Hacking Hacking the WiiU: A Simple Progress Guide

TotalInsanity4 · Sep 28, 2015

FusionGamer said:
It really doesn't involve messing up any "danger zone" settings. You can block updates via Parental Controls.

Wait, really? I've never noticed that...

Maximilious · Sep 28, 2015

FusionGamer said:
It really doesn't involve messing up any "danger zone" settings. You can block updates via Parental Controls.

I highly doubt that, but I'll take the bait and check my Wii U. It's not possible in the 3DS. Why would Nintendo deliberately make an option to stop their system from updating? They want it as secure as possible to stop the guys like us from doing things we shouldn't be.

FusionGamer · Sep 29, 2015

TotalInsanity4 said:
Wait, really? I've never noticed that...

Maximilious said:
I highly doubt that, but I'll take the bait and check my Wii U. It's not possible in the 3DS. Why would Nintendo deliberately make an option to stop their system from updating? They want it as secure as possible to stop the guys like us from doing things we shouldn't be.

Wow. Would've thought that people would have recognize that I was talking about blocking updates via your router's Parental Controls.

-_-

TotalInsanity4 · Sep 30, 2015

FusionGamer said:
Wow. Would've thought that people would have recognize that I was talking about blocking updates via your router's Parental Controls.

-_-

Ah, I see. The way you phrased it made it sound like you were referring to the console's parental controls

Maha · Sep 30, 2015

muskieratboi said:
Install Virtual Console/WiiWare WADS? YES!

Can i install ntsc wads on my pal wii u ?

uyjulian · Sep 30, 2015

Maha said:
Can i install ntsc wads on my pal wii u ?

yes

pedro702 · Sep 30, 2015

julialy said:
yes

yes and no, wads will be region locked atleast VC games i had to use freewad app to get ntsc VC games to be playable on vwii on my pal wiiu.

Maha · Sep 30, 2015

pedro702 said:
yes and no, wads will be region locked atleast VC games i had to use freewad app to get ntsc VC games to be playable on vwii on my pal wiiu.

Thank you for your helpful reply ... Since it's a yes and no situation is there any risk in trying to instal ntsc wads?

What about ntsc-u wads , are these suposed to work for both?
If anyone has an idea i apriciate it

pedro702 · Sep 30, 2015

Maha said:
Thank you for your helpful reply ... Since it's a yes and no situation is there any risk in trying to instal ntsc wads?

What about ntsc-u wads , are these suposed to work for both?
If anyone has an idea i apriciate it

youc an isntall them just fine but when you try to run them they will say error not same region and retun to the menu.

Maha · Sep 30, 2015

pedro702 said:
youc an isntall them just fine but when you try to run them they will say error not same region and retun to the menu.

Thanks a lot :bow:

uqbn · Oct 2, 2015

And what about exploit of 5.4.0?

Maximilious · Oct 2, 2015

uqbn said:
And what about exploit of 5.4.0?

SOON

uqbn · Oct 2, 2015

Some people say there is exploit on 5.5.0. Should I update the firmware before N release 5.5.1? And is there any profit in such updating?

Maximilious · Oct 2, 2015

uqbn said:
Some people say there is exploit on 5.5.0. Should I update the firmware before N release 5.5.1? And is there any profit in such updating?

There is a userspace bug, but no exploit has been made for it yet. There is no kernel exploit for 5.5 yet. If you are on 5.4, stay there. The userland bug will be ported SOON, and has the same kernel exploit as 5.3.2.

ChaosEnergy · Oct 2, 2015

stupid question, but i got confused
did they patch with recent firmware the exploit for the vWii or was there a WiiU hack...i was off for more than a year and by reading the postings i m totally confused now

TotalInsanity4 · Oct 2, 2015

ChaosEnergy said:
stupid question, but i got confused
did they patch with recent firmware the exploit for the vWii or was there a WiiU hack...i was off for more than a year and by reading the postings i m totally confused now

vWii has been fine since the Wii U's release, and likely will always be. With the latest firmware the Wii U kernel exploit ("OSdriver()") was patched, so if you want to run Wii U homebrew then make sure you don't update past 5.4.0, ideally 5.3.2