Hacking Wii U Hacking & Homebrew Discussion

[sdtg34520]

I highly doubt we will ever see a iosu for the Wii U, the console has been out now for 5 years and no one has been able to successfully crack it, one group said they hacked it and then said they weren't going to release it, you don't have to be Einstein to realise that there was never a hack made, as for the salt team this is to them if you actually exist, put your money where your mouth is, show us some hard evidence as to the progress that you have made with IOSU, it's not hard to do a you tube video or make a thread on here to substantiate your progress to the wider community, at a educated guess another false misleading rumour.

as said above by TheZander you are spot on the money with your comment "because there should be a ton of people who would want to mod the console themselves like they do with the PS3. Willing to solder a teensy to their wiiu. I just don't get why people who don't have iosu access but have the capabilities to do hardware mods haven't cracked it. "

the thing is if someone was going to make a mod chip style mod it would have been done long ago same with a sofmod hack..

Sorry if I have offended the small minded, but this is the way I see it..

SALT are a highly proven group, considering the amount of 3DS work they've done. They are more than capable of cracking the IOSU, considering the vulnerabilities are bloody public and described on wiiubrew.

 

[wolf-snake]

I highly doubt we will ever see a iosu for the Wii U, the console has been out now for 5 years and no one has been able to successfully crack it, one group said they hacked it and then said they weren't going to release it, you don't have to be Einstein to realise that there was never a hack made, as for the salt team this is to them if you actually exist, put your money where your mouth is, show us some hard evidence as to the progress that you have made with IOSU, it's not hard to do a you tube video or make a thread on here to substantiate your progress to the wider community, at a educated guess another false misleading rumour.

as said above by TheZander you are spot on the money with your comment "because there should be a ton of people who would want to mod the console themselves like they do with the PS3. Willing to solder a teensy to their wiiu. I just don't get why people who don't have iosu access but have the capabilities to do hardware mods haven't cracked it. "

the thing is if someone was going to make a mod chip style mod it would have been done long ago same with a sofmod hack..

Sorry if I have offended the small minded, but this is the way I see it..

5 years? i didn't realized its already November 2017.

 

[wiiman.au]

SALT are a highly proven group, considering the amount of 3DS work they've done. They are more than capable of cracking the IOSU, considering the vulnerabilities are bloody public and described on wiiubrew.

funny you say that here is the supposed twiiter from the so called member of salt team https://twitter.com/Mathew_Wi/status/766504663826870272 funny its been deleted.....

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5 years? i didn't realized its already November 2017.

4 years but still no progress

 

[shinyquagsire23]

funny you say that here is the supposed twiiter from the so called member of salt team https://twitter.com/Mathew_Wi/status/766504663826870272 funny its been deleted.....

He was associated with but not a part of SALT. No idea why he deleted things but that's his decision.

 

[wiiman.au]

He was associated with but not a part of SALT. No idea why he deleted things but that's his decision.

So a friend of a friend kind of deal, all bullshit and no hard evidence

 

[sdtg34520]

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[wolf-snake]

funny you say that here is the supposed twiiter from the so called member of salt team https://twitter.com/Mathew_Wi/status/766504663826870272 funny its been deleted.....

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4 years but still no progress

wasn't until 2011 that the ps3 scene had a major breakthrough? that was 5 years after the console release so almost 4 years is really not bad.

 

[wiiman.au]

Where's your hard evidence, pal? The evidence I see is Quagsire & co.'s various 3DS exploits, especially the fantastic writeup on PSMD, SaltySD, and the fact that you can find the fucking vulns they use right here: http://wiiubrew.org/wiki/Exploits#IOSU_module_exploits

sure its there with that particular page not been updated since the 29th of July, were in October now ... and yet no update on their progress at all besides someone on wiibrew who threw out a rumour for the many to feed off

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wasn't until 2011 that the ps3 scene had a major breakthrough? that was 5 years after the console release so almost 4 years is really not bad.

so very true, just look at the xbox were in 2016 and there still isn't a proper working emulator for it

 

[sdtg34520]

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[Brawl345]

wasn't until 2011 that the ps3 scene had a major breakthrough? that was 5 years after the console release so almost 4 years is really not bad.

To be fair, the PS3 got hacked very quickly after Sony removed OtherOS. Before, there was no reason to run homebrew - everyone could run write their own Linux programs and start them in OtherOS. That was also said in the CCC presentation for the PS3.

