Hacking UtikReader

[BigPanda]

Hello everyone, I just wrote a small application that extract important information from a WiiU tik file.

Enjoy if you were looking to export your Title Key from eshop tickets.

UtikReader (2016-11-16)
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Small application to read the Title ID, Title Key and Console ID from a WiiU tik file.
This tool does not check if the opened tik is valid. It only return value from specific offset of the file.

If the Console ID line is not filled with zeroes, it's means that the ticket include your console identifier.

 

[Irastris]

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Lovely program!

 

[BigPanda]

After additional analysis, this will only work for the first ticket inside the .tik

It seems that it happens that the WiiU put multiple tiks inside a singe file. This is not always the case but it happens.

I will probably just rewrite the application to scan all files inside a folder/subfolders and store the information in a single txt file.

That version can be useful however.

 

[shin-gori]

Hello everyone, I just wrote a small application that extract important information from a WiiU tik file.

Enjoy if you were looking to export your Title Key from eshop tickets.

UtikReader (2016-11-16)
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Small application to read the Title ID, Title Key and Console ID from a WiiU tik file.
This tool does not check if the opened tik is valid. It only return value from specific offset of the file.

If the Console ID line is not filled with zeroes, it's means that the ticket include your console identifier.

Works for virtual console .tik??

 

[Antonio Ricardo]

With this i can know what game is it?

 

[Irastris]

With this i can know what game is it?

Sort of. It will show you the title ID which you can then search on the WiiUBrew title ID database.

 

[oji]

After additional analysis, this will only work for the first ticket inside the .tik

It seems that it happens that the WiiU put multiple tiks inside a singe file. This is not always the case but it happens.

I will probably just rewrite the application to scan all files inside a folder/subfolders and store the information in a single txt file.

That version can be useful however.

Check out my PoSh script, which is able to parse a multi-ticket files. Feel free to reuse it's algorithm in your project.

$atom = 694

function Export-WiiUTik ($data, $start) {
($start + 476)..($start + 483) | % {$title+= "{0:X2} " -f $data[$_]}
$title = ([string]$title -replace " ", "").ToLower()
($start + 447)..($start + 462) | % {$key+= "{0:X2} " -f $data[$_]}
$key = ([string]$key -replace " ", "").ToLower()
return $title + " " + $key
}


function Parse-WiiUTik ($path) {
$file = get-content $path -Encoding Byte
$cnt = 0
$sw = 0
do {
switch ($sw) {
0 {if ($file[$cnt] -eq 0) {$sw = $sw -bor 1}}
1 {if ($file[$cnt] -eq 1) {$sw = $sw -bor 2} else {$sw = 0}}
3 {if ($file[$cnt] -eq 0) {$sw = $sw -bor 4} else {$sw = 0}}
7 {if ($file[$cnt] -eq 4) {Export-WiiUTik $file ($cnt - 3); $cnt += $atom - 4; $sw = 0} else {$sw = 0}}
}
$cnt++
} while ($file.count -gt ($cnt + $atom - 4))
}

Get-ChildItem *.tik -recurse | % {Parse-WiiUTik $_.fullname}

 

[Cyan]

I didn't know a tik could have multiple ticket info.
Which game uses this format, and why?

 

[DaBlackDeath]

I have also made some "fun project" like this, but I guess it's not the right place to share it because this thread is for OP's tool.
Maybe a hint for OP, what he could add (check preview)

Spoiler: preview

oops

 

[oji]

I didn't know a tik could have multiple ticket info.
Which game uses this format, and why?

Some tik files have a merged tickets, but I don't know what a reason make it happens. For example, there's the tik in my system which is contained a Sega All-star Racing update, a Tokyo Mirage Session DLC & an eShop title, all are in the one file.

 

[Irastris]

Maybe a hint for OP, what he could add (check preview)

You need to take that picture down, or change it out with a censored one.

It's not allowed to show title keys on this forum.

 

[BigPanda]

Some tik files have a merged tickets, but I don't know what a reason make it happens. For example, there's the tik in my system which is contained a Sega All-star Racing update, a Tokyo Mirage Session DLC & an eShop title, all are in the one file.

Yes, I wanted to extract my tickets so I could have a backup copies of the installable titles locally. However, I was missing many many Virtual Console titles when I was looking with my application. At some point, I digged and saw that some tickets are 1kb and some are 2kb.

The 2kb ones are merged and includes more than one. Don't know how many tickets can be merged on the same file however.

 

[nexusmtz]

I didn't know a tik could have multiple ticket info.
Which game uses this format, and why?

The ticket directory looks like a hash table, possibly to cut down on the number of files. If that's the case, any identifier that hashes to the same value would end up in the same file. The identifier is probably just the title ID.

We'll have to do some comparisons to confirm that a given title will end up in the same tik on everyone's consoles, but I'd suspect that to be the case. With enough tickets, it may be obvious what the algorithm is.

 

[AboodXD]

It's not allowed to show title keys on this forum.

There's a thread full of title keys...

IIRC one ticket is 0x02A3 bytes long, that means taking the length of a tik file and dividing it on 0x02A3 should determine how many tickets are in a single tik file.

I'm still not sure.

 

[Irastris]

There's a thread full of title keys...

Uh, no there isn't? If anything, there's a thread full of title IDs. The only thread on here that ever attempted to share title keys got shut down within one post.

 

[AboodXD]

Uh, no there isn't? If anything, there's a thread full of title IDs. The only thread on here that ever attempted to share title keys got shut down within one post.

It was a thread with a list of WUDs (not download links) and title keys...

I can't remember the name of the thread, hopefully someone still remembers...

 

[Irastris]

It was a thread for with a list of WUDs (not download links) and title keys...

Well, it's long gone now then.

 

[AboodXD]

I don't know, I remember seeing it not too long ago.

Maybe a newbie mod deleted because he didn't like?

But seriously, IIRC that thread was on GBATemp for more than a year.

 

[JohnathanMonkey]

I don't know, I remember seeing it not too long ago.

Maybe a newbie mod deleted because he didn't like?

But seriously, IIRC that thread was on GBATemp for more than a year.

Yea I got a lot of title keys from there back in the day when I used Uwizard. There was an excel document too.

 

[AboodXD]

I still have a link to that document.