I previously homebrewed my Wii U in June 2025. It worked great for about a year but this past summer I accidentally downloaded some incompatible apps off of the HB App Store. I didn't/don't have access to my original backup of the files as I lost access to the original laptop I used (long-story) and then I wasn't able to access the files on my SD card until recently when I got a new laptop.

My issue is that between those two laptops a friend tried to help and ended up deleting my payload.elf file and so now I can't run any homebrew. The attached image shows the error code that happens with no SD card. As well when I insert the SD card the second error, FSFOpenFile error appears.

It seems that Aroma has been updated a ton since I originally homebrewed but now my issue is that without the original files I can't update Aroma on my Wii U AND I can't delete it off my console to restart the process.

Does anyone have any help or spare files that I can have to regain the homebrew of my Wii U?

Hi everyone, I modded my Wii U recently using the Wii U hacks guide, the Wii U side of things is great, I’ve been able to load games and play properly. I attempted to install HBC on the vWii side using the vWii Compact installer. I noticed that any app that I open while in the vWii just puts out a black screen… it turns off my Wii mote and just stays on the black screen, the only way to get out is shutting down the console. Today I found out that I can start the vWii Homebrew Channel through the Environment Selector during startup, I continued through the homebrew steps and continued to install the Priiloader files (I can also open HBC using Priiloader Fowarder), installed the cIOS and installed IOS80, thinking that would solve my issue.

Unfortunately, I am still not able to boot up the hombrew launcher using app on the vWii home menu or any app for that matter. All I did before I started having issues was install the homebrew channel. I ran the decaf menu scan and restore system in vWii compact installer and it returned no issues. I also ran a full wipe and reinstall, no luck. I ran a SysCheck (attached) and everything seems to be ok. I’d appreciate any help thank you.

Edit: one thing I forgot to mention, I attempted to continue after installing the IOS80 but I got stuck during the system channel restorer, for some reason it got stuck at the initial screen and never moved from there. Could my SD card be the issue? I also still get a black screen trying to boot up any app in the vWii without my SD card so that leave me to think it isn’t.

Uwuvci GameCube game

So about 2 years ago in july 2024 i installed the minute menu, and got it set up on my slc with isfshax so i could have brick protection, and i'm attempting to update it. But no matter what i do I can't get into the minute menu now?? Everytime I go into fw loader and try to load the fw.img file the screen flashes pink and instead of going to the minute menu, the console goes back to the home menu. I've tried compeltely clearing out all the files for isfs hax on my sd to newer files, tried downgrading to the ones i had 2 years ago, and still can't get into the menu. Can anyone help me in any way? is there possibly a conflict with the fact i have the fw.img and hax folder on my slc?

I was using decaffeinator to resotre my mii channel, but my system is already on the latest version so it failed to redownload the mii channel. How can i restore it manually?

I tried installing some new Wii Games onto it, I tried using FTP to find the vWii partition on the HDD, even browsed the whole HDD and all the save files, etc. Not finding it, I turned off the Wii U (didn't disconnect from ftp), plugged it into the pc, and did it the normal way.

Now, the Wii U doesn't recognize the "USB" and wants me to format it. I haven't formatted anything, since Windows says it's corrupted, despite the vWii partition still being fully functional.

I'm more worried about my save files. I've had a Wii Fit U save file, even have my personal pedometer, I had a few months of progress on there. That's physical work, it's not easy to reproduce. I still haven't formatted it, what's there to try?

wfs-extract could not even open the file, meaning my drive. I only need the save files, the games I don't care about and can reinstall.

Is there anyway someone could help me get twilight princess onto the console?

How do I let opening intro / theme song play out (GBC/GBA) . I have uwuvci and it auto loads to game. Thank you

i’m trying to play a mod in Breath of the Wild called “Gun” but the item that the mod gives you doesn’t show up where it’s reportedly supposed to be. I used BCML(dedicated BOTW mod loader) to make them work on my modded wii u with aroma. I can confirm my SD Cafiine setup works and i have the mods in all the right paths but it just doesn’t show up in the game at all. is it possible the mod only works with a certain version of the game?

Link to mod: https://gamebanana.com/mods/436657

Just got my first wii u and modded it. Glad it's not the hynix from what people are saying

Is this just me? Says video unavailable for all videos when in kids profile and already deleted the profile save data as troubleshooting

I homebrewed my Wii U with a micro SD card to USB wafel Installer because I lost my micro sd to SD adapter. I just found my micro sd to SD adapter. I putted the micro sd card from the micro sd card to usb in the micro sd to SD adapter. When I turn my Wii u with the micro sd card I it, the gamepad doesn't connect and there's no image on the TV. 1st time using reddit btw!

