Hacking Derrek6 has the Wii U Boot1 Key!

[Datalogger]

So the pastebin that was shown in another thread was true? Wow. It just sounded so... forced or just plain fake (specially the part of "he talked to the wrong people" makes it seem as if we were talking about drug here or even an Ant-man style type of story XD). Regardless, at least we now know a little bit more about the whole mess. Poor Hykem =\

If you had searched for those bytes in IDA, you would know that it was fake conversation.

One of them miss-typed the values, and the other one said "Oh yeah, I found them!"
That could not happen as he/she fat fingered the values and typed them wrong.

The "real" values to search in IDA are 0xF5A5A5A5, not 0xF5AF5A ,as was posted in the fake pastebin.
Just another epic fail from someone trying to salvage the damage that "Hyk**" did to the wii-U scene.

 

[Sephirosu]

If you had searched for those bytes in IDA, you would know that it was fake conversation.

One of them miss-typed the values, and the other one said "Oh yeah, I found them!"
That could not happen as he/she fat fingered the values and typed them wrong.

The "real" values to search in IDA are 0xF5A5A5A5, not 0xF5AF5A ,as was posted in the fake pastebin.
Just another epic fail from someone trying to salvage the damage that "Hyk**" did to the wii-U scene.

Then why would @zecoxao acknowledge it? Coming from a dev and a big contributor such as him makes me skeptical... But yeah you do have a point.

 

[zecoxao]

If you had searched for those bytes in IDA, you would know that it was fake conversation.

One of them miss-typed the values, and the other one said "Oh yeah, I found them!"
That could not happen as he/she fat fingered the values and typed them wrong.

The "real" values to search in IDA are 0xF5A5A5A5, not 0xF5AF5A ,as was posted in the fake pastebin.
Just another epic fail from someone trying to salvage the damage that "Hyk**" did to the wii-U scene.

would you like a picture of it for proof?
http://i.imgur.com/cpggivg.png
http://i.imgur.com/RznLWKl.png

 

[jaykureno]

would you like a picture of it for proof?
http://i.imgur.com/cpggivg.png
http://i.imgur.com/RznLWKl.png

What you linked says F5A5A5A5, People have been saying this whole time that this is the real value to search. The one in the pastebin is F5AF5A which just doesn't exist in the code. What you posted points to that even further.

 

[zecoxao]

What you linked says F5A5A5A5, People have been saying this whole time that this is the real value to search. The one in the pastebin is F5AF5A which just doesn't exist in the code. What you posted points to that even further.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_error
The guy could've said the wrong hex but the other guy could've still found the values. Doesn't make it into a fake story.

 

[AboodXD]

The "real" values to search in IDA are 0xF5A5A5A5, not 0xF5AF5A ,as was posted in the fake pastebin.
Just another epic fail from someone trying to salvage the damage that "Hyk**" did to the wii-U scene.

Just if he/she accidently typed a wrong value by mistake, it doesn't mean it's an epic fail.

Humans do make mistakes, you know.

 

[Datalogger]

Just if he/she accidently typed a wrong value by mistake, it doesn't mean it's an epic fail.

Humans do make mistakes, you know.

I'd agree with you except for one thing.

Not once, but in two different supposedly conversations between two supposedly different people, the same wrong hex value was used and in both cases, the "2nd" person said they searched in IDA and found it.

There is no way this was two people talking.

It was one person that did make a typo, but it didn't matter as he/she already knew where to go to.
I'll stick to my comment that it was all fake and not just a typo.
-dl

 

[AboodXD]

Long story short:
Anyone believes what he wants to believe.
-AboodXD

 

[Subtle Demise]

No you can not do that because it's unreasonable. This is the extent I was talking about. Law isn't a program, it's applied by human beings with common sense.

Here's a more reasonable scenario: I distribute a perfectly legal, but encrypted file. This encrypted file just "happens" by "pure coincidence" to use the same encryption key as Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft/ The NSA, I could legally share this key because there is no proof that I had knowledge of whose key it was.

 

[JustPingo]

Here's a more reasonable scenario: I distribute a perfectly legal, but encrypted file. This encrypted file just "happens" by "pure coincidence" to use the same encryption key as Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft/ The NSA, I could legally share this key because there is no proof that I had knowledge of whose key it was.

Yes you absolutely could. And you wouldn't get sued for that. You would get sued if you publicly disclose the fact that you're using the same key.

 

[Jack Daniels]

I think we will just have to agree to disagree on this one. You've clearly educated yourself on the subject, but ultimately there's only so much either of us can really discern about a huge market like video games. I have my viewpoint, and you are certainly entitled to having your own.

As far as sales figures go, sales of games have actually dropped dramatically for Nintendo in recent years. Maybe because back in NES - N64 days, it was very hard to pirate? Sega Dreamcast was a piracy nightmare, and it certainly didn't help Sega. And Xbox certainly had abysmal game sales all around except for the Halo series. But like with most things in life, these are all due to a mix of various variables. For me to say that its due specifically to piracy, or even mostly to piracy, would be ludicrous. Similarly, saying that all games or most games pirated have skyrocketing sales because of their fame or infamy is also going too far. The truth is somewhere in the middle.

what hard to pirate? everyone i know around me got a copy box for those consoles, i actualy owned 3 snes copy boxes, they were as easy to get as it was to get rice here! wildcard was the most sold brand here... just most of those copyboxes were unstable at the battery so most of them are now at the scrap heap.

 

[Subtle Demise]

Yes you absolutely could. And you wouldn't get sued for that. You would get sued if you publicly disclose the fact that you're using the same key.

Even if I never told anyone, I wonder if Nintendo's lawyers would try to sue anyway based on the fact that the statistical probability of that happening is almost 0. Anyway, I'm mostly joking. I understand the need to protect stuff like encryption keys, but calling them copyrighted is somewhat erroneous, it's more like confidential information.

 

[brienj]

Even if I never told anyone, I wonder if Nintendo's lawyers would try to sue anyway based on the fact that the statistical probability of that happening is almost 0. Anyway, I'm mostly joking. I understand the need to protect stuff like encryption keys, but calling them copyrighted is somewhat erroneous, it's more like confidential information.

That is correct, and only people who sign an NDA with Nintendo can get in to any legal trouble by posting them.

 

[FaTaL_ErRoR]

People/ companies can sue for anything. With things like this the area is gray. One could flip a coin as to whether or not you would lose a lawsuit. Even winning could still cost a ton in legal fees. But seriously, why is it people have lost their balls? The fact you could get in trouble is what makes it so much fun. Take my signature as prime example. It's probably the only console breaking thing ever placed in public view. Yet it remains there in my signature. By now Nintendo knows what it is. ( for one they made it but its also encrypted by a wii u so fairly certain they have verified it as real.) For me its more for my own amusement to post highly valuable things but obscure them so I can laugh as others search for what is right in front of their face. So i guess you could post keys in a similar fashion to public. Nobody has bothered me and I am currently a registered Nintendo developer.

 

[CJB100]

Activision sent the GZ Forum a cease and desist back in my days there and that didn't stop us. xD But it did slow things down quite a bit for a while.