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Quick update on the hardware side of things: I finally wired up USB. The top port is the 'USB0' port (for vWii stuff I guess?) and the bottom port is one of the front USB ports, just in case I need to boot into the recovery_menu for whatever reason (the UDPIH exploit only works on the front USB...

Thanks haha, it seems like I always make things look trivial.. lol. Eventually I would want to pull that pin high, but I dont have good access to it atm

I got the system to boot today! I gave up on trying to use an eMMC, so I am just using a redirected MLC. Works quite well (even with my less-than-ideal SD card wiring). The partition size for the MLC is just the standard 32GB. It's a 64GB SD card and I don't want/need any crazy sizes to store...

Be prepared for a picture-heavy post, today has been a long day for me and got lots of work done, and I come with great news! Relocated the 5Ghz module (the one used for the Gamepad). It took me a few tries but after changing my routing and adding the resistors, it worked immediately. Next I...

The Japanese Wii Us have arrived. Both are WUP-50s! As you can probably already tell by the image, I already tore one apart and am going to be using that one for the Wii U Mini. The other board I showcased here I started sanding down instead since it was most likely dead when I tried something...

I've started sanding + scanning the WUP-50 mobo. It is only half of the board, but the other half is pretty much the same as the WUP-01 and the half I am sanding will be useful for a compendium for troubleshooting trims (since the LOLWUT trim line is in this area) and a complete pinout of the...

I lied, they were quite cheap. About $25 in total (the boards, a stencil, and shipping). I also had to redesign the SD slot slightly, I didn't realize that the one I used was actually a hinge-style, so I switched to the SD slot used on the cafeflex.

I actually started designing the flex not long after ordering the boards and BOM for the minireg. I'm pretty sure i've put everything I wanted on here, minus some TPs for the SMC if someone wanted to use those. It will be a while before i order these though. Spent sooo much money last night...

I forgot to mention this in last nights post, but the RPi5 power supply is handling the WUP-30 like a champ. It was running at 15v, but now I'm confident that it can power the WUP-50 with 5v. It might work with the previous board revs, but honestly supporting them with this makes no sense to me...

I started (and finished) the reg board: I'm calling it "minireg" because..well, its for the Wii U Mini. Since I am still a big noob at KiCAD, I based the design off Yveltals bistro, because it already had whats needed and it wasn't very difficult to adapt for this. The design is open-source...

After the thread creation, I wired up the bistro just to test the board (since I haven't actually powered it on in awhile). I also wired up the SMC/RTC and a pico (because I love the logging with the pico): But the system doesn't power on.. I am 99% sure I have the SMC and RTC soldered...

Guess it's my turn for one of these. I've been planning on doing something like this ever since I saw Yveltal's Preliminary trim and how similar it looked to the Wii Mini, and with the Wii Micro being a thing, I thought something similar could be done with the Wii U. I cut out a Wii U board...

this is from memory, but i think its mostly correct: purple - RTC EXI green - some TP400X pins. i doubt they are for the other players. blue - DRAM teal(?) - nRST red - 3v3 yellow - 1.5v black - GND grey - pins i tried but didn't work

i forgot to write on this thread, oops. i started to RE the Wii U SoC to try and find the other players, but i come back with some bad news.. The Orange pad is P1/TP69. One would assume that the other players would be near it, so thats where i started. All of the pads that are colored are for...

earlier today I tried finding the other player data lines, but was unsuccessful. I heavily doubt they exist, but I will still keep looking.

As the title says, yeah, you can do it. Not sure how useful it is for stock consoles but it could be a good Gamepad replacement for portables. In this context, GCC = GameCube Controller. How to do it: Get a GCC extension cable you wouldnt mind destroying OR steal the GCC ports from a Wii (or...

The SATA port is limited to GEN2 SATA, so the speed of a modern SSD won't really matter

The Wii Us SD bus is quite slow, so it can't exactly take advantage of a high speed SD card, but the Wii U is just pretty slow in general. You can mount a SATA SSD as a USB device for extra storage, but if you are using a rednand, you should get a decently sized SD card instead.

Honestly, I'd say that the best way for an eMMC relocation is simply don't and use a redNAND. Jan has been making some good progress with redNAND, and now you don't even need a real eMMC to use a redNAND. It shouldn't be a big issue either on the software side, since portables should have...

Here with another update! This should make trimming much better for everyone. The Wii Bluetooth module works (almost) completely fine on the Wii U! For those who don't know, every Wii BT module has those testpads you see I soldered the wires to. This is not the case on the Wii Mini/Wii U (but...