Briar S. 0xBEEB

What I wish I knew going into Wii U hacking

For the past six months I've been learning about hacking my Wii U. I could have completed this project in a weekend, but sometimes I get an itch to go further.

My goal has been to have the ultimate couch console where friends can play video games in the same place in front of the same screen (plus gamepad screen). After that first weekend I was able to play homebrew, and make game backups to play. It even came with new software to use PS3 controllers on the console as pro controllers. My console had become really cool, but it wasn't perfect. So, I began working on getting it from 75% to perfect to 95% perfect (see unfixed cons below).

The documentation for that first 75% is really good and simple, but it's so simple the learning curve to do more advance things is steep. The research involved included digging through decade old forum posts, out of date wikis, finding files in abandoned MEGA drive downloads, reading source code in a dozens of repos, and lots of t

Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

I am ubiquill on github.
I am polymerwitch (https://keybase.io/polymerwitch) on keybase.
I have a public key ASCzBkxe_UZY_GoaMpNZSAUu4y3zhzP5P-Vxu8zyAAdmaQo

To claim this, I am signing this object:

Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

I am ubiquill on github.
I am ubiquill (https://keybase.io/ubiquill) on keybase.
I have a public key whose fingerprint is 8FAF DA88 EEF9 64C2 00DC 251A F363 19AC CD01 E0A9

To claim this, I am signing this object:

	" Make Vim more useful
	set nocompatible
	filetype off

	set rtp+=~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim
	call vundle#begin()

	Plugin 'VundleVim/Vundle.vim'
	Plugin 'godlygeek/tabular'
	Plugin 'plasticboy/vim-markdown'

	# Goes through a git projects history and changes the name on commits
	# I needed this after changing my name, and coming out as transgender
	# in order to have my name show up correctly to the public.

	git filter-branch --commit-filter '
	if [ "$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME" = "Existing Dead Name" ];
	then
	GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="Authentic Name";
	GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="[email protected]";
	git commit-tree "$@";

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	# dircrypt.sh
	# Thomas Schreiber <[email protected]>
	# Uses symmetric encryption to encrypt and decrypt directories quickly.
	# A simple method to keep encrypted directories on OSX. A super lightweight
	# alternative to something like TrueCrypt.

	# Usage:
	# To Encrypt: