Hacking UStealth - Wii U 'Format Disk' Nag workaround :)

[Deleted member 42501]

Is there a Mac equivalent of this or a way to achieve the same ends via Terminal commands?

 

[Cyan]

Sorry, I don't know MAC, but if there's the equivalent of Linux's dd command, you can do it.
dump sector 0, replace 55AA to 55AB (or the other way around) to hide/unhide, restore the sector 0 with that dumped sector binary.

The steps are explained here:
https://gbatemp.net/posts/4968191

 

[Deleted member 42501]

Sorry, I don't know MAC, but if there's the equivalent of Linux's dd command, you can do it.
dump sector 0, replace 55AA to 55AB (or the other way around) to hide/unhide, restore the sector 0 with that dumped sector binary.

The steps are explained here:
https://gbatemp.net/posts/4968191

Thank you, I shall look into this.

 

[gudenau]

Could you make windows reenumerate the drive when you modify the partition table? That would be quite nice.

 

[OriginalHamster]

I recompiled genplus gx, fceugx and snes9xgx to be compatible with hidden drives, check my sig.
enjoy!

 

[jayjay123]

Kudos Hamster! I have been away for some time, nice to see some progress on compatible apps!

 

[Cyan]

I added them to the first post, in case you edit your signature, or for users without an account or with signature disabled in the settings.
the recompiled emulators have only ustealth support? no WUP added too? some users asked for both at the same time in the vWii guide thread.

 

[OriginalHamster]

I added them to the first post, in case you edit your signature, or for users without an account or with signature disabled in the settings.
the recompiled emulators have only ustealth support? no WUP added too? some users asked for both at the same time in the vWii guide thread.

They already had wup compatibility at the time I recompiled them.

 

[Jojse]

I recompiled genplus gx, fceugx and snes9xgx to be compatible with hidden drives, check my sig.
enjoy!

Could you please recompile VBAGX to also support ustealth?
Does your recompiles have support for WiiU Pro Controller?

 

[OriginalHamster]

Could you please recompile VBAGX to also support ustealth?
Does your recompiles have support for WiiU Pro Controller?

I understand that mGBA emulation is more accurate, I don't know if vbagx is actively being developed as fceu or snes9gx.

 

[geheim]

@OriginalHamster
Thanks for recompiling the emulators with UStealth!

Would it be possible for you to recompile Retroarch 1.3.6 stable with UStealth support, too??

Thanks!

 

[XFlak]

Can't get USB toggle 2.0 to work, it's unable to detect my HDD. U stealth works great on windows with the same drive. Any advice? Somewhere else I should be reporting this?

 

[Cyan]

Maybe you don't have enough power?
is your drive correctly detected with other homebrew? wiixplorer (using IOS58), usbloadergx (using IOS249 or 58)?
I guess USB Toggle is using IOS58 which should be best for compatibility.

there's no official thread for that program, it was released in this one.

 

[OriginalHamster]

Can't get USB toggle 2.0 to work, it's unable to detect my HDD. U stealth works great on windows with the same drive. Any advice? Somewhere else I should be reporting this?

Switch the power/data cable on the back of the Wii U

 

[XFlak]

Switch the power/data cable on the back of the Wii U

I bought a Y cable because a standard cable didn't cut it on the wiiu (as it did on the Wii) so I'm drawing power from 2 ports. All other homebrew I've tried work, USB loaders, wiixplorer, yawmm, emulators, etc. I've tried switching ports but if I do nothing works, the primary data cable needs to be in the port furthest from the edge on the rear.

I can live with having to connect the HDD to my PC to hide/unhide, but would obviously be preferred if I didn't have to

 

[UsualNoise]

I understand that mGBA emulation is more accurate, I don't know if vbagx is actively being developed as fceu or snes9gx.

Love the FCEUGX and SNES9GX UStealth versions - thanks! As the previous commenter asked, is there any GB emulator right now that works with UStealth? I'm fine with switching off vbagx if necessary but at this point I'm not aware of any alternatives. I wouldn't mind mucking around with it myself if someone could provide a heads up on what needs to be modified.

 

[OriginalHamster]

Tried looking into mGBA but it seems it doesn't have HDD support only SD, still the compile instructions are kinda complex because they throw some Linux files in the bunch so meh.

Anyway, it's VBAGX with UStealth support, not the best GBA emulator but at least it will make save some space for your SD.

As for Retroarch, I asked for help to @zerofalcon, you need to recompile every core (so far I have most of the cores, still missing G&W, VB, Atari) so it's a more lengthy process than stand alone emus.

 

[zekepliskin]

This is absolutely brilliant.

UStealth R8 works perfectly with USB Loader GX, although the app moaned there had been an error in fact the drive I'm using (USB 3.0 case from a 5TB 3.5" Seagate Expansion Deck with a 2TB Hitachi drive fitted instead) mounted perfectly and runs just the same as before. Same with CFG USB Loader, and Nintendont if it's run on it's own rather than via a Loader. WiiXplorer doesn't but you can't have it all.

I wish I'd known about it when I got my Wii U and started getting home-brew on it, could have saved thousands of button presses clearing that error message away from the HOME menu!

 

[Mrdx]

is there any way to launch apps located in a hiddden hdd with the homebrew channel?

 

[tallpr24]

so i used it on my sons wbfs drive for his wii u worked great. Bad news, i had fat 32 2 terabyte drive. I had one folder with wii games and the other with the gamecube. drive worked great i had no problems. I ran this utility and some how it corrupted the partition. i cant get the wii u or my windows computer to see it after i un hide it. it shows up as un allocated partition. I'm running easeUS Partition Recovery to try and recover it. Any ideas why this might had happened?