Hacking Self Hosting Wii U Exploit - Smallest possible footprint?

[bootmonster]

Hi all,

I am currently in the processes of running the exploit on my Wii U, and since I'm not interested in online play etc, was looking for a wholly offline self hosting solution.

I currently own a LINKSYS WRT54GL, which is running dd-wrt, though I am probably looking to change to openwrt unless anyone can recommend otherwise? I can host webpages on this fine from what I understand, though haven't as yet.

The main issue I see there being is that the router I have only has 4 MB of flash memory on board, and the dd-wrt/openwrt image takes up the majority of this. There is an SD/MMC mod I can do to the router but would rather avoid that unless absolutely necessary.

So the TLR, what is the smallest possible size I can make the self hosted web data, or has someone done something similar? For now all I really want to do is launch Loadiine, and dump a few of my games

Cheers for any insight!

 

[punderino]

Hi all,

I am currently in the processes of running the exploit on my Wii U, and since I'm not interested in online play etc, was looking for a wholly offline self hosting solution.

I currently own a LINKSYS WRT54GL, which is running dd-wrt, though I am probably looking to change to openwrt unless anyone can recommend otherwise? I can host webpages on this fine from what I understand, though haven't as yet.

The main issue I see there being is that the router I have only has 4 MB of flash memory on board, and the dd-wrt/openwrt image takes up the majority of this. There is an SD/MMC mod I can do to the router but would rather avoid that unless absolutely necessary.

So the TLR, what is the smallest possible size I can make the self hosted web data, or has someone done something similar? For now all I really want to do is launch Loadiine, and dump a few of my games

Cheers for any insight!

Host it from a PC, or a VM.

 

[looseless]

Once you flashed openwrt, use uhttpd to serve your exploit. Works fine here.

 

[bootmonster]

Thanks for the replies guys but what I'm really needing to know is what is the smallest size I can make the exploit to store on the web server?

 

[Straximus]

About 125K.

 

[bootmonster]

About 125K.

Amazing, sounds like I will be able to run without having to mod in an SD card to my router. Can you elaborate on what I would need to do to slim down? Thanks

 

[Straximus]

Amazing, sounds like I will be able to run without having to mod in an SD card to my router. Can you elaborate on what I would need to do to slim down? Thanks

Sure. The only files you need to host are:
index.html 3.9k
payloadXXX.html 117k (XXX = your firmware version)
sd_loader.elf 3.1k
frame.html <1k

You don't need payloads for other firmwares. And I believe frame.html can be left off on 5.3.2, although its size is negligible anyway. The above file sizes are based on the 4.1.0 & 4.0.0 exploits bundled with GX2 v0.2, and I'm assuming other firmware exploits are similar sizes.

I self-host on a WRT54Gv2, so if you have any other questions, feel free to ask.

 

[bootmonster]

Sure. The only files you need to host are:
index.html 3.9k
payloadXXX.html 117k (XXX = your firmware version)
sd_loader.elf 3.1k
frame.html <1k

You don't need payloads for other firmwares. And I believe frame.html can be left off on 5.3.2, although its size is negligible anyway. The above file sizes are based on the 4.1.0 & 4.0.0 exploits bundled with GX2 v0.2, and I'm assuming other firmware exploits are similar sizes.

I self-host on a WRT54Gv2, so if you have any other questions, feel free to ask.

Thanks! Much appreciated, I'll let you know how I get on.

 

[Kohmei]

I have a similar setup with DD-WRT, but I'm using a USB storage device to host the files, mostly because I can't figure out how to transfer the files to the filesystem, it complains about the fs being read-only. I imagine my router has enough space, especially 125k

Any pointers? I don't want to waste a USB device just to host such small files

 

[bootmonster]

I have a similar setup with DD-WRT, but I'm using a USB storage device to host the files, mostly because I can't figure out how to transfer the files to the filesystem, it complains about the fs being read-only. I imagine my router has enough space, especially 125k

Any pointers? I don't want to waste a USB device just to host such small files

https://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/JFFS Is probably what you are looking to ebable.

 

[Straximus]

I have a similar setup with DD-WRT, but I'm using a USB storage device to host the files, mostly because I can't figure out how to transfer the files to the filesystem, it complains about the fs being read-only. I imagine my router has enough space, especially 125k

Any pointers? I don't want to waste a USB device just to host such small files

I didn't attempt it with DD-WRT. I initially tried Tomato as I already had it loaded, but ran into limitations I couldn't work around. I loaded OpenWRT, created the path /overlay/www/loadiine, rebooted, and used WinSCP to transfer the files to the path I created.

You can then access the payload at http://<ipaddress>/loadiine

 

[Kohmei]

https://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/JFFS Is probably what you are looking to ebable.

Thanks, I'll look into it

I didn't attempt it with DD-WRT. I initially tried Tomato as I already had it loaded, but ran into limitations I couldn't work around. I loaded OpenWRT, created the path /overlay/www/loadiine, rebooted, and used WinSCP to transfer the files to the path I created.

You can then access the payload at http://<ipaddress>/loadiine

Unfortunately my router only has custom builds available for DD-WRT, pretty lucky consider the stock fw is complete garbage