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Play Mario Kart 8 with All DLC for FREE without CFW

This guide uses the FREE DLC "Mercedes Benz" to do the trick. You need download it on eshop.

In this tutorial I'll show you how to play Mario kart 8 with all DLCs unlocked without start a CFW or something for this. It should work with others games with multiple DLC like Wii Sports Club, Super Smash Bros, Hyrule Warriors and others. Of course you need a legit DLC from game you want to play.

For Super Smash Bros detail follow this link:

https://gbatemp.net/threads/tutoria...-without-cfw-or-aocpatcher-on-sysnand.464178/


For Zelda BOTW follow:
http://gbatemp.net/threads/play-zelda-botw-with-all-dlc-for-free-without-cfw.469520

What you need:
  • Mercedes Benz DLC downloaded from eshop. (needs a legit DLC)
  • Mocha CFW, Haxchi CFW, or any other (just in the beginning)
  • WiiU App Store (or Tik2SD + FTPiiU_Everywhere + WUP Installer GX2 +
    Mocha CFW + Homebrew Launcher
    )
  • WiiU USB Helper
  • SD Card
  • PC
  • Hex Editor (HxD for Windows)
1 - First if you have any illegitimate MK8 DLC installed, just delete it using using Data manager on WiiU Config
2 - Download the DLC on eshop
3 - Make sure your SD card is formatted in FAT32
4 - Download the DLC of MK8 of your region with WiiU USB Helper and put it in your SD card in na folder called "install" in the root.
5 - Go to Homebrew Launcher and choose App Store or go to wiiubru.com/go on you browser and choose App Store. If you don't know what's Homebrew Launcher is give a look in this guide (parts I, II and III) and choose start App Store.
6 - In App Store Download Tik2SD + FTPiiU_Everywhere + WUP Installer GX2 + Mocha CFW + Homebrew Launcher
7 - Launch Homebrew Launcher and go to Mocha_CFW (use default options). Then go to WUP Installer GX2 and choose install the DLC of MK8 you just download wherever is your game (nand or USB).
8 - Back to Homebrew Launcher, go to Tik2SD and backup your tickets. Put your SD in PC and look at tik2sd folder. Open keys.txt and search where your MK8 DLC is installed. The name you need to search is 0005000c1010ec00 or 0005000c1010ed00 or 0005000c1010eb00. In my case (US) it says "0009/00000015.tik".
9 - Now it's time for hex editing.
Thanks to @Rahzadan we have a VERY detailed tutorial for it. Go to this thread and after the hex editing go to step 10 below.
If you followed the @Rahzadan tutorial go to step 10. I'll keep this part only for log
purpose.

Locate your ticket in your SD card according with keys.txt. Open with an hex editor (in my case it's on 0009 folder and the name is 00000015.tik. Backup the ticket.

Look that you gonna have 2x finds in the key.txt file. In my case 0009/00000015.tik@0x6a0 and 0009/00000015.tik@0x0. The number after the "@" shows where the ticket starts inside the tik file. It means probably the fake ticket is in beginning of tik (0x0) file and my legit ticket starts in 0x6a0 (note is in hexadecimal).

The fake ticket is like this, a lot of same numbers:

2MSoJA9.png


In this case it shows SSB ticket, but for MK8 ticket is the same thing, just another Game ID.

Pay attention in the blue highlight. It shows the game ID. If it says a number other than 0005000c1010ec00 or 0005000c1010ed00 or 0005000c1010eb00 it means the ticket is from another game!

The trick here is swap the fake ticket with the legit ticket, that way the legit ticket always come first in the tik file! This picture can demonstrate what I mean:
rVtT6FJ.png


In this case it shows SSB ticket, but for MK8 ticket is the same thing.

Maybe there's another game ticket inside the tik file, maybe not. Anyway, just copy and past with your hex editor the fake ticket with the legit ticket. Pay attention and don't touch other game tickets in the tik file!

If your legit ticket comes first you don't need swap the tickets! You already can play with all DLC unlocked! I believe it can happens if you download the free DLC after install the fake DLC.

After the swap save your ticket in your PC.
10 - Now put your SD back in WiiU. Open Homebrew Launcher and launch FTPiiU_everywhere (make sure you had launch Mocha CFW or other CFW before that)
11 - Go to your MK8 ticket location inside WiiU memory using a FTP browser like FileZilla or even Windows Explorer with the IP of your WiiU. Its in "storage_slc/rights/ticket/apps/xxxx/xxx.tik". Replace that ticket with the one you just modified.
12 - Open your MK8 game and enjoy play with all contents without CFW!

TL;DR: Download the free DLC, install all DLC packet with a fake ticket, locate your ticket inside WiiU, swap the legit ticket with the fake ticket inside the tik file so that the legit ticket appears first.

Thank to @nexusmtz and @Madridi
 
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I only skimmed the tutorial, but the ticket you want isn't in your list. I suspect a different region, because the one 0009 00000015.tx 0x0 and 0x350 are nearly the same title id. look for one that says diseased isabella like the picture in the op.

So basically brute force till I find it?
 

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00000015.tik in the 0009 folder. send it in pm.

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I just read the whole tutorial. that is your ticket. the title id matches. I thought there was only one. all I know is it's nonUS but same game.
 

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says US version according to another site. are you using the disc. put the disc in the tray to see if it's same region when using tik2sd. it will dump that ticket too. sent.
 

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just trying to find out if you have the right region. let me look at your tickets again. one moment.

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alright, it should work. same title id as game.
 

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Ok, good. Thanks. Now to figure out what the heck the guide is telling me to do on a slightly sleep deprived brain..

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It says 2 tickets.. I don't think I have 2 tickets.
 

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just use ftpii u everywhere. depending on what you use mocha or haxchi there's a unique one. if you use the wrong one, it will fail to connect.

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the .tik you sent me had 3, all 848 bytes apiece. just transfer the 00000015.tik to folder 0009.

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I made sure the size was right and the fake ticket is now at 0x350. it was at 0x0.
 

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Ticket swapping is a little complex. There's a line between being slow and being stupid, and I forgot where that line is.

Edit: Basically yeah
 
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Ticket swapping is a little complex. There's a line between being slow and being stupid, and I forgot where that line is.

Edit: Basically yeah

Use the link from www.marcrobledo.com/wiiu-tik-fixer/ (thanks @marc_max )
open the folder and in tik2sd wich the ticket from you game is , than drop on the site above, you gonna see 2 tickets, click in fix, and download the file , than go to step 10.

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Ooops.. @marc_max I can't find your tool. Can you help with the right address?
 

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