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Play Zelda BOTW with All DLC for FREE without CFW

It's confirmed. It works!

This guide uses the FREE DLC "Language pack" to do the trick. You need download it on eshop.


In this tutorial I'll show you how to play Zelda BOTW with all DLCs unlocked without start a CFW or something for this. It should work with others games with multiple DLC like MK8, Wii Sports Club, Super Smash Bros, Hyrule Warriors and others. Of course you need a legit DLC from game you want to play.

For Super Smash Bros detail follow this link:

https://gbatemp.net/threads/tutoria...-without-cfw-or-aocpatcher-on-sysnand.464178/


For MK8 detail follow this link:

https://gbatemp.net/threads/tutorial-play-mario-kart-8-with-all-dlc-for-free-without-cfw.464407/#post-7173356

What you need:
  • Zelda BOTW "Language Pack" downloaded from eshop. You need the latest update and download it from game options (needs a legit DLC)
  • Mocha CFW, Haxchi CFW, or any other (just in the beginning)
  • WiiU App Store (or Tik2SD + FTPiiU_Everywhere + WUP Installer GX2 +
    Mocha CFW + Homebrew Launcher
    )
  • WiiU USB Helper
  • SD Card
  • PC
  • Hex Editor (HxD for Windows)
1 - First if you have any illegitimate Zelda BOTW DLC installed, just delete it using using Data manager on WiiU Config
2 - Download the DLC on eshop
3 - Make sure your SD card is formatted in FAT32
4 - Download the DLC of Zelda BOTW of your region with WiiU USB Helper and put it in your SD card in na folder called "install" in the root.
5 - Go to Homebrew Launcher and choose App Store or go to wiiubru.com/go on you browser and choose App Store. If you don't know what's Homebrew Launcher is give a look in this guide (parts I, II and III) and choose start App Store.
6 - In App Store Download Tik2SD + FTPiiU_Everywhere + WUP Installer GX2 + Mocha CFW + Homebrew Launcher
7 - Launch Homebrew Launcher and go to Mocha_CFW (use default options). Then go to WUP Installer GX2 and choose install the DLC of Zelda BOTW you just download wherever is your game (nand or USB).
8 - Back to Homebrew Launcher, go to Tik2SD and backup your tickets. Put your SD in PC and look at tik2sd folder. Open keys.txt and search where your Zelda BOTW DLC is installed. The name you need to search is 0005000c101c9400 or 0005000c101c9500 or 0005000c101c9300.
9 - Now it's time for hex editing.
Use the link from www.marcrobledo.com/wiiu-tik-fixer/ (thanks @marc_max )
open the folder and in tik2sd wich the ticket from you game is , than drop on the site above, you gonna see 2 tickets, click in fix, and download the file , than go to step 10.
If you want to do manually, then thanks to @Rahzadan we have a VERY detailed tutorial for it. Go to this thread and after the hex editing go to step 10 below.
If you followed the @Rahzadan tutorial or used the @marc_max website above, go to step 10. I'll keep this part only for log
purpose.

Locate your ticket in your SD card according with keys.txt. Open with an hex editor (in my case it's on 0009 folder and the name is 00000015.tik. Backup the ticket.

Look that you gonna have 2x finds in the key.txt file. In my case 0009/00000015.tik@0x6a0 and 0009/00000015.tik@0x0. The number after the "@" shows where the ticket starts inside the tik file. It means probably the fake ticket is in beginning of tik (0x0) file and my legit ticket starts in 0x6a0 (note is in hexadecimal).

The fake ticket is like this, a lot of same numbers:

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In this case it shows SSB ticket, but for Zelda BOTW ticket is the same thing, just another Game ID.

Pay attention in the blue highlight. It shows the game ID. If it says a number other than 0005000c101c9400 or 0005000c101c9500 or 0005000c101c9300 it means the ticket is from another game!

