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Play Zelda BOTW with All DLC for FREE without CFW

It's confirmed. It works!

This guide uses the FREE DLC "Language pack" to do the trick. You need download it on eshop.


In this tutorial I'll show you how to play Zelda BOTW with all DLCs unlocked without start a CFW or something for this. It should work with others games with multiple DLC like MK8, Wii Sports Club, Super Smash Bros, Hyrule Warriors and others. Of course you need a legit DLC from game you want to play.

For Super Smash Bros detail follow this link:

https://gbatemp.net/threads/tutoria...-without-cfw-or-aocpatcher-on-sysnand.464178/


For MK8 detail follow this link:

https://gbatemp.net/threads/tutorial-play-mario-kart-8-with-all-dlc-for-free-without-cfw.464407/#post-7173356

What you need:
  • Zelda BOTW "Language Pack" downloaded from eshop. You need the latest update and download it from game options (needs a legit DLC)
  • Mocha CFW, Haxchi CFW, or any other (just in the beginning)
  • WiiU App Store (or Tik2SD + FTPiiU_Everywhere + WUP Installer GX2 +
    Mocha CFW + Homebrew Launcher
    )
  • WiiU USB Helper
  • SD Card
  • PC
  • Hex Editor (HxD for Windows)
1 - First if you have any illegitimate Zelda BOTW DLC installed, just delete it using using Data manager on WiiU Config
2 - Download the DLC on eshop
3 - Make sure your SD card is formatted in FAT32
4 - Download the DLC of Zelda BOTW of your region with WiiU USB Helper and put it in your SD card in na folder called "install" in the root.
5 - Go to Homebrew Launcher and choose App Store or go to wiiubru.com/go on you browser and choose App Store. If you don't know what's Homebrew Launcher is give a look in this guide (parts I, II and III) and choose start App Store.
6 - In App Store Download Tik2SD + FTPiiU_Everywhere + WUP Installer GX2 + Mocha CFW + Homebrew Launcher
7 - Launch Homebrew Launcher and go to Mocha_CFW (use default options). Then go to WUP Installer GX2 and choose install the DLC of Zelda BOTW you just download wherever is your game (nand or USB).
8 - Back to Homebrew Launcher, go to Tik2SD and backup your tickets. Put your SD in PC and look at tik2sd folder. Open keys.txt and search where your Zelda BOTW DLC is installed. The name you need to search is 0005000c101c9400 or 0005000c101c9500 or 0005000c101c9300.
9 - Now it's time for hex editing.
Use the link from www.marcrobledo.com/wiiu-tik-fixer/ (thanks @marc_max )
open the folder and in tik2sd wich the ticket from you game is , than drop on the site above, you gonna see 2 tickets, click in fix, and download the file , than go to step 10.
If you want to do manually, then thanks to @Rahzadan we have a VERY detailed tutorial for it. Go to this thread and after the hex editing go to step 10 below.
If you followed the @Rahzadan tutorial or used the @marc_max website above, go to step 10. I'll keep this part only for log
purpose.

Locate your ticket in your SD card according with keys.txt. Open with an hex editor (in my case it's on 0009 folder and the name is 00000015.tik. Backup the ticket.

Look that you gonna have 2x finds in the key.txt file. In my case 0009/00000015.tik@0x6a0 and 0009/00000015.tik@0x0. The number after the "@" shows where the ticket starts inside the tik file. It means probably the fake ticket is in beginning of tik (0x0) file and my legit ticket starts in 0x6a0 (note is in hexadecimal).

The fake ticket is like this, a lot of same numbers:

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In this case it shows SSB ticket, but for Zelda BOTW ticket is the same thing, just another Game ID.

Pay attention in the blue highlight. It shows the game ID. If it says a number other than 0005000c101c9400 or 0005000c101c9500 or 0005000c101c9300 it means the ticket is from another game!

The trick here is swap the fake ticket with the legit ticket, that way the legit ticket always come first in the tik file! This picture can demonstrate what I mean:
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In this case it shows SSB ticket, but for Zelda BOTW ticket is the same thing.

Maybe there's another game ticket inside the tik file, maybe not. Anyway, just copy and past with your hex editor the fake ticket with the legit ticket. Pay attention and don't touch other game tickets in the tik file!

If your legit ticket comes first you don't need swap the tickets! You already can play with all DLC unlocked! I believe it can happens if you download the free DLC after install the fake DLC.

After the swap save your ticket in your PC.
10 - Now put your SD back in WiiU. Open Homebrew Launcher and launch FTPiiU_everywhere (make sure you had launch Mocha CFW or other CFW before that)
11 - Go to your Zelda BOTW ticket location inside WiiU memory using a FTP browser like FileZilla or even Windows Explorer with the IP of your WiiU. Its in "storage_slc/rights/ticket/apps/xxxx/xxx.tik". Replace that ticket with the one you just modified.
12 - Open your Zelda BOTW game and enjoy play with all contents without CFW!

