Delete unused tickets on WiiU

[toxic9]

Hi friends,

On 3ds, FBI and ticsweep can delete unused tickets...
On Swicth, Goldleaf and others can delete unused tickets...
Is there any way to accomplish this on the WiiU? Any homebrew?

 

[godreborn]

have to do it manually, but there's a script in my deleting a fake ticket thread that might make things easier. I don't know if that can be used for what you're wanting.

 

[toxic9]

I just want to keep the system clean.
How can I check what tickets are unused?

 

[godreborn]

I'm not sure. you could do it manually. the wii u uses high and low ids, and the tickets obviously have the title id in them, which you can get easily with tik2sd. then, you could go to usr/title/00050000/ check the low id for what's missing. it's going to a pita, especially if you have hundreds of tickets. then, you can delete them manually. iirc, tickets start with 00 01 00 04, so you'll know where the start and end of a ticket is. plus ticket buckets (.tik) should always equalt 696/848 bytes or a combination of them in multiples, so you'll know if you deleted too much or too little. I think digital games are 696 bytes and retail are 848, but I could be wrong, just don't remember as it's been too long.

 

[toxic9]

Thanks for the info!
But tik2sd will help me out finding the titles that were deleted and which ticket remains?

 

[godreborn]

no, I don't believe so. what you're wanting to do will be a pita, since it has to be done manually.

 

[toxic9]

Just for curiosity, is it safe to move a ticket from one bucket to another?

 

[godreborn]

the ticket will not work afaik. I've installed the same content more than once, and both times, it was in the same ticket bucket, so I don't think you can move them.

 

[AskingForTrouble]

no, I don't believe so. what you're wanting to do will be a pita, since it has to be done manually.

Does factory resetting the device also clear the ticket cache?

 

[godreborn]

Does factory resetting the device also clear the ticket cache?

afaik, no. I don't know for certain though.