Hacking Wii U Hacking & Homebrew Discussion

[epicmartin7]

Y'know, I'm very very curious. What can we exactly do with the IOSU exploit that's different from the Kernel Exploit? Do we effectively have more control over the Wii U, or is it just the permanent version of the kernel Exploit installed on your console?

 

[TotalInsanity4]

Y'know, I'm very very curious. What can we exactly do with the IOSU exploit that's different from the Kernel Exploit? Do we effectively have more control over the Wii U, or is it just the permanent version of the kernel Exploit installed on your console?

Unsigned permanent title installation and full access to all onboard hardware

 

[KungFuzion]

Y'know, I'm very very curious. What can we exactly do with the IOSU exploit that's different from the Kernel Exploit? Do we effectively have more control over the Wii U, or is it just the permanent version of the kernel Exploit installed on your console?

You can do a lot. You will have full system control. You won't have to load up exploit everytime you want to use homebrew etc. The list goes on. Think of what the wii could do with control of the IOS....there's your answer

 

[epicmartin7]

Unsigned permanent title installation and full access to all onboard hardware

You can do a lot. You will have full system control. You won't have to load up exploit everytime you want to use homebrew etc. The list goes on. Think of what the wii could do with control of the IOS....there's your answer

Ah gotcha. Just kinda' like where the 3DS is at right now. That's really cool. Is this going to use EMUNand or is it going to be like A9LH?

 

[NWPlayer123]

Damn i'm still in two minds. Will the illusive IOSU exploit work on it if ever............ever.............maybe released?

Well my edgy framebuffer and encryption key posts were from IOSU kernel on 5.5.1, does that convince you

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Ah gotcha. Just kinda' like where the 3DS is at right now. That's really cool. Is this going to use EMUNand or is it going to be like A9LH?

well they're two different things, emuNAND just redirects NAND to SD card, A9LH is what runs emuNAND at boot time, one sets up the other

 

[VinsCool]

Well my edgy framebuffer and encryption key posts were from IOSU kernel on 5.5.1, does that convince you

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well they're two different things, emuNAND just redirects NAND to SD card, A9LH is what runs emuNAND at boot time, one sets up the other

Oh yeah, that one tweet you deleted twice.

I still have the image anyway.

 

[KungFuzion]

Hopefully. I have my 3ds's setup nicely now using a9lh with the gateway payload too I'm not sure if we will ever see the IOSU though. Anyone have any news on this?

ahhhhh yes.....I remember that post lol. I didn't want to get my hopes up. Guess I will make the jump now

 

[epicmartin7]

Oops. Just remembered that Smealum made a video about RedNAND being installed on the Wii U. So that'll be that. Is this exploit going to be a coldboot one, or do we still the internet browser to set up RedNAND, similar to HENKaku on the PSVita?

 

[KungFuzion]

Well my edgy framebuffer and encryption key posts were from IOSU kernel on 5.5.1, does that convince you

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well they're two different things, emuNAND just redirects NAND to SD card, A9LH is what runs emuNAND at boot time, one sets up the other

Yes I remember that post......I didn't want to get my hopes up lol. Does this mean that one day it may see the light of day for everyone else??

 

[NWPlayer123]

Yes I remember that post......I didn't want to get my hopes up lol. Does this mean that one day it may see the light of day for everyone else??

Ask Wulfy, Dazz, and Shiny, they're the ones putting in all the work, I'm just observing =P Wulfy already gave her answer so

Hey! If you want to help with a quality iosuhax release, you should help add functionality to wut so we can have full-featured native homebrew on day one. This can be done with or without iosuhax, since you can boot RPXes from loadiine. If you already have iosuhax, you maaay not want to put too much work into polishing that side of things at this time beyond getting basic functionality.
There will be more to announce later on. Thanks in advance to anyone who helps!

A release is coming When It's Done. Listen to SALT (myself, Dazzozo, shinyquagsire23) for more news in the future. Again, we'll talk about it more once it's a bit closer to completion.

We're not talking vulns before release just in case N takes notice and patches stuff in advance.

Oh also update to 5.5.1 while you still can. That's all for now! I actually don't wanna generate much hype until things are more settled.

 

[Bug_Checker_]

Spoiler

Ask Wulfy, Dazz, and Shiny, they're the ones putting in all the work,
I'm just observing =P Wulfy already gave his her answer so

Grrrrrr we should just do away with all gender pronouns.

 

[oumoumad]

Alright, time to update to 5.5.1 for me too

 

[AboodXD]

Alright, can anyone tell me what kind of crazy things are happening here?

Team SALT has confirmed that they're working on an IOSU exploit and will release after it's done. They recommend that everyone should update to 5.5.1, because it's a little different than other firmwares.

