Hacking [RELEASE] Wii U USB Helper, a small eShop for Windows !

[powerkarin]

@Hikari06 Your tool is great. Excuse me if this has already been asked, but would you consider a 3DS version? I know there is freeShop and all, but a nice gui downloader on PC for archive purposes would be good.

oh yes! That yould be great!!!

 

[Velocity]

Hey, just want to say thanks for the app. It's great and I like the UI.

The only issues I experience are with the app hanging, but I think this may be caused because all my content is on my NAS, based on a few of the other comments I've seen on here with people having issues.

So I was wondering would you be able to port this so it'll run natively on a NAS (Synology in my case). Then because the app would be running all the time we could then have some new features where the app could poll every 24 hours for new updates and auto download them if they met the user preferences etc.

I know this a bit of a big ask, so probably won't happen lol! But if you do get round to it and want some help beta testing it let me know!

Additionally in the app at present would it be possible to return the data for multiple regions (not all because I want to exclude Japanese).

Also turning the app into a backup manager would be cool as well, so we can view all possible titles (not just those with tickets) so people can easily spot titles they're missing!

Thanks again!
Vel

 

[VashTS]

couple feature requests -

1) Download all updates for games I have installed. Its a pain in the butt to have to download updates individually
2) I see we can choose all regions or just my region - can we choose USA & JPN? I usually don't bother for EUR games but I do sometimes like JPN only games.

 

[TobiasAmaranth]

You took away the ability to search (EUR) to filter to the EUR region games.

Also, the splash screen with new releases did NOT include any titles from other Regions. So right now I have no convenient way to see if anything was released recently for the EUR region.

 

[nexusmtz]

Also, the splash screen with new releases did NOT include any titles from other Regions. So right now I have no convenient way to see if anything was released recently for the EUR region.

I'm not sure when you checked, but there hadn't been any new EUR ones since
Thu, 19 Jan 2017 02:23:47 +0000 (Phineas and Ferb) until tonight's Fist of the North Star, which did show as new for me (even though my region is set to US.)

You can't expect the program to tell you about things that aren't there. If you think the program is missing some, post the name and the pubdate from the title key site's RSS feed, and also look at the end of your %appdata%\USB_HELPER\jsonbackup to see if your copy from the site is up to date, i.e. the last title in the json file is the latest title in the RSS feed.

If you want to prove to yourself that the program shows new EUR titles, exit WiiU USB Helper, edit %appdata%\USB_HELPER\lasttitles, delete the line for 0005000010101e00, save the file, and restart the program. New Super Mario Bros U (EUR) will show up as new.

 

[Danne2]

The updater is getting flagged as malware by Windows Defender. Checking VT gets it flagged by Baidu. Presumably due to its form as an updater but it's a bit problematic.

 

[Hikari06]

You took away the ability to search (EUR) to filter to the EUR region games.

Also, the splash screen with new releases did NOT include any titles from other Regions. So right now I have no convenient way to see if anything was released recently for the EUR region.

Err I'm not sure what you are referring to since there has never been a filter per region. What you have to do is specify your main region then uncheck the 'All regions' checkbox. I will probably add a checkbox per region like on the mobile version though.

The updater is getting flagged as malware by Windows Defender. Checking VT gets it flagged by Baidu. Presumably due to its form as an updater but it's a bit problematic.

It's probably because the updater is given the ability to spawn another process, which is the main application. I have reported the issue to baidu and hopefully they will update their DB soon

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Hey, just want to say thanks for the app. It's great and I like the UI.

The only issues I experience are with the app hanging, but I think this may be caused because all my content is on my NAS, based on a few of the other comments I've seen on here with people having issues.

So I was wondering would you be able to port this so it'll run natively on a NAS (Synology in my case). Then because the app would be running all the time we could then have some new features where the app could poll every 24 hours for new updates and auto download them if they met the user preferences etc.

I know this a bit of a big ask, so probably won't happen lol! But if you do get round to it and want some help beta testing it let me know!

Additionally in the app at present would it be possible to return the data for multiple regions (not all because I want to exclude Japanese).

Also turning the app into a backup manager would be cool as well, so we can view all possible titles (not just those with tickets) so people can easily spot titles they're missing!

Thanks again!
Vel

Yeah, unfortunately the app tends to do a lot of small metadata reads to make sure everything is okay with your games. It's normally almost instantaneous on a local drive since it's only reading the FST but it's another story with a NAS for which every request is sent over the network. I'm afraid I'm not gonna have the time nor the resources to port the app to Synology, sorry xD
That said we can maybe improve the performance a bit but it will probably never be as responsive as a local drive.

couple feature requests -

1) Download all updates for games I have installed. Its a pain in the butt to have to download updates individually
2) I see we can choose all regions or just my region - can we choose USA & JPN? I usually don't bother for EUR games but I do sometimes like JPN only games.

Thank you for your suggestions

Yes, I intend to add some additional filtering options.

 

[Velocity]

Thanks for your response, have you got any suggestions to get the app running using wine in Linux, as I could always create a linux container on my NAS running wine, however when I tried this I just get the "Please wait while install updates your application" screen, and the progress bar never moves.

Any ideas?

