Hacking Homebrew Why My Wii U Cannot Open Animal Crossing Amiibo Festival?

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My Wii U Region: USA
Game Region: EUR
I Used USB Y Cable, But Cannot Open This Game.
 

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If you're on Tiramisu/Aroma environment, I'd redownload the game with NUSspli and pick the USA version instead. As @NinStar said, it could be a region problem.

Kinda off-topic but... why do people install games from a region different than their console's region?
 
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Ah, I see. My apologies then, I'm not sure how to fix this error if that is the case. I usually avoid different region games if possible in order to not run into issues like this. Hopefully someone else might be able to help you out.
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So I did some digging to see if anyone else had a problem with EUR version of Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival on USA console or vice versa and it turns out that out-of-region issue dates all the way back to the time when Loadline was a thing for Wii U games on consoles. Here you can see that it's apparently not possible to run this game on out-of-region console.

Once again, I do apologize if what I'm presenting is way too outdated as I'm not really someone who can help out with troubleshooting these kind of issues. I haven't tested Aroma's region-free plugin yet, so that might be worth looking into.

However, seeing that NTSC version of that game was released, one could potentially look around the Internet for .wux/.wud file, extract .app/-h3/.tmd/.cert/.tik files from it with JWUDTool, transfer the files to the SD card and install it with WUP Installer GX2, but I believe that there's probably a better way to do this that I'm not aware of yet.
 
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Ah, I see. My apologies then, I'm not sure how to fix this error if that is the case. I usually avoid different region games if possible in order to not run into issues like this. Hopefully someone else might be able to help you out.
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So I did some digging to see if anyone else had a problem with EUR version of Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival on USA console or vice versa and it turns out that out-of-region issue dates all the way back to the time when Loadline was a thing for Wii U games on consoles. Here you can see that it's apparently not possible to run this game on out-of-region console.

Once again, I do apologize if what I'm presenting is way too outdated as I'm not really someone who can help out with troubleshooting these kind of issues. I haven't tested Aroma's region-free plugin yet, so that might be worth looking into.

However, seeing that NTSC version of that game was released, one could potentially look around the Internet for .wux/.wud file, extract .app/-h3/.tmd/.cert/.tik files from it with JWUDTool, transfer the files to the SD card and install it with WUP Installer GX2, but I believe that there's probably a better way to do this that I'm not aware of yet.
But My PC's Java Cannot Open JWUDTool.
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Try placing the .jar file somewhere else, like C:\jwoodtool\jwoodtool.jar

If that doesn't work, try the following:
  • Try: java -jar jwudtool.jar -titleKey TITLEKEY -commonkey COMMONKEY -extract all -in "acaf.wux" -out "extracted", after you replace TITLEKEY and COMMONKEY with related 32-characters-long strings (can't post there here due to the rules, so you'll have to look them up on your own).
  • Try decompressing .wux to .wud with: java -jar JWUDTool.jar -in "acaf.wux" -decompress and try again the above-mentioned command with "acaf.wud" instead. (That worked in my case.)
  • Try changing the locale to English (United States) instead? Not sure if that could be the case.
Hope it helps somehow.
 

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Try placing the .jar file somewhere else, like C:\jwoodtool\jwoodtool.jar

If that doesn't work, try the following:
  • Try: java -jar jwudtool.jar -titleKey TITLEKEY -commonkey COMMONKEY -extract all -in "acaf.wux" -out "extracted", after you replace TITLEKEY and COMMONKEY with related 32-characters-long strings (can't post there here due to the rules, so you'll have to look them up on your own).
  • Try decompressing .wux to .wud with: java -jar JWUDTool.jar -in "acaf.wux" -decompress and try again the above-mentioned command with "acaf.wud" instead. (That worked in my case.)
  • Try changing the locale to English (United States) instead? Not sure if that could be the case.
Hope it helps somehow.
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Now I can't convert wux to wup, it needs game.key to convert.
 

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Ah, game.key should be the textual file containing only the 32-character string I mentioned above. It'll need common.key as well, so might as well place both of them in the same directory as .wud file. You can probably skip that by adding these arguments -titleKey TITLEKEY -commonkey COMMONKEY as I've already mentioned (with the appropriate TITLEKEY and COMMONKEY, of course).

It can take a couple of tries, happened to me as well, so don't feel discouraged to try different things. ^^
 

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