Hacking HAXCHI install via NAND installed DS Software???

[Secreus]

Everywhere I go I'm told that I need to purchase a compatible VC DS game for Haxchi and NOT TO BOOT FROM USB OR ELSE YOU'LL BRICK, but I just have one quick question (since I'm obviously cheap): can't I just install Brain Age or something to the NAND storage from WUP Installer GX2 using my SD Card and then load Haxchi through that? Does anyone know how that would work?

Thanks for your help guys!

 

[Deleted User]

No. U need to buy it

Or u will brick

 

[EclipseSin]

Everywhere I go I'm told that I need to purchase a compatible VC DS game for Haxchi and NOT TO BOOT FROM USB OR ELSE YOU'LL BRICK, but I just have one quick question (since I'm obviously cheap): can't I just install Brain Age or something to the NAND storage from WUP Installer GX2 using my SD Card and then load Haxchi through that? Does anyone know how that would work?

Thanks for your help guys!

that would brick. you need a legitimate bought game because you can't launch a wup installed VC without sig patches. To get them patches, you need haxchi. See the dilemma?

As for the USB thing, it's because the system doesn't mount the USB drive before launching the default title. So if the VC game is on USB, it can't boot into it because the USB isn't mounted at that stage of boot.

 

[Secreus]

that would brick. you need a legitimate bought game because you can't launch a wup installed VC without sig patches. To get them patches, you need haxchi. See the dilemma?

No. U need to buy it

Or u will brick

Thanks, EclipseSin's explanation makes a lot of sense, if I would've just given it more thought I could've seen that conflict

 

[Dust2dust]

A little correction here... Haxchi itself wouldn't brick the system if the DS game is not legitimate. It just wouldn't work. Period. CBHC on the other hand, would brick you.

 

[EclipseSin]

A little correction here... Haxchi itself wouldn't brick the system if the DS game is not legitimate. It just wouldn't work. Period. CBHC on the other hand, would brick you.

That's actually not true, but I didn't want to muddy the water around the questions.

Haxchi itself can be installed and used without a legitimate VC game by first loading something like Mocha, it can then be used as a forwarder to other Homebrew instead of going through the Homebrew Launcher.

Haxchi itself cannot be used without sigpatches in this setup but is still able to be utilized for other purposes, but CHBC will brick.


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Haxchi installed on an owned DS VC can be loaded after initial boot without help to load its own CFW or Homebrew.

In this setup Haxchi can be used to setup CHBC for boot-time CFW launch.

 

[Dust2dust]

That's actually not true, but I didn't want to muddy the water around the questions.

Could you point out exactly what is not true in what I posted? To my knowledge, there is not one single case in history of Haxchi bricking a console. Quite the opposite of CBHC. But that's the eternal debate... is it worth it to install CBHC? There will never be a clear answer.

Edit: Oh, OK, I understand what you mean, now. Haxchi can work with an unsigned DS game, as long as it's running in a sigpatched environment (via mocha). It still can't brick, though, and that was what I was pointing out.

 

[M7L7NK7]

Spend the 8 bucks, you'll get your money's worth out of it

 

[EclipseSin]

Could you point out exactly what is not true in what I posted? To my knowledge, there is not one single case in history of Haxchi bricking a console. Quite the opposite of CBHC. But that's the eternal debate... is it worth it to install CBHC? There will never be a clear answer.

Edit: Oh, OK, I understand what you mean, now. Haxchi can work with an unsigned DS game, as long as it's running in a sigpatched environment (via mocha). It still can't brick, though, and that was what I was pointing out.

years late but, yes it can brick.

if you had setup haxchi at that past time on a DS game that you installed which will only work after running a signature patching exploit, then proceeded to setup coldboot haxchi, it would brick your console as that DS game would not pass signature verification prior to a signature patching elf being ran. Coldboot worked by using a legitimate signed title and replacing a file which isn't verified, as only executable information was signed - not data.

I have been gone years, and I still use Fix94's Haxchi, 1.6.

 

[Dust2dust]

years late but, yes it can brick.

if you had setup haxchi at that past time on a DS game that you installed which will only work after running a signature patching exploit, then proceeded to setup coldboot haxchi, it would brick your console as that DS game would not pass signature verification prior to a signature patching elf being ran. Coldboot worked by using a legitimate signed title and replacing a file which isn't verified, as only executable information was signed - not data.

I have been gone years, and I still use Fix94's Haxchi, 1.6.

Well, getting a reply 6 years later is still better than never getting a reply. Welcome back! To be honest, I'm totally out of the loop with Wii U stuff now, so you're probably right, it can brick. I can't remember the details, though. I never messed with stuff that came after Haxchi or CBHC, I heard the new hacks were better, but never tried them. I still have my Wii U, but haven't used it in a long while.

 

[Deleted member 702243]

nowadays a cbhc brick is fixable in software, so it's not as much of a death sentence anymore fortunately