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Hello Wii U fellows,
I've just bought a JPN Wii U recently, gone through many articles and forums to learn to setup, homebrew and hacking stuff. I'm a developer and like to hack things to make it better + DIY.
My plan is trying to make a custom firmware for Wii U like what's we have with Android phone.
My idea is using nand extract to decrypt and extract file system from a nand image, modify it and repack as a single package e.g. zip file. This ROM package and use a homebrew to extract to Wii U FS.
There are many things to do and learn but I believe this approach can work and open a whole new world for Wii U. It is a tech treasure in my perspective. I would like to open this thread for discuss the best / current ways to do and know how Base for others who interesting in this field.
TODO: add list of tool and guides here for nand stuffs, Wii U file system structure.
Topic to discuss:
1. How region lock work? Is it involved hardware keys or just software config.
2. Hardmod to use SD card in place of nand chip. There is a hardmod to dump and restore nand memory using SD card bridge. I believe we can complete replace the nand chip with a SD card using same method.
3. Did anyone tried to replace the wifi card or antenna to improve the rediculous network speed on Wii U?
4. TO BE CONTINUE...
Thanks for reading and helping
I've just bought a JPN Wii U recently, gone through many articles and forums to learn to setup, homebrew and hacking stuff. I'm a developer and like to hack things to make it better + DIY.
My plan is trying to make a custom firmware for Wii U like what's we have with Android phone.
My idea is using nand extract to decrypt and extract file system from a nand image, modify it and repack as a single package e.g. zip file. This ROM package and use a homebrew to extract to Wii U FS.
There are many things to do and learn but I believe this approach can work and open a whole new world for Wii U. It is a tech treasure in my perspective. I would like to open this thread for discuss the best / current ways to do and know how Base for others who interesting in this field.
TODO: add list of tool and guides here for nand stuffs, Wii U file system structure.
Topic to discuss:
1. How region lock work? Is it involved hardware keys or just software config.
2. Hardmod to use SD card in place of nand chip. There is a hardmod to dump and restore nand memory using SD card bridge. I believe we can complete replace the nand chip with a SD card using same method.
3. Did anyone tried to replace the wifi card or antenna to improve the rediculous network speed on Wii U?
4. TO BE CONTINUE...
Thanks for reading and helping