Hacking Wii U Hacking & Homebrew Discussion

[NWPlayer123]

Oh, also, forgot to mention, that supposed framebuffer/browser image/whatever that I was messing around with is definitely not for that menu that opens up when you press X, if it gives me stuff like this. It's like rendering only the 2D images, and none of the GX2 3D stuff, which is very peculiar(and explains why MK8 was the only one I was getting a whole image of, and all the weird transparency issues like the clouds and none of the characters rendering in NSLU.)

 

[WulfyStylez]

Oh, also, forgot to mention, that supposed framebuffer/browser image/whatever that I was messing around with is definitely not for that menu that opens up when you press X, if it gives me stuff like this. It's like rendering only the 2D images, and none of the GX2 3D stuff, which is very peculiar(and explains why MK8 was the only one I was getting a whole image of, and all the weird transparency issues like the clouds and none of the characters rendering in NSLU.)

I figured it would be something like that, MH3U had the same issue with its menu missing parts.

 

[filfat]

Thumbs up to the person who just donated, now its 5$(4.5$ due to PayPal) less in loss

 

[unvaluablespace]

Thumbs up to the person who just donated, now its 5$(4.5$ due to PayPal) less in loss

Wait where can we donate? You mean to the wii-hb.com website? Does it do anything yet?

 

[Stealthii]

Not of significance, but some would say neither does the exploit. Does not mean the efforts up to this point should not go unrewarded

 

[filfat]

Not of significance, but some would say neither does the exploit. Does not mean the efforts up to this point should not go unrewarded

Im not the one who came up with the webkit exploit.
Im just a guy who have been working on a website for it and is currently looking for another webkit bug

 

[kettenschutz]

btw, i guess an azure server is not necessary to host this small exploit ? Its kinda expensive - if it would be the only registered host at azure ...

 

[filfat]

btw, i guess an azure server is not necessary to host this small exploit ? Its kinda expensive - if it would be the only registered host at azure ...

I host other stuff too, so it was easier to just setup a new website there and pay as i go btw, IIS is a lot better then any Linux web server XD

 

[filfat]

Anyone had any luck with OSReport(const char* msg, ... )?
I cant seem to get it to work, i would guess im missing some kind of init function or something.

EDIT:
This should in theory work:

unsigned int coreinit_handle, pad_handle;
OSDynLoad_Acquire("coreinit.rpl", &coreinit_handle);
void (*OSReport) ( const char* msg, ... );
OSDynLoad_FindExport(coreinit_handle, 0, "OSReport", &OSReport);
 
OSReport("Hello World from OSReport\n");

but it does not.

 

[NWPlayer123]

It's the same as the Wii AFAIK, it's only for dev consoles since there's nowhere to send the data on a retail Wii U. Also, I found something nice that might be worth looking into.
/os/Log/LoggingOSEventsToUSBMassStorage.html in the newest SDK.

 

[filfat]

doesnt

It's the same as the Wii AFAIK, it's only for dev consoles since there's nowhere to send the data on a retail Wii U. Also, I found something nice that might be worth looking into.
/os/Log/LoggingOSEventsToUSBMassStorage.html in the newest SDK.

Oh, i thought it would print the text to screen like printf, but unlike OSFatal so wouldn't it stop the code from executing.
Btw there is there any way as of yet to use the Standard class library(like stdio.h or iostream.h)?

 

[optikalsaint]

I host other stuff too, so it was easier to just setup a new website there and pay as i go btw, IIS is a lot better then any Linux web server XD

I have been a web developer for two decades and even published a book on web design and development. I was there when Microsoft tried to convince the world that Internet Explorer 6 was the bees knees. I was there when nested tables reigned supreme for design layout and was even there when history repeated itself and lazy developers started clinging to the Bootstrap CSS framework to create unnecessary nested empty div's in their designs like crazy. I remember when Mozilla came out with Firefox and everyone laughed. When ActiveX almost sounded like a good idea and when people still used Flash to make things. However hearing someone claim that IIS is better than any *Nix setup has to be hands down the most ludicrous statement I have EVER heard in relation to web development! You either go LAMP or go MEAN, or you go home

 

[Ninja_Carver]

+1 for LAMP stack

 

[filfat]

I have been a web developer for two decades and even published a book on web design and development. I was there when Microsoft tried to convince the world that Internet Explorer 6 was the bees knees. I was there when nested tables reigned supreme for design layout and was even there when history repeated itself and lazy developers started clinging to the Bootstrap CSS framework to create unnecessary nested empty div's in their designs like crazy. I remember when Mozilla came out with Firefox and everyone laughed. When ActiveX almost sounded like a good idea and when people still used Flash to make things. However hearing someone claim that IIS is better than any *Nix setup has to be hands down the most ludicrous statement I have EVER heard in relation to web development! You either go LAMP or go MEAN, or you go home

Thats offtopic, but ofc anything NT based is better then anything *NIX based. OSX looks good(not the UI) compared to Linux. and i tried apache, my god it sucked where is the official .NET support? where is all the enterprise functions? nope IIS over anything *NIX based ANY DAY!

 

[Duo8]

Thats offtopic, but ofc anything NT based is better then anything *NIX based. OSX looks good(not the UI) compared to Linux. and i tried apache, my god it sucked where is the official .NET support? where is all the enterprise functions? nope IIS over anything *NIX based ANY DAY!

You just say that because you're stuck with Microsoft now. You don't want features or anything. You just want whatever Microsoft makes.
If you ever going to host something other than a simple server this will probably hurt you. Learning to use *nix is quite important.
Most of your "arguments" are "It's not Microsoft" or "It doesn't work perfectly with Microsoft products" anyway.

