Hacking Wii U USB loading - install WiiU games to USB or internal memory

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yes, as long as you find the title key, you only need to forge the fake ticket with Funkii as you already got the DLC files. I don't know if it needs a "base" to forge the ticket or if it generated one from scratch.
or you can let funkii get the DLC at the same time than it forges the ticket. I never tried his application, but I think it download the app/h3 too.
 
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Did anyone else notice the rather absurd size of New Super Mario Bros. U + New Super Luigi U? Or is that just a JNUSTool (GUI) bug?
Kind of like how the European games are labelled as Japanese, come to think. (Unless 0.6 isn't the latest version)
 

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a full tutorial?
the steps I provided on the previous page are not enough to get the idea how to do it?

you'll need to get the game's title key (if you have the ticket, you need to extract it with hex editors, you'll need a tutorial for getting and using a hex editor?)
if you have it, you go to pokemon website (I don't remember the url) and put some info in it.
You can also use the new tool released by Cearp, it has "ticket" in the thread's title. (easy to find, jus look in the forum's hacking section, that's not on the 50th page, it's on the first or second!) type the game ID, that's all. It even has a guide how to use it.
edit: easy to find :
https://gbatemp.net/threads/release-funkiiu-2-0-complete-content-ticket-python-tool.446092/
Of course, you need to install python, probably need a tutorial too.

then install it on RedNAND with WUP installer.
of course, you'll also need a redNAND tutorial.


tutorials are usually provided along the released tool.
if it's not easy enough, it's often because it requires more knowledge to use it and is not aimed at you. Me too, sometime it's too hard for me, then it's not for me. I read and inform myself first instead of wanting things without understanding.
I don't want to sound mean, but it's usually that. you need to get a tutorial for each tool, there's no one single big tutorial with all tools explained inside.

when a tutorial says you need to first start by compiling a project, then you have to learn how to compile. It's not the tool's developer to explain how to compile.
and if there's a need to put a tutorial for all released tools together, it would be very hard to help everyone correctly.


we don't know how much knowledge users have. If we tell you "use a hex editor" and you don't even know what that is, you'll need a tutorial for that too.
and if you don't know how to extract a zip, we will have to add a zip extraction tutorial too
If you don't know how to download from a website, another tutorial, and another one for how to use the browser, or your OS (and yes, trust me, I already had to help users using their OS, they didn't know how to make/move/rename folders/files, or rename an extension)
etc.

we don't know how much knowledge users have, and how deep we need to go into the "step by step" tutorial.
that's not something against you, and I'm sorry if you take it bad. I just want to tell all users requesting tutorials to use recently released methods that it's still new and still require a lot of knowledge. It's not ready for end users and there's no "one click" tool to do things (yet!).
let time do its thing. don't jump on new things right away.

of course, there are some end users who managed to do it, and try to share their discovery (like the links of tutorials I posted above), but they are incomplete and raw.
it's still missing information and steps that the user don't even know because he didn't thought that what seemed ok for him will maybe not be the same for others (one of the redNAND guide don't mention the need of armips, or the missing sections needed to compile, not even talking about pycrypto installation requirement). The existing guides are like youtube guide to me. users who barely managed to do something want to tell others how to do the same. that's not the way to share it. It's a brave spirit to share with others, but it's missing safety.


no I'm not offended at all. I'm not a jack of all trades - only a master of one and programming and scripts, etc are things I cannot learn in a feasible amount of time due to life (kid, work, sleep). I am considered an end user and I can wait for the 'hold your hand' guides but I do enjoy following guides guiding me toward a goal. i think i may enjoy the 'hacking' more than the games.
thank you for your response and your suggestions though. my main concern was if you need the dlc's ticket or if you can edit any old dlc ticket since punderino said in another thread that rednand didn't even check the tik as long as it was in the right format or something?
 

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Is there a tut to finding the title key from the title.tik?
Open the file in a Hex Editor, e.g. HxD on Windows

Title ID

Go to location 1DC (Go down to the line that starts with 1D0, go over to 0C)
Those 4 bytes (8 hex digits) are the 00050000 part. It continues on the next line for 4 more bytes (8 more hex digits)
Notice that it finishes at 1E3.

So when someone says the title ID is at 1DC-1E3, or that it's at 1DC, that's what they mean.

