My WII U seems to have turned into a brick.

[papab]

I tried to do ISFShax before but failed. My vWii system kept crashing, so I used vWii Decaffeinator to reset it. I changed the boot option to menu to run system settings and system apps, but it just showed a blank screen. Annoyed, I checked the storage SLC on my Wii U, but I accidentally moved the mouse cursor and modified the file. Hastily, I launched the virtual console, but it gave me the 199-9999 error. Panicked, I turned off the Wii U. The next day, I found that the Wii U was not broadcasting any screen, and the Wii U gamepad was also not recognized.

I tried using UDPIH, but I still got nothing but a black screen. Is there any way to recover from this brick?

Additionally, the nand was not restored.

Here is the current list of files on your Wii U.

storage_slc
sys
config
import
logs
proc
acp
nsec
prefs
usb
security
rights
sys
ticket
apps
sys
tmp
title
tmp

 

[SDIO]

What is the power LED doing?

 

[papab]

The power LED only seems to be red when off and blue when on, no purple.

 

[SDIO]

And when you try UDPIH with different timings?

But probably a defuse case: https://consolemods.org/wiki/WiiU:De_Fuse

 

[papab]

The Wii U thought it was reading the disc once or twice, and as soon as it stopped, I inserted the SD card and plugged in the Raspberry Pi to check, but the power button was blue instead of purple and the screen didn't display.

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It seems that all I have left is the OTP file from the Wii U. Could you please advise me on what I can do with the OTP file?

 

[SDIO]

You can leave the SD in and try connecting the pico earlier and look for the LED.

You can use the otp für defuse

 

[papab]

I appreciate your efforts, but it seems my Wii U remains unresponsive despite trying all the methods you suggested. Thank you for your continued assistance and support throughout this troubleshooting process.

 

[SDIO]

Then you have to defuse...

 

[papab]

OTP eFuse readout I tried to do this, but it doesn't seem to work. I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, so I'm attaching the SD card root.

 

[V10lator]

I accidentally moved the mouse cursor and modified the file

Do you remember what exactly this action did? From a quick look it seems you moved /sys/rights into /sys/security/ (so you have it at /sys/security/rights now which is wrong).

Now the folder you moved contains the tickets and stuff, so moving that probably broke a lot of things.

As SDIO said you probably need to de_fuse now. Where exactly are you stuck at trying to do this?

//EDIT:

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Here's a direct comparision with my SLC:

So beside the moved rights folder there's the /sys/proc/demol folder missing but that might just mean you never played any demo?

//EDIT²: The /sys/hax folder on my SLC is btw something from ISFSHax, so it's completely normal that you won't have that one. For me it really looks like the only issue is the moved rights folder.

 

[papab]

Sorry, I guess I tried to do that without reading defuse's description properly, I'll see if I have a serial console at home.