The trick here is swap the fake ticket with the legit ticket, that way the legit ticket always come first in the tik file! This picture can demonstrate what I mean:
rVtT6FJ.png


In this case it shows SSB ticket, but for Zelda BOTW ticket is the same thing.

Maybe there's another game ticket inside the tik file, maybe not. Anyway, just copy and past with your hex editor the fake ticket with the legit ticket. Pay attention and don't touch other game tickets in the tik file!

If your legit ticket comes first you don't need swap the tickets! You already can play with all DLC unlocked! I believe it can happens if you download the free DLC after install the fake DLC.

After the swap save your ticket in your PC.
10 - Now put your SD back in WiiU. Open Homebrew Launcher and launch FTPiiU_everywhere (make sure you had launch Mocha CFW or other CFW before that)
11 - Go to your Zelda BOTW ticket location inside WiiU memory using a FTP browser like FileZilla or even Windows Explorer with the IP of your WiiU. Its in "storage_slc/rights/ticket/apps/xxxx/xxx.tik". Replace that ticket with the one you just modified.
12 - Open your Zelda BOTW game and enjoy play with all contents without CFW!

TL;DR: Download the free DLC, install all DLC packet with a fake ticket, locate your ticket inside WiiU, swap the legit ticket with the fake ticket inside the tik file so that the legit ticket appears first.

Thank to @nexusmtz and @Madridi
 
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So BotW has a new update for that Rex kid suit. I updated my game and now the game said that the DLC must be updated and asked me to go to the eShop. Of course I haven't purchased the Season Pass and now my DLC missions is gone. I think I'll redo the tutorial. But is this happened to anyone?
 

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So BotW has a new update for that Rex kid suit. I updated my game and now the game said that the DLC must be updated and asked me to go to the eShop. Of course I haven't purchased the Season Pass and now my DLC missions is gone. I think I'll redo the tutorial. But is this happened to anyone?

Well not me yet but i guess you just have to do the tutorial again... i have done before i 'd accidently do the fake dlc1 and last update game... so you just have to put the
legit tik on bottom again... Don't try to go on eshop if you are in 5.5.1! ;-)
 

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So BotW has a new update for that Rex kid suit. I updated my game and now the game said that the DLC must be updated and asked me to go to the eShop. Of course I haven't purchased the Season Pass and now my DLC missions is gone. I think I'll redo the tutorial. But is this happened to anyone?
Same for me.
I updated yesterday, and upon booting up the game after the update, all of the DLC was gone, prompting me to go to the eShop to download it.
However, I "think" the DLC is still in the console, simply the tik must have switched tickets around. Can anyone confirm this?
I am guessing the TIK got moved with the new update, I will try to Hex edit the TIK again today and see if the tickets are moved around as I am assuming they were.

I would have done that yesterday but the PC was occupied :P
 
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if it's just a ticket position issue, keeping a backup (running tik2sd) before installing the update and restoring it after the update might be enough.
no need to reinstall or hex edit it again.
 

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if it's just a ticket position issue, keeping a backup (running tik2sd) before installing the update and restoring it after the update might be enough.
no need to reinstall or hex edit it again.
Still, nothing that cannot be fixed by re-doing the ticket hex editing, right?
At least for those of us which have updated already without a pre-update backup xD
 

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I updated Breath of the Wild to 1.3.3, and it told me my DLC was out of date. I exited and reentered the game, and it updated the DLC to 2.1.
 

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so, it downloads the missing DLC files automatically ?
the DLC files are not inside the game's update? that's why only updating the game is not enough, you need both updates. but if all is done automatically from the network it's good.
 

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so, it downloads the missing DLC files automatically ?
the DLC files are not inside the game's update? that's why only updating the game is not enough, you need both updates. but if all is done automatically from the network it's good.
This is all correct.
 

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I updated Breath of the Wild to 1.3.3, and it told me my DLC was out of date. I exited and reentered the game, and it updated the DLC to 2.1.
This was the prompt you get when entering the game?
It told me to go to the eShop to download the DLC, but upon getting there with NNU Patcher I got a message saying I was short of free space :lol:
Guess I'm fucked in the meantime, I'll try getting one of those small 16GB USBs to put the other games there.
How big is the BotW data in the Wii U Data Management option?
 