EDIT: Sorry, answered quickly before I had to leave. You asked for Title Key. I gave you Title ID. Title Key is 1BF-1CE
 
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Open the file in a Hex Editor, e.g. HxD on Windows
Go to location 1DC (Go down to the line that starts with 1D0, go over to 0C)
Those 4 bytes (8 hex digits) are the 00050000 part. It continues on the next line for 4 more bytes (8 more hex digits)
Notice that it finishes at 1E3.

So when someone says the title ID is at 1DC-1E3, or that it's at 1DC, that's what they mean.

how can you acquire the title key without a title.tik?
 

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I tried to install Wii Sports Club US from a wud without success. It installed the full game but acts as the demo version. Any trick to install it?
 
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my main concern was if you need the dlc's ticket or if you can edit any old dlc ticket since punderino said in another thread that rednand didn't even check the tik as long as it was in the right format or something?
That, I don't know. sorry.
I never tried redNAND yet, and can't tell what it does or doesn't.
If it checks only the title key inside the ticket, then you could even use a dumy file full of 0, and put the correct title key at the right position (0x1DC). This is how Cdecrypt is working, just having the title key at 1dc is enough, you don't need a real ticket file. Maybe that's the same for rednand.

The only way to get keys are from the title.tik (as far as I know).
so, you need to get it from a WUD or from NAND.


Edit:
About my "big message", if there's no new and easier method, I'm sure there will be more detailed and complete tutorial that end users will be able to follow.
it can be long to write it properly and to read or follow correctly, but it can be done.
I'd be happy to help in that case to make something very detailed. but for the moment I think the "guide line" released as it is means it's aimed at the users who understand what to do with it. I wouldn't worry too much, I'm sure it will be easier with time.

edit again :
Ohhh, Fix94 started a proper guide!
https://gbatemp.net/threads/building-iosuhax-on-windows.447023/
Big thanks to him! At least HE knows his way. The existing guides written by end users are incomplete and not useful. They can't even help and answer users concerns because they don't know the issues they didn't had.
I'd say it still miss some little details, unles dimok updated it today. edit: it's updated.
some users had issue using pip with python, and there are alternative method to get pycrypto.
etc.


See !
it's already becoming easier.
only one file to edit instead of 2
only 2 keys to find instead of 3 (the 3rd one is auto-extracted from the downloaded firmware from NUS)
both branch are now using the same compiling method
and it's not even a week since release.

I'm sure people who like to create GUI could make a "key writer" to put keys in py, and a button to press to compile. But really, editing a file in notepad and writing a command line is not hard. If you want to hack, at least learn that ;)
 

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I'm trying to install Color Splash, but I'm afraid something isn't right.
I made sure 7.91 GB is on the SD Card, that was right for sure.

Now it's installing and only says it's 3884.6 MiB.

EDIT: After it went to 103% and almost 4000, it resets to 1% and starts again.
Should I worry? O_O
 
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No, that should be normal.

I have a question. Can I easily use different USB-Pendrives or would that cause trouble?
I know I can'tuse them at the same time, but switching between them should be possible, right? Just worried that the Wii U wouldn't recognize the first USB-Drive anymore when I format and use the second one.
 
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No, that should be normal.

I have a question. Can I easily use different USB-Pendrives or would that cause trouble?
I know I can'tuse them at the same time, but switching between them should be possible, right? Just worried that the Wii U wouldn't recognize the first USB-Drive anymore when I format and use the second one.
Sure you can but why (Haha I kid)
 

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"Just" an OTP dumper so you can dump your otp key to an sd card. Maybe later there will be instructions too.
Interesting, this should make it easier, hopefully instructions will be set up.
>OTP to SD card dumper
It dumps the Wii Us OTP to a file so you don't have to write it all yourself to a file.

Yeah, heh, shows what I know :P Good, this is a pleasant surprise.
 

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The first OTP homebrew was just displaying the values on screen with no possible access to SD Card.
So someone added OTP through wifi method, to get it logged to computer. easier to copy/paste.
I guess now he found how to get SD card access, so he just updated his first OTP homebrew.


For users who don't know, OTP is the part of the memory where the console gets all the keys needed to function properly.
there are still some data which are protected and not readable in that OTP memory, so the dump is incomplete.
 

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