive, then install it from there. Anyway, an upload to the internal memory isn't any more unsafe than any other action involving NAND write access (and that's why even an unmodified / stock Wii U can brick thanks to a brownout or something).

the encryption of the HDD does not seem to be the problem.

True, it's an issue of the proprietary nature of the filesystem, the encryption has been cracked long ago, but I simplified it in my statement (that's why you see quotes from me saying "that's encrypted, so the PC can't write to it"... "can't write"... I never said it can't read.
But yea, as said: Was simplified and as such slightly wrong information.

 

[godreborn]

it's blurry, but that's me mas installing with sct.

 

[V10lator]

@godreborn Pressing the wrong button in SCT might brick your console through, so SCT really shouldn't be used by inexperienced users.

Now this goes off-topic (feel tree to reply by PM) but did you ever compare NUSsplis and SCTs batch install? If so: Is there anything NUSspli could do better?