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This was the prompt you get when entering the game?
It told me to go to the eShop to download the DLC, but upon getting there with NNU Patcher I got a message saying I was short of free space :lol:
Guess I'm fucked in the meantime, I'll try getting one of those small 16GB USBs to put the other games there.
How big is the BotW data in the Wii U Data Management option?
To be clear, the prompt alerting me that my DLC was out of date also prompted me to enter the eShop. Doing so will bring up the purchase screen for the $19.99 DLC. Exiting everything and re-entering Breath of the Wild, however, will cause the DLC to be updated automatically.
 
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To be clear, the prompt alerting me that my DLC was out of date also prompted me to enter the eShop. Doing so will bring up the purchase screen for the $19.99 DLC. Exiting everything and re-entering Breath of the Wild, however, will cause the DLC to be updated automatically.
Interesting.
I will try to clear up space in my Wii U then, hopefully that'd do it.
 

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This was the prompt you get when entering the game?
It told me to go to the eShop to download the DLC, but upon getting there with NNU Patcher I got a message saying I was short of free space :lol:
Guess I'm fucked in the meantime, I'll try getting one of those small 16GB USBs to put the other games there.
How big is the BotW data in the Wii U Data Management option?


Exactly the same for me... i have 1500mb free space and the system say that i don't have enough space to update the DLC!!!

Edit: Okay with more space it worked... it seems the eshop provide the whole dlc update (922 Mb packed) not just the delta mostly if you have the old one... so you need more space than necessary!
 
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Exactly the same for me... i have 1500mb free space and the system say that i don't have enough space to update the DLC!!!

Edit: Okay with more space it worked... it seems the eshop provide the whole dlc update (922 Mb packed) not just the delta mostly if you have the old one... so you need more space than necessary!
Yep!
Same for me as well.
After freeing up some space, the DLC downloaded automatically, and I still had more space than required, so it seems you need double the amount of the DLC size in free space to get it to download.
I still have a little less than 2GB free after the update though, so everything's fine now :)
 
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Yep!
Same for me as well.
After freeing up some space, the DLC downloaded automatically, and I still had more space than required, so it seems you need double the amount of the DLC size in free space to get it to download.
I still have a little less than 2GB free after the update though, so everything's fine now :)
For all Wii U titles, you need to have twice the space. You need to have space for the installer files, and you need space to install to. The same goes for the 3DS.
 

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For all Wii U titles, you need to have twice the space. You need to have space for the installer files, and you need space to install to. The same goes for the 3DS.
That's a shame that nintendo is doing it this way, when it's possible to extract files directly from NUS without downloading the full apps files.
JNUSTool is doing it without problem, but I guess the transmitted file is no longer encrypted? I never checked how JNUStool was doing it, whether it's decrypting before downloading, or downloading the encrypted part where the file is located inside the app and decrypting it locally.
extracting each file one by one after being downloaded instead of waiting to get the full encrypted game could be a solution to prevent the need of double the size of the installed game.

Currently they need to re-download the full DLC even if it's just an update.
At least, it's not like that for game updates.
 
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I updated Breath of the Wild to 1.3.3, and it told me my DLC was out of date. I exited and reentered the game, and it updated the DLC to 2.1.

Hello!

How do you updated Breath of the wild to 1.3.3? Eshop or Wupinstaller Ymod?
FW 5.5.1 or 5.5.2?
/I am on 5.5.1/
Thx.
 
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Hello!

How do you updated Breath of the wild to 1.3.3? Eshop or Wupinstaller Ymod?
FW 5.5.1 or 5.5.2?
/I am on 5.5.1/
Thx.
Through eShop, it's just that you need like 2+GB of free space in order for both the update and DLC to download and install properly.
 

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