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You thought it was dead, but the Nintendo Wii U lives on. Following an update that initially was just for European regions, the update is also supposedly to be made available in North American and Japan, according to patch notes. However, currently, Nintendo of America's site does not note any new firmware revisions, nor do we know if the update will actually come to non-EU systems. At this point, we have no idea what 5.5.4 changes, besides standard stability. The last time we saw an update for the Wii U was all the way back in September 2018, for version 5.5.3 which was yet another stability update. If you still value using your Wii U, you might want to wait on updating, to see what this changes in terms of homebrew.

• Version number: 5.5.4
• Release date: June 24th 2019 (North America) / June 25th 2019 (Europe, Japan)
• Regions: Europe / North America / Japan
• Further improvements to overall system stability and other minor adjustments have been made to enhance the user experience

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[Lacius]

safe to update with cbhc installed? or do i have to delete cbhc and haxchi, then update and add them again?

If you update with CBHC installed, you will have to reinstall CBHC. You don't have to remove CBHC before the update. Haxchi is unaffected by the update.

 

[toxic9]

what do you think about this update not being released outside of Europe? weird..

 

[alivebacon]

Yeah, I love the forced popups on sites. Good intentions possibly, but what's next? Forced videos and music?

Up next is a new requirement to send a blood sample and a urine sample.


jk

 

[Localhorst86]

Try putting a GC disk in your WiiU... it's not designed for the 3" disk format - it can't physically "load" the smaller disk.

But my full DVD sized backups.... They could make that work. Lazy fucks

 

[Obveron]

Gonna guess they added some UI to handle when the e-store shuts down.

 

[Lacius]

Gonna guess they added some UI to handle when the e-store shuts down.

If you crunch the numbers, odds are the eShop is going to stay open for quite awhile. Online play alone probably has another year on the Wii U.

 

[Ryccardo]

It seems surprising, but the PS3 has also gotten updates as recently as earlier this year. And those updates actually blocked homebrew.

(off topic)

The PS3 gets updated mainly to change the bluray movie encryption keys - being one of the very few players where they're periodically changed (well, it's also one of the few players to get hacked ), they definitely took their time to patch the 4.82 browser exploit and haven't solved the still open "hybrid firmware" yet

 

[Cooliomonfoolio]

FINALLY, IT'S HERE FOR YOU, IT'S THE LAST UPDATE ON THE WHOLE WII U!

I'ts a stupid reference to the dk rap

 

[toxic9]

FINALLY, IT'S HERE FOR YOU, IT'S THE LAST UPDATE ON THE WHOLE WII U!

I'ts a stupid reference to the dk rap

It seems a little bit weird that EUR region will end on 5.5.4 E
and rest of the world on 5.5.3 U/J
...

 

[Deleted User]

If you update with CBHC installed, you will have to reinstall CBHC. You don't have to remove CBHC before the update. Haxchi is unaffected by the update.

I am asking because back then people said that if you were on 5.5.1 and you updated to 5.5.2 with either regular haxchi or cbhc installed, you would brick

 

[Lacius]

I am asking because back then people said that if you were on 5.5.1 and you updated to 5.5.2 with either regular haxchi or cbhc installed, you would brick

That wasn't true.

 

[RobbieTheELK]

Can someone tell me in plain english what this change has brought?
Im in Australia and just updated, Hixachi is unaffected, my games still work but what's this privacy everyone calling about?

 

[PoiRan]

I have 2 Wii U, one of them to my surprise autoupdated this morning and I had to reinstall CBHC. (First uninstalled (not needed?), then installed again).

The other is protected against updates, I'll hold on updating that for a few days.
(The one that autoupdated is defective, it has a broken drive - so I paid about €20 and I use it for experimenting a bit)

So, this seems to be a harmless update, but I guess some people having bought a hacked Wii U lately on ebay or whatever, will find their console "not working properly" after the autoupdate, maybe reformat the console, and brick.

 

[toxic9]

I updated to 5.5.4E and until now so far, so good.
No problems.... Everything is working fine.

 

[Flaya]

I haven't seen this update yet. I live in Sweden. Even my stock console can't see the update. I've never blocked updates on my consoles, and I'm not using VPN. But it would seem as this update doesn't affect all, or it simply hasn't hit Sweden yet.

 

[toxic9]

I haven't seen this update yet. I live in Sweden. Even my stock console can't see the update. I've never blocked updates on my consoles, and I'm not using VPN. But it would seem as this update doesn't affect all, or it simply hasn't hit Sweden yet.

Have you checked download manager?
Do you have blocked the updates by DNS ?

Try to go to Settings\System Update, and force the update manually and see if it starts updating.

 

[duwen]

I haven't seen this update yet. I live in Sweden. Even my stock console can't see the update. I've never blocked updates on my consoles, and I'm not using VPN. But it would seem as this update doesn't affect all, or it simply hasn't hit Sweden yet.

See if you can access the eshop - that's when mine prompted the update.

 

[Flaya]

Yeah, I haven't blocked anything. And E-shop works fine.

It's no big deal to not update, I just figured I'd let everyone know that some consoles didn't recieve it (yet).

 

[toxic9]

You must have Nintendo servers blocked by DNS or your console is USA region.
If you go to System Settings \ System Update and click on update, it does nothing??
Are you sure you are on 5.5.3E ?

 

[Flaya]

I have 2. Both WUP-010(EUR). One running Haxchi, one stock. None of them can get the update to this date. And no blocking whatsoever.