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MattKimura
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I've decided to pull all the issues into one post that I've gathered over time. Be prepared to read a lot here

**Issue # 1  - 5.5.2 users Need Haxchi**
This one was already reported recently, but I'll explain anyways. 5.5.2 users were once hopeless with no way to access Homebrew. Now that there's a new exploit, it's so unstable that it's only worth using for installing Haxchi. But the guide does not prepare the user for any Haxchi installation. If you boot into HBL on 5.5.2 without a DS VC or Haxchi files, you've basically wasted your time. They need Homebrew Launcher 1.3, the Haxchi setup files, and a DS VC like Brain Age or Dr Kawashima (EUR)

**Issue # 2 - 5.5.2 CBHC users need an alternative way into HBL**
Basically when you have CBHC, you're gonna need HBL Channel to enter HBL. But using the browser for that on 5.5.2 wouldn't be ideal for getting into homebrew launcher and installing the channel with wup installer. Instead, they must press HOME just as they turn on the system and when "Autobooting" is displayed on the gamepad. Then they can simply choose Homebrew Launcher and then use Wup installer to install the HBL Channel. The guide has users use the browser and doesn't take account of 5.5.2 users. In general it's easier to not use the browser and just use the CBHC menu to get into Homebrew Launcher. Believe it or not, you can actually launch the "DO NOT TOUCH ME!" Icon and that will also launch the CBHC menu where you can load up Homebrew Launcher just the same.

**Issue # 3 - Incorrect title for one of the compatible DS VC games for Haxchi**
I've noticed the abscense of Brain Age, the cheapest DS VC in USA. But Dr Kawashima's Brain Training surely is on the list, the EUR version. Instead there's "Big Brain Training" Which is a game that doesn