Hacking Wii U Hacking & Homebrew Discussion

[pelago]

Actually it is a bit more flexible, when I was messing with it, I removed my external HDD during some loading screen and the game got stuck but continued once I reconnected the HDD.

I guess the difference is that the Wii U is designed to play games from external storage, so has safeguards to deal with disconnects, unlike the Wii.

 

[jammybudga777]

I guess the difference is that the Wii U is designed to play games from external storage, so has safeguards to deal with disconnects, unlike the Wii.

i personally thought it would have shut the console off/restarted it. thats what it done when i was on the wii u menu and pulled out the hd

 

[DeadlyFoez]

I used to disconnect my hdd from my wii all the time to load files on it while they were playing games and the game would continue just fine. Most notably i did this with animal crossing. The music would stop playing and then continue once i hooked the hdd back up to the wii.

 

[Xuman]

Well im just hoping this has alot of fixes for people

 

[ShadowOne333]

I do hope that with the upcoming release someone finds a way to crack VC title so that they can be displayed in stretched mode or forced 16:9.
(I'm looking at you DK64 -,-)

 

[2Hack]

I do hope that with the upcoming release someone finds a way to crack VC title so that they can be displayed in stretched mode or forced 16:9.
(I'm looking at you DK64 -,-)

That is why I haven't bought Mario 64 yet

 

[ShadowOne333]

That is why I haven't bought Mario 64 yet

I use Not64 for Mario 64, but for DK64 I had no option.
Although, I think that if you set the aspect ratio of the Wii U to 4:3 the VC image will stretch out, then you will be able to switch on Widescreen in DK64's settings and you will have a beautiful 16:9/Full screen view of Dk64! (That's just theory though)

 

[capito27]

would a webkit and Kernel exploit combo be enough to dump WII U disk images or would we need ISOU access to do so ?

 

[Mr. Mysterio]

would a webkit and Kernel exploit combo be enough to dump WII U disk images or would we need ISOU access to do so ?

As has been stated again, again, and again: An IOSU exploit is required to play Wii U disc dumps.

EDIT: Whoops, my bad. I thought you were asking for a backup loader.

 

[NWPlayer123]

would a webkit and Kernel exploit combo be enough to dump WII U disk images or would we need ISOU access to do so ?

We're still looking into it, but why would you want to dump a 23.3GB image when you could extract the files which are usually much less. We can definitely access /vol/content, it might be possible to patch the loader in the same way to access /vol/code, and /vol/meta shouldn't matter since it's just a few images.

 

[FusionGamer]

We're still looking into it, but why would you want to dump a 23.3GB image when you could extract the files which are usually much less. We can definitely access /vol/content, it might be possible to patch the loader in the same way to access /vol/code, and /vol/meta shouldn't matter since it's just a few images.

Question: What exactly is in the "meta" folder?

Note: I know what's in the other two folders.

 

[NWPlayer123]

Question: What exactly is in the "meta" folder?

Note: I know what's in the other two folders.

Basically just images for the home menu, the load screen and movie, and the manual.

 

[the_randomizer]

I would have thought that unplugging the HDD during gameplay would cause data corruption or something else catastrophic, but, glad it doesn't.

 

[2Hack]

I use Not64 for Mario 64, but for DK64 I had no option.
Although, I think that if you set the aspect ratio of the Wii U to 4:3 the VC image will stretch out, then you will be able to switch on Widescreen in DK64's settings and you will have a beautiful 16:9/Full screen view of Dk64! (That's just theory though)

Yea, but not64 is not HD 480p on an LCD HD tv looks horrible.

That's one of the main reasons I was interested. Then I saw the black bars which are really really bad

 

[the_randomizer]

Yea, but not64 is not HD 480p on an LCD HD tv looks horrible.

That's one of the main reasons I was interested. Then I saw the black bars which are really really bad

Still a helluva lot better than the 240p most N64 game had.

 

[ShadowOne333]

Yea, but not64 is not HD 480p on an LCD HD tv looks horrible.

That's one of the main reasons I was interested. Then I saw the black bars which are really really bad

Indeed, the black bars are such a let down.
One simple line of code would enable stretching, and DK64 could REALLY benefit from that.
That's why I am looking forward to Wii U Hakcing, to hopefully have a N64 emulator with forced 16:9 aspect ratio and (hopefully) a DS emulator that doesn't look like garbled pixels with some of the hi-res from Desmume implemented.

Still a helluva lot better than the 240p most N64 game had.

In that case, yeah. Much better than the usual 240p

 

[2Hack]

Still a helluva lot better than the 240p most N64 game had.

Yea, but the fit the screen better as well. Back in the day, it was practically HD to me. Now it looks horrible, since the screens make it look much worse.

 

[AboodXD]

FMDL extractor? anyone? I know Kinnay made one but the one he uploaded it is broken/exports broken .obj models.....
Also, a request for NWPlayer123, you made a SARC/SZS extractor... Can you make a packer/compressor? Please?

 

[Kinnay]

Look a few 45 pages back, here: http://gbatemp.net/threads/wii-u-hacking-discussion.367489/page-233#post-5404001

 

[AboodXD]

SARCPack Source Code
SARCPack 32-BIT EXE
Yaz0enc with source

Those programs only packs/compresses 1 file per a SARC/SZS file, which means you can't compress a lot of files into a single SZS file, neither a SARC file.