Hacking What is Haxchi or CBHC? FAQs and info

[whorewolf]

You don't need an fw.img on your card.

Thanks for the reply mate & this is what I thought but I just wanted to clarify

 

[akramff]

Hi
I am having wii u running on 5.5.1 with mocha
Is it ok to install haxachi?
Cuz i found the last compatibility fw was 5.5.3
And the current fw is 5.5.4
Thanks in advance

 

[BaamAlex]

Update to 5.5.4 and install haxchi. Thats it.

 

[willianholtz]

Two questions:

1 - After installing CBHC, can SD be removed? If not, what happens if I ruin the SD or just stop working?
2 - What will happen if I run the "dont touch me" icons?

I realize I'm ready to have CBHC installed on my Wii U, but these are my only questions.

 

[BaamAlex]

Two questions:

1 - After installing CBHC, can SD be removed? If not, what happens if I ruin the SD or just stop working?
2 - What will happen if I run the "dont touch me" icons?

I realize I'm ready to have CBHC installed on my Wii U, but these are my only questions.

1. Yes. The sd card can be removed.
2. Your console explodes like a thermonuclear bomb...jokes aside. Nothing happens then. The only thing you do is relaunching cbhc. Not more. But this is not required because it boots at consoles startup.

 

[willianholtz]

Your console explodes like a thermonuclear bomb

hahahaha Thx!!
My fear was the same about the SD being removed or not being in the slot.

 

[paradoxImmobilizer]

After installing both Haxchi and Coldboot, can I uninstall the Haxchi and Coldboot apps from the Homebrew launcher?

 

[nexusmtz]

Yes, you can remove the installers from your sd:/wiiu/apps directory. Keep them handy though, in case you want to remove CBHC.

 

[4testes]

Hey, I installed HaxChi and CBHC ages ago. I haven't touched my WiiU in ages but I went to use it today.

When I boot, it bootloops. If I hold A I can get to homebrew launcher, but I can't get to the system menu.

I looked at the haxchi config file and it has "sysmenu" as the default. So it CAN load to HBC but cannot get to the CFW sysmenu.

I thought about uninstalling CBHC but then thought if that takes me to a place where I can ONLY bootloop and not even get to HBL, I'll have bricked my console. And I'd rather be stuck without a system menu if the alternative is a brick!

I have a vague memory that I might have fucked up in the installation and done CBHC before Haxchi or something stupid like that, but it was years ago so I can't be certain, and I was just happy to have homebrew working then and didn't need the sysmenu.

What is the best thing to do if I want to have it all working? Install CBHC over? Uninstall something first?

 

[BaamAlex]

What happens if you press nothing?

 

[4testes]

It just loops - WiiU menu loading screen, boop-boop music, then loops after a few seconds.

Tried pressing home, mashing home, holding home. Can't get to cbhc options menu.

 

[BaamAlex]

Look in the brick recovery. A hardmod would be your only solution.

 

[4testes]

Even though I can access homebrew launcher? There isn't anything I can do from HBL to restore it?

 

[nexusmtz]

It just loops - WiiU menu loading screen, boop-boop music, then loops after a few seconds.

Tried pressing home, mashing home, holding home. Can't get to cbhc options menu.

If you haven't already saved your otp, make sure you grab that first. A full NAND backup could be helpful to you as well.

As for your symptoms, it sounds like you installed Haxchi over your CBHC title. Put CBHC Installer on your SD card, get into Homebrew Launcher, run CBHC Installer and remove CBHC. (and hope your syshax.xml backup is good)

If you still have the same problem, reinstall CBHC on the same title you used previously.

 

[NipRing]

If you haven't already saved your otp, make sure you grab that first. A full NAND backup could be helpful to you as well.

As for your symptoms, it sounds like you installed Haxchi over your CBHC title.

What about going from haxchi to CBHC though? I'd like to go the CBHC route. I currently just have haxchi installed.
Thx

 

[godreborn]

What about going from haxchi to CBHC though? I'd like to go the CBHC route. I currently just have haxchi installed.
Thx

yes, that's doable. that's actually suggested to make sure haxchi even works.

 

[Cyan]

If haxchi works (you can launch it from a fresh console reboot), then just launch CBHC installer to overwrite that "app" (the NDS game channel which is now haxchi app).
haxchi will become cold boot haxchi.
be sure to read the recommendation to prevent a brick ! (never delete that channel, never format the console, never overwrite that channel by reinstalling a fakesigned NDS game, etc.)

 

[itschahlibaby]

I have a situation I'm unsure what to do about. I bought a Wii U recently and it has haxchi installed, but the nintendo account that was connected to the wii u was removed. Should I buy a DS game with my own account and use it to reinstall haxchi?

 

[Lacius]

I have a situation I'm unsure what to do about. I bought a Wii U recently and it has haxchi installed, but the nintendo account that was connected to the wii u was removed. Should I buy a DS game with my own account and use it to reinstall haxchi?

If you want Haxchi, that's what you're going to have to do. However, you could just use the browser exploit and Mocha instead.

 

[itschahlibaby]

If you want Haxchi, that's what you're going to have to do. However, you could just use the browser exploit and Mocha instead.

It's currently still working, I just wanted to make sure I can do that without causing any issues lol