Hacking Wii U Hacking & Homebrew Discussion

[FIX94]

I envy you being able to test so fast. It's taking me 15 mins just to get the exploit and codehandler to work to test one ROM.

I just test again and again, ROM after ROM, blackscreen? press R to get into VC menu, try the next ROM, reset emulator, see if it works, repeat.

 

[TotalInsanity4]

If Nintendo does the same thing for the browser...
We'd be doomed!

DON'T EVEN JOKE ABOUT THAT XD

 

[fiveighteen]

I just test again and again, ROM after ROM, blackscreen? press R to get into VC menu, try the next ROM, reset emulator, see if it works, repeat.

Ah. Super Mario World doesn't work either. And most popular ROMs are larger than Super Mario Kart (512KB), so I seemed to have (unknowingly) picked a shitty base game.

When you upload a ROM that's smaller than the base, do you fill the rest with F's or do you just leave the old data intact?

 

[FIX94]

When you upload a ROM that's smaller than the base, do you fill the rest with F's or do you just leave the old data intact?

I just leave the old data, doesnt matter anyways.

 

[fiveighteen]

I'll update my first post with non-working games, since I have yet to find a working one. The only thing that works is re-injecting the Super Mario Kart ROM into it haha.

EDIT: Would there be any way to "expand" the base to allow larger games, say by comparing my Super Mario Kart VC dump to your Super Metroid one?

 

[pedro702]

I'll update my first post with non-working games, since I have yet to find a working one. The only thing that works is re-injecting the Super Mario Kart ROM into it haha.

my guess is super mario kart is a dsp chip only config emulator try the dsp 1 on this list
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_...of_Super_NES_games_that_use_enhancement_chips

 

[gamesquest1]

is there any config file in the snes VC FSA

 

[VinsCool]

is there any config file in the snes VC FSA

I dont know for snes, but there is none for nes.

 

[FIX94]

I dont know for snes, but there is none for nes.

I didnt see any in pygecko (cant read fsa in gecko dot net)

 

[VinsCool]

I didnt see any in pygecko (cant read fsa in gecko dot net)

I confirm fo snes too. I retrieved a fsa dump of super megroid from aomeone else lol

 

[fiveighteen]

my guess is super mario kart is a dsp chip only config emulator try the dsp 1 on this list
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_...of_Super_NES_games_that_use_enhancement_chips

I like the thought.
Edit: Got my first working game! Bike Daisuki! Hashiriya Damashii - Riders Spirits (Japan). It's a DSP-1 chipped game, too. Good call on that. Bummer that my options seem to be limited though, until FW spoofing.
Edit2: Idk what I did wrong the first time. Pilot Wings does work, but only until you get into a mission.

is there any config file in the snes VC FSA

Nope. Only texture2D_206.gsh, wiiu_shared.bfasr and ERR.mbst, SYS.mbst, VCM.mbst for about 30 languages and regions

 

[FIX94]

I like the thought.
Edit: Got my first working game! Bike Daisuki! Hashiriya Damashii - Riders Spirits (Japan). It's a DSP-1 chipped game, too. Good call on that. Bummer that my options seem to be limited though, until FW spoofing.

thats crazy how little you have, for me its more 50/50 if you look at my list atm.

 

[fiveighteen]

Well it would be like you using Super Mario World as your base; you'd be limited to all games < 512KB from the start. I just have the additional restriction of only being able to use DSP-1/1A/1B games on top of that lol.

 

[FIX94]

hm so I have the feeling that NES injection is not really possible, it seems to only do a soft reset and even though the rom is located at 10502250, replacing it wont do anything because as soon as the emulator started once (doesnt matter if you reset in the vc menu) the emulator will use a headerless (first 0x10 bytes missing) copy of the nes rom located at different spots (for example 10c616e4 in kirbys adventure and 10be10fc in punch-out), when you replace those with headerless files and reset the game it will blackscreen, I assume because of different settings, the "best" I got was inject the german version of kirbys adventure into the english one and even that resulted in issues which I assume come from soft resetting.

Spoiler

note how letters are missing, these are german characters like ä,ö and ü which I assume are just missing from the game map.

 

[FusionGamer]

It never connects to Nintendo's servers

Either does Netflix.

 

[Marionumber1]

Either does Netflix.

My point is that in order to be doing some version check, the remote server must check it or there must be existing code that checks it. There is no remote server for the browser, and I said I found existing checks unlikely.

 

[Cyan]

netflix connects to https://account.nintendo.net when you launch it.
it you don't have network or internet access, you can't launch netflix.
if you have internet access and don't block account.nintendo.net access, it used to work fine up to this month. Now it seems nintendo forced users to update system to use online service. (or maybe there's a netflix update, and to get it you need eshop, and for that it need system update)
note that I'm on 5.3.2
maybe you are on 5.4 ? 5.5 ? maybe you downloaded latest netflix update (which I've read users report that it got an update on August 28th 2015)
I wish it could update itself like a game update, without going to eshop...

fun fact :
once launched, Netflix never use the proxy info set in the network settings.
I could disable it fully to prevent console updates and netflix always continued to work fine.

 

[endoverend]

Slightly off-topic: the new Netflix app is really great, and finally puts the Wii U client on par with other consoles'... so it sucks that some of you guys can't update it

Slightly on-topic: How's progress in general? Any new findings on IOSU? 5.4 and 5.5? I've kinda been out of the loop since my Wii U updated recently.

 

[Marionumber1]

Any new findings on IOSU?

Nothing to be shared publicly, but we are working on it.

 

[FIX94]

so since we know how to inject snes games properly, have a quick way for it:
https://www.mediafire.com/?ipazcjp6da9r6bp
just a simple C app, windows only, edit the ip.txt for your wiiu, start gecko, go into game and vc menu, drag and drop snes rom into exe, click reset in the vc menu, enjoy your game. Oh also note I didnt even implement a timeout or anything so if it doesnt move on and is stuck just close and retry it, the whole process should only take a few seconds. If you feel like it doesnt send at all you can simply close the vc and re-open it from the wiiu menu to reset the gecko connection.