★ How To Delete A Fake Ticket ★​

Something that can be frustrating about the way licenses (.tik) work for the Wii U is the fact that they're not deleted when deleting a game. Also, many tickets are found in the same .tik file. I remember when I was doing this for the first time, Lucadian Chronicles, the game I was trying to get rid of the fake ticket for, was lumped in with a Sonic game. lol This tutorial will fix this and possibly prevent cbhc bricks from not testing the bought game on cfw.

First, download tik2sd from here:

https://github.com/FIX94/tik2sd/releases

Next, open the homebrew launcher using your favorite entry point

Run tik2sd. This may take a few moments, so give it some time. Afterwards, you should have a file named: keys.txt, along with your tickets, in the tik2sd folder on the root of your sd card.

Now, lookup the title id for the game you want to delete the fake ticket for. You can obtain this from a title key site which I can't give the name of due to it containing copywritten material on it.

After you find the .tik with the fake ticket for the game you want to remove, check the size. If it's 696 or 848 bytes, there's only one ticket in it, so you can safely delete the .tik from:

storage_slc/rights/tickets/apps

Use ftpiieverywhere to do this. And, make sure it's the ftpiieverwhere for your situation (i.e. coldboot haxchi ftpiieverywhere or normal ftpiieverywhere). Remember the location as well which can be found in the tik2sd folder on the root of your flash drive.

If the size is larger, open the ticket in a hex editor such as HxD:

https://mh-nexus.de/en/downloads.php?product=HxD

Now, you can find which ticket and which .tik file it is based on the keys.txt, so once inside, you'll know if a ticket is at, for example. offset 0 or offset 350, etc. Also, each new ticket file starts with:

00 01 00 04

This is important if say you have a fake and legit ticket at the same time. tik2sd won't tell you this. Now, either delete the one ticket (in hex) from the .tik file or, if there's more than one, compare the two.

If there's a repeating pattern with one of them over and over again near the beginning (00 01 00 04), that's your fake ticket. It might say "DISEASED ISABELLA" in hex many times. That's what mine said anyway. Delete it.

Now, transfer the .tik to:

storage_slc/rights/tickets/apps

followed by the folder location you found in tik2sd. Now, test to see if it works by trying to play the game without cfw. This should help people with cbhc or other haxchi errors or even if you were using a fake ticket, but now want to buy the game to use haxchi (can't with a fake ticket or it will fail install). Good luck.

Thanks to Madridi for teaching me how to do this.

Disclaimer: I am not responsible for any damage you may cause to your Wii-U. Just follow the instructions, and you’ll be fine!

 

[godreborn]

delete that ticket. make sure you only delete that ticket in the .tik file. don't delete the entire .tik file or some games/dlc/patches will have to be reinstalled.

 

[Mth2017]

delete that ticket. make sure you only delete that ticket in the .tik file. don't delete the entire .tik file or some games/dlc/patches will have to be reinstalled.

Let me get this Right. Only delete the DESEASED ISABELLA Part of the Ticket? nothing else? i have it selected , because idk where it starts the ticket i have to delete and the one i dont have to.

Spoiler

 

[godreborn]

no, the entire ticket. the ticket should be either 848 or 696 bytes. you'll know when you've hit the next ticket. it should start with 00 01 00 04 .

 

[Mth2017]

oh! ok ok i get it. i saw where it started again and deleted the rest of the first part. (plus im doing this in the Tik2sd file just for a test) this is how it should look? and if it is. should i replace this edited ticket with the one on the Wii U ?

Spoiler

 

[Madridi]

That's still wrong, you should delete the part in the beginning up until the end of line 0x90

 

[godreborn]

yeah, it's 00 01 00 04 for the next ticket. delete above that.

 

[Mth2017]

yeah, it's 00 01 00 04 for the next ticket. delete above that.

Yeah, sorry, it was a 00 01 00 14, i readed it bad. but now i fixed it. it should look like this?

Spoiler

 

[Madridi]

How big is the ticket now?

 

[godreborn]

that looks right.

yeah, what @Madridi said.

 

[Mth2017]

How big is the ticket now?

it is 848 bytes

 

[godreborn]

that's right then. each ticket should be that size or 696 bytes.

 

[Madridi]

It's 848 for normal retail games and 696 for eshop games iirc

 

[godreborn]

It's 848 for normal retail games and 696 for eshop games iirc

does that include dlc, updates, and demos?

 

[Mth2017]

does that include dlc, updates, and demos?

Maybe is just the Update, becasue there is nothing more beside the update and the game itself (disc format). but anyway... so it is done? should i replace the wii u one with the edited one?

 

[godreborn]

yes, see if it worked. make sure you've backed up the original ticket if it doesn't. updates can be in different .tik files. the one for that game most likely is in fact.

 

[Mth2017]

yes, see if it worked. make sure you've backed up the original ticket if it doesn't. updates can be in different .tik files. the one for that game most likely is in fact.

i have the back up of the original ticket. ok. ill try the replacement now, ill send a message with the results. Thanks both of you for the help, i really appreciate it!

 

[godreborn]

@Madridi , I just checked the dlc @Mth2017 deleted. it's 848 bytes as well, so 696/848 may be the only two sizes. I was curious if there would be any difference with dlc.

 

[Madridi]

does that include dlc, updates, and demos?

I don't remember atm. @nexusmtz should be able to give a definitive answer

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@Madridi , I just checked the dlc @Mth2017 deleted. it's 848 bytes as well, so 696/848 may be the only two sizes. I was curious if there would be any difference with dlc.

Yeah they are the only 2 sizes

Edit: to clarify, I don't remember each type is how many bytes, but yes it is only the 2 sizes

 

[Mth2017]

@Madridi @godreborn Thank you so much! it workout perfectly! i really REALLY THANK YOU SO MUCH

 

[naddel81]

sorry for asking again, but can I safely delete contents (tiks) in storage_slc/rights/tickets/apps to make sure my wii U is clean again and I can start from scratch with installing games?