Nintendo Wii U Guide

Nintendo Wii U console

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Definition

The Nintendo Wii U is Nintendo's third and last optical based console released in 2012. The Wii U uses single-layer encrypted Blu-ray discs. Development and Kiosk discs were distributed on burnt BD-Rs called CAT-R discs which can be read by any PC Blu-ray drive. As of this time, there is no dumping solution for retail Wii U discs on PC.

CAT-R

"Kiosk" CAT-R discs that update a CAT-I Kiosk console by adding/removing Demos/Videos/etc should be Applications category (including firmware updates).

Demos category ([1]) is limited to single-game demos (generally pressed discs).

Ringcode

616C0902<tab>WUP-P-AXFP-0X JPN S0—The bold character indicates Revision number. Add revision to datname and version field (Rev X)

Serials

Example: WUP-P-AALE-USA-0

• WUP: Generic ID for Wii U (Wii U P????)
• P: P for Retail, H for Kiosk(?)
• AALE: 4 character ID for specific game, breakdown below.
• USA: Region identifier, guide below.
• 0: Label variant, does not guarantee data difference. (Unlike past systems, original label starts at 0)

Game ID

XYYZ

If unique, (nearly) guaranteed to be unique dump.

• X
  • A: Game
  • B: Game
  • C: Game
  • H: Game(?)
  • W: Game(?)

• YY
  • Any combination of A-Z and 0-9
  • Specific per game

• Z
  • D: Germany
  • E: USA or NTSC-U
  • J: Japan or NTSC-J
  • P: Europe or PAL
  • R: Russia
  • X: Australia or Scandinavia
  • Z: Any

Serial Regions

Different region does not mean different disc data.

• AUS: Australia
• EUR: Europe
• EUZ: Europe (Alt)
• GER: Germany
• JPN: Japan
• MDE: Middle East
• RUS: Russia
• SCN: Scandinavia
• USA: United States