Hacking Wii U Homebrew History and News ?

[Praxis]

Considering the massive popularity of Project M (there has been several 100+ man tournaments), I suspect a homebrew effort for the Wii U would definitely have an audience once there is a tournament scene for Smash Bros Wii U.

 

[Deleted User]

I hope someone does reconsider homebrewing the Wii U.
It would be awesome at emulating other consoles :

 

[Oxybelis]

I hope someone does reconsider homebrewing the Wii U.
It would be awesome at emulating other consoles :View attachment 7885

Wii U can not emulate any home console after N64.

 

[the_randomizer]

Wii U can not emulate any home console after N64.

I call bullshit. How do you know? The Dreamcast works on Android devices like the nVidia Shield, JXD S7800, etc as does the PSP. We don't know the full power of the Wii U, neither do you, don't make baseless assumptions or act like you know what can or can't be emulated.

 

[Oxybelis]

nVidia Shield has more powerful CPU than Wii U. Maybe even Ouya does.

One Wii U core is 1.7x of Wii. Maybe it can run PSP fullspeed. It can not emulate PS2 and Xbox 100%.

 

[the_randomizer]

nVidia Shield has more powerful CPU than Wii U. Maybe even Ouya does.

One Wii U core is 1.7x of Wii. Maybe it can run PSP fullspeed. It can not emulate PS2 and Xbox 100%.

No console can emulate those two. More MHz =/= more power, don't rule out PSP or Dreamcast, or anything before it. I also mentioned the JXD S7800, a Chinese android gaming device, it too runs PSP at full speed, has an ARM CPU which isn't all that great compared to other architectures. Wii U homebrew is dead, no one's interested in it, so why should people bother asking about it?

 

[Oxybelis]

No console can emulate those two. More MHz =/= more power, don't rule out PSP or Dreamcast, or anything before it. I also mentioned the JXD S7800, a Chinese android gaming device, it too runs PSP at full speed, has an ARM CPU which isn't all that great compared to other architectures. Wii U homebrew is dead, no one's interested in it, so why should people bother asking about it?

How do you measure greatness? ARM is arguably better ISA than bloated mutant that is x86 nowadays. And Cortex 9, 15 are pretty modern with better SIMD than Wii U.

 

[the_randomizer]

Wii U homebrew was dead before it even began, so there's nothing more to discuss.

 

[Marionumber1]

Wii U homebrew is dead, no one's interested in it, so why should people bother asking about it?

Not everyone has given up.

 

[the_randomizer]

Not everyone has given up.

Could you elaborate? Who are we talking about, may I ask? I can't help but be incredulous about it not being given up on. The problem is that there's no real exploit, much less an ecosystem or an SDK to use to get started.

 

[Marionumber1]

Who are we talking about, may I ask?

Me, plus a few others.

The problem is that there's no real exploit

Being worked on.

much less an ecosystem

Won't come until homebrew is possible.

or an SDK to use to get started.

Cafe OS uses dynamic linking, meaning the SDK is there on the filesystem for anyone to use once there's an exploit.

 

[Oxybelis]

Afaik (metioned something like this on conference) fail0verflow wanted to develop a method to give access to hardware before Wii U boots up. We might be able to use homebrew on Linux, but that will leave out cool Wii U OS hacks that can be made.

 

[spotanjo3]

Yes, every consoles and portables are hackable. However, this Wii U is unhackable due that the hackers aren't interesting in it for some reasons. It doesnt mean it will be unhackable forever! . One day, I am sure, that it will be picking up and they will work on it.

 

[the_randomizer]

Me, plus a few others.

Being worked on.

Won't come until homebrew is possible.

Cafe OS uses dynamic linking, meaning the SDK is there on the filesystem for anyone to use once there's an exploit.

Uh...oh....right....uh. Yeah....*ahem* About that, well, the thing of it is....this is awkward for me. Now then, I'm going to just bail out while I'm ahead before I post a similarly negative assumption. You know, since I've been outta the loop.

 

[OncleJulien]

that sort of faux pas is completely avoidable if you simply think "do i know what i'm talking about?" before you say anything.

 

[the_randomizer]

that sort of faux pas is completely avoidable if you simply think "do i know what i'm talking about?" before you say anything.

No shit. I can't argue with that.

 

[pwsincd]

Log in , read thread .. POST ... ( the randomiser approach )

or

Log in , read thread .. THINK .. maybe post ... ( the better approach )

he generally tries to rowse some kind of info out of someone by beating the ideas down.. a kinda pesimistic call my bluff attitude...

 

[Deleted User]

What will motivate someone to homebrew the Wii U ?

 

[nonameboy]

maybe we should start a poll

 

[osirisjem]

there isn't even a base framework yet for the WiiU libraries needed to get homebrew running.

How did base frameworks for other hacked systems get off the ground ?