Wii U e-shop closure and USB Helper

[neko_koneko]

Hi,

So with the Wii U e-shop closing eventually, I have been looking at what I may like to download, and doing some prep work. But, I was wondering, if my Wii U has CFW, and I have installed USB helper (if that's where you can get Wii U backups?) on my PC, do I need to be concerned about missing anything before the shop closes? Will backups, etc. always be available?

 

[Norris]

You can still download them for a while cause the nus servers will be down but after they shut down all nus grabbing tools will not work know there's a chance a mirror server might be built which USB helper and nusslpi could use but unlikely. When the NUS servers shut down your out of luck unless you ummm cough cough Mario cube cough cough

 

[shanefromoz]

You can still download them for a while cause the nus servers will be down but after they shut down all nus grabbing tools will not work know there's a chance a mirror server might be built which USB helper and nusslpi could use but unlikely. When the NUS servers shut down your out of luck unless you ummm cough cough Mario cube cough cough

Cough cough Mario cube please explain

 

[Norris]

Cough cough Mario cube please explain

Mario cube is a warez server hosted on Google drive just Google "Mario cube" I'm not allowed to give much more info

 

[shanefromoz]

Mario cube is a warez server hosted on Google drive just Google "Mario cube" I'm not allowed to give much more info

Got it.
On there now

 

[Norris]

Got it.
On there now

Good luck on the seven seas o7

 

[BaamAlex]

So with the Wii U e-shop closing eventually

I revise my words from this thread here which contains basically the same question like yours. Yes, the eshop closes. But that doesn't mean that we can't download our stuff anymore. I would say, the servers are still online, but not longer accessible for wii u and 3ds consoles. But the stuff can still be downloaded somehow (with usb helper for example). I dunno more details, but that is what i would guess.

 

[godreborn]

I guess we could use the title key to generate a fake ticket, but the ticket thing will likely be offline just like the one for the wii. there are tickets tied to your account, that won't go offline, so you can still download your legit stuff, so there's no worries there.

 

[Norris]

I guess we could use the title key to generate a fake ticket, but the ticket thing will likely be offline just like the one for the wii. there are tickets tied to your account, that won't go offline, so you can still download your legit stuff, so there's no worries there.

Tbh we need to start a mirror server like NUSarchive

 

[godreborn]

chances are that the apps that don't rely on the title key site will stop working, because the ticket will give a 404 error just like nus on the wii side. can't decrypt or make wad files with it now that the store is closed.

 

[V10lator]

Nintendo said you will still be able to download content you own, so my guess is that the NUS won't change at all. You will just be unable to do new purchases.

@godreborn You can't download the tickets today, too. That's Nintendos warez protection: The rest of the files are useless without the decryption key stored in the ticket. Apps that don't rely on that title key site (NUSspli and FunkiiU IIRC) generate the tickets from the title ID with this algorythm: https://gbatemp.net/threads/3ds-wii-u-titlekey-generation-algorithm-leaked.566318/

 

[godreborn]

ah, I didn't know the algorithm was leaked. are the wii tickets permanently gone? you get a 404 error with the ticket on nus, but the rest of the game(s)/content is still there.

 

[V10lator]

are the wii tickets permanently gone? you get a 404 error with the ticket on nus, but the rest of the game(s)/content is still there.

Not sure about Wii but on Wii U getting 404 is normal. You need authentication to be able to download the tickets. Exception are tickets for free content. Example: http://ccs.cdn.wup.shop.nintendo.net/ccs/download/0005001010000100/cetk (yes, the title.tik file is called cetk on the NUS).

 

[godreborn]

Not sure about Wii but on Wii U getting 404 is normal. You need authentication to be able to download the tickets. Exception are tickets for free content. Example: http://ccs.cdn.wup.shop.nintendo.net/ccs/download/0005001010000100/cetk (yes, the title.tik file is called cetk on the NUS).

I don't think it was always like that with the wii, but that may be why it's like that with the wii u, to prevent apps like nus from working. can't decrypt or make a wad without the ticket on the wii, so nus is useless for games, still useful for system ios though.