Hacking 5.5.0 progress

[ogienma]

doesnt seem like this is really happening, time to find a older FW Wii U

I did this - I bought a 5.4.0 console when I already had a 5.5.0 one, with the main goal of using Loadiine. In my experience, it's not worth it - I ended up returning the 5.4.0 console a day later, which killed any hype I had for the 5.5.0 exploit.

Some things I didn't realize before buying 5.4.0:

• You can't transfer pre-installed software, downloaded purchases, or savegames from the 5.5.0 system without connecting the 5.4.0 console to the eShop and updating it to 5.5.0 as well.
• The kernel exploit relies on a race condition, i.e. when you launch it, there's a good chance nothing will happen and you will have to launch it several times... and this is every time you want to use Loadiine. I don't know what the IOSU exploit's entrypoint is, but if it's anything like the existing kernel exploit, it will be very frustrating to get it running.

Then I realized that even if I got Loadiine running, there would be nothing to play on it, really. The Wii U library consists of:

• Games that are not supported on Loadiine v3 (Bayonetta 2)
• Games with unreasonably long (15m+) Loadiine load times (The Wonderful 101, Super Mario 3D World)
• Multiplats that are better on another system (Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Mass Effect 3)
  
• Games where online is the main draw - which Loadiine can't do (Smash, Mario Kart, Splatoon, Mario Maker)
• Remakes of GC games which you can play on vWii (Wind Waker, Twilight Princess)
• Straight-up garbage that is not worth your time, even if it's free (Amiibo Festival, Devil's Third, Mario Party 10)

This leaves a handful (less than 5) titles worth playing, some of which I already had discs for - and you might too (Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, Xenoblade Chronicles X, Pikmin 3).

Unless you like to tinker with electronics for the sake of tinkering (and have $200 to spare), it's not worth bothering with lower firmware. Just my two cents.

 

[Deleted User]

and have $200 to spare

That's probably the most common problem that most users on 5.5 (like me) have... I usually have to sell some of my consoles (and wait until my birthday and Christmas for lots of money ) in order to get lower FW consoles.

I did used to be on 5.3.2, but I was so desperate to play Splatoon again, and I wasn't aware that the kernel exploit was just around the corner™. At the same time, my vWii was preventing me from updating (thank god?), so that stopped me from updating to play Splatoon... but then I managed to unbrick vWii and update to 5.4.0. :/

......and then kernel arrived after a few days.

After that happened, I was really pissed off. Then 5.5 released and I wasn't aware that 5.4.0 had the same kernel addresses as 5.3.2.
So, with my doubts of a 5.4 kexploit, I updated to 5.5.0, loadiine for 5.4 arrived the next month, and here I am still stuck with the 5.5.0 Wii U...

And to think this might cost me an extra £200 if kernel/IOSU doesn't arrive by the end of March...

 

[IpsoFact0]

i just really wana play smash online, that's the only reason, otherwise i would be fine waiting.

Either way i guess i'll wait it out.

 

[Deleted User]

kekek.

Just playing around with color scales.
I wonder if I could actually make it produce all the possible colors in this one square?

 

[Deleted User]

Heh, well I managed to get a Cyan -> Red color spectrum working.

Perhaps I could make a color picker homebrew, and it could tell you the properties of the color you picked!
Or maybe this could be implemented into U-Paint somehow.

 

[NexoCube]

Heh, well I managed to get a Cyan -> Red color spectrum working.

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Perhaps I could make a color picker homebrew, and it could tell you the properties of the color you picked!
Or maybe this could be implemented into U-Paint somehow.

You used GX2 ?

 

[Deleted User]

You used GX2 ?

I wish I knew how to, but no..

I'm actually just using drawPixel, a while loop, some color and positioning values, and that's it...

 

[NexoCube]

I wish I knew how to, but no..

I'm actually just using drawPixel and that's it...

Yes, sadly... We really need a GX2 Tutorial. @dimok is our man.

 

[Deleted User]

Yes, sadly... We really need a GX2 Tutorial. @dimok is our man.

Yeah, those GX2 examples in libwiiu aren't very good...
(although I kinda did like the fading screen one)

We could do with an example where you can load a PNG from memory, just like you can with sf2dlib for the 3DS and vita2dlib for the Vita.

 

[NexoCube]

Yeah, those GX2 examples in libwiiu aren't very good...
(although I kinda did like the fading screen one)

We could do with an example where you can load a PNG from memory, just like you can with sf2dlib for the 3DS and vita2dlib for the Vita.

Yes it could be great ... And 3D Lighting things, shaders... GX2 seems very interesting

 

[Deleted User]

Yes it could be great ... And 3D Lighting things, shaders... GX2 seems very interesting

I second this!

I find it interesting how dimok managed to make 3D glass edges for the icons. I would like to try that out!

 

[NexoCube]

I second this!

I find it interesting how dimok managed to make 3D glass edges for the icons. I would like to try that out!

And the grid that have a mirror effect like in the Mii Plaza (And the same for the icons) WHY DID HE USES C PLUS PLUS DAMN FUCK this language seems like C + PHP Syntax

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Does the Wii U Internet Browser have the permission to use GX2 ?

 

[Deleted User]

WHY DID HE USES C PLUS PLUS DAMN FUCK

Eh... C++ is just an extension of C. You don't have to learn much more...

Does the Wii U Internet Browser have the permission to use GX2 ?

Well yeah, the app itself uses GX2 for the UI, doesn't it?

 

[NexoCube]

Eh... C++ is just an extension of C. You don't have to learn much more...


Well yeah, the app itself uses GX2 for the UI, doesn't it?

I know but these double double dots (Main::callSysExit() for example , iknow it's the same that with a -> like in php) but i can't i don't know why xD

 

[Deleted User]

I know but these double double dots (Main::callSysExit() for example , iknow it's the same that with a -> like in php) but i can't i don't know why xD

So that's what they are. xD I actually didn't know that.

 

[NexoCube]

So that's what they are. xD I actually didn't know that.

Yes it's for call a function that is in another Class or Instance (i don't remember)

 

[Deleted User]

Yes it's for call a function that is in another Class or Instance (i don't remember)

I've never actually put "->" to use other than for drawing strings with __os_snprintf, but I tend to use drawString nowadays, and only use __os_snprintf for whenever I want to print variables...

 

[NexoCube]

I've never actually put "->" to use other than for drawing strings with __os_snprintf, but I tend to use drawString nowadays, and only use __os_snprintf for whenever I want to print variables...

The only time i used -> in my dev life is while i was devellopping some plugins for Minecraft PE Servers (That works in PHP) But nobody cares x)
I think dimok should uses -> instead of ::

 

[Deleted User]

The only time i used -> in my dev life is while i was devellopping some plugins for Minecraft PE Servers (That works in PHP) But nobody cares x)
I think dimok should uses -> instead of ::

I've never really seen a good reason to use C++ instead of C. I and many others are probably used to plain C too much. x/

 

[NexoCube]

I've never really seen a good reason to use C++ instead of C. I and many others are probably used to plain C too much. x/

If any volountiers (idk how i should write it) want, rewrite GX2 in C please.