Hacking Keeping saved games from external HDD

[natehiggers]

Hello, I have had a Wii U in the past, homebrewed it, installed games on my HDD and saved my games on the HDD, then I sold my Wii U, but kept my HDD. Now I'm planning on buying a wii U once more; so I'm wondering: is there any way to use the data of my HDD on my new Wii U (most importantly my saved games)?
Because I've read that a new Wii U requires formatting the HDD and thus all the data would go lost.
Any help would be much appreciated!!

 

[EmulateLife]

I think you should be able to by using SaveMii, but I am not 100% sure.

 

[natehiggers]

I think you should be able to by using SaveMii, but I am not 100% sure.

But can the homebrew application, or SaveMii for that matter, read the external HDD as it is not formatted to the new Wii U, but the other one?

 

[Litle_Bird]

Did you backup your otp.bin and seeprom.bin? If so you could use this toolhttps://gbatemp.net/threads/release-wfs-fuse-mount-wii-u-usb-drives-on-linux-and-mlc-dumps.478835/
To mount and view the contents of the Hdd, I haven't looked in to it but you should be able to dump saves in read-only.

And seeprom.bin and otp.bin are console unique so unless you dumped them from your old console you're out of luck.

 

[EmulateLife]

I've only had one Wii U but I do know people have shared saves on here. But it may not be possible since you no longer have access to the original Wii U that had the saves. Litle_Bird is probably right you're screwed. I think the new Wii U will force you to format it and lose everything and a PC will do the same.

 

[Litle_Bird]

I've only had one Wii U but I do know people have shared saves on here. But it may not be possible since you no longer have access to the original Wii U that had the saves. Litle_Bird is probably right you're screwed. I think the new Wii U will force you to format it and lose everything and a PC will do the same.

Yeah, the saves are basically only stored in folders and what either saviine or savemii really does is dump the folder onto your computer or sd card. You can even use ftpiiu-everywhere to dump the saves.

However in OP:s case the problem is that the harddrive is encrypted. Basically the wii u encrypts the hdd when you format it, and the encryption is both unique per wii u and per hdd. Using either of the above programs you use them when the Wii u is running and you can actually read what is on the encrypted drive. OP no longer has his Wii U, only the encrypted drive, and unless he would happen to have the otp.bin and seeprom.bin and by using those could decrypt the wii u drive and read what's on the drive, and if I recall the program is a beta program)