Hacking Hey, some help please?

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Wow, thanks alot!
This was very helpful, I managed to download some games just to clear one thing out.

Can I remove what I did to block wii u system updates for an hour or two and download updates to the games and then add it again?
In my guide I told you can just manually download the game updates and install them the same way. This is universally the far more safer method for updating the games than disabling your blockers and risk an secret update. People are saying there was no updates to Wii U but I currently cannot access eShop without patcher on 5.5.1 - and there is SOME traces of a 5.5.2 that are gone now...

Anyway, if you downloaded the games with uTikHelper or my guide method, both also have a option to download the update for the game (they always default to downloading the NEWEST update) - and then just install it with rest of everything. They are the SAME OFFICIAL UPDATES FROM NINTENDO SERVERS ANYWAY.
 
So as simply as I can explain:
You need NUSgrabber. At least this is your best bet. You can also use NEW-NUSgrabber out in this site, which is a package for NUSgrabber and a UI for it. Most people recommend NUSgrabber.

So I try to break this down as easy as I can. I am european and see you are swedish so let's start with example of... Starfox guard.

You first go to http://wiiubrew.org/wiki/Title_database - this is one of the best sources for title information and also explains quite nicely what different Letter codes mean. (like 00050000 in first part of ID stands for a Full title, but 0005000E means an update, but is otherwise the exact same title ID, helps out later I promise)

So you press CTRL+F to search the page for... Star fox:
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And we got a hit. Make sure you look the right most part of the columns and make sure the region of the game you want. In your case it is European, I am sure.
Now you copy this part; It is the TITLE ID which we so need:
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After this; I assume you just get NUSgrabber because it shows the download progress/speed in somewhat nice fashion.
Put NusGrabber.exe in a folder you do not mind getting filled with random looking folders.
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There he is!

Right click WHILE HOLDING SHIFT-KEY without having any files highlighted in the folder, you should see choice to open a command prompt in this directory thing. Have a Finnish Lesson from me:
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Open it up.

Just type in "nus" and press TAB, it should fill out automatically into "NUSgrabber.exe" - then press space, right click and past the title ID (in Windows 7 CTRL-V does not work in CMD, Win 10 it does, I think Win 8 it also pastes text into the prompt) we checked up earlier. Use the cursor in command prompt to go back a little and remove the separating dash in the ID:
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Then hit enter and it will start downloading the files. In the end it does a move command and might say "something was not found" or whatever. This is normal, and just means it is done with everything. The Folder it downloads the game files you need to is same name as the title ID, so in this case our folder would be "00050000101BED00"

Inside these folders the contents look like this: (This is an example and I think it was a download I did not complete fully mind you)
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You see you have the weird app h3 files and then title.cert, title.tmd and... title.tik nowhere to be found? Yes, at this point you seek out that database and take the TIK that corresponds to the same region as your game, and put it in the folder with rest of the files. You now have 100% installable folder for your game. You can rename it now to something more helpful, say in this example, "STAIRFAWKS GARD" or something like that. Whatever fills your bowl.

You take this folder, and maybe any other such folders, and MAYBE EVEN UPDATES - and copy them on your SD card SD:\install\STAIRFAWKS GUARD\ fashion. So you have individual folder inside install folder per thing you want to install.

here is where you need WUPinstaller:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/wupinstaller-y-mod-with-mulitple-install-folders.445907/
THIS DOES NOT DOWNLOAD GAMES IN ANY MANNER. it is an application for your Wii U (kinda like Loadiine but nothing like Loadiine) that handles installing these files on either your system storage, or to USB storage. The thread for the tool tells you enough how you should put it, and so on.

After you have the WUPinstaller on your SD card correctly, WITH Homebrew Launcher, and other apps I hope, you launch homebrew channel with any of your favorite web browser exploit ways, loadiine.ovh or self hosting, anything. Then you launch WUP installer, use UP/DOWN dpad to choose folders, right to mark them for install (* means "to install" etc) - and hit either A or X if you want to install them on your system or USB storage, and then it will boot into nice installation prompt and stuff happens. After this you can press HOME button to exit WUPinstaller, then HOME button to exit homebrew channel, then EXIT button in mii maker to get back to home menu and rejoice in glory of games in your home screen.

NOTES:
UPDATES: I said We will come back to this. Because you have blocked the updates in your console in one way or another, I presume, you cannot download game updates in the console as is either. but you CAN just download them with NUSgrabber. like I said earlier just take the first half of the ID and replace last 0 with E and it downloads the update data. UPDATE DATA ALREADY HAS A TIK FILE WHEN DOWNLOADED WITH NUSGRABBER. Just rename the folder after the download and install it too, to same place you installed your full game to and you have now the update there too, should work fine and dandy.

Also; There IS ready made packages for people like you on that site so you just download extract and install no need for command prompt shenanigans. But I believe in teaching the man to fish rather than giving him the fish. Also knowing NUSgrabber is important anyway so you can get Updates for the games which many games desperately do need.

So to clarify for you:
WUPinstaller is for the WII U, uTikDownloadHelper is a utility to make downloading titles easier (ALTERNATIVE to NUSgrabber I went through in this post)
There right now is many ways to download the titles and I just happen to prefer the command line NUSgrabber. You CAN use uTikDOwnloadHelper if you want.

ALSO: MAKE SURE OF THE REGION, THIS METHOD IS NOT REGION FREE LIKE LOADIINE. It will not (likely?) Brick your console if you do get wrong region game but it will save you time to NOT download the wrong region stuff.

