If you look inside the zip file, you will find two directories: wiiu and haxchi. I used Jack Sorrel’s modified Hachi files for this, which can be found here. Once Haxchi is installed, you can get rid of it (and in fact you should!) Yes, there is a Haxchi homebrew application, but that is only used to install Haxchi. There is a customised icon for Haxchi, but remember that Haxchi isn’t a homebrew application, but an exploit. There are no icons for homebrew applications on my system menu. I have a Haxchi icon on my system menu that, once loaded, will automatically launch the homebrew launcher application which lists all homebrew applications that are installed on my Wii U. Haxchi is not configured to be executed during boot (CBHC is not installed). Forget about Cold Boot Haxchi and customise Haxchi instead There must be a better option, right? In fact I believe there is. If the Haxchi install is moved, deleted or reinstalled, or if the user account that acquired the software that was exploited by Haxchi is removed, the console will BRICK (see here). However this is an extremely dangerous patch. Remember that if one accidentally run a homebrew application before Haxchi, the system will freeze on a 199-9999 error.Ī proposed solution is to install an additional patch known as CBHC (Cold Boot HaxChi), which will ensure that HaxChi is executed as soon as the Wii U is booted. Plus there is plenty of room for human error. While way more convenient than having to launch an URL on the Wii U Browser to activate the exploit, it is still annoying having to run Haxchi, wait to be sent back to the system menu, and then run the homebrew application. The main point of Haxchi is the convenience of having an icon at the system menu. So your Wii U still thinks that this egg is legitimate. Haxchi can hack certain games by emptying the egg of its contents, and injecting its own code inside, while leaving the egg shell intact. The signature is built within the egg’s shell. When a game is downloaded it is “digitally signed” to work with your Wii U console. Haxchi works by modifying a game downloaded from the Wii U shop. But in fact it applied the exploit that allow the execution of homebrew. By default, when you Execute Haxchi its seems like it just re-loads the system menu. Haxchi is an exploit that allows users to launch homebrew directly from the Wii U system menu by clicking on an icon. While there are many exploits available for the Wii U, they often involve taking a series of steps such as opening an URL via the web browser. An exploit will allow for such code to be executed. This is expected because of Wii U’s protection that disallows unauthorised software. If you install a homebrew software on your Wii U and you try to load it directly, the system will return an error (normally a 199-9999 error) and will halt and will only recover with a cold reboot (turn off then back on). This is often done by exploiting bugs in software, such as specific copies of games and flaws in the Wii U system software. In order to execute homebrew software in the Wii U, one must bypass the Wii U protections built by Nintendo. But for the sake of completeness, I’ll give a very short overview. I take that readers of this post have some degree of awareness about Haxchi. I will not dwell too much on the mistakes I made, except when relevant to the ultimate purpose of this post, which is to detail what I think is the best way of launching and configuring Haxchi on the console. So this post is my way of share what I have learned. Well I made a few boo-boos in the process, and I learned a lot about Haxchi from it. I replaced it with a card from a more serious brand, and I took the opportunity to update some of the homebrew apps. It became permanently read-only in less than an year. So I was using a cheap SD card with my Wii U to keep all of my homebrew apps for both the Wii U and the virtual Wii (vWii), and the card didn’t last long. Why? Because it can play all Wii U and Wii games, and once hacked it gives one the access to Homebrew and emulations spanning every generation that came before it! Preamble Yes, I still have a Nintendo Wii U and I think it is one of the best consoles ever.
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