Hacking rw-r-r-0644 found a boot1 coldboot exploit for the Wii U

[DKB]

Awesome. Maybe I'll buy a Wii U again.

 

[Mister_X]

So... if nintendo closes eshop... this must work... excelent news! thanks!

 

[MikaDubbz]

Wait, could this coldboot cfw while letting us retain the Wii U quick boot menu on the GamePad? That menu can't be utilized with CBHC as it stands now, but I get the impression that a boot1 coldboot might allow for both to finally coexist. At least I really hope it does.

 

[Brawl345]

Don't get your hopes up, this will lead to nothing. It has a high brick risk and you have basically no brick protection.

it's not ideal because unpatched IOSU really wants to repair it (obviously)

also he released it without a payload because it's not possible safely rn, and will probably require a supporting hardmod to be fully "safe" https://t.co/HlawvEFUKf

— Nikki™ (@NWPlayer123) April 10, 2021

with out needing to buy a DS game

Just wait for Maschell's Aroma, it works without a DS game and is faster and more stable than Haxchi. I posted a preview article here: https://wiidatabase.de/einblick-in-aroma-die-neue-homebrew-umgebung-fuer-die-wii-u/ (use Google Translate)

 

[Flame]

Don't get your hopes up, this will lead to nothing. It has a high brick risk and you have basically no brick protection.
https://twitter.com/NWPlayer123/status/1380956910912823296


Just wait for Maschell's Aroma, it works without a DS game and is faster and more stable than Haxchi. I posted a preview article here: https://wiidatabase.de/einblick-in-aroma-die-neue-homebrew-umgebung-fuer-die-wii-u/ (use Google Translate)

thanks for that info.

 

[tech3475]

Wow, surprised by the amount of hacks/exploits we’re seeing recently.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

You can get coldboot using only the browser exploit, so DS VC is not the only option. But this is nice. Not using CBHC frees up the DS VC for Haxchi to load into HBL, which previously was a bit tricky to do with CBHC unless you had 2 VC games, one with CBHC and one with Haxchi. As launching HBL from CBHC means you are not in CFW and you can't install or run anything that requires CFW.

im not sure how they would implement this without a hack already installed, theres no serial port of any kind on the wiiu other than i think the IR sensor port maybe? (im sure i read the wiis sensor port could do some things) and i dont think you can load any data off the SD card so early in the chain

Browser exploit.

Don't get your hopes up, this will lead to nothing. It has a high brick risk and you have basically no brick protection.
https://twitter.com/NWPlayer123/status/1380956910912823296


Just wait for Maschell's Aroma, it works without a DS game and is faster and more stable than Haxchi. I posted a preview article here: https://wiidatabase.de/einblick-in-aroma-die-neue-homebrew-umgebung-fuer-die-wii-u/ (use Google Translate)

Aw. That's too bad.

Aroma looks nice, but it's not really a new coldboot method. It uses the same system.xml title redirection that CBHC uses. So it will be just as slow to boot and have the same drawbacks. Except you can't really delete/move the H&S app I guess. A proper coldboot would be much better.

 

[Brawl345]

So it will be just as slow to boot

A coldboot exploit won't make this faster, you will maybe save two seconds at the risk of bricking. Aroma is also faster than CBHC:

 

[mitcha]

so i'm one of the rare person's who d'ont have Haxchi ?
waiting for something without a ds game.
great news

 

[ploggy]

You can get coldboot using only the browser exploit, so DS VC is not the only option. But this is nice. Not using CBHC frees up the DS VC for Haxchi to load into HBL, which previously was a bit tricky to do with CBHC unless you had 2 VC games, one with CBHC and one with Haxchi. As launching HBL from CBHC means you are not in CFW and you can't install or run anything that requires CFW.

Browser exploit.

Aw. That's too bad.

Aroma looks nice, but it's not really a new coldboot method. It uses the same system.xml title redirection that CBHC uses. So it will be just as slow to boot and have the same drawbacks. Except you can't really delete/move the H&S app I guess. A proper coldboot would be much better.

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Don't get your hopes up, this will lead to nothing. It has a high brick risk and you have basically no brick protection.
https://twitter.com/NWPlayer123/status/1380956910912823296


Just wait for Maschell's Aroma, it works without a DS game and is faster and more stable than Haxchi. I posted a preview article here: https://wiidatabase.de/einblick-in-aroma-die-neue-homebrew-umgebung-fuer-die-wii-u/ (use Google Translate)

Sounds good, release shouldn't be too far away hopefully. You say some existing HB is not supported? Have you tried Retroarch?
Does it currently run in Aroma?

 

[godreborn]

aroma requires a ds game just like haxchi?

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I thought it was something installed to the health and safety tile or any official system tile.

 

[AmandaRose]

aroma requires a ds game just like haxchi?

No it works similarly to haxchi but it uses a system menu title for instance the health and safety app can be used.

 

[godreborn]

No it works similarly to haxchi but it uses a system menu title for instance the health and safety app can be used.

thanks. that's what I had heard, but I thought I read an earlier post where someone mentioned a ds title, so I got confused.

 

[Mr Objection]

So rw-r-r-0644 found a boot1 coldboot exploit for the Wii U. Hopefully this will lead to a coldboot executable with out needing to buy a DS game. so once the eShop does go down we will be still have homebrew one way or another.





https://wiiubrew.org/w/index.php?title=Wii_U_System_Flaws&curid=564&diff=2993&oldid=2955

https://twitter.com/hexkyz/status/1380934706661748737

Finally... After this many years (I have a friend with a wii u that won't buy the ds game, so this is great for him)

 

[The Real Jdbye]

Sounds good, release shouldn't be too far away hopefully. You say some existing HB is not supported? Have you tried Retroarch?
Does it currently run in Aroma?

Did you quote the wrong post? I've never used Aroma.

 

[godreborn]

btw, I got some rest last night, so I'm less cranky today. I dreamed of a link to the past, playing it, and my friend was trying to do a 3 heart run, but accidentally got a fourth heart. I wasn't though. I was playing normally.

 

[Magnus87]

I would love to believe this is a breakthrough for the WiiU Homebrew community however we are in 2021 and not 2012, most developers are busy with the Nintendo Switch.

 

[ploggy]

Did you quote the wrong post? I've never used Aroma.

Haha yes, I meant to quote @Brawl345 my bad

 

[Brawl345]

Have you tried Retroarch?

I haven't tried it (way to annoying to set up), but I read from other testers that it works but the HOME menu is currently broken. Should be easy to fix. Every RPX that runs as channel should also work.

most developers are busy with the Nintendo Switch.

Funny because I think developers couldn't care less about the Switch. There are no big projects atm besides Scires Atmosphère reimplementation. At least we don't have the constant shitflinging between CFW and SX users

 

[godreborn]

sounds like something that happened to me with the dark mode theme. I have it installed on my system via cbhc. anyway, tropical freeze, the A button to start the game doesn't work unless you press the home menu, resume. then, it suddenly works.