- #How to homebrew wii u 5.5.1 for free#
- #How to homebrew wii u 5.5.1 manual#
- #How to homebrew wii u 5.5.1 full#
Note: Make sure your SD card is formatted to FAT32, you can check the properties of the SD card on your PC to see the format it's in. If you already had some files on your SD, replace them:
Download the Wii U setup files and extract all the files to the root of your SD card. Remove the USB from your system before attempting the steps below if you have one inserted. You need to go to system settings > Data Management and move it to the system storage before proceeding. Note: If you have a USB Inserted, the Eshop will default to installing the DS game to USB. Kawashima's Brain Training (EUR) which goes for $7. Go to Eshop and buy a DS Virtual Console game such as Brain Age (USA), or Dr. NOTE: Set DNS to automatic in your internet connection settings on the system if you're using a DNS or else you can't connect to Eshop. This is basically how you start off hacking the Wii U if you're on 5.5.2, this will add a Homebrew Launcher entrypoint that you can use, now that the browser exploit was patched in the update. This will be my own take on a 5.5.2 guide, just a quick write up to help users get setup with Haxchi. Related Nintendo Subreddits: Wii Hacks 3DS Hacks Nintendo 3DS Wii U Wii Plailect & FlimFlam69's Complete Guide – everything you need to know to get a CFW installed It will help us immensely dealing with them. Please report posts that you think break rules, especially 4th.
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People willing to use this can host the exploit on an Apache+php server (which you can set up for free on your computer), and compile “simple” homebrews themselves for now. As such it is not directly useful to the end user.
#How to homebrew wii u 5.5.1 full#
However, that was actually wrong due to misreading that code: this exploit works fine as-is on 5.5.1(no testing on 5.5.1 was done before release, only code-RE).Īs we explained when this was initially released, this is “only” an exploit, not a full homebrew loader.
#How to homebrew wii u 5.5.1 manual#
5.5.1: Originally this exploit was thought to be fixed via doing manual code-RE(hence why it was released when it was).
It turn out, after careful investigation (that is, people actually trying the exploit in 5.5.1) that Browserhax just works out of the box on 5.5.1. Yellows8 had done some reverse-engineering work and wrongly assumed at a glance that firmware 5.5.1 fixed his exploit.