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    Hacking 100th Obligatory downgrade thread.

    There seems to be room for improvement. It's understandable that the download tool can't be delivered together with the needed copyrighted firmware files, but it could check if those files are present on the sd card and if they have the correct hash. It also could check if the files are the...
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    Hardware New computer help did I screw up?

    In that case, you can forget previous. Have you checked other peoples experience on the net with that model of laptop and windows 7? Does the manufacturer still provides all windows 7 drivers for that model indicating they still support windows 7 on it? The reason I ask is because we had some...
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    Hardware New computer help did I screw up?

    Did you install a 32bit or 64bit version of windows 7? 32 bit versions are limited to 4 gig of memory adressing, and usually a 1 gig window is used to interface some hardware only leaving 3 gig of ram memory. Maybe, in your case, the window used to interface hardware is bigger?
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    Hacking Dumping Wii U NAND via SD card adapter

    If you connect 3V3 to the emmc chip, you will power the rest of the wiiu circuits that run on 3V3 as well. How would you isolate the emmc power connection from the rest of the power plane? The CMD signal can be isolated as there are some small resistors on the tracks from the emmc to the rest of...
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    Hacking Dumping Wii U NAND via SD card adapter

    Best way would indeed be interrupting the boot process. Isolating the supply voltage of the EMMC chip might be difficult. The EMMC is a BGA. Usually, complex equipment like the wiiu use a multilayer printed circuit board. The VCC and GND layers are usually 2 of the inner layers. So, you can...
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    Hacking Dumping Wii U NAND via SD card adapter

    So, the sd card reader is a known working one with the 3ds? How do you power the wiiu/emmc? Those devices have several different modes of operation. 1. spi mode 2. 1 bit sd mode 3. 4 bit sd mode The cardreader expects the device to come up in default mode after reset (spi I think) When the wiiu...
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    Hacking Dumping Wii U NAND via SD card adapter

    To my knowledge, windows only assigns one or more drive letters when it finds valid partitions on the device. You could check in disk manager if you have a new drive connected to your system. There is a free windows program winhex that also can show you all available drives. You can even use it...
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    Hacking Wiiu Nand Dump

    The problem with the logic analyser is that you need to decode the data you are capturing. Yes, 8 channels should be enough. Not sure what speed you would need, but you might be able to check that with a good digital scope. A Logic analyser can send signals as well, but as I tried to explain...
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    Hacking Wiiu Nand Dump

    The current consumption of a chip is not constant. Because of that, you shouldn't use a resistor to lower the supply voltage. You need a lineair or switching regulator that produces a constant voltage, no matter how much current is requested. (obvious there is a maximum limit and some have a...
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    Hacking Why no nand / emmc hardware dumper yet?

    Backing up the eMMC shouldn't be much of a problem I assume. It just might be necessary to find a way to keep the wiiu in a reset state so that it doesn't try to control the eMMC during the dump. The hardware needed for that is a sd 2 usb cardreader like the ones that are used to dump the 3ds. I...
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    Hacking (vWii) - Tri-Core Linux

    The wii isn't using an OS, so how could it's OS be linux based? The Ioses use a microkernel architecture, but that's not linux based.
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    Hacking vWii sneek

    Any idea where we can find the source code of this? Any idea where we can find the source code of this? Sorry folks, this was only suposed to appear once...
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    Hacking Gateway 3DS working on the New Nintendo 3DS.

    Maybe future will tell, but let's hope not. If the first gen limited Sky3ds still work on firmware XX, and the newer ones don't, we will know.
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    Hacking Gateway 3DS working on the New Nintendo 3DS.

    As I tried to explain in the other thread. It seems like the game code needs patching to bypass the 10 game(save) limits. This is likely detectable and could be used to block the card in newer firmwares. Maybe the other card with the limit was more like an original cartridge and more difficult...
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    Hacking Sky3DS released a new card - no limit for games.

    From an objective point of view (away from fanboyism), they both seem to have a reason of existence. If I would buy a new 3ds at the moment, Sky3DS seems my only option. It's the easier noob proof solution. The 10 game limitation was clearly announced. Mayby it was to boost sales, or maybe it...
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    Hacking neek2o

    It's just... as long as it's not available, nobody else can work on it. I can for instance imagine some might be interested to get it working on Wiiu. (I don't have one, so it won't be me at the moment.)
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    Hacking neek2o

    If neek2o development has stalled, is there a reason why the latest Beta isn't available on the neek2o google code source page? The latest commit over there was from january 2013, almost 2 years ago. It's a pretty long time for a Beta testing period.
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    Hacking neek2o

    First you will need to do the modmii setup. Next, you will need to overwrite some files on your harddisk with the newer ones from the beta package.
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    Hacking USB LOADER GX 3 - Wii games suddenly stop working

    It sound like the famous spindown issue. Some harddrives (specially 3.5 inch smaller ones) shut down the drive motor when they are not used for a period of time. If that is happening and you try to access the drive again, it needs a couple of seconds to spin up it's platters. The wii(u) game...
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    Hacking Dumping Wii U NAND via SD card adapter

    One of the chips (the BGA) is a 8 Gig or 32 Gig EMMC. It's connections are available on the resistors nearby. The other one is a simple 1Gig nand flash chip. Half of it is used in vwii mode as nand flash chip equivalent to the wii. The other half probably contains the ios equivalents of wiiu...
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