When Internal Memory Fails: A No-Solder Wii U Recovery

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11 pointsedgar_ortega2 comments

Very nice! But I was struck by this:

> The last time I had seriously dabbled with exploits and low-level recovery was when I spent months trying to revive a bricked M1 Max MacBook Pro. Several companies and repair shops had told me that getting through the problem was impossible, but after months of working at it, I finally got the machine running again on New Year’s Day 2024.

If the author is here would you please write up that story? I would also have thought it an impossible task so I’m fascinated by how you did it.

After copying the files, macOS created several ._* AppleDouble metadata files on the FAT32 partition. These are normally harmless on a Mac, but console recovery environments may interpret them as additional files, so I removed them before returning the card to the Wii U.

There is a setting which can help with Macs leaving those files on everything they touch: https://varunbarad.com/blog/til-avoid-ds-store

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