An assortment of Nintendo development kits. Clockwise from the top-left: New Nintendo 3DS XL "Panda", PARTNER-CTR Debugger, CAT-I kiosk unit, CAT-R Reader, RVT-R Reader, RVT-H Reader.

GerbilSoft's Random Shenanigans

  • rom-properties 2.2.1

    Announcing rom-properties 2.2.1. (This post will substitute for a 2.2 announcement, which I was planning on making, but never got around to doing.) rom-properties 2.2 added these new features: 1

    July 31, 2023
  • UDPIH and recovery_menu

    There’s been a lot of buzz recently about the UDPIH exploit for Wii U (and its associated recovery_menu frontend), but included in this buzz is a lot of misinformation as to what UDPIH is capable of doing. (tl;dr recovery_menu can fix certain types of bricks, but if the eMMC chip is actually failing, the only…

    March 21, 2023
  • Dumping Wii U Kiosk Systems without Hardmods

    Dumping Wii U Kiosk Systems without Hardmods

    (This is an updated version of a thread I originally posted on GBAtemp in March 2021.) The current method for dumping a Wii U kiosk system (CAT-I, CAT-SES) requires using a hardmod to dump the eMMC, then using Recovery Mode to install SDK 2.13.01 and dumping the keys. It turns out that, if the kiosk…

    August 27, 2022
  • rvthtool: An Introduction

    rvthtool: An Introduction

    In January 2018, while browsing eBay, I saw two listings for Nintendo devkits: an RVT-R Reader, and an RVT-H Reader. On a whim, I decided to buy them. Searching around for information on how to use the RVT-H Reader, I found some posts on ASSEMbler Games that indicated the RVT-H Reader used a proprietary encryption…

    August 8, 2022
  • Soon…

    Soon…

    August 5, 2022

GerbilSoft's Random Shenanigans

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