Hacking Wii U Hacking & Homebrew Discussion

[oumoumad]

sorry if this has been asked before, but what programming languages are used in this whole hacking saga?

i'm taking a C/unix course and wanted to know if/how that could be applied to anything wii u related.

finally, a 3-star forum uniform

Maybe the documentation they gave will help you : https://github.com/wiiudev/libwiiu

 

[Blazingflare]

If you meanies don't give me the exploit for my firmware version, I'm going to do something that won't negatively affect anyone but me.
I'm warning you, I'll do it.

 

[n1ghty]

Does someone know whether all wii u titles use the wii u browser for displaying websites or do they all have their own browser code?

 

[golden45]

@Marionumber1 I see that you have recently completed some info about the usb on wiiubrew.
How far is your progress on that part? Did you manage to use the control and bulk requests to communicate with a usb key?

 

[Marionumber1]

@Marionumber1 I see that you have recently completed some info about the usb on wiiubrew.
How far is your progress on that part? Did you manage to use the control and bulk requests to communicate with a usb key?

I have indeed been investigating USB recently, but it sadly seems that USB storage devices appear locked from access. My current theory is that MCP (IOSU title security module) holds a lock on all USB storage devices, since it manages the Wii U external drives. Unless I can force it to be released (hard unless I control IOSU) or lock it before MCP does (working on that), it may be impossible to use USB storage without an IOSU exploit.

 

[MrRean]

http://puu.sh/k98nc/cd52a4c951.png
Wow, the sprites in Super Mario Maker are 3D models. This sucks.

 

[golden45]

I have indeed been investigating USB recently, but it sadly seems that USB storage devices appear locked from access. My current theory is that MCP (IOSU title security module) holds a lock on all USB storage devices, since it manages the Wii U external drives. Unless I can force it to be released (hard unless I control IOSU) or lock it before MCP does (working on that), it may be impossible to use USB storage without an IOSU exploit.

Thanks for the answer, then I guess I'll have to continue using libcurl to store files in memory =) (too slow with sockets).
Did you try to do your tests outside the browser? maybe in menu or wiiu params, application could have more rights to access usb (just an assumption, I saw in the loader that games/menu/browser rpx are loaded with a different id, so they may have different rights)

 

[Marionumber1]

Thanks for the answer, then I guess I'll have to continue using libcurl to store files in memory =) (too slow with sockets).
Did you try to do your tests outside the browser? maybe in menu or wiiu params, application could have more rights to access usb (just an assumption, I saw in the loader that games/menu/browser rpx are loaded with a different id, so they may have different rights)

I didn't try outside the browser, but there's no reason to think it would be different. MCP is not a Cafe OS process at all, it's internal to IOSU, and we can't pretend to be it. That being said, I haven't conclusively found that it's impossible to use USB devices from the PPC. Some options may be left.

 

[KungFuzion]

Does anybody have one of these? http://www.amiiqo.com
If so are they any good?

 

[galneon]

You gotta love people that "keep stuff for themselves" even tho there is a kind of big hacking team around them. It's like the one kid at kindergarten who keeps all the pens for himself and aint sharing them.

Just my few cents :v But hey, the whole hacking thing wouldn't be as funny with a bit of drama here and there, aint it

#sarcasm

What kind of hellhole kindergarten did you go to where they let kids have PENS and not just pencils? What a fucking nightmare.

 

[NWPlayer123]

Oh, yea, forgot to mention, I upgraded to @golden45's Cafiine dumping versions, works fantastic even on 5.5.0.

 

[the_randomizer]

http://puu.sh/k98nc/cd52a4c951.png
Wow, the sprites in Super Mario Maker are 3D models. This sucks.

How the hell does that work?

 

[uyjulian]

How the hell does that work?

I guess each face is a pixel, and the faces are arranged in a way to look like your pixel art (instead of using textures... I wonder why?)

 

[endoverend]

Am I wrong about any of these things?

a) The 5.4 browser exploit is not released because it's the same one as 5.5's and we don't want it patched;

b) The 5.3.2 race attack works on 5.4 but not 5.5;

c) The "good" kexploit still works on 5.5 and isn't released because of that;

d) 5.4 is in a very awkward spot because of all this :/

 

[ronopotomus]

I am w

Does anybody have one of these? http://www.amiiqo.com
If so are they any good?

I am waiting on mine. I ordered a week ago. A friend of ours has one and although he lives in another country I have watched him use it on Skype. It seems to work flawlessly. He has not tried a bunch but he loaded 8-bit Mario yesterday and it worked for him.

 

[Marionumber1]

Am I wrong about any of these things?

a) The 5.4 browser exploit is not released because it's the same one as 5.5's and we don't want it patched;

b) The 5.3.2 race attack works on 5.4 but not 5.5;

c) The "good" kexploit still works on 5.5 and isn't released because of that;

d) 5.4 is in a very awkward spot because of all this :/

Yes, that's correct. But it is worth noting that there's no advantage I can see in staying on 5.4.0 anyway, when the exploit is identical. (Not that I'm telling you to update, you make that call)

EDIT: I did forget the fact that 5.5.0 uses a different kernel exploit, so that may take longer to release as well.

 

[NWPlayer123]

Am I wrong about any of these things?
a) The 5.4 browser exploit is not released because it's the same one as 5.5's and we don't want it patched;
b) The 5.3.2 race attack works on 5.4 but not 5.5;
c) The "good" kexploit still works on 5.5 and isn't released because of that;
d) 5.4 is in a very awkward spot because of all this :/

1) Yes, we're using the same one for both, but it's even worse on 5.5.0 because of buffer alignment issues/variances.
2) Correct, that's why we released it
3) Yes, the "new"/second one still works on latest (and there should be more soon)
4) Yea, kinda

 

[Marionumber1]

I didn't try outside the browser, but there's no reason to think it would be different. MCP is not a Cafe OS process at all, it's internal to IOSU, and we can't pretend to be it. That being said, I haven't conclusively found that it's impossible to use USB devices from the PPC. Some options may be left.

Well, one of those possible options is simply not viable. My idea was to use UhsClassDrvReg() to set up a probe function for USB devices, and hopefully, this would override the MCP's probe. Unfortunately, the probe detects USB microphones but not USB flash drives when they're both plugged in, indicating that MCP's probe likely can't be overridden with just PPC access.

 

[Zap Rowsdower]

d) 5.4 is in a very awkward spot because of all this :/

I know for me personally, and I'm sure many others who've been told to stay on 5.4 will attest, the best way I can describe it is 'itchy'.

 

[loco365]

(Not that I'm telling you to update, you make that call)

Just gonna toss as an aside note to this that if you do update, you'll probably distance yourself further from any of these exploits, since 5.4.0 will probably release separately from 5.5.0 and will probably take longer.

I've contemplated updating (Especially for the Super Mario Maker Day 1 patch because waiting for all the stuff to unlock is bullshit) but I'm trying to restrain myself because I'd like to be able to use my Wii U for researching games and seeing what makes them tick. It'll be a good day once the spoofer is released because then I can access the eShop and get the update, as well as a N64 game so I can do Virtual Console injection with it once TCP Gecko support is extended to it.