Background - Why Wii U? The Wii U has had a fairly small homebrew scene, I believe in part because it currently has no commercial nor open-source modchips for facilitating early-boot code execution. While there exists a coldboot boot1 vulnerability, isfshax, it leaves a lot to be desired, and it is unfortunately not useful for recovering consoles from an unknown state, since NAND is encrypted per-console based on an OTP key. Additionally, certain SEEPROM corruptions can cause consoles to neve...
