Wii U Hacks | How to Hack the Wii U Console

The Wii U is now running homebrew. We are going to start testing other aspects to get everything running properly.

Take a look at the video above.

We will have a full tutorial in the next day or so to show everyone how to do this.

For those of you who do not already know, Nintendo left a debug menu in the US Nintendo Wii U’s

This was left behind to test things such as the browser (ACID TEST). Another thing they forgot to remove was access access to their SQL  Miiverse Database.

This contained such juicy details as upcoming Nintendo Wii U titles.

Yoshi’s Island Wii U and Soul Hackers,  ”Metal Gear Solid” and “Resident Evil”, and a new Pokemon were leaked from this hack. Nintendo was not intending on releasing these until at least December 10th 2012.

As you can see from the photos it allowed you to execute some SQL database commands such as “regenerate password” “approve or deny” a comment on a forum (It appears that they are testing an online community forum as you can see from the photos, the admins were chatting back and forth and it has an option for OK or NG, which stands for OK this post is fine and approved or NG – Not Good – Delete this post) and also “Manage admin users” – Which allowed anyone to dump admin users from Nintendo’s MiiVerse Database.

The Wii U debug menu was accessible by Moving the cursor over “Exit” in MiiVerse while tapping the X on the keypad a few times.

As soon as Nintendo discovered this was in the wild they immediately shut down the database / admin debug menu in the Wii U.

Just wanted to give everyone a quick update. We have added a few more members to the development team to work on the Wii U Hack . 

BufferZerO has begun the process of dumping the drives firmware and the eeprom firmware itself.

I along with a few other members are going to begin testing some overflows console itself via SD card.

As soon as we have an update it will be posted here. Keep checking back and sign up for our forums

http://www.wiiuhacks.com/forums

The Wii U has officially been released! 15 of our 16 Wii U Hacks team members already have their consoles in hand at this moment.

All across the United States our team is tearing opening the Wii U Console, voiding their warranties so everyone can benefit from Jailbreaking the Wii U.

Keep this page saved to your favorites, join our forums, or become a Wii U Hacks crew member (programming experience or PCB experience required)

Once we have developed a soft mod hack for the Wii U we will need beta testers to try it out. You can sign up as a beta tester by simply joining our forums and posting a message stating you wan’t to beta test the hack.

If you do not want to beta test or work on hacking the Wii U you can always add our website to your favorites and return daily for our updates and the latest Wii U News and information

Wii Need your support. We have 16 dedicated programmers that are going to be working around the clock to provide you with the first ever Wii U hack. We are shooting to design a Softmod exploit (that means no taking your new consoles apart to do this) We are going to making this as simple as jailbreaking an Iphone for those who have done so.

Currently we are looking for more staff to help with the development. If you are familiar with the assembly language (ASM) C++, or have any PCB experience please contact us on our forums.

We also are looking for beta testers for the hack once it’s ready. What is a beta tester you ask? A beta tester gets to try out something before it gets launched live to the public. We need as many beta testers as we can get to let us know if there are any bugs with our work.

If you are interested in beta testing the hack once it’s release please visit the forums as well. Sign up as a member and say Hello.

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Click the link above to visit our forums. Also make sure to add our site to your favorites so you can return for our daily updates.

With the console launch in less than 2 hours we have a lot of work ahead and for the days to follow.

-WiiHackTeam

Here is a breakdown of the Internals of the Wii U Console.

Simple, clean, and cooling efficient.

With the powerful IBM Cpu and AMD GPU the Wii U has you can expect quite a bit of heat to be generated. The new case design allows for a much cooler inside that most consoles.

As you can see there is not much to the motherboard itself of the Wii U. We will be looking into doing an eeprom dump over the next couple of weeks.

We will keep you guys updated. Thanks for all your support.

The Wii U is jam packed with some pretty decent specs.

First:Is the IBM CPU. This is a 3 core processor (PowerPC) processor running at 3Ghz. This is very similar to the processor that the Xbox 360 has in it.

The Wii U also features a Bluray disc drive in it. From the research our experts have done this is a modified blu-ray drive that supports up to 25 Gigbyte discs.

This is also an area our hack team is looking into. A lot of times the eeprom on the DVD/Bluray drive can be reflashed. This may be a very simple way to run homebrew on the Wii U and we will be heavily focusing on this proprietary Blu-ray drive.

Depending on the model you chose, (Basic) is an 8GB Flash Wii U console and the (Deluxe) featuring 32GB of Flash Storage.

The Wii U boasts an ATI (AMD) Graphics card. Not too many details have been released on the Radeon GPU in the Wii U but it is believed to be a Radeon HD 5000 Series. The GPU will have no problems flying through the loading screens or playing Blu-ray movies back smoothly.

Another good thing is Nintendo has kept the USB ports and SD card reader which is great for us in the homebrew community.

Nintendo with the new Wii U Controller is ahead of their time once again in this years console wars.

The Wii U Gamepad packs a bunch of high tech new features.

Here are just a few to name

First ever Touch Screen based Controller

A B X Y, Dpad, Left Right, trigger, Power, Start Select and Home buttons

At launch we are going to be focusing on performing some bluetooth sniffing. A few of the experts we have working on hacking the Wii U believe that the controller is going to be the method of choice for the softmod.

We are just days away from the Launch of the Wii U console.

Everyone is eager to get their hands on this console, including us hackers. We are ready to tear down the system and see what makes it tick.

The most interesting thing Nintendo has done was have the Wii U launch with Full 1080p HD and also include the HDMI Cord.

For those who do not know yet, there is going to be two models of the Wii U.

The 32 GB Wii U Console.

And the 8 GB Wii U Console.

Both of these systems run Flash instead of a real hard drive like the Playstation 3.

Nintendo is releasing the Following Games at Launch:

Nintendo Land, ZombieU, Rabbids Land, New Super Mario Bros U, ESPN Sports Connection, Your Shape – Fitness Evolved 2013, Batman, AEpic Mickey 2, Fifa Soccer 13, Sonic and All Stars Racing Transofrmed, Wipeout 3, Transformers Primer Darksiders 2 Assassin’s Creed 3, Scribblenauts, Call of Duty Back Opps 2, Warriors Orochi 3 Hyper, Tekken Ta Tournament 2 and Game Party Champions

Nintendo is also planning on launching their Tvii service which will let you use Netflix Hulu and more towards the end of December. Within the next few months we plan on creating a soft mod hack for the Wii U before anyone else does this.

A Softmod is basically the same concept as “Jailbreaking” your Iphone. This will let third party programs written by everyday people like you or I run on the console.

Hacking the Wii U is not illegal and should not void your warranty in any way. There are sites out there that share Wii U Torrents, Wii U Back-up Games, and Wii U Mod Chips. The only thing that would be considered illegal is copying games or download Wii U Games that you did not own or purchase. We here at WiiUhacks DO NOT support any type of Wii U Game downloads.