Hacking Region Free Drivechip for Wii U Under Development!

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Official story here:

http://wiiuhax.com/wii-u-region-free-drivechip-development-free/

I originally announced this in the following thread: http://gbatemp.net/threads/wii-u-hacking-discussion.367489/page-78

But I'm redirecting the conversation to this specific thread to prevent it from getting any more cluttered than it already is :P. I appreciate all the work that's being done by all the others, but feel like I should give that thread some more breathing room to make it less confusing for random people jumping in to the conversation.

Questions? Comments? Flames? (just kidding about that last part, but I know somebody's going to charm us with some negativity so why not joke about it :P)
 

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Uhh... How is it gonna work? If it's like the 3DS then region is part of the data of the game itself. And the communications will be encrypted.
Will you just look for a specific address/byte to spoof?
 

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Questions?

Is this actually something that is definitely possible? It's just this line in the story "My idea for this chip is to write an ASM program that runs on a PIC" makes it sound like it's just an idea/theory, rather than something that is definitely possible.

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Nintendo didn't bother to encrypt communication between the drive and wiiu?, you can just intercept and change as you like?
 

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Is this actually something that is definitely possible? It's just this line in the story "My idea for this chip is to write an ASM program that runs on a PIC" makes it sound like it's just an idea/theory, rather than something that is definitely possible.

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Nintendo didn't bother to encrypt communication between the drive and wiiu?, you can just intercept and change as you like?

How would dumps be made then? :P

They are encrypted with a console unique keypair.
 

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Im just telling u guys..this wont work..u need a exploit for it to work
You cant just replace the region code its part of the whole exe it would break the rest of the signed package
 

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Im just telling u guys..this wont work..u need a exploit for it to work
You cant just replace the region code its part of the whole exe it would break the rest of the signed package

E--excuse me, did you just refer to a part of the Wii U code as an exe file, and yet claim to know more about the drive than TSK?
 

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He has the common key and he's been dumping and decrypting a multitude of games, I think he knows what he's talking about.

He won't share it to us, right? :ninja:
 
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