I don’t comply with the Wii U scene extraordinarily carefully, however Youtuber Voultar has just lately dropped at gentle a considerably current hack of the console that permits to restore bricked WiiU consoles via software program means, with only a $8 Raspberry Pico.
Wii U – What’s UDPIH and the way can it assist with Error 160-0101?
Back in June 2022, Hacker GaryOderNichts launched UDPIH, a USB hack impacting the Wii U’s boot code. This hack is groundbreaking in a number of methods, specifically: 1) because it makes use of USB, no soldering abilities are required, and a couple of) it runs very early within the boot course of, that means it may be used to unbrick in a variety of instances.
The Wii U is a reasonably previous console, and though this hack actually didn’t circulate beneath the radar for fans, for the broader inhabitants (together with myself), this launch has been largely ignored. The result’s that a variety of mainstream web sites, and subsequently google, suppose that the one method to unbrick a Wii U is thru troublesome {hardware} mods that require soldering abilities. UDPIH modifications that.
Now, there’s a vary of Wii U errors that may truly be solved by reinstalling the OS via the UDPIH exploit (and related restoration menu). This apparently consists of error codes 160-0101 and 160-0103, at the least in Voultar’s assessments, however probably not in all instances.
Can UDPIH repair ALL Bricked Wii U consoles?
Basically if the error is only one of software program corruption of the system, rewriting the OS via the UDPIH exploit will certainly resolve it. If the underlying problem nonetheless is deeper (reminiscent of, however not restricted to, an truly broken reminiscence part), the instrument gained’t assist in fact. Or solely quickly.
Voultar mentions in his video that “evidently these [Wii U] methods have been dying left and proper”, implying the problem is on the rise. Although I don’t have any knowledge on that, if Wii U’s are beginning to fail due to previous age, I’m unsure how “everlasting” a repair reminiscent of reinstalling the OS will be. There is perhaps one thing deeper right here, consoles don’t simply corrupt themselves by magic. Now, it’s attainable that the consoles being repaired by Voultar had been truly corrupted via improper use of hacks or homebrew (and the eBay vendor didn’t know they might simply repair it), during which case the UDPIH restore will work long run. But, if as he claims, there is a rise in such failures on Wii U’s, it could possibly be attributable to a extra problematic part failure problem.
It would truly be fascinating to see if low-cost bricked Wii U’s will be acquired on p2p marketplaces for simple repairs, though I believe that with GaryOderNichts’s launch having occurred virtually a 12 months in the past now, the intelligent people within the Wii U scene have caught up on that already 🙂
In any case, in case your Wii U console seems to be bricked, and specifically if it exhibits error message 160-0101 or 160-0103, you undoubtedly need to give this unbrick methodology a strive.
Check out Voultar’s restore video under, in addition to obtain hyperlinks for the UDPIH instrument.
Download UDPIH for Wii U restore/unbrick
