Hacking Wii U unusable after changing game_region

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Hello,
I have a EU console, and using FTP I changed Game_region in config file to 2 to make it US
After restarting, I cannot do anything from the game pad. I cannot go to system settings or open the browser .
how do I reset the console it back to my old region?

thanks
 
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Hello,
I have a EU console, and using FTP I changed Game_region in config file to 2 to make it US
After restarting, I cannot do anything from the game pad. I cannot go to system settings or open the browser .
how do I reset the console it back to my old region?

thanks

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Hello,
I have a EU console, and using FTP I changed Game_region in config file to 2 to make it US
After restarting, I cannot do anything from the game pad. I cannot go to system settings or open the browser .
how do I reset the console it back to my old region?

thanks

I don't know if this has something to do with it, but the gamepad is region locked. afaik, there's no way to fix this besides a hard mod.
 
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Your WiiU is a brick now. Sorry. I doubt you can repair it. Gamepad is essential. You literally told the WiiU´s processor "Hey, i´m on another region now! Only boot when this region is being used (gamepad/games)!"
And this cpu has some of the most-advanced security out there/ever built. Preventing you from doing anything.

A WiiU can boot without a gamepad or with a damaged gamepad (it can repair the console´s OS via the gamepad)! But: Since the console itself has NO FIRMWARE in it, you cannot update it when you literally killed the console´s OS, when your gamepad doesn´t match the correct region (since the cpu will refuse to accept your boot-command ;)
 

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I don't know if this has something to do with it, but the gamepad is region locked. afaik, there's no way to fix this besides a hard mod.

What’s a hard mod?

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Your WiiU is a brick now. Sorry. I doubt you can repair it. Gamepad is essential. You literally told the WiiU´s processor "Hey, i´m on another region now! Only boot when this region is being used (gamepad/games)!"
And this cpu has some of the most-advanced security out there/ever built. Preventing you from doing anything.

A WiiU can boot without a gamepad or with a damaged gamepad (it can repair the console´s OS via the gamepad)! But: Since the console itself has NO FIRMWARE in it, you cannot update it when you literally killed the console´s OS, when your gamepad doesn´t match the correct region (since the cpu will refuse to accept your boot-command ;)
 

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I don’t mind completely wiping out the system and setting it back to my original game region. Can I reach out to the WIiU support team and do you think they would be able to help?

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opening up the system and reflashing the nand. should be easy to change back after that.

I cannot open even the browser to go to loadiine . I cannot launch home brew, I can’t even go to system setting!
 
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a hard mod should correct that. if you mean contacting nintendo, I thought I read that they no longer repair wii us.

yes Nintendo support.
I haven’t installed any pirated games. All I did was that I bought a legit US region game and try to make it work. But I do not know if this is legit either
 

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looks like they're not repairing wii systems actually, so I think you might be able to get repairs for the wii u. I'm not sure what's entailed.
 

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Hello,
I have a EU console, and using FTP I changed Game_region in config file to 2 to make it US
After restarting, I cannot do anything from the game pad. I cannot go to system settings or open the browser .
how do I reset the console it back to my old region?

thanks
You can make the console region free by editing system.xml, but that's not how you do it, you enable every region at once. What made you think it was a good idea to disable the original region that the firmware runs on?
 

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Did you install CBHC? If so, you might be able to cold boot into the Homebrew Launcher (if you installed that as a channel) and then go into FTP and change back what you changed. Though I think even if you do have all that it very well may not allow you to launch into Homebrew Launcher in this way all the same, I'm pretty doubtful, but it's worth a shot if you have that setup already.
 

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you need either a nand dump from before you changed that value or the otp.bin. if you don't have either, then it's impossible to fix. I'm not even sure if nintendo can fix that. they probably wouldn't be bothered by it and send a refurbished system back to you.
 

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you need either a nand dump from before you changed that value or the otp.bin. if you don't have either, then it's impossible to fix. I'm not even sure if nintendo can fix that. they probably wouldn't be bothered by it and send a refurbished system back to you.

Nintendo definitely wouldn't touch a system where the region has been changed. That'll be considered hacking and not of their concern. Sad reality is, without a backup, it likely is just a brick.
 

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you could consider it a device error even if it was changed by the user. there's no way nintendo would know for sure of that.
 

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either way, I doubt nintendo would fix that specific system rather than just sending a refurbished unit back. the cost of that would likely be what a standalone wii u without gamepad would be, so it wouldn't be worth it. the only real bad thing is the loss of saves if they weren't backed up, but he says he doesn't care about that.
 

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