 

[Dungeonseeker]

How exactly do I enable IOSU Speed Boost Mode? I'm using Haxchi and have ran the sig patches before launching HBL but it seems to relaunch the system menu and lose the patches

I really dont want to install CBHC and I'm not touching Mocha as last time I ended up with a load of unknown titles on my menu that I had to format my console to remove.

 

[Hikari06]

Thanks for your response, have you got any suggestions to get the app running using wine in Linux, as I could always create a linux container on my NAS running wine, however when I tried this I just get the "Please wait while install updates your application" screen, and the progress bar never moves.

Any ideas?

It's a bit tricky to make it work on Linux but it should work.
First you've got to make sure to use .net4.5 and not mono. Also emulate W7 or higher.

How exactly do I enable IOSU Speed Boost Mode? I'm using Haxchi and have ran the sig patches before launching HBL but it seems to relaunch the system menu and lose the patches

I really dont want to install CBHC and I'm not touching Mocha as last time I ended up with a load of unknown titles on my menu that I had to format my console to remove.

The speed boost is only compatible with the Mocha entry point. I'm not sure how you could possibly have ended with unknown titles on your menu since Mocha does not install anything by itself. Did you get the app on gbatemp or somewhere else?

 

[Dungeonseeker]

The speed boost is only compatible with the Mocha entry point. I'm not sure how you could possibly have ended with unknown titles on your menu since Mocha does not install anything by itself. Did you get the app on gbatemp or somewhere else?

I installed a load of stuff on my redNAND and then one day I turned my Wii U on and all the redNAND stuff was showing a ? on my system menu and I could not remove them so I ended up formatting the entire thing and starting again.

So your saying if I install Mocha and just use sysNAND mode IOSU Speed Boost will work or does it have to be redNAND mode?

 

[Hikari06]

I installed a load of stuff on my redNAND and then one day I turned my Wii U on and all the redNAND stuff was showing a ? on my system menu and I could not remove them so I ended up formatting the entire thing and starting again.

So your saying if I install Mocha and just use sysNAND mode IOSU Speed Boost will work or does it have to be redNAND mode?

You just have to apply the patch to sysnand and it should work

 

[Dungeonseeker]

You just have to apply the patch to sysnand and it should work

Excellent stuff, can confirm it works a treat with Mocha running in sysNAND mode. Speeds have jumped from ~100KBps to ~1.1MBps

 

[Velocity]

Awesome! I managed to get it running in a container on my NAS, which means I know no longer have to run it through my laptop. speeds seem a lot better as well, as the way it's set up, it sees the drives as a local drive.

Thanks for your help

 

[Hikari06]

Awesome! I managed to get it running in a container on my NAS, which means I know no longer have to run it through my laptop. speeds seem a lot better as well, as the way it's set up, it sees the drives as a local drive.

Thanks for your help

Awesome

 

[Velocity]

Awesome

Actually, maybe I spoke to soon, I am receiving the following error when downloading files:
ERROR : No access to memory location.

And it retries like 10 times.

The files seems to download ok at first, then this error starts occurring.

Do you know what could be causing this? My NAS isn't a slouch, it has a quad core CPU and 6GB of RAM and the current load isn't even close to what it is capable of.

 

[Hikari06]

Actually, maybe I spoke to soon, I am receiving the following error when downloading files:
ERROR : No access to memory location.

And it retries like 10 times.

The files seems to download ok at first, then this error starts occurring.

Do you know what could be causing this? My NAS isn't a slouch, it has a quad core CPU and 6GB of RAM and the current load isn't even close to what it is capable of.

Most likely this is a bug with wine since I have never encountered that exception before. Perhaps you could try with another version of wine?

 

[TobiasAmaranth]

I'm not sure when you checked, but there hadn't been any new EUR ones since
Thu, 19 Jan 2017 02:23:47 +0000 (Phineas and Ferb) until tonight's Fist of the North Star, which did show as new for me (even though my region is set to US.)

I'm not sure when I was previously on, but I did just test what you were talking about and Wii U Panorama View showed up, so there's that.

Err I'm not sure what you are referring to since there has never been a filter per region. What you have to do is specify your main region then uncheck the 'All regions' checkbox. I will probably add a checkbox per region like on the mobile version though.

Oh, to clarify, when I first got the program, I was able to have All Regions checked and then type (EUR) or (JPN) directly into the search box, and it would actually filter that portion of the game title. That seemed to no longer work the last time I opened the program. Just seemed like an odd change; it makes sense, of course, but yeah, another option for filtering would be nice.

 

[Hikari06]

I'm not sure when I was previously on, but I did just test what you were talking about and Wii U Panorama View showed up, so there's that.



Oh, to clarify, when I first got the program, I was able to have All Regions checked and then type (EUR) or (JPN) directly into the search box, and it would actually filter that portion of the game title. That seemed to no longer work the last time I opened the program. Just seemed like an odd change; it makes sense, of course, but yeah, another option for filtering would be nice.

Well it's probably a side effect since I have recoded the filtering part to make it more efficient. This behaviour was actually not intended so that's probably why I didn't notice it didn't work anymore. But yeah I will add more filters so it should be alright

 

[MushGuy]

@Hikari06 Your tool is great. Excuse me if this has already been asked, but would you consider a 3DS version? I know there is freeShop and all, but a nice gui downloader on PC for archive purposes would be good.

There's already one: https://gbatemp.net/threads/release-3dsestuff-another-funkeycia-wrapper.426420/