Hacking Wii U Hacking & Homebrew Discussion

[Deleted-355425]

Why are you updating?
You could just spoof the fw!

i have another wii U on low firmware ;p

 

[the_randomizer]

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.

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?

 

[shaneod]

Why are you updating?
You could just spoof the fw!

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.

 

[punderino]

Lucky for me, I own a 5.3.2 AND a 5.5.1 console! Suck it!
Also, IOSU soon (staying on topic ;D)

 

[VinsCool]

Well then. I guess I could update to 5.5.1...

 

[ShadowOne333]

Well then. I guess I could update to 5.5.1...

Let's do it, pal!

 

[VinsCool]

Let's do it, pal!

Time to temporarly ditch my router setup and update tonight then

 

[ShadowOne333]

Time to temporarly ditch my router setup and update tonight then

I'll steal the neighbor's internet tonight!
Then go back to mine to block everything again haha

 

[Jay Clay]

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.

 

[SirByte]

Bit the bullet and updated mine from 3.1.0U to 5.5.1U (as of the time of writing still the current FW).

 

[NWPlayer123]

whats DNS are you using to block updates? im just updating to 5.5.1 right now.

http://pastebin.com/a4N7awTD
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)

 

[depaul]

So time to say goodbye to my old lovable 5.3.2 firmware and move on. It was really a very long time, maybe one and half year since we were together. I will miss you

 

[brienj]

In the other thread, maybe I should have used pinky-swear(TM), maybe more people would have listened ...

 

[ShadowOne333]

In the other thread, maybe I should have used pinky-swear(TM), maybe more people would have listened ...

No one will take you seriously if you don't pinky swear, man.
That's the neo code of honor of the new millenium

 

[hippy dave]

Urg, guess I should update then. Reassure me that Nintendo haven't pushed a new firmware in the last hour?

 

[Deleted-355425]

Urg, guess I should update then. Reassure me that Nintendo haven't pushed a new firmware in the last hour?

i updated about 2 hours ago in the UK, its fine.

 

[hippy dave]

i updated about 2 hours ago in the UK, its fine.

Pinky swear?

 

[Deleted-355425]

Pinky swear?

pinky swear!

 

[hippy dave]

pinky swear!

I don't think you're the kind of soulless monster who would pinky swear in vain, so update is now downloading...... urgh.

 

[oldsk00l]