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CBHC Unbrick Guide without soldering

With the release of UDPIH it is now possible to unbrick CBHC bricks without requiring any soldering!

Requirements​

  • A FAT32 formatted SD Card
  • One of the devices listed below
    Note: Any other linux device capable of USB device emulation should work as well.
    Prebuilt releases are only available for the Pico and Zero.
    I will add more devices below which are confirmed to work.

Supported devices:​

  • A Raspberry Pi Pico or Zero
  • A Nintendo Switch capable of running udpih_nxpayload
If you don't have a supported Pi or Switch, I recommend buying a Raspberry Pi Pico. They're the easiest to use and only cost around 5 bucks.

Setting up UDPIH​

Head over to the UDPIH post and follow the Intructions for your device until you're booted into the Recovery Menu.

Changing the coldboot title​

Once on this screen make sure the cursor is on "Set Coldboot Title", and press the POWER button on the console itself (not the controller or GamePad)
Screenshot 2022-06-06 13-18-52.png

Press the EJECT button on the console until the Wii U menu entry corresponding to your console region is highlighted.
If you don't know your console region, check the second letter of your serial number on the bottom of the console:
  • "A" (Australia) (Australian consoles are running EUR firmware)
  • "E" (Europe)
  • "J" (Japan)
  • "W" (North America)
Then press the POWER button.
If everything worked out you should see the following screen:
Screenshot 2022-06-06 17-32-25.png

Now press EJECT and you should be back on the main menu. Navigate to Shutdown using the EJECT button and press POWER.
Your console should power off.

Now remove the Pi from the console, and power it back on. Your console should boot back into the Wii U menu.

And yeah that's it!

If this helped you to unbrick your console, feel free to support me on ko-fi!
 
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hi i tried with a patched switch and i have this error in udpih_nxpayload under the switch

0x6 0x100 0x0 0x18
Error ...3

and I copy recovery_menu and I have Fat32 in my card
and the exploit doesn't run anymore
 

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hi i tried with a patched switch and i have this error in udpih_nxpayload under the switch

0x6 0x100 0x0 0x18
Error ...3

and I copy recovery_menu and I have Fat32 in my card
and the exploit doesn't run anymore
Patched V1 or V2?
 

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Does this recovery menu allow for the deletion of titles installed to the Wii U, or can it be made to allow that? My brick on my original Wii U was quite dumb, though it wasn't by means of a typical CBHC brick, but I know what I need to do to fix it. I was following a not fully explained guide that stated if you put multiple N64 roms inside of the rom folder of an N64 VC game, that the VC title will load a menu where you select which Rom to load, that part worked, but selecting an alt Rom did not load, and in fact bricked that Wii U (the N64 VC title was installed to the system, not USB). I know that if I can just delete that VC title from that Wii U, it should unbrick it.
My first Wii U I bricked off buying a legit ds game and I was changing my accounts to a new one and I deleted my account that purchased the game so it bricked. Back then it wasn’t a known way to brick and I thought since it’s a legit purchase it wouldn’t be bad but apparently it was lol. Got a new one and never made any mistakes since. Finally I can dust it off and unbrick it.
 

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hi i tried with a patched switch and i have this error in udpih_nxpayload under the switch

0x6 0x100 0x0 0x18
Error ...3

and I copy recovery_menu and I have Fat32 in my card
and the exploit doesn't run anymore
This can be fixed by extracting the latest hekate release to the root of the SD Card of your switch.
The "hekate_ctcaer_5.7.2_Nyx_1.2.2.zip" file.
 
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I tried this "hekate_ctcaer_5.7.2_Nyx_1.2.2.zip" the reboot in hekate works well but I have the same error and I forgot to specify that I do not have the Gampad synchronized
 

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while this is pretty impressive stuff i have a question to ask, so i bought a modified Wii u with the cbch last year but didn't know much about the mod itself and so i decided to do a factory reset to wipe someone else's locked account off of it and ended up bricking the console, now being as i brought it off of someone else i didn't have any of the recovery files that you create before going any further with the modification. so i did get in touch with the seller to see if they still had the files and it turns out they lost them somehow so I'm just wondering will this guide still be able to help me unbrick my console or would i still need them recovery files?
 

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while this is pretty impressive stuff i have a question to ask, so i bought a modified Wii u with the cbch last year but didn't know much about the mod itself and so i decided to do a factory reset to wipe someone else's locked account off of it and ended up bricking the console, now being as i brought it off of someone else i didn't have any of the recovery files that you create before going any further with the modification. so i did get in touch with the seller to see if they still had the files and it turns out they lost them somehow so I'm just wondering will this guide still be able to help me unbrick my console or would i still need them recovery files?
You don't need any additional files to recover from a CBHC brick.
Like mentioned in the guide, simply download the recovery_menu from github, put it on the SD, run udpih, change the startup title, and done.
 
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If my bricked wiiu is stuck at the logo screen regardless of injecting the payload I guess it's borked?
I've tested the same setup on a working wiiu and it shows the recovery menu fine.
 

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