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12 years is a very reasonable run. Thanks Nintendo, the hackers will take it from here.

• DownrightNifty 2y ago
  The hacking community has already taken DIY Wii U repair to a level beyond even what Nintendo was likely providing. For example, someone wrote a recovery menu that leverages an exploit in the USB stack and executes before the OS loads [1]. Many Wii Us also have SK Hynix NAND chips with high failure rates, which under normal circumstances would eventually result in a bricked console, but hackers found out how to replace it with an SD card and rebuild the internal storage from scratch onto it [2]. Hackers also revived the console's online service [3]. This was up and running even before the official service shut down. All very impressive achievements from the hacking community around a somewhat niche and commercially failed console. [1] https://github.com/GaryOderNichts/recovery_menu https://github.com/GaryOderNichts/recovery_menu [2] https://gbatemp.net/threads/how-to-upgrading-rebuilding-wii-u-internal-memory-mlc.636309/ https://gbatemp.net/threads/how-to-upgrading-rebuilding-wii-... [3] https://pretendo.network/ https://pretendo.network/