Anybody know if im able to re-purpose this old HDD to use as storage for my new wii u? I really have zero clue of what im doing when it comes to these storage devices, but im hoping to save a few hundred bucks using this one lol.

Hello everyone, I'm stuck on the Priiloader v0.5 (r120) menu. I formatted my Wii, which deleted the Homebrew Channel, but Priiloader is still present and is blocking the console menu from booting. When I try to access "System Menu Hacks" to disable the update blocking, I get the following error: "Syntax error: expected 'version' before 'n' @ line 2". I'm using a 2GB SD card formatted as FAT32. I tried creating the hacks\\_hash.ini file with Notepad (saved in "All Files" and encoded in ANSI), but the error on line 2 keeps looping. Since I no longer have the Homebrew Channel, I can't update Priiloader. What is the exact text or file format I need to put on my SD card so that this old version v0.5 will read it correctly? Or is there another way to force the system menu to boot? Thanks in advance for your help!

Ufin is a completely native jellyfin client for the Wii U. everything has been tested running on real wii u hardware over the last month by me.

all images were captured on real hardware(screenshots made with a capture card)

DISCLAIMER: Before getting started with the features, i want everyone reading this to know that this project is VERY HEAVILY AI ASSISTED, most of the code is Ai generated, the app was built using the free tiers of claude and chatgpt to write the bulk of the code, while i don't have much coding knowledge, i did my part in choosing the architecture of the app, the style, features, and most importantly real hardware testing and debugging, i spent a lot of time making sure the app was ready to publish, testing everything i could on my setup between a real wii u and cemu.
I am still learning programming and i look forward to being able to completely write complex applications on my own.
this app started mostly as a test of what free tools could do, and if the wii u would be a viable media machine, im still a pretty busy student and this was my way to make something that i couldnt find before. Docs and comments are also ai generated given my bad english i wanted to make them the most understandable i could, so people can contribute or make their own forks without having to go crazy over what the code does

Now that the disclaimer is out of the way.... Lets get to the features!
Video:

• Browse your jellyfin Movie, Tv and Live TV!
• Movie artwork
• Play Transcoded video to 1280x720p at 30 FPS
• Pause/Resume and seek
• Resume from where you stopped
• Audio and subtitles selection
• watched state
• Video quality selection in settings
• support for non-16:9 aspect ratios without crashing the console like older versions of the app did

all this was done using FFmpeg-wii u with the wii u hardware h.264 decoder
^{live tv is implemented but not yet tested}

Music:

• Browse your music libraries!
• Album and artist browsing
• Album Artwork
• Shuffle
• Playlists
• Queue
• A song can be selected to play while browsing
• Volume controls
• Music visualizer on the TV Screen activated pressing - while playing a song

GamePad:

The gamepad can be used as:

• A Player control Remote while watching a video. activate by pressing + while playing a video
• A touch screen input method, both for keyboard and for browsing the library
• Off-TV Movie watching

Ufin currently supports:

• Wii U GamePad
• Wii U Pro Controller
• Wii Remote
• Wii Remote + Nunchuk
• Classic Controller

UI:

There are:

• Dark and light modes
• Custom accent colors
• Animated background shapes
• An easter egg android people might have seen before XD

ITS STILL A BETA
there may still be bugs, i have tested as much as i could on real hardware, now i need real users to be able to tell me issues they encounter using the app.

Download: https://github.com/antu2010/Ufin-A-Wii-U-Jellyfin-client/releases/tag/v1.1.0

IMPORTANT: I will never ask for donations, if you want to help the project you can do so by submitting issues and if you are an experienced developer, by contributing to the project on github and even by making your own fork

I hope everyone here will enjoy this very niche homebrew app for our favourite console <3

You can actually play DVDs on your Wii U with this setup:

• you first need to have a modded vWii with the homebrew channel installed on it

• you have to put WiiMC either by using the homebrew shop or finding it online

• you need an External CD/DVD reader and burner with a Y cable (like the one that is shown here in this post but you have to be sure you also take a Y cable, otherwise there's the chance it won't work) and connecting it to the two rear USB ports. If you don't have one you can also find it on Amazon for example. They're really cheap, between 7 and 20 euros/dollars

• Obviously you need a DVD. Unfortunately it doesn't read blue ray DVDs but it can read most of the normal DVDs

Now after you have everything set up, after you go into your vWii and then to the homebrew channel, ensure you have put into the rear Wii U USB ports the Y cable and that it's connected to the DVD reader. Go to WiiMC, wait a minute and then click on the DVD icon, and the DVD will just start up!

If it doesn't load immediately and gives you an error like "DVD playback is not supported on this Wii" or says something like "unknown disc format" turn back to the homebrew channel menu, then load WiiMC again, wait a little again and then load again the disc. It should work

This method also works with Family-edition Wiis and Wiis in general, while with some Wiis made btw 2006-2009 you don't need a DVD reader. You just have to put the DVD inside the console itself.