One way to get "easily" NUSgrabber.exe is to just download the NEW-Nusgrabber from here: https://gbatemp.net/threads/download-the-new-nusgrabbergui.411228/
Then put it in a folder. Open it and keep it open, it will create NUSgrabber.exe in the same folder it is in (like you can see in my screenshot up there) and then you open the command prompt and whatnot.

And that is all. Inshallah my friend.

Wow, thanks alot!
This was very helpful, I managed to download some games just to clear one thing out.

Can I remove what I did to block wii u system updates for an hour or two and download updates to the games and then add it again?
While these directions are accurate they are VERY long compared to just using the newest version of uTikDownloader... I initially created it so that all you need to do is open the ticket with it and select a folder to save the downloads to...

Now though... I've added quite a bit since the first version...

If you know the web address of the wii u title key database (not that iso site, Google for the answer...) you can even get a nice list of games to download

Main App Window
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If you select multiple games, this is what you'll see
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The download window
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Last edited by DanTheMan827,
Yeah, I mentioned your tool having the option for update downloads too.
I just am kind of guy who rather shuts up about what I do not know - since I have not yet used uTikDownloader I rather leave talking about it to people who know it better than I do.

it is almost surprising how NOT 80's hi-fi users we are not being with all things Wii U and stuff.
 
For what you want to do, I would suggest buying a USB 3 500GB or greater HDD. Running things off of thumb drives is very slow compared to hard drives.
 
For what you want to do, I would suggest buying a USB 3 500GB or greater HDD. Running things off of thumb drives is very slow compared to hard drives.
I wouldn't even consider an SSD though... the Wii U will kill those very quickly compared to a regular hard drive... (just like it kills USB flash drives...)

You also wouldn't benefit much from the increased speed since the Wii U only has USB 2.0

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Yeah, I mentioned your tool having the option for update downloads too.
I just am kind of guy who rather shuts up about what I do not know - since I have not yet used uTikDownloader I rather leave talking about it to people who know it better than I do.

it is almost surprising how NOT 80's hi-fi users we are not being with all things Wii U and stuff.
At first I actually embedded NUSgrabber inside of my app and launched it for you so that it downloaded to the folder you selected instead of folders named with the title id...

But now at this point I just download the files directly

In the end pretty much any of the grabber apps will work though... (FunKiiU, NUSgrabber, JNUS Tool, etc...)
 
For what you want to do, I would suggest buying a USB 3 500GB or greater HDD. Running things off of thumb drives is very slow compared to hard drives.
Slow and not recommended by nintendo because of limited rewrites, as well as officially probably slow enough access at times to give similar problems to some games as loadiine at times does.

Nintendo officially endorses seperately powered HDD's, kinds that have their own power supply in one or another ways. Wii U itself has very low power output, and smaller "note" USB HDD's with just single USB usually will not get enough power from Wii U, even if say, a PC, PS3, or even a Wii does. You usually need a Y-cable with any of these drives, which nintendo does not recommend.

That said, I personally used a small laptop drive in a SATA USB controller of one kind with Y-cable and those have functioned well enough.
 
Slow and not recommended by nintendo because of limited rewrites, as well as officially probably slow enough access at times to give similar problems to some games as loadiine at times does.

Nintendo officially endorses seperately powered HDD's, kinds that have their own power supply in one or another ways. Wii U itself has very low power output, and smaller "note" USB HDD's with just single USB usually will not get enough power from Wii U, even if say, a PC, PS3, or even a Wii does. You usually need a Y-cable with any of these drives, which nintendo does not recommend.

That said, I personally used a small laptop drive in a SATA USB controller of one kind with Y-cable and those have functioned well enough.


Funny enough I found a WD black notebook drive that is 7200 RPM and ONLY needs .5 amps! Thing works perfectly fine with a SINGLE USB on the wiiU! I use the Y cable just in case, but for those looking looking for a GREAT fast drive, go for that one.
 
Funny enough I found a WD black notebook drive that is 7200 RPM and ONLY needs .5 amps! Thing works perfectly fine with a SINGLE USB on the wiiU! I use the Y cable just in case, but for those looking looking for a GREAT fast drive, go for that one.

Yeah, it might be one of those WD drives that does not actually use just a USB SATA controller between the normal SATA drive and USB interface, but has USB intergated as part of the drive itself. I have a WD blue external small drive that is one such drive. I once opened it up and took it apart in interest to check it out and found out that the microUSB port that was all she had outside; but I was surprised to see it was attached to the actual Hard Drive itself as is, so any USB controller etc. also was integrated into the controller within the drive itself.

My Drive still needs as much power as the drives next to it so I still need a ySplitter with that drive too but, I would think it is not only drive of it's kind and they maybe even sorted some power management stuff with the way they made such USB drives.
 
Yeah, it might be one of those WD drives that does not actually use just a USB SATA controller between the normal SATA drive and USB interface, but has USB intergated as part of the drive itself. I have a WD blue external small drive that is one such drive. I once opened it up and took it apart in interest to check it out and found out that the microUSB port that was all she had outside; but I was surprised to see it was attached to the actual Hard Drive itself as is, so any USB controller etc. also was integrated into the controller within the drive itself.

My Drive still needs as much power as the drives next to it so I still need a ySplitter with that drive too but, I would think it is not only drive of it's kind and they maybe even sorted some power management stuff with the way they made such USB drives.

That's super interesting! I don't think this is the case with the Blacks, because they are some of the only 7200 rpm notebook drives and really intended for high end laptops. But was surprised to see that the slim line 9mm 320GB 5400RPM Seagate drive was rated for 1.5amps while the crazy larger and much faster WD Black was rated for .5 amps. Yay technology!
 

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