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Hacking Where is the Wiikey U?

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I hope this will be released till the end of year, although every day from now on is risky.
Also extraction serial from ODE aint gonna be that simple. I actually wonder did they finished the hacking of WiiU or not.
 
Pox said:
I hope this will be released till the end of year, although every day from now on is risky.
Also extraction serial from ODE aint gonna be that simple. I actually wonder did they finished the hacking of WiiU or not.
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ODE = optical drive emulator ... the WiiKeyU is an ODE, why do you want to extract its serial? I guess, what you meant, is acquiring the WiiU drive key
 
weatMod said:
so if i buy a wii u what fw will it have most likely? low enough for browser exploit? do we have any way of telling by the box SN like the 3ds /3ds xl yet?
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My guess is every WiiU on the shelf in the USA is safe as even the MK8 bundles would be 4.x. Check the box for any dates, if it has was anything from 2012/13 would surely be safe.
 
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EmceeKerser said:
This doesnt make sense, you cant 'load' a cpu with an OS, you put the OS on the HDD and the cpu interprets it. Plus how would the ODE do that, where is this info?
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xell for 360 is a couple of 100k.. can read all the key of the 360, have ftp, can launch homebrew and a linux distro....
 
naxil said:
xell for 360 is a couple of 100k.. can read all the key of the 360, have ftp, can launch homebrew and a linux distro....
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Well the WiiU is not the same as a 360....which means the ODE will be different....why would it need a separate OS....I don't get why you talk like this either....
 
i want say that: is possible insert on a pcb a code , that code emulate the drive and retrieve the key the firts time u connect to wiiU
 
Only a few of the ODE's I've came across have been able to "automatically" extract the keys. Of course the Wii U is a different system so it might have a different way of obtaining keys. On the Xbox 360 the keys are by motherboard basis. Meaning that only disc drives that had the key the motherboard had will work on it. Same for some models of the PS3 where the disc drives came with a daughterboard. The motherboard would only recognize blu ray drives that had the correct daughterboard. (If you had a CFW PS3 you could remarry a drive with a different daughterboard but that's getting off topic.) Going on however most 360 ODEs only have automatic key extraction for the Slim Liteon 16D4S, with every other drive requiring you to dump the keys manually. (Whether it be external drive tools or for Slims RGHing/R-JTAGing the console just to get the keys.) The PS3 ODEs on the other hand are pretty much "plug n' play" in terms of opening up the system, connecting the wires/cables, and closing back up the system. (Newer PS3s however do require some soldering to get the ODE to work.) They don't require key extraction but they do require specific PS3 games in the disc drive. (Full list of usable games on their websites. Perhaps they had some kind of weakness that allowed the ODE to spoof the games.)

Looking into the Wii U I see that people sell replacement drives which leads me to ask if the keys are actually on the Wii U disc drive. If they're easily replaceable without swapping out some PCB then I'd be inclined to believe that they're waiting for some sort of exploit to allow them to get the drive keys. (They probably have some way to get them now that isn't so user friendly.) Though we haven't even seen a proof of concept with the Wii U running any games with any device attached to it leading me to believe that the Wiikey U is either non existent or delayed until a user friendly exploit is out. (Been reading on the webkit exploit, wonder if they're doing something with that.)

So yeah. Holding off on a preorder until I see some definitive proof this thing exists or at least know a bit more how it functions.

EDIT: Just woke up so I don't know how clear the above writing is. Do forgive me.
 
Actually this could be done......The ODE (if they used some embedded arm processor could run a light linux distro and then an application to capture the drive key).

I am not saying this is what they are going to do but it is plausible ans something similiar was done in the past with ode hardware reading the key.

What would be really easy and nice is if one of these groups would give us some info or bettet yet a damned product. I am not pre-ordering but will buy when they come down the pipeline.
 
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Quicksilver88 said:
Actually this could be done......The ODE (if they used some embedded arm processor could run a light linux distro and then an application to capture the drive key).

I am not saying this is what they are going to do but it is plausible ans something similiar was done in the past with ode hardware reading the key.

What would be really easy and nice is if one of these groups would give us some info or bettet yet a damned product. I am not pre-ordering but will buy when they come down the pipeline.
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Obviously some sort of application would be used to get the key but the question is more what than how at the moment
 
cearp said:
it could require a swap disk, right?
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I doubt it, probably a web exploit to acquire keys and then enter them into the ODE, sounds much more feasable to me
swap discs usually come on devices, where you can easily manually force a disc swap, just don't see it happen on the wiiu, its drive is just different, you can't just open it or pull the disc out without it recognizing it, at least not without hardware modifications, I would guess
why reinvent the wheel and go to the length of hardware mods, when you have a browser full of exploitable loop holes
 
Later on down the road, if Nintendo finds a way to block the Wiikey U this is a possibility (as a workaround). Its happened with cobra's ode for the ps3, but for key extraction, I doubt that would be necessary.

Only time will tell...
cearp said:
it could require a swap disk, right?
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