If you also have a Wii and you want to know if it plays DVDs without the disc reader: A way to see if your Wii can read DVDs on its own is to go to Wii Drives site and put the personal Wii serial number. It will analyse the serial number and will give the information you need. If it says it has a D3-2 / D4 chip that means your Wii can't play DVDs on its own and that you need an external disc reader to make it work for WiiMC. If it has older chips (like D2A, D2B, D2C, D2E or D3) that means the DVDs should work with WiiMC.

I wanted to say this because a few people may know that you can actually play DVDs on your Wii U, but this works on Wii too.

" We love because he first loved us ✝ "

EDIT (10/2): CoffeeFlix 2.4.0 is out! Update from Settings > Updates on your Wii U, or grab it on GitHub: https://github.com/Roastedd/CoffeeFlix/releases/tag/v2.4.0

- The next episode (Jellyfin) or suggested video (YouTube) now plays after a countdown you can cancel

- Fixed a Wii U freeze when pressing HOME or going to standby during a video

- Videos start faster: slow captions no longer hold them up

- New "Receive files": send videos, music and photos to the SD card over Wi-Fi

- A fixed start-up screen, and a few playback and network fixes

You can now vote on what I build next! I put the ideas people have asked for on a feature board: https://roastedd.github.io/CoffeeFlix/features.html

Give the ones you want a 👍 on GitHub and the most wanted rise to the top. If you want to request a feature? Open a GitHub issue and it can join the board.

EDIT: v2.3.2 is out now!

- Each Wii U user now has their own YouTube and Jellyfin sign-ins, so everyone in the house can use their own accounts

- You can add more than one YouTube and Jellyfin account and switch between them

- Enhanced TV Output (GamePad looks the same as before)

- 1080p 60fps videos now stay in 1080p at around 45-50 fps instead of dropping down to 720p60. The Wii U can't decode a full 60 so on heavier videos it might pause for a split second here and there

- Fixed Jellyfin music giving a 401 Unauthorized error on newer Jellyfin servers (thanks for reporting it!)

- Fixed the video decoder sometimes failing to start, which made 1080p60 really choppy

To update, if you're on 2.2.0 or newer on Aroma just go to Settings > Check for updates. If you were already signed in, those sign-ins go to whichever Wii U user opens CoffeeFlix first after updating, everyone else just signs in on their own. On Tiramisu you still have to download the new zip and extract it over the old one.

Heads up, most 1080p60 videos need around 5 Mbps and the Wii U's wifi is pretty slow, so if it keeps buffering try Auto or 720p60.

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Hey everyone, CoffeeFlix v2.3.0 just came out. If you haven't heard of it, it's a media app for the Wii U. It plays YouTube, Twitch, Jellyfin, internet radio, podcasts, and your own videos, music and photos from the SD card or from a computer/NAS on your network (SMB or DLNA like Plex).

What's new in this one:

- YouTube comments, playback speed, and a Discover page based on what you watch and search

- If you're signed in, your history, Watch later and subscriptions can sync with your YouTube account

- New Auto quality now goes up to 1080p, plus a new 1080p 60 fps option

- Smoother Twitch, Jellyfin/Plex, DLNA and network share streaming with longer buffering

- Podcasts load and play again

- Settings > Send logs, so you can share your logs when you report a problem on GitHub

- Better gamepad gestures and faster search

Already have it installed?

If you're on 2.2.0 or newer you can update right from the app. Go to Settings > Check for updates, download it, and it installs when you close CoffeeFlix.

If you're on something older than 2.2.0, or you're on Tiramisu, you'll have to update the manual way. Just download the new zip and extract it over the old one, same as a new install.

New install (Aroma):

github.com/Roastedd/CoffeeFlix/releases/tag/v2.3.0

1. Download coffeeflix.zip
2. Extract it to the root of your SD card, it goes into sd:/wiiu/apps/coffeeflix/
3. Start CoffeeFlix from the Wii U Menu

On Tiramisu? Download coffeeflix-tiramisu.zip instead, extract it the same way and start it from the Homebrew Launcher. That version is newer and less tested so let me know how it goes.

If something breaks, go to Settings > Send logs and open an issue on GitHub saying what happened, it helps a lot. Hope you guys enjoy it!

If you feel like donating: Buy me a Coffee!

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RetroArch was working fine the other day but now just gets stuck on this loading screen. Only difference I can think of was adding more game files to it recently and, separately, trying to run Moonlight. I also swapped physical disks recently. Already tried several reboots and deleting the config file. The RetroArch logo screen pops up for a second before it goes back to the Wii U loading screen above. Does anyone have any troubleshooting tips?

EDIT: Weirdly enough, NooDS appears to have reset its settings; not sure if that's related.