 

[filfat]

You just say that because you're stuck with Microsoft now. You don't want features or anything. You just want whatever Microsoft makes.
If you ever going to host something other than a simple server this will probably hurt you. Learning to use *nix is quite important.
Most of your "arguments" are "It's not Microsoft" or "It doesn't work perfectly with Microsoft products" anyway.

Um, my home server was running Linux mint for atleast 3 years. I know how Linux works (command line not the Ubuntu UI)
and I was also running Linux on my dev PC for quite a while (cant remember which distro), However Microsoft product is working best for me everything just works I dont need to fizzle with everything all the time. And(grammar error on my part, you cant write "and" after a dot) no I wont buy anything MSFT makes, sure its a bigger chance that a buy a MSFT product then a Apple one or Sony one for example because I'm used to it and i know that everything works.

Now to your "argument" about me being stuck with Microsoft. No I'm not stuck sure i might be stuck in some services like Outlook and Office(Google really failed when they tried to make their own office lol) but i can switch from Windows any day if I want, but i dont want to switch. All features i can possibly need exists either in Windows or in some downloadable application compared to Linux which application vise made Windows 8 back in 2012 look like it had a ton of applications(see I can even joke about Windows ). Now can you stop being an asshole every time I sai that i like/disslike a product that you (don't) like. Thanks.

 

[Duo8]

Now can you stop being an asshole every time I sai that i like/disslike a product that you (don't) like. Thanks.

Then you can just keep it to yourself. Happy with it? Good for you. Don't shove it into everyone's faces and call other stuff bad just because it didn't work out for you.

 

[filfat]

Then you can just keep it to yourself. Happy with it? Good for you. Don't shove it into everyone's faces and call other stuff bad just because it didn't work out for you.

So just because I dont like anything so should i just pretend i like it or just ignore it... Oh you're ofc you guys still have a dictator that explains your way of thinking.

 

[Ninja_Carver]

Um, my home server was running Linux mint for atleast 3 years. I know how Linux works (command line not the Ubuntu UI)
and I was also running Linux on my dev PC for quite a while (cant remember which distro), However Microsoft product is working best for me everything just works I dont need to fizzle with everything all the time. And(grammar error on my part, you cant write "and" after a dot) no I wont buy anything MSFT makes, sure its a bigger chance that a buy a MSFT product then a Apple one or Sony one for example because I'm used to it and i know that everything works.

Now to your "argument" about me being stuck with Microsoft. No I'm not stuck sure i might be stuck in some services like Outlook and Office(Google really failed when they tried to make their own office lol) but i can switch from Windows any day if I want, but i dont want to switch. All features i can possibly need exists either in Windows or in some downloadable application compared to Linux which application vise made Windows 8 back in 2012 look like it had a ton of applications(see I can even joke about Windows ). Now can you stop being an asshole every time I sai that i like/disslike a product that you (don't) like. Thanks.

Windows Server series falls short in the network services department. I'll admit I like what they've done with DHCP in 2012, which makes failover and load balancing very simple and manageable. DNS falls short however, and I suspect the same can be said for IIS. They simply cannot handle as many 'hits' per second as our *nix variants

EDIT: did i mention Windows DNS doesn't support split-view DNS?? WHAT???!!

Fact is fact.

 

[optikalsaint]

Thats offtopic, but ofc anything NT based is better then anything *NIX based. OSX looks good(not the UI) compared to Linux. and i tried apache, my god it sucked where is the official .NET support? where is all the enterprise functions? nope IIS over anything *NIX based ANY DAY!

You say its offtopic, I say if you are stating you are looking for a new webkit bug and you're convinced that anything NT is better than anything Nix based (which it is not and the correlation between web servers running *Nix compared to NT speaks for itself) then it is very much on topic. Linux/Unix/BSD have great enterprise features as in they save enterprise customers a *&$% ton of money every year because they are way less expensive. At least I consider that a great enterprise feature . The real test of an IT professional is if they can get the job done without needing to be guided through it with Clippy via a GUI interface.

All kidding aside though, Azure is incredibly overpriced and under performs compared to half of the Nix servers I throw against it which are always using less resources. IIS is horrible. Apache is actually pretty great considering how clunky and old it is. You might think it is a mess because you appear to be entrenched in a Microsoft world, but you should do yourself a favor and familiariz yourself with Apache, Linux, Unix, or even nginx if Apache isn't your cup of tea. Minus the fact that there are more jobs available for Nix developers (since once again they outnumber IIS developers so many times over) they also have more freedom, and can work pretty much anywhere and with any hardware (I have 4 Raspberry Pi servers running in my office for various MEAN and LAMP stack test beds). Also, they get paid way more. And not to sound like a web developer snob, but if you are using .NET to render your web project you are doing it wrong. If you ever have to compile your website before you deploy it, you're doing it wrong. Plain and simple. No butts about it. It's a web server, its meant to process and display text files, not compiled applications... and that whole argument of "but if I compile it, it runs faster!" is inexcusable. If you didn't use .NET, set up proper caching, and know what you are doing, then you will never need to add an extra avenue of failure to your projects.

The only thing Azure has been good for is either training wheels in high school or college junior level web development classes where a majority of the population has been using Windows their whole life, and has zero concept of working with a remote server, or because they are almost as fast as running nodejs as Nix platforms. But once again that "almost" as fast usually means the IIS system is running close to double the amount of resources and hardware you need for a Nix based system to get close to the same amount of speed as a Nix based system.