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You hack the Wii U with a DS game?
It needs to not be on the latest firmware as well, right?
It's very easy and works best if you are on the latest firmware. You just need a Wii U, a 16 or 32gb SD card, a copy of Brain Age on your Wii U, and the guide here:
https://wiiu.guide/I also got a USB hard drive to copy games onto, but you can put it on your internal storage if you want. I went the route on there with Haxchi but did not so the Coldboot Haxchi step cause I didn't want to brick my system if I fucked up. The only difference that makes is you have to manually open the Haxchi (basically just the hack) app every time you start the Wii U. I also skipped the NAND backup cause all the hack is all stored on the SD card if you don't do the coldboot step.
To get all the games just download
uTikDownloadHelper. This downloads the games directly from the Nintendo eShop servers (sidenote:
@ Nintendo security), so they are legit. It'll ask you a question the first time you open the downloader but just google the question and you'll get a URL. Put the URL in and you are set. So far the only games I've seen that don't work are Mass Effect and COD Ghosts. Otherwise everything seems to work great, even JP and EU games and all DLC/updates.
It will also just play any regular discs you have with no issue too. The only real downside is any previous save/update/DLC you have from a disc based game won't work with a pirated game.