Since I heard that Nintendo is going to release Switch, I decided to purchase a second mitt Wii U for my girlfriend to play Zelda games because I idea it would be cheaper and you lot can hack information technology easily without modifying its hardware. It was not! LOL
Anyway, I have been working on it for a few days, and I could see that information technology'south non so difficult to "exploit" it but the information are all over the place (just like PS3 jailbreak), so I create this mail which summarizes everything y'all need to hack your Wii U at ease in i place. I'm still learning on some other areas, every bit soon as I have nailed them, I volition update this mail.

Exploit for 5.five.2 is updated at the end. With this one, things are much more than simpler and fast at present.

Get-go, I know two popular means to play Wii U backup games

  1. Loadiine GX2
  2. WUP Installer (highly recommended)

Loadiine is what I knew long before I got the console and then I went for it right away. And you will probably meet many games stated as "Loadiine ready", but after trying to play few big games, say Breath of the Wild, I saw that this is not the most efficient fashion. Because it takes quite a long time to load games which take thousands of files (like around 20k files), so it is extremely tiresome. Games are stored in SD carte, then "yes" for small games and "no" for big games. I am going to show you how to do it as well. At that place is no manner to transfer Loadiine games to NAND and USB, because file structures are different.

I read many threads saying that it is better to install games to NAND (internal retentivity) or USB (flash drive), this is called WUP Installer. Merely most of them are too long to read and confusing. And thanks to them, I got all the tools and know-how to share with y'all.

2d, download the tools package hither. The package includes:

  1. Homebrew App Store Launcher: to download many homebrew apps from here, but I would suggest you to download in your computer and put it in SD later.
  2. Loadiine GX2 launcher: to play Wii U backup games from SD card
  3. WUP Installer GX2: to install Wii U games to NAND or USB
  4. CFW Booter: to kicking into CFW
  5. CFW (custom firmware): to play installed games from NAND or USB. This is supposed to be Region Free, simply I take but tested with United states of america.

3rd, equipment:

  1. Wii U at 5.v.1 FW
  2. A SD bill of fare, FAT32, 64kb clustered size
  3. An USB – this will exist formatted by the panel to its format type (so… this USB is DEDICATED to Wii U Simply)
  4. Wii U USB Helper (This is a discontinued project, you tin follow this piece of work-effectually)
  5. JNUS Tool

Fourth, this is the know-how. Please note that you will have to do these steps every time you turn on your console.

  1. Disable Wii U Auto Update. There are several ways to practice this only I but disable the option in Internet menu. Yous can google other means.
  2. Extract the tools packet to your SD bill of fare's root. 'Install' folder is to store games which will be installed via WUP Installer. 'Apps' folder is to store homebrew apps. 'Games' folder is to store games which volition be played direct from SD card via Loadiine GX2.
  3. You tin download Loadiine Ready games, updates & DLC from many sites (wiiuiso, etc.), and you lot can also use JNUS Tool to download updates.
  4. Yous can download WUP games, updates & DLC via Wii U USB Helper (google titles keys sites and save those URLs for future employ).
  5. Loadiine game's folder title should include game championship and game ID, virtually uploader had already set it for us so no worries. Put game folders into 'Games' binder. For game'southward updates, put it into its game's binder, and ever use the latest update (I have never tried DLC, deplorable).
  6. WUP games are to be put into 'Install' binder. For updates and DLCs, those folders are also put into 'Install' folder only y'all should pay attending to their folders' names to avoid having same name.
  7. Insert SD carte du jour and plug USB in the panel.
  8. Open up Internet Browser, and go to Loadiine.ovh (Y'all should bookmark the url)
  9. Select Homebrew Illuminati Launcher from drib-downward list and check the box to default-select for adjacent times. Click Submit.
  10. Let the browser practice its thing and it will get to a greenish screen. If it does not that means the video hang or white screen then you should reset the console or unplug power cable and expect to the cherry-red light is complete gone. Try step 8 & ix again.
  11. After the green screen, you volition be sent back to Wii U Menu, open up Internet Browser and access Loadiine.ovh over again. Y'all will be taken to Homebrew Launcher.
  12. Select Loadiine GX2 if you desire to play games from SD card. So cull the game to play, and you tin can select update version (if any) and DLC. If you want to go out from the game to Wii U Menu, simply click Home push button, and open Wii Maker (it is Homebrew Launcher until you completely close it), you will exist back to Loadiine GX2. Click Dwelling house button if you desire to go back to main screen of Homebrew Launcher to load other app. You don't demand to continue from here if yous don't use WUP Installer.
  13. Select CFW Booter, then choose fw.img (just the first time).
  14. You will run across a boot screen of the CFW to know it was booted successfully.
  15. Redo stride viii to eleven.
  16. Select WUP Installer GX2, and cull what games, updates & DLCs and location to install them.
  17. After installation is done, exit the homebrew launcher to Wii U Menu, you lot will see your installed games.
  18. Start playing!

For Wii games, yous can download some from Wii U USB Helper, and install with WUP Installer. And you are required to have a Nunchuck in society to play them.

Okay, my Wii U was updated to 5.v.2 by accident and Loadiine doesn't take a working exploit still. And so I seeked out for other method and i constitute this. It is super easy, it can become to Homebrew Launcher offline and it is PERMANENT. But yous will accept to buy a virtual console game from eShop. Just become to this youtube link to meet a walkthrough visually. Below are the steps to follow:

1. Purchase Brain Age… (it'due south a long proper name), it costs $half dozen.99.

ii. Download and install it.

3. Here is the link to download Haxchi files.

4. Download and extract it.

five. Put haxchi folder which is in a "Root" folder to the root of your SD carte du jour. The other one is in "wiiu" folder.

half dozen. Insert the sd card into wiiu.

7. Go to this url: http://u.drg.li, and click Exploit.

8. When you are HBL, click Haxchi Installer.

nine. Select Brain Age game and press A twice.

10. You should see Haxchi app on WiiU menu now, and you but demand to click on it to go to HBL. One time you are in there, everything is the same as in 5.5.1. Oh, and you can plough off its wireless connection because Haxchi is an offline exploit.

FYI : You still need to get the files of the first method to play game backups, this is just an exploit to permit you lot run CFW.