This isn’t the prettiest code I’ve ever written — it doesn’t have much of an interface, and I just threw this release together in a few minutes. However, it’s been exceedingly useful to me, and hopefully some of you will find it useful, too. I’ll quote the README here:
This program will do the following, automatically:
Download IOS11 from the Nintendo Update Server
Patch IT to remove the MEM2 Protection (so the PPC can access all 64MB of it)
Patch it to allow it to delete itself later using ES_DeleteTitle()
Find an unused IOS slot (counting downward from IOS255)
Install the hacked IOS11 there
Reboot into the hacked IOS
Copy the private key structure from the IOS address space into MEM1
Reboot back into a sane IOS
Delete the temporary, hacked IOS
Display the keys on screen
Try to write them to a file on the SD card — keys.txt
Pause for 60 seconds to allow you to copy the keys down using pen and paper,if necessary
I wrote this a week or two after I killed a Wii trying to reproduce tmbinc’s original Tweezer Hack. May it rest in peace.
The first version of this code just used a patched version of IOS, which was an ugly hack. It’s still an ugly hack, but at least it no longer contains copyrighted code. You should only really need to run it once on any given Wii, but it should be safe to run as much as you want. If nothing else, it demonstrates the kinds of ways you can use PatchMii_core to do something useful (as opposed to just running it and then packaging the result up as cIOS).
