Homebrew What is IOSUHAX?

[SirKyogre]

When I boot my wii u and it tries to go to the system menu, a screen appears saying: IOSUHAX, and then it goes to the menu normally. So whats that IOSUHAX thingy?

 

[erikas]

i think it's the exploit that allows the wii u to boot into hacked mode

 

[SirKyogre]

Hacked mode? What does that do?

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

When I boot my wii u and it tries to go to the system menu, a screen appears saying: IOSUHAX, and then it goes to the menu normally. So whats that IOSUHAX thingy?

iosuhax is essentially a set of patches for IOSU which provides extra features which can be useful for developers. I'm releasing this because I haven't really touched it since the beginning of january and don't plan on getting back to it.

iosuhax does not contain any exploits or information about vulns o anything. just a custom firmware kind of thing.

SOURCE

 

[SirKyogre]

And what can this CFW do? Does it make the console Region-Free or does it have any special features?

 

[nero99]

And what can this CFW do? Does it make the console Region-Free or does it have any special features?

its basically what is needed for all them fancy hacks the systems has.

 

[SirKyogre]

So what can I do with it now?

EDIT: It was hard to find the fw.img file for the iosuhax

 

[erikas]

with iosuhax you can install fake tickets and play dlc or eshop games. You can also install virtual console games.

 

[Maschell]

So what can I do with it now?

EDIT: It was hard to find the fw.img file for the iosuhax

iosuhax is obsolete now.
Now you use mocha which doesn't need a fw.img

 

[Powerful]

I don't get how you could hack your Wii U, and not know what IOSUHAX is...

 

[reminon]

I don't get how you could hack your Wii U, and not know what IOSUHAX is...

More than likely they were gifted the wii u after being hacked, or their significant other hacked it. Given the fact that they were oblivious to the existence of hacks.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

iosuhax is obsolete now.
Now you use mocha which doesn't need a fw.img

Or better yet, Haxchi FW (if they don't need redNAND, which most people don't)

 

[Maschell]

Or better yet, Haxchi FW (if they don't need redNAND, which most people don't)

You can't really compare Haxchi and Mocha.
Haxchi is a persistent exploit, which allows you to boot homebrew straight from the Wii Menu.
Mocha is a "real" custom firmware, which has more features (overall sd access, libiosuhax support, nand/otp/seeprom redirection, beta fat32 support)
haxchi just also have the built in option to disable sig patches (mostly for piracy, yaaaaaaay), but otherwise it's just redirecting to the HBL and no "FW"

 

[The Real Jdbye]

You can't really compare Haxchi and Mocha.
Haxchi is a persistent exploit, which allows you to boot homebrew straight from the Wii Menu.
Mocha is a "real" custom firmware, which has more features (overall sd access, libiosuhax support, nand/otp/seeprom redirection, beta fat32 support)
haxchi just also have the built in option to disable sig patches (mostly for piracy, yaaaaaaay), but otherwise it's just redirecting to the HBL and no "FW"

Haxchi does have libiosuhax support (at least, it claims to support ftpiiu everywhere)
Not sure what you mean by "overall SD access"
Mocha does have some extra features but they are not needed for most people and it takes longer to boot.
Best to start with Haxchi FW. If he finds out he needs features from Mocha later on he can always switch.

 

[SANIC]

Haxchi does have libiosuhax support (at least, it claims to support ftpiiu everywhere)
Not sure what you mean by "overall SD access"
Mocha does have some extra features but they are not needed for most people and it takes longer to boot.
Best to start with Haxchi FW. If he finds out he needs features from Mocha later on he can always switch.

It's actually best to start with mocha, because not everyone can go buy a DS game, if you ever do have the option of getting a DS game from the eShop , go for Haxchi.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

It's actually best to start with mocha, because not everyone can go buy a DS game, if you ever do have the option of getting a DS game from the eShop , go for Haxchi.

Well, buying a DS game should be the first thing anyone does when hacking their Wii U.
Especially with 5.5.2's browserhax being so unstable.

 

[Maschell]

Haxchi does have libiosuhax support (at least, it claims to support ftpiiu everywhere)
Not sure what you mean by "overall SD access"
Mocha does have some extra features but they are not needed for most people and it takes longer to boot.
Best to start with Haxchi FW. If he finds out he needs features from Mocha later on he can always switch.

No, haxchi doesn't have libiosuhax support. ftpiiu has hardcoded haxchi support
And like I said: haxchi and mocha are 2 complety different things.
Haxchi is a persistent entrypoint for homebrew, mocha is a custom firmware.

 

[Billy Acuña]

You can't really compare Haxchi and Mocha.
Haxchi is a persistent exploit, which allows you to boot homebrew straight from the Wii Menu.
Mocha is a "real" custom firmware, which has more features (overall sd access, libiosuhax support, nand/otp/seeprom redirection, beta fat32 support)
haxchi just also have the built in option to disable sig patches (mostly for piracy, yaaaaaaay), but otherwise it's just redirecting to the HBL and no "FW"

Except that Haxchi includes region, versión string and bootlogo patches too, not only sig patches

 

[The Real Jdbye]

No, haxchi doesn't have libiosuhax support. ftpiiu has hardcoded haxchi support
And like I said: haxchi and mocha are 2 complety different things.
Haxchi is a persistent entrypoint for homebrew, mocha is a custom firmware.

Haxchi is both
Besides, what else do you need libiosuhax for? ftpiiu everywhere and wupserver are pretty much the only things that use it besides the SD card access anywhere thing, and that doesn't seem terribly useful.

 

[Kioku]

So, I'm reading this and it's like OP has no idea what happened. Oo is it used?