 

[CJB100]

No time frame on an IOSU hack release though because they don't want everyone to overhype it, like the way it has basically always happened in the past. They're doing it the smart way. So don't go crazy over anything yet.

 

[WulfyStylez]

The actual exploit we'll release with has been done and working about 2ish months actually. The work that's being done right now includes building solid tools for homebrew devs and power users, ensuring everything is as easy as possible for end-users (think hackmii installer), reducing brick risk to zero, and loads of polish. We've got a lot of Surprise Features™ that we'd like to have ready for launch too, but we'll hype those up closer to that time.
There's a pretty big heap of work left to do (particularly concerning brand new things that are being RE'd and implemented from scratch, but also accessibility/UX stuff), but once everything's closing in on being finished you'll know.

In the meantime, I again encourage people to try building homebrew using wut and to help expand the capabilities of their library with PRs. If you create some cool rpx-based homebrew that you'd like to have in a showcase sort of thing, you should get in contact and shoot us a github link.
Anything built with wut and working under loadiine will be directly compatible with our hax and will be launchable directly from the home menu. HB on our hax will have maxed permissions and such of course, but the loadiine environment is enough to test the majority of homebrew games, emulators, and etc.

That's all for the time being! Thanks in advance to anyone who contributes.

 

[Pepois]

Thank you WulfyStyles, and all of the rest of the team, tears come to my eyes just by reading all of these, Its incredible, its a reality, all this time, and we have come so far. THANK YOU!!!

 

[Mazamin]

The actual exploit we'll release with has been done and working about 2ish months actually. The work that's being done right now includes building solid tools for homebrew devs and power users, ensuring everything is as easy as possible for end-users (think hackmii installer), reducing brick risk to zero, and loads of polish. We've got a lot of Surprise Features™ that we'd like to have ready for launch too, but we'll hype those up closer to that time.
There's a pretty big heap of work left to do (particularly concerning brand new things that are being RE'd and implemented from scratch, but also accessibility/UX stuff), but once everything's closing in on being finished you'll know.

In the meantime, I again encourage people to try building homebrew using wut and to help expand the capabilities of their library with PRs. If you create some cool rpx-based homebrew that you'd like to have in a showcase sort of thing, you should get in contact and shoot us a github link.
Anything built with wut and working under loadiine will be directly compatible with our hax and will be launchable directly from the home menu. HB on our hax will have maxed permissions and such of course, but the loadiine environment is enough to test the majority of homebrew games, emulators, and etc.

That's all for the time being! Thanks in advance to anyone who contributes.

I'm trying to not get too hyped! I hope I will forget this post

 

[Chakratos]

Inb4 hykem hate Posts.
Remember without him iosu wouldn't be popular and maybe didn't existed yet.
He did a shitton of documenting everything so others can buile upon his work.

 

[Deleted User]

This is the best news I have heard since HENkaku for the Vita!
I will definitely try to contribute and build some HB using WUT sometime in the future. Every little helps, I guess!

 

[brienj]

The actual exploit we'll release with has been done and working about 2ish months actually. The work that's being done right now includes building solid tools for homebrew devs and power users, ensuring everything is as easy as possible for end-users (think hackmii installer), reducing brick risk to zero, and loads of polish. We've got a lot of Surprise Features™ that we'd like to have ready for launch too, but we'll hype those up closer to that time.
There's a pretty big heap of work left to do (particularly concerning brand new things that are being RE'd and implemented from scratch, but also accessibility/UX stuff), but once everything's closing in on being finished you'll know.

In the meantime, I again encourage people to try building homebrew using wut and to help expand the capabilities of their library with PRs. If you create some cool rpx-based homebrew that you'd like to have in a showcase sort of thing, you should get in contact and shoot us a github link.
Anything built with wut and working under loadiine will be directly compatible with our hax and will be launchable directly from the home menu. HB on our hax will have maxed permissions and such of course, but the loadiine environment is enough to test the majority of homebrew games, emulators, and etc.

That's all for the time being! Thanks in advance to anyone who contributes.

I have a few functions I've added to wut so far, but I've already sent them one Pull Request, waiting on them to add those fixes I sent, before I send the new functions I've added. I'll also be putting up some source code on my Github to show everyone how to use the new functions I added.

Until then, anyone who wants to test the test app I made, can download it.

Use:
Press A to show loading a webpage in the browser with browser menu access
Press B to show loading mp4 in the browser with no browser menu access
Press X to show loading mp4 in the browser with browser menu access

After closing the browser, control goes back to the app. This could be used to load a link to a thread for your app, or other uses, such as a quick and easy media player.

Sorry about the menu not being complete, and having unnecessary things, like showing the error code, but I didn't bother changing it for now.