Unable to Fix my Bricked Wii U

[Rynatic]

I just brought my Wii U out from storage to play again, but I ran into the fatal Error 160-0103 right away when trying to access the system Settings. So I followed a few YouTube videos on how to fix it by getting Raspberry Pi and using the UDPIH to access the recovery menu. However, it did nothing for my system. I would still run into the same error whenever I tried to opening the Settings, a Disc Game, anything really! But now when I tried to open the Mii Maker and I get a new Error 160-2215. I don't know if this error was prevalent before I tried to repair my Wii U since the only application I opened beforehand was the Settings. I will attach the logs I downloaded from my console. I don't really know what to do from here or how to read the logs. I tried looking at few other threads, but a lot of the technicality is foreign to me. Hopefully one of you can help me down below and give me a clearer direction in where to go. From what I can sort of tell from the logs is that I don't think it's a defective eMMC, but I could be wrong. I would greatly appreciate any help I can get.

 

[SDIO]

It's a failing Hynix eMMC 100%.

From 28.log (and also many others)

00:01:29:177: mmc_core card err: idx=3, lba=51596544, blks=127, xfer=0x1, ret=0x00200b40
00:01:29:195: mmc_core card err: idx=3, lba=51596544, blks=127, xfer=0x1, ret=0x00200b40
00:01:29:195: mdblk: err=-131099, mid=0x90, prv=0x5c, pnm=[HYNIX ]
00:01:29:196: FSA: ### MEDIA ERROR ###, dev:mlc01, err:-2228230, cmd:11, path:(null)
00:01:29:210: mmc_core card err: idx=3, lba=51596544, blks=127, xfer=0x1, ret=0x00200b40
00:01:29:228: mmc_core card err: idx=3, lba=51596544, blks=127, xfer=0x1, ret=0x00200b40
00:01:29:228: mdblk: err=-131099, mid=0x90, prv=0x5c, pnm=[HYNIX ]
00:01:29:228: FSA: ### MEDIA ERROR ###, dev:mlc01, err:-2228230, cmd:11, path:(null)

Have a look at the "Failing eMMC" section here: https://gbatemp.net/threads/ultimat...reset-black-screen-after-stuck-update.642339/ to see which option is right for you. But I would recommend installing ISFShax before it gets worse or bricks completely.
If you have further questions just ask.

If you need a NAND-AID you can ask @V10lator for one

 

[Rynatic]

So I was able to get a 128GB SD Card working with FAT32 and in the process of Set Up ISFShax. But I'm stumped on putting the stroopwaffle in the wiiu plugin. Where do I get the wiiu/ios_plugins to put the stroopwaffle into?

 

[SDIO]

You create these folders by hand

 

[Rynatic]

You create these folders by hand

But it won't let me create a folder with a forward slash " / "

 

[SDIO]

You create a folder wiiu and inside that ios_plugins. / Is the path delimiter

 

[Rynatic]

Alright, I followed the rest of the instructions on setting up the SD and went to the next step to "Launching into minute". But the "Load BOOT1 payload" didn't show up in the recovery_menu. Is there somewhere specific I have to place minute "fw.img" and "boot1.img" ?

 

[SDIO]

Do you use the right recovery menu? The one linked in the tutorial?

 

[Rynatic]

Do you use the right recovery menu? The one linked in the tutorial?

Oh, didn't know there were different recovery menus. My bad

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Do you use the right recovery menu? The one linked in the tutorial?

So I was able to follow the rest of the steps a finish setting up ISFShax. But now I'm not able to get to the recovery menu to backup my saved games. Is there a way to go back and do this?

 

[SDIO]

UDPIH should still work. You just need to adjust your timing a little bit. You need to use Patch (sd) boot (slc) option in minute to boot and then udpih works as usual. If you don't use UDPIH it should boot as usual when selecting this option

 

[Rynatic]

I was able to backup my data. Now what's the process to merge mlc.bin.part files in the right order? I looked up to find the wfs-extract and I found a GitHub link that I'm pretty sure is the one that is mentioned, but it says that it's for Mac and I'm on Windows:

https://github.com/koolkdev/wfs-tools

Is there one I can find for Windows somewhere?

 

[SDIO]

You can merge it with the copy command:

copy /b mlc.bin.part01 + mlc.bin.part02 + (...) + mlc.bin.part15 mlc.bin

And you find the Windows binary for wfs-extract on the release page: https://github.com/koolkdev/wfs-tools/releases

For extracting the saves you would then use

wfs-extract --input mlc.bin --output extracted_saves --otp otp.bin --mlc --dump-path usr/save

 

[Rynatic]

You can merge it with the copy command:

copy /b mlc.bin.part01 + mlc.bin.part02 + (...) + mlc.bin.part15 mlc.bin

And you find the Windows binary for wfs-extract on the release page: https://github.com/koolkdev/wfs-tools/releases

For extracting the saves you would then use

wfs-extract --input mlc.bin --output extracted_saves --otp otp.bin --mlc --dump-path usr/save

I was able to merge the mlc.bin's into one file with copy command. Then once I went for the extracting for the file it says the OTP failed to open:

 

[SDIO]

Do you have the otp.bin there? You might need to adjust the path to the otp bin, to wherever you have it

 

[Rynatic]

I moved the otp.bin to the same folder, but seems like there were a lot of errors with this code for the extracting...

 

[SDIO]

Yes that's the result of the corruption. It is what it is.

 

[Rynatic]

Btw do I need the mlc.bin file on my SD card? I've tried moving it back, but for some reason it keeps saying there's not enough space even though the file size is 29GB and my SD card has 88GB of free space...

 

[SDIO]

No, you don't need it on the SD, we extracted the files we wanted from it

 

[Rynatic]

Just want to makes sure if this looks right before I apply

 

[SDIO]

looks good to me. I wouldn't assign a letter to the ntfs partition or windows will want to format it once it was formatted by the mlc setup.
Also I would make the NTFS partition bigger, but thats up to your preferences an needs.