Loadiine (First Backup Loader for Wii-U) Released
Loadiine by developer Golden45 is the first backup loader for Wii-U. It loads backups from your sd card. It needs a version 5.3.2 Wii-U and Super Smash Bros for Wii-U disc right now.
After the webkit exploit for 5.3.2 Wii-U surfaced, all the fun stuff for Wii-U began. Game hacking/modding, Virtual Console injecting, RAM manipulation and so on. Unavoidably, a backup loader called Loadiine has been released. Right now Loadiine needs a 5.3.2 Wii-U (it MIGHT be backported to previous firmwares) and a Super Smash Bros disc. Compatibility isn’t great at the moment, but some big games like Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze and Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate work. The compatibility will probably be much better in following days/weeks.
If your Wii-U is below 5.3.2, you can wait for Loadiine to support your firmware (no guarantee) or you can update to 5.3.2 via disc. Yoshi’s Wooly World and Splatoon contain 5.3.2 firmware update for offline updating. Double check before updating though as you never know there is a new disc print with higher firmware version.
If your Wii-U is above 5.3.2, unfortunately there is nothing to do for now except for waiting. I hate to say that, but we told you not to update to 5.4.0. Still, there are some private webkit exploits including a kernel exploit for higher firmwares, so who knows, they might be public soon.
For the Readme and Download visit the thread at GBATEMP
Amazing it begins, great news.
Sigh, Vita… So secure >:
it’s been proven several times that the vita isnt all that secure. Theres just no interest in pirating crappy games on a crappy handheld.
wow but c’mon the wii u? it has more crappy games and has sold less than the vita itself, but nintendo has always had the worst anti piracy system since ngc times.
The Wii U has a small install base, but it has a lot of highly regarded (Metacritic 90+) games. When Nintendo can move even a million copies of Super Mario Maker, it indicates there’s a lot of interest in the console despite its small install base.
The fact that it has sold better in the West than the Vita also helps, since most of the hackers are out here.
The 3DS was pretty good, despite still being fairly bug-ridden
It took some years.
I’m rooting for the Vita
Here-be as this miracle has happened with a PS Vita!!
First!
NIce. Pity i auto updated.
I might have to turn off the auto updates and wait for the next release.
Yup, that would be the logical thing to do if you care about hacking.
So now all last-gen consoles are open? Interesting.
Wii-U is more or less current gen. It is debatable though.
You obviously didn’t catch that it was a dig at Nintendo’s cutting edge hardware
Marginally ‘better’ than the PS3/X360 doesn’t qualify it as current gen.
Stop making up arbitrary rules for what can and what can’t be called “current gen”. Current generation just means what it means: it is the latest iteration and there is no new one, and how much it is “better” has nothing to do with it. Oh, and “better” isn’t really an objective term. Fpr me PS3 is “better” than Wii U, because it had a huge number of good games.
In case of Wii U the term “current gen” can be debated due to its release way before PS4 and Xbox 360, but it has nothing to do with how much it’s “better”.
Way before? 1 year earlier. That’s like saying that the PS3 and the 360 aren’t part of the same generation.
So… The Dreamcast is “current gen”?
I just need to know how to backup my Wii U Disc. I Alredy own many games It’s will be great play then from SD then to change disc all the time!!! There is anyway to bkp then or download?
Google DiscU
Reprep @ DiscU doesnt backup image from Disc. It’s just extract content from .iso / I need a tool that i can backup my Wii U games.
oh, that was what i meant, extracting from ISO. It isn’t possible to achieve what you want afaik. From all i know, ripping a Wii U disc from scratch isn’t public info.
I think TCPGecko can do this. (Not sure, though).
Take a look at https://www.youtube.com/user/MrBean35000vr, he has a video showing how to manipulate game data, it might help you.
TCPgecko might allow you to dump 90% of the game, but so far we don’t have a public tool that can dump all the game files with rpx etc..
Great!
Quation is, does anybody knows where to find “isos” of WiiU games to test this?
hmm, google?
One word, Torrents. But I’m not telling you what websites has them 😉
Except unless you’re a fanboi theres barely any games for it worth playing ;/
If i ever had enough money to waste it on wii u it wouldn’t hit me hard to buy legit copies of the few games that’d interest me.
Now if only vita was broken.. this one actually has more than enough titles that’d interest me.
Actually there’s a ton of good games for the wii u way more than the ps4/xb1 you should check them out even the upcoming ones
Yeah bunch of same milked.Mario and Zelda game
Rinse and repeat since the NES 20 yrs ago
GRRR…I’m on 5.5….updated for Super Mario Maker….well, this is just the beginning of backup loaders….like pretty much every other console, it was just a matter of time before its expanded to higher firmware versions…
I would suggest however that you block auto updates if you care about hacking your Wii U in the future ;). the team has a private exploit for 5.5.0 now, but nothing can guarantee you that next firmwares would be exploitable.
FWIW, also confirmed as working with the Eshop version of Super Smash Bros for Wii-U 😉
Thanks a lot, it wasn’t confirmed at the time of writing this. That is some good info and it will help many.
I am currently at 4.1.0 (Mario Kart 8, if I remember correctly). There is nothing special to 4.X.X firmwares in regards of homebrew like with the vita (more access to memory, higher cpu clock rate which provides better compatibility in the future or something similar)?
I recently bough a Wii U Console only with power supply on eBay for less than $120 and was pleased to find out it had 5.3.2 so i am all good to go.
With the gamepad or just the console itself Vogt ?
£58 console only on ebay a couple of nights ago because my current wii u was on 5.5, I love my wii u so £58 is a bargain
Did, jp version 5.3.2 work?
Yeah, you need a jp version smash bros though. Wii U is region locked.
I’m sure we are not wanting piracy just let us put some kind of android with playtime access
The. It will be the best portable
Playstore*
how do i get the rpx file?
how do i get the rpx files?
you need an app called DiscU and the per disc key found in scene release nfo files to extract the WUD (ISO)
Despicable, disgusting news. Can’t wait for the struggling Wii U to get pirated to death.
Caladinho. Xiu.
I would like to play GameCube on my wiiu gamepad.