users only come here for help after following it
ok, not always, Toccy came here before doing it.
the guide has wrong things, but I don't want to "officially" (with a sticky) bash it, at least they are trying to fix their wrongs. they already removed the rednand part.
it's mostly missing proper explanations and user choices.I hope it might be fixed one day.
in its current state it has a lot of word error and explanation mistakes. (using the word "mocha" instead of "cfw" for example, there's a tutorial to "delete mocha" while mocha is NEVER installed, it's just confusing the users instead of helping them)
I reread it fully today, and still found lot of things which could be fixed and needed a proper grammar/chronological way to explain to a user who never hacked a console before.
I also found things in your guide which could benefit some "fixes".
but it's because there's a lot of possibilities that it's being hard to maintain.
For example, in your graphic, step 2 you give the choice to use haxchi or browser, but on step 4 you say "haxchi is enough" even though the user chose browser hack at step2. it's confusing, as browser hack is also enough, haxchi is not needed to play good signed games.
don't take it bad, I'm also trying to get users less confused when reading things they are not familiar with.
I also think it would benefit from having a paragraph at the beginning to explain what is currently possible to do with a hacked wiiu.
I'm sure newbie and non-techy people are still wondering what they are doing and why.
Something like a global current situation : you can launch homebrew, you can install game on wiiu or play them from a loader, you can play them online without ban fear, you can launch wiiu games without a CFW, you can get CFW without installing one on the console (temporary CFW from browser hack), CFW will allow you to play out of region games or bad signed games (what is badsigned? etc.), you can hack vwii, you can play gamecube games even without a hacked vWii, you can get gamepad support on Wii and gamecube games!)
see, something like "what's possible currently?", something users can understand "what do I need for what I want to do?"
part of that explanation is in step5, which is good too. no need to read if not interested.
I wish I had time to unit all people who write guides and talk about each guide's steps and fix them. but maybe I hope too much
I once tried to tell a userwhat was wrong in his guide (he asked for me to read it and tell him what I thought, big mistake!), he didn't take it well and thought I only wanted to criticize and say the guide was bad. I only wanted to help users reading it. as a result, he still thought HIS way of writing it was good and kept errors and mistakes and chronological errors in it
I wish I could just remove problematic guides to prevent users from following them, to prevent users having to ask for help to fix the console due to bad guides. that's not how this forum works, too bad, we instead spend time helping users over and over after letting them follow bad written guides we purposely kept visible.
it's like maintaining people ill on purpose so that you can get money by selling drugs. (except we don't get paid)
