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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
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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…
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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…
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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…
