Wii U Japanese dilemma

[blackbrew]

Hi there,

I got this Japanese Wii U for a while now, i got almost all my collection of NTSC US disk games works fine using the 119 region hack.
to explain things correctly im using coldboot haxchi,

what is very annoying is the Wii U menu language is Japanese, i read many posts here on the forum suggesting the use of system config tool to change the language of the menu.
Long story short i got the tool and installed it, took more time to find the config tool user manual and even more time to safely understand to use the basic features it provide.

However the magic tool didn't do the magic trick , got an error : Faild to switch DRC language. at this point i decide not to go any deeper as many experts here explain how dangerous the tool can be.

Another approach i took was suggested by user to replace the Japanese Allmessages.szs file(s) with and English one from other systems, that did work for few menus mostly settings but not all.

The goal here is to get the Japanese Wii U menu to English, thank you in advance for any point in the correct direction.

 

[gavinlai]

We tried translate Japanese/English to Chinese.
It works.

 

[gavinlai]

Hi there,

I got this Japanese Wii U for a while now, i got almost all my collection of NTSC US disk games works fine using the 119 region hack.
to explain things correctly im using coldboot haxchi,

what is very annoying is the Wii U menu language is Japanese, i read many posts here on the forum suggesting the use of system config tool to change the language of the menu.
Long story short i got the tool and installed it, took more time to find the config tool user manual and even more time to safely understand to use the basic features it provide.

However the magic tool didn't do the magic trick , got an error : Faild to switch DRC language. at this point i decide not to go any deeper as many experts here explain how dangerous the tool can be.

Another approach i took was suggested by user to replace the Japanese Allmessages.szs file(s) with and English one from other systems, that did work for few menus mostly settings but not all.

The goal here is to get the Japanese Wii U menu to English, thank you in advance for any point in the correct direction.

Find my post "Convert Japanese Console Language to English Method".

 

[gavinlai]

Any chance of a tutorial to translate it? It would be perfect if you could change the language to Spanish... Thanks friends

Find my post."

Convert Japanese Console Language to English Method.​

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[darkgunsou86]

I used the vietnamese Minh Checked zip file to convert my JPN Wii U to English but it's bricked now.
Is there any way to restore it? i have backed up the NAND when I installed tiramisu.
I'm not happy with this as I don't understand why the process bricked my Wii U. I followed the steps properly.

 

[andot]

I used the vietnamese Minh Checked zip file to convert my JPN Wii U to English but it's bricked now.
Is there any way to restore it? i have backed up the NAND when I installed tiramisu.
I'm not happy with this as I don't understand why the process bricked my Wii U. I followed the steps properly.

https://gbatemp.net/threads/tiramisu-brick-help.605889/#post-9723770

 

[darkgunsou86]

it doesn't work. the Wii U logo appears after power up and the music just stops after a while and the wii U doesn't respond to anything.

 

[andot]

it doesn't work. the Wii U logo appears after power up and the music just stops after a while and the wii U doesn't respond to anything.

if your tiramisu sets autoboot correctly, you can boot to FTP server directly using the method in https://gbatemp.net/threads/tiramisu-brick-help.605889/#post-9723770, or you can try this https://github.com/wiiu-env/launchiine .

 

[darkgunsou86]

i tried but no dice. it still hangs at the wii U logo. the autoboot doesn't work with this brick. I don't understand why a simple file transfer can brick the wii U. i noticed there was something weird with the minh checked english files. every folder has a DS.store file. did those files brick my wii U?

 

[gavinlai]

i tried but no dice. it still hangs at the wii U logo. the autoboot doesn't work with this brick. I don't understand why a simple file transfer can brick the wii U. i noticed there was something weird with the minh checked english files. every folder has a DS.store file. did those files brick my wii U?

WiiU files not contain DS.store. you uploaded to wiiu?

 

[neph00]

WiiU files not contain DS.store. you uploaded to wiiu?

i tried but no dice. it still hangs at the wii U logo. the autoboot doesn't work with this brick. I don't understand why a simple file transfer can brick the wii U. i noticed there was something weird with the minh checked english files. every folder has a DS.store file. did those files brick my wii U?

DS.store files cant brick your wiiu. U must did something else wrong. I have JPN wiiu and i copied them too. My console still work even i have delated them later.

 

[EugiFel]

Hi @jml_hybs The end goal of what im doing or at least trying to do is to get the Wii u menu fully translated. to English and posiably other languages.

getting this to fully pledges US wii u / region free like what is currently possible with the 3ds is not my goal and maybe not even possible, but MAYBE games with issues can be individually patched.

Status Update:
apologies for the people who are sending me pm's ( i work full time job and a father to 2 ) time is not my friend here, and this starting to makes me think that i announcing this prematurely, please forgive me for not replying.

1. Was working durning the covid lockdown to dump the firmware of the wii u PAD, almost there but currently waiting for some parts to arrive.
2. bricked 1 JPN wii u in process of translating the wii u menu files ( Mii Editor to be specific ) most of the files which are loaded by hbm.rpx at boot time are almost done.
2. Planing to get redNAND on the 2nd wii u to avoid being bricked.
3. vWii fully Done.
4. Games are tricky depending on the region of game ( not all games have all language files ) that's why some some people games stuck on splash screen when using spiik and this is fixable but requires a lot of community work to test and report.
5. finally im working to make a homebrew little app which automate the changes that i have logged and test so the end process becomes user friendly and narrow the risk margin ( if anyone with coding skills is interesting i will be happy to colab)

How did you translate your Japanese vWii? Mind sharing the method, mine is still stuck in Japanese and I can't use it

 

[Sapsap]

And also, our viet friends manage to translate some jp games to eng. example, mario party 10, mario kart 8 and others. they have a repository, but the server is too slow, i have downloaded only 1 yet.

Hi give some keyword what to search? I tried to look up on google with Vietnamese language search but can’t find any info.

 

[ProtossEvo]

Hi give some keyword what to search? I tried to look up on google with Vietnamese language search but can’t find any info.

https://drive.google.com/drive/fold...gK09Er0zKX4vt6nclDPF9OHPOuY34bPEtD90aUF-79yJM

 

[Sapsap]

https://drive.google.com/drive/fold...gK09Er0zKX4vt6nclDPF9OHPOuY34bPEtD90aUF-79yJM

Access requested, thanks

 

[Sapsap]

https://drive.google.com/drive/fold...gK09Er0zKX4vt6nclDPF9OHPOuY34bPEtD90aUF-79yJM

Hi

Just got the access, I see there is two folders. What’s the difference? Should I copy both?

 

[blackbrew]

How did you translate your Japanese vWii? Mind sharing the method, mine is still stuck in Japanese and I can't use it

Replacing Wii U system files with files from internet without knowing what you are doing MIGHT and PROBABLY will brick your WiiU.
@EugiFel to change the vWii to english use Settingedit tool Here.