 

[QuarkTheAwesome]

I highly doubt we will ever see a iosu for the Wii U, the console has been out now for 5 years and no one has been able to successfully crack it, one group said they hacked it and then said they weren't going to release it, you don't have to be Einstein to realise that there was never a hack made, as for the salt team this is to them if you actually exist, put your money where your mouth is, show us some hard evidence as to the progress that you have made with IOSU, it's not hard to do a you tube video or make a thread on here to substantiate your progress to the wider community, at a educated guess another false misleading rumour.

as said above by TheZander you are spot on the money with your comment "because there should be a ton of people who would want to mod the console themselves like they do with the PS3. Willing to solder a teensy to their wiiu. I just don't get why people who don't have iosu access but have the capabilities to do hardware mods haven't cracked it. "

the thing is if someone was going to make a mod chip style mod it would have been done long ago same with a sofmod hack..

Sorry if I have offended the small minded, but this is the way I see it..

There is a such thing as an IOSU exploit. There has been vulnerabilities public on wiiubrew since June. I have no doubt that someone has an exploit - there are keys and things to prove it.

As for SALT's quietness, it's actually perfectly reasonable for them to not to make videos and the like. In the past the community has shown, time and time again, that they get hyped up about this sort of thing. At this point, a video would just cement everything in everyone's minds; and if SALT turns out to be unable to deliver this would only intensify the backlash they'd receive.
I am not saying "if SALT turns out to be lying". What I'm saying is that they may find themselves in a situation I've been in several times before - a project going well, maybe even in its final stages before something gies awfully wrong. Skills prove to little, hard drives die, interest dies out, personal stuff... any number of things may leave a developer unable or unwilling to deliver a product. Right now, they could probably get away with an apology. However, if they'd been releasing vidoes and things for the last month (videos that "prove" the product, not videos showing the development process) people would assume (as they have in the past) that the exploit is "done" and work is being put into "trivial polish" without realising the amount of smoke and mirrors that often goes into such videos. With this mindset, a failure to deliver would cause an immense backlash, especially if there is nothing released. You can see how it's in SALT's best interest to keep things vauge until they're sure of a release.

Of course, the other way to avoid such a situation is to open-source the project from the beginning, but SALT has good reason for not doing that, so that won't work for them.

Worst comes to worst you can still be pretty darn certain of an IOSU exploit. Even if SALT doesn't work out, (leak incoming) there are other people with working PoCs building ROP chains and things in public if you know where to look right now, as we speak.

Oh look here's what I was talking about

 

[KungFuzion]

Salt will produce the goods when they are ready. Sit tight everyone. As they have mentioned before. When they feel it's close to a public release, they will show us a demo. Have faith lol

 

[wiiman.au]

If they made it open source we would have had it ages ago, I called closed source selfish, no different to console emulators

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[SomeGamer]

If they made it open source we would have had it ages ago, I called closed source selfish, no different to console emulators

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What? It's closed source because this makes patching the exploit harder for Nintendo.

 

[Zulnoth]

I don't think there's any way to tell without having someone on 5.3.2 trying to use it or a raw disc dump which isn't happening any time soon, I'm looking at the app cos and meta.xml and there's no way to tell either :\

I still have a 5.3.2 I haven't gotten around to doing anything with since I've bought it, I've played the game legit disc on my 5.5.1 unhacked main Wii u, so it's at most 5.5.1, I'll put it in my 5.3.2 that is intended on upgrading anyways tomorrow and update with results.

 

[pedro702]

I still have a 5.3.2 I haven't gotten around to doing anything with since I've bought it, I've played the game legit disc on my 5.5.1 unhacked main Wii u, so it's at most 5.5.1, I'll put it in my 5.3.2 that is intended on upgrading anyways tomorrow and update with results.

there were games with 5.4.0 and 5.5.0 so there is no evidence if its actualy 5.5.1

 

[EclipseSin]

there were games with 5.4.0 and 5.5.0 so there is no evidence if its actualy 5.5.1

Right, but he can update using the disc first to find the firmware, then update to 5.5.1 if it is lower. Online is still 5.5.1. Just updated yesterday, so no worries either way.

 

[pwsincd]

If they made it open source we would have had it ages ago, I called closed source selfish, no different to console emulators

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read quarks small print !!

 

[EclipseSin]

read quarks small print !!

That place is still clean, thanks

 

[the_randomizer]

If you use IOSU kernel access cause of per-console storage keys, probably, but at that point why not dump via software (dunno how fast each method is but it gets the same job done)

This is, of course, assuming IOSU access will ever be publicly made, which I personally never see happening at this rate *shrug*. I mean, who's to say that those working on IOSU exploits won't decide to pull the plug?