Hacking SPECULATION: A strategy to load games off USB! (No loader)

[xtheman]

@xtheman166 No.

Well looks like i will have to buy a new hdd.

 

[EclipseSin]

It's been 12 hours since I read "tomorrow".

 

[AboodXD]

So @King Cerelepe, what kind of patching did you need to do?
Why did you need to do it? And why a non-patched game won't work?

I don't understand why. :/

 

[OriginalHamster]

But then they would still need to format the HDD into that special format after putting the game... :/

I think they forced the Wii U to recognize a standart HDD device (let's say NTFS for example) as a Wii U formated device, the patch they talking is probably to fix the way Wii U read the info from this standart format into Wii U, at least that's my theory. Kinda like the old DVDX patches during Wii days, because the system didn't read in the same way as standart DVD systems.

 

[Phantom64]

It's been 12 hours since I read "tomorrow".

yeah, but we have some MK8/Phineas and Ferb brazilians trailers now

 

[DeslotlCL]

So, it might be true that they patch the games on the fly before installation but since this doesn't need an iosu exploit, why hasn't this done before? Unless we need our otp keys info.

 

[AboodXD]

I think they forced the Wii U to recognize a standart HDD device (let's say NTFS for example) as a Wii U formated device, the patch they talking is probably to fix the way Wii U read the info from this standart format into Wii U, at least that's my theory.

But that would need exploiting IOSU, and they said that's not what they did. :/

 

[EclipseSin]

yeah, but we have some MK8/Phineas and Ferb brazilians trailers now

I can make videos too. Let me borrow some discs.

 

[AboodXD]

So, it might be true that they patch the games on the fly before installation but since this doesn't need an iosu exploit, why hasn't this done before? Unless we need our otp keys info.

Exactly.

 

[Phantom64]

I can make videos too. Let me borrow some discs.

How dare you!??! Have some respect for the untouchable brazilian dev.

 

[OriginalHamster]

But that would need exploiting IOSU, and they said that's not what they did. :/

AFAIK you only can have USB access through IOSU... no idea how they went that far then.

 

[DeslotlCL]

AFAIK you only can have USB access through IOSU... no idea how they went that far then.

Since they had an sd card inserted on that wiiu, they could have patched the game with the needed keys on a pc and then copied the game to the sd card, so wup installer would install the game to the usb storage without needing iosu.

 

[EclipseSin]

How dare you!??! Have some respect for the untouchable brazilian dev.

By all means, they can prove that it's real. I'm just stating the truth that it's possible to do the same thing.

You can edit the hdd in a hex editor if you dont mess up too much...

 

[WiiModWiis]

I edited my post.

So one of the mysteries that I want to solve is what filesystem did they use?
FAT, FAT32, NTFS, or that Wii U special format... ?

Special.

Enviado de meu C6503 usando Tapatalk

Hopefully we can partition so vWii and WiiU can share the same drive.

 

[thisisallowed]

By all means, they can prove that it's real. I'm just stating the truth that it's possible to do the same thing.

You can edit the hdd in a hex editor if you dont mess up too much...

They proved it, as you can see eshop doesn't see game as purchused.

 

[ShadowOne333]

I think they forced the Wii U to recognize a standart HDD device (let's say NTFS for example) as a Wii U formated device, the patch they talking is probably to fix the way Wii U read the info from this standart format into Wii U, at least that's my theory. Kinda like the old DVDX patches during Wii days, because the system didn't read in the same way as standart DVD systems.

They already said it's in the Wii U's special format, so no FAT/FAT32/NTFS devices.
I'm guessing it will be something similar to the old WBFS formatted USBs back in the Wii days, before we could use a simple /wbfs/ folder in a normally formatted USB.

 

[kumikochan]

Hopefully we can partition so vWii and WiiU can share the same drive.

You can, you can split an HDD in parts each formatted in their own way.

 

[fatsquirrel]

You can, you can split an HDD in parts each formatted in their own way.

Nintendont would like to have a word with you

 

[kumikochan]

Nintendont would like to have a word with you

?

 

[EclipseSin]

Nintendont would like to have a word with you

The program also needs to be aware of (read) partitioning. which I doubt the Wii U software is. It might be possible for someone to use a smaller drive, image it, manually rip the partition, inject it, and create a fat32/ntfs after it. but idk. never tried, not worth it honestly. HDDs are cheap.