Hacking Messed up with WUP installer

[Alex4nder001]

Ok, this is gonna be long, so be sure to grab some popcorn!

Ive recently got an 8GB Wii U, which is on 5.5.1E. I'm super new to Wii U hacking, but from my experience and research it is much harder to hack than the Wii and even the 3DS (I own both). Anyway, I don't use Coldboot/Haxchi because I don't want risk bricking it in case my NNID gets banned, instead I boot into Mocha CFW or Kexploit when necessary.

I wanted to get free games on my new Wii U, so I tried to use Loadiine but for some reason when I booted it, it always gave me a black screen and froze. I watched countless tutorials and followed each step but I got nowhere.

Ok, so my second option was to use WUP installer to install games from NUS downloader to a USB drive. But apparently due to a bug you cant install games to USB unless its actually ON your USB drive? And how are you supposed to do that when your PC cant read a bloody wii u formatted flash drive?

So I decided to install it to NAND instead, and then move it to USB. First came Mario Maker, which worked just fine, as its a small game. Then I decided to try Mario Kart 8. I thought it was like 3GB big, so I freed up some space on my Wii U before installing. But turns out I was wrong. It was bigger. So when I tried installing it, WUP installer gave me an error as there wasnt enough space. Fortunately I did not brick my Wii U, and I have a full backup (although the 8GB eMMC backup is split into four parts, so dont know how I will restore it).

But now my system memory is nearly full, and when I enter system settings and click on data management, it says that some garbage was found on the system memory, and asked me whether to delete it. But its been doing it for hours. Im sure that it will probably do it for weeks, or possibly not at all. I dont want to risk unplugging it and bricking though.

So what should I do next time and what should I do now? Im thinking maybe a factory reset as I have nothing permanent installed, just a couple of unsigned titles (forwarder channels for HBL and WUP installer GX2). But I do have the Homebrew channel and some patched IOSes in vWii mode.

 

[godreborn]

black screen with loadiine? which loadiine version did u try? u can install games to usb using an sd card. u can read a wii u hdd on pc btw using an app. u can't install a game from usb though, only sd. I believe games r compressed, so that's y the game came out larger when decrypted/installed. what does it show in system settings?

 

[cucholix]

Unplug it.

Install a legit game from eShop, some demo or something small, it will refresh the file system back to normal, and allow to delete garbage files.

 

[godreborn]

odd that that would happen. I can't speak of wup installer, but system config tool rolls back an install that's messed up, so I've never personally encountered a garbage data error.

 

[Alex4nder001]

black screen with loadiine? which loadiine version did u try? u can install games to usb using an sd card. u can read a wii u hdd on pc btw using an app. u can't install a game from usb though, only sd. I believe games r compressed, so that's y the game came out larger when decrypted/installed. what does it show in system settings?

I tried both the nightly and the latest stable version of loadiine, as well as an older version. And in system settings it says "There is unnecessary data in the system memory. Delete it? (This may take up to 30mins). So I clicked YES and its been doing it for 5hrs, and I dont know how much its done as there is no progress bar, only a spinner.

 

[godreborn]

do as @cucholix suggested. I don't think there will be any harm in just unplugging the system. besides, there may not be any way of getting out of that window otherwise.

 

[cucholix]

So I clicked YES and its been doing it for 5hrs, and I dont know how much its done as there is no progress bar, only a spinner.

I had the same problem time ago left the "deleting" thing overnight and nothing happens, it's stuck in a loop. Just unplug your Wii U a download a demo or something from eShop, it fix it.

 

[Alex4nder001]

I had the same problem time ago left the "deleting" thing overnight and nothing happens, it's stuck in a loop. Just unplug your Wii U a download a demo or something from eShop, it fix it.

Ok ill try but theres only like 45mb left. Apparently most of the 8GB is used up by the system and leaves about 3GB. Idk I could of got a 32GB model but the NAND would be harder to back up and restore. It wouldn't fit in my Google drive and I would probably need to use torrents to upload/download it to online backup

 

[Kafluke]

For WUP Installer you got the steps wrong. You put the games from nusdownloader on your SD card and then you can install it onto your USB. You don't put the files on the USB first

 

[jbuck1975]

For WUP Installer you got the steps wrong. You put the games from nusdownloader on your SD card and then you can install it onto your USB. You don't put the files on the USB first

Was going to say samething

 

[TheCyberQuake]

You are doing something wrong if you can't use wup installer to install directly to usb. Probably because you are using outdated software from video tutorials or online tutorials outside the temp. You should be using wup installer y mod or wup installer gx2. I've used both to install directly to usb no problem

 

[bostonBC]

Ok, this is gonna be long, so be sure to grab some popcorn!

Ive recently got an 8GB Wii U, which is on 5.5.1E. I'm super new to Wii U hacking, but from my experience and research it is much harder to hack than the Wii and even the 3DS (I own both). Anyway, I don't use Coldboot/Haxchi because I don't want risk bricking it in case my NNID gets banned, instead I boot into Mocha CFW or Kexploit when necessary.

I wanted to get free games on my new Wii U, so I tried to use Loadiine but for some reason when I booted it, it always gave me a black screen and froze. I watched countless tutorials and followed each step but I got nowhere.

Ok, so my second option was to use WUP installer to install games from NUS downloader to a USB drive. But apparently due to a bug you cant install games to USB unless its actually ON your USB drive? And how are you supposed to do that when your PC cant read a bloody wii u formatted flash drive?

So I decided to install it to NAND instead, and then move it to USB. First came Mario Maker, which worked just fine, as its a small game. Then I decided to try Mario Kart 8. I thought it was like 3GB big, so I freed up some space on my Wii U before installing. But turns out I was wrong. It was bigger. So when I tried installing it, WUP installer gave me an error as there wasnt enough space. Fortunately I did not brick my Wii U, and I have a full backup (although the 8GB eMMC backup is split into four parts, so dont know how I will restore it).

But now my system memory is nearly full, and when I enter system settings and click on data management, it says that some garbage was found on the system memory, and asked me whether to delete it. But its been doing it for hours. Im sure that it will probably do it for weeks, or possibly not at all. I dont want to risk unplugging it and bricking though.

So what should I do next time and what should I do now? Im thinking maybe a factory reset as I have nothing permanent installed, just a couple of unsigned titles (forwarder channels for HBL and WUP installer GX2). But I do have the Homebrew channel and some patched IOSes in vWii mode.

WUP Installer works fine. Are you sure that your hard disk is?

Is it a wall powered hard disk or is it a portable drive and draw power from the USB? If the later you may need a "Y" cable that gets power from both USB ports. This is needed for most portable drives on the Wii U.

 

[Alex4nder001]

I had the same problem time ago left the "deleting" thing overnight and nothing happens, it's stuck in a loop. Just unplug your Wii U a download a demo or something from eShop, it fix it.

Thanks it actually worked!
And also I am using a 32GB USB 3.0 flash drive not a HDD

 

[Alex4nder001]

u can read a wii u hdd on pc btw using an app.

What is the app called and where do I get it?

 

[godreborn]

What is the app called and where do I get it?

https://gbatemp.net/threads/wfsdump-pc-util-for-dumping-wfs-devices-wiiu-file-system.478480/

it can dump content. there's another app that can inject content depending on which one u use. google the injection one if u need that. personally, I think dumping is more important, because I'm not sure if games will display by simply injecting them. I think there's a metadata indexer that's involved to speed up reading the hdd.