Gaming Free Wii U eShop?

[avengah]

I may have discovered an eShop exploit. Requires no hacking or anything like that. Works on Wii U and probably 3DS and Switch too. However!

I am loathe to post it publicly. It will be patched instantly. Please contact me if you are an admin here and I will PM you to discuss it!

 

[Hayato213]

Would be illegal here as the site doesn't support warez.

 

[avengah]

If I do post it, it will not last long. It is a very easy fix for a ridiculously stupid exploit, and honestly it should never have worked in the first place. It is very, very sloppy and careless behaviour. Therefore I am not posting it publicly for now. But I will... and it will be patched very quickly I'm sure... because of how it works - it will be flagged up immediately.

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Ok fair enough. It's not wares but a software exploit for eshop. I'll keep it to myself then, I guess

 

[BaamAlex]

If it is only an exploit you can share it here. I'm interested.

 

[Coolsonickirby]

I really don't think an exploit for getting free games from eshop is useful. If Nintendo finds out how it's done and they can identify who used the exploit, they might just instantly ban them (or even worse, legal action.) You might as well just hack the Wii U and pirate games if you want free games.

 

[BaamAlex]

If Nintendo finds out how it's done and they can identify who used the exploit, they might just instantly ban them

The wii u is dead and a flop. Nintendo doesn't ban any players there as long as they don't cheat online. I mean, i play my mario kart 8 and splatoon online on the cemu emulator. They don't care about this console. The worst thing which can happen is this: They release an update which finally makes the freeshop on the consoles (if there was one like on the 3ds) and the usb helper completely unusable. Or haxchi/cbhc are unusable for the moment, as was the case with 3ds with the 11.8 update. Or they change the way it works behind the virtual console so that the games don't load .nds files directly.

 

[wolf-snake]

Ok fair enough. It's not wares but a software exploit for eshop. I'll keep it to myself then, I guess

Ok that's pretty much proof that your exploit is quite indeed fake.

 

[Lassic]

Report Nintendo and make a few bucks for yourself.

https://hackerone.com/nintendo

 

[nero99]

I may have discovered an eShop exploit. Requires no hacking or anything like that. Works on Wii U and probably 3DS and Switch too. However!

I am loathe to post it publicly. It will be patched instantly. Please contact me if you are an admin here and I will PM you to discuss it!

yeah you're full of crap. Do you really think nintendo would be dumb enough to leave that big of a door open?

 

[jamezfat]

yeah you're full of crap. Do you really think nintendo would be dumb enough to leave that big of a door open?

heh, well you say that.. but it wouldnt be the first time nintendo royaly screws up on something infrastructure related.

but yea OP is full of crap

 

[SkaisLove]

yeah you're full of crap. Do you really think nintendo would be dumb enough to leave that big of a door open?

Yes, yes I do. Companies overlook things all the time.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

Report Nintendo and make a few bucks for yourself.

https://hackerone.com/nintendo

Not a bad idea honestly, since if it's actually real and it gets released, no one is going to benefit from it much before it gets patched.

I may have discovered an eShop exploit. Requires no hacking or anything like that. Works on Wii U and probably 3DS and Switch too. However!

I am loathe to post it publicly. It will be patched instantly. Please contact me if you are an admin here and I will PM you to discuss it!

It's not just the same "exploit" that Wii U USB Helper (and FreeShop before it) uses, is it?

yeah you're full of crap. Do you really think nintendo would be dumb enough to leave that big of a door open?

They already did

 

[V10lator]

I'm interrested in this, too.

yeah you're full of crap. Do you really think nintendo would be dumb enough to leave that big of a door open?

As the guy above me told: They already did. There was freeshop for the 3DS. They closed the door for the 3DS but the exact same exploit is still possible with the Wii U (and there are a ton of tools available to download Wii U games directly from Nintendo. NUS Downloader to name one). Nintendo simply doesn't care about piracy on the Wii U anymore. That said I don't think they will fix this new exploit for the Wii U, only for 3DS and the Switch.

//EDIT: The reason why I'm interrested in this new exploit is that NUS Downloader & co can't download the decryption key. So you need it from that key site but there are some games with no leaked key. From the sounds of it this new exploit should be able to download the key, too.
@avengah While I'm not affiliated with gbatemp in any way I would love to get a PM.

 

[Coolsonickirby]

I'm interrested in this, too.

As the guy above me told: They already did. There was freeshop for the 3DS. They closed the door for the 3DS but the exact same exploit is still possible with the Wii U (and there are a ton of tools available to download Wii U games directly from Nintendo. NUS Downloader to name one). Nintendo simply doesn't care about piracy on the Wii U anymore. That said I don't think they will fix this new exploit for the Wii U, only for 3DS and the Switch.

FreeShop was a homebrew application. This person claimed that it was an exploit within the normal e-Shop app.