With the release of UDPIH it is now possible to unbrick CBHC bricks without requiring any soldering!

Requirements​

• A FAT32 formatted SD Card
• One of the devices listed below
  Note: Any other linux device capable of USB device emulation should work as well.
  Prebuilt releases are only available for the Pico and Zero.
  I will add more devices below which are confirmed to work.

Supported devices:​

• A Raspberry Pi Pico or Zero
• A Nintendo Switch capable of running udpih_nxpayload

If you don't have a supported Pi or Switch, I recommend buying a Raspberry Pi Pico. They're the easiest to use and only cost around 5 bucks.

Setting up UDPIH​

Head over to the UDPIH post and follow the Intructions for your device until you're booted into the Recovery Menu.

Changing the coldboot title​

Once on this screen make sure the cursor is on "Set Coldboot Title", and press the POWER button on the console itself (not the controller or GamePad)

Press the EJECT button on the console until the Wii U menu entry corresponding to your console region is highlighted.
If you don't know your console region, check the second letter of your serial number on the bottom of the console:

• "A" (Australia) (Australian consoles are running EUR firmware)
• "E" (Europe)
• "J" (Japan)
• "W" (North America)

Then press the POWER button.
If everything worked out you should see the following screen:

Now press EJECT and you should be back on the main menu. Navigate to Shutdown using the EJECT button and press POWER.
Your console should power off.

Now remove the Pi from the console, and power it back on. Your console should boot back into the Wii U menu.

And yeah that's it!

If this helped you to unbrick your console, feel free to support me on ko-fi!

 

[chrisrlink]

sweet i'm glad no soldiering is needed anymore you should ask this to be frontpaged as this is HUGE NEWS

 

[Lazr1026]

Finally, Some good news!

 

[Alexander1970]

Awesome Work again @GaryOderNichts

Looking at your Developer "History":

Thanks to your many,many Work and
Wii U / vWii Recovery Tools,
you are our Man for saving Wii U´and vWii´s.
Outstanding Work(s) and thank you very,very much !!!!​

 

[throwaway873716]

Time to brick my Wii U then unbrick it

 

[chrisrlink]

With the release of UDPIH it is now possible to unbrick CBHC bricks without requiring any soldering!

Requirements​

• A FAT32 formatted SD Card
• A Raspberry Pi Pico or Zero
  Note: Any other linux device capable of USB device emulation should work as well.
  Prebuilt releases are only available for the Pico and Zero.
  I will add more devices below which are confirmed to work.

If you don't have a supported Pi, I recommend buying a Pico. They're the easiest to use and only cost around 5 bucks.

Setting up UDPIH​

Head over to the UDPIH post and follow the "Intructions" for your controllers until you're booted into the Recovery Menu.

Changing the coldboot title​

Once on this screen make sure the cursor is on "Set Coldboot Title", and press the POWER button on the console itself (not the controller or GamePad)
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Press the EJECT button on the console until the Wii U menu entry corresponding to your console region is highlighted.
If you don't know your console region, check the second letter of your serial number on the bottom of the console:

• "E" (Europe)
• "J" (Japan)
• "W" (North America)

Then press the POWER button.
If everything worked out you should see the following screen:
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Now press EJECT and you should be back on the main menu. Navigate to Shutdown using the EJECT button and press POWER.
Your console should power off.

Now remove the Pi from the console, and power it back on. Your console should boot back into the Wii U menu.

And yeah that's it!

If this helped you to unbrick your console, feel free to support me on ko-fi!

was thinking can this be used to hack the console like the 9.00 ps4 exploit? but without the need for the web exploit?

 

[ber71]

sweet i'm glad no soldiering is needed anymore you should ask this to be frontpaged as this is HUGE NEWS

Agreeded. Some people could become aware of this, and many bricked wiiu can be bringed back from the graveyard.

 

[Lostbhoy]

@GaryOderNichts, man do you ever sleep?? You are a machine and one I'm glad we have here providing such goodies!!

I'll send you a little support for all your efforts my friend. This is pretty awesome!

 

[Valery0p]

This is obviously amazing, but just to be clear:
I'm unaware of bricks when installing Tiramisu/FailST, but in case something like that happened this won't be able to recover it, right?

Same if you screwed up your nand/boot1 bad enough I guess.

 

[Lazr1026]

This is obviously amazing, but just to be clear:
I'm unaware of bricks when installing Tiramisu/FailST, but in case something like that happened this won't be able to recover it, right?

If you somehow mess up the health and safety and brick, it's recoverable with this, but that will likely not happen. lol

 

[Reecey]

I haven’t posted for a very longtime for very good reasons but I couldn’t control myself sorry… this is huge news congrats @GaryOderNichts fantastic work this will make many WiiU owners extremely happy! This should definitely be front page news alongside his UDPIH Exploit.

 

[Duamutef_MC]

GaryUberAlles! ^___^

You're amazing. If you knew how many bricked Wii U's will come from back from the underworld like an army of zombies.

 

[xxNathanxx]

Congratulations, excellent work!

 

[MikaDubbz]

Does this recovery menu allow for the deletion of titles installed to the Wii U, or can it be made to allow that? My brick on my original Wii U was quite dumb, though it wasn't by means of a typical CBHC brick, but I know what I need to do to fix it. I was following a not fully explained guide that stated if you put multiple N64 roms inside of the rom folder of an N64 VC game, that the VC title will load a menu where you select which Rom to load, that part worked, but selecting an alt Rom did not load, and in fact bricked that Wii U (the N64 VC title was installed to the system, not USB). I know that if I can just delete that VC title from that Wii U, it should unbrick it.

 

[GaryOderNichts]

Does this recovery menu allow for the deletion of titles installed to the Wii U, or can it be made to allow that? My brick on my original Wii U was quite dumb, though it wasn't by means of a typical CBHC brick, but I know what I need to do to fix it. I was following a not fully explained guide that stated if you put multiple N64 roms inside of the rom folder of an N64 VC game, that the VC title will load a menu where you select which Rom to load, that part worked, but selecting an alt Rom did not load, and in fact bricked that Wii U (the N64 VC title was installed to the system, not USB). I know that if I can just delete that VC title from that Wii U, it should unbrick it.

You can delete files on the system using wupserver/wupclient.

 

[MikaDubbz]

You can delete files on the system using wupserver/wupclient.

You are the man. Thank you sir!

 

[wiindsurf]

Wow, thanks!

 

[hatredg0d]

was thinking can this be used to hack the console like the 9.00 ps4 exploit? but without the need for the web exploit?

To understand, this is an omission in the parsing of USB descriptors. With these descriptors, USB devices provide different information about themselves – e.g. USB version, manufacturer and product ID… On startup, device descriptors are first read from USB , followed by configuration descriptors. These descriptors do not have a fixed size, but themselves define their size in a predefined field. Also, some fields additionally need to be byte-wapped, as they are only available in Little Endian, but are needed in Big Endian.

Nintendo failed to check if the stated size matched the actual size, allowing for “out-of-bounds” byte swapping. GaryOderNichts’ blog post goes into more detail.

 

[Carlos_DobleC]

I've been waiting for something like this for 5 years, I'm so grateful!

 

[vlraptor]

can i use this menu to unbrick for update fail or update power off brick