TL;DR: Download the free DLC, install all DLC packet with a fake ticket, locate your ticket inside WiiU, swap the legit ticket with the fake ticket inside the tik file so that the legit ticket appears first.

Thank to @nexusmtz and @Madridi
 
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DLC will not stop working.
you can update the game. It's even required to make DLC working.

is there a new recent update since the one which enabled DLCs?
There was a small bugfix update August 7.

Installing the update by any means will not break DLC, regardless of how the DLC was installed.
 
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I am using CBHC, how can I test whether it worked or not?

I mean, how can I disable CBHC temporarily?
The only way I know how is by uninstalling CHBC using the CBHC installer. When you want to reinstall it, you should delete the DS game (don't do this unless you already uninstalled CBHC successfully), redownload it from the eShop, reinstall Haxchi, and then reinstall CBHC.

As a CBHC user, why do you care about following this guide?
 
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Thanks for your quick answer, that is what I also thought but wasn't sure. It doesn't worth it then.

As a CBHC user, why do you care about following this guide?

Because if I decide to uninstall CBHC, then I would like to keep the game working flawlessly. :)
 
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Because if I decide to uninstall CBHC, then I would like the game would keep working flawless. :)
If I were you then, I would go ahead and follow the guide without testing the results. If you do uninstall CBHC someday, that can be when you test the results. In addition, by following the guide, you should be able to download and install updates to the DLC directly from the game. For example, when the Winter DLC pack for Breath of the Wild is released, you should be able to update the DLC directly from the game itself. That's another way you can test if it worked.
 
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Thanks for the tutorial. What's the possibility of this resulting in a ban someday? I know the console has been abandoned, but you never know...
Also, the 3DS got a banwave for CFW users a while ago, which got me a little more scared.
 

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Thanks for the tutorial. What's the possibility of this resulting in a ban someday? I know the console has been abandoned, but you never know...
Also, the 3DS got a banwave for CFW users a while ago, which got me a little more scared.

The answer you're looking for is: Who knows? Is it possible? Yes. Will it happen? Unlikely

The process is "as safe" as installing non-legit stuff through wupinstaller. It has the same chances of ban as the that. Why? Cause it's not doing anything different. All it's doing is installing legit and non-legit stuff. The whole ticket manipulation thing is not gonna get you banned.
 

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Guys, i am facing problems with Hyrule Warriors.
I deleted the unlegit DLC from the console (even the updates), downloaded my legit Ganon outfit from eshop... and the game fails to start.

When i delete the DLC, everything works fine.
Whats happening?
 

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Guys, i am facing problems with Hyrule Warriors.
I deleted the unlegit DLC from the console (even the updates), downloaded my legit Ganon outfit from eshop... and the game fails to start.

When i delete the DLC, everything works fine.
Whats happening?
I guess cause you deleted the updates. Update again
 

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Updates installed. Game booted.

Downloaded the legit DLC, game failed to load. Got an error in installation.
I don't know then. I would've guessed that maybe your save file is recognizing the dlc that's no longer there, but you said deleting dlc completely makes it boot fine. So I wouldn't know. Sorry
 

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I don't know then. I would've guessed that maybe your save file is recognizing the dlc that's no longer there, but you said deleting dlc completely makes it boot fine. So I wouldn't know. Sorry

Strange thing is even when delete all the DLC and go to eshop for the legit download, it says "part of this content is already on the device". :/
 

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deleted the save, update and everything: still cant install the legit dlc :(

I am getting error 105-3687 when i try to install the legit DLC running the game from the home menu
 
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deleted the save, update and everything: still cant install the legit dlc :(

I am getting error 105-3687 when i try to install the legit DLC running the game from the home menu

Look here:

https://gbatemp.net/threads/error-105-3687-and-how-to-fix-it.451635/

It seems you have a problem with the DLC tik file. DO you have a backup from tik2sd? Did you try to swap the tickets? Please try to restore your backup. If you don't have a backup, do it and then look your tik file where is your DLC ticket. Make sure you don't have others games in this tik file but the DLC and delete it. Try to download the DLC again. If don't works, you have a backup anyway...
 

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Look here:

https://gbatemp.net/threads/error-105-3687-and-how-to-fix-it.451635/

It seems you have a problem with the DLC tik file. DO you have a backup from tik2sd? Did you try to swap the tickets? Please try to restore your backup. If you don't have a backup, do it and then look your tik file where is your DLC ticket. Make sure you don't have others games in this tik file but the DLC and delete it. Try to download the DLC again. If don't works, you have a backup anyway...
Don't have a backup. I was looking in this thread as well...

Noob question: I can do a backup from my legit DLC even if it's not installed?

Enviado de meu Moto G (4) usando Tapatalk
 

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Don't have a backup. I was looking in this thread as well...

Noob question: I can do a backup from my legit DLC even if it's not installed?

Enviado de meu Moto G (4) usando Tapatalk

Use the tik2sd to make a backup the tickets. For DLC you need to delete it to install again. You can download again on eshop because its legit, AFAIK. But the backup is important if something goes wrong.
 

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