Hacking Wii U and Smash Stack

[Dark-Sider]

Hi,

there is no need for nintendo (and non hacking users) to update the different IOS slots from within the Wii-Mode. If they wanted to update the wii mode IOSes they just can do this from outside with an WiiU-Update that integrates the Wii-Mode updates.

The WiiU system Menu could also peridocally check for Channel-Hacks within the Wii-mode NAND like it obviously does on SD-Cards.

Without hacking the WiiU-Mode there are only minimal hopes to regain sustained control over wii mode from within wii mode.

The main advantage for being able to launch homebrew within wii mode might be to poke around and do some memdumps. Maybe there is some helpful information left-over from a previous WiiU-instance which can be dumped. Or the sandbox offers some privilege escalation exploits... Who knows.

bye
Darky

 

[Maplemage]

I wonder how big NSMB U is.

 

[KongsNutz]

I wonder how big NSMB U is.

nintendo say more than 2gb is required to download, so probably 2.3gb download and 3-4gb after unpacking and the install.

 

[Maplemage]

nintendo say more than 2gb is required to download, so probably 2.3gb download and 3-4gb after unpacking and the install.

Edit: aaah nvm

 

[leftwingzero]

Apparently it has been done.

Spoiler

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/21/wii_u_hack/

 

[pwsincd]

No, it's not an exact copy. The IOS's have most exploits fixed, so you can't run things like Wad installers.

With Foez nand dump would it be possible to replace the patched IOS's with Wii vunerable IOS's and reflash back to the chip a vunerable NAND to see if then theres and functionality gained ?

 

[SifJar]

With Foez nand dump would it be possible to replace the patched IOS's with Wii vunerable IOS's and reflash back to the chip a vunerable NAND to see if then theres and functionality gained ?

The dump was broken, so no. Plus, even if it did, it would only be useful for him; for anyone else to use the same method, they would have to dump their own NAND with hardware, modify the NAND, and then reflash it, again with hardware. (A software method could not be used because that'd require IOS exploitation, at which point there is no point in dumping NAND and modifying it and reflashing it as you can just directly modify NAND on the console; each person would have to dump their own NAND because the keys are different on each Wii).

On top of all that, there are already working IOS exploits for WiiMode. They can be used without needing to downgrade any IOS or anything like that. There's no point in trying to find ways to get back to the old, already exploited IOS, when we can just exploit the new ones. Give it a little time (the WiiU has been out less than a week, right?) and there should be tools released using the new exploit, e.g. HackMii Installer etc.

 

[the_randomizer]

The dump was broken, so no. Plus, even if it did, it would only be useful for him; for anyone else to use the same method, they would have to dump their own NAND with hardware, modify the NAND, and then reflash it, again with hardware. (A software method could not be used because that'd require IOS exploitation, at which point there is no point in dumping NAND and modifying it and reflashing it as you can just directly modify NAND on the console; each person would have to dump their own NAND because the keys are different on each Wii).

On top of all that, there are already working IOS exploits for WiiMode. They can be used without needing to downgrade any IOS or anything like that. There's no point in trying to find ways to get back to the old, already exploited IOS, when we can just exploit the new ones. Give it a little time (the WiiU has been out less than a week, right?) and there should be tools released using the new exploit, e.g. HackMii Installer etc.

I must say, they started working on these exploits awfully fast.

 

[JoostinOnline]

I must say, they started working on these exploits awfully fast.

They existed before the Wii U was released, but weren't shared.