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WulfyStylez said:
I'd recommend all end-users jump to 5.5.1, there's literally no reason to stay on older fws any more. NUS-based offline updates are possible but probably won't be prepared for the initial launch. If N ships an update in the meantime, you'd be waiting unless you own a disk with the right update.
You can probably explain your way out of updating until the end of time but like... there's really nothing to lose by updating. Pinky swear.

Technical explanation: the main change in 5.5 IOSU (in hax terms) is that they verify SP is within the thread's specified stack addrs. If your SP is way out of range and you try to do syscalls, you'll panic. This is really trivially worked around in ROP, so it doesn't matter much. If you're (very specifically) a user trying to make exploits from public vulns who is also really bad at ROP for some reason, I wouldn't recommend you update. Literally everyone else should.
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The question I have now is, if we're on 5.5.1 (such as in my case), and we use the DNS hack and/or router IP blocking, do we still need to use the patch get get onto the eShop and download DLC, games, etc?
 
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JaceCearK1 said:
Why are you updating?
You could just spoof the fw! :O
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WulfyStylez said:
I'd recommend all end-users jump to 5.5.1, there's literally no reason to stay on older fws any more. NUS-based offline updates are possible but probably won't be prepared for the initial launch. If N ships an update in the meantime, you'd be waiting unless you own a disk with the right update.
You can probably explain your way out of updating until the end of time but like... there's really nothing to lose by updating. Pinky swear.
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haha, it seems like a hard decision for the folks in 5.3.2 jump to 5.5.1 (include myself), 5.3.2 at this point may be obsolete but in my case I have been keeping my wii U on 5.3.2 from last year, other people just struggled getting one in that specific firmware so is understandable we don't want to get rid of our beloved firmware, but think about it, there is no reason stay on 5.3.2, as I concern all the apps working with kexploit are perfectly working on last firmware, the real guys (who are working on IOSU) are working on the IOSU vulnerabilities ON 5.5.1, IF there is some release at some point, it will be for 5.5.1, and then will be so late to update your console in a easy way (online), I think N will not hesitate to patch this as soon as they can, then I can see lot of people talking in a threads like "how to update my wii U manually, how to update my wii U offline using X game. Time to update guys.
 
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mech said:
whats DNS are you using to block updates? im just updating to 5.5.1 right now.
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set Primary to 107.211.140.065, Secondary to 104.236.072.203
(TubeHax and ChickenHax or smth, might wanna switch them for the moment as TubeHax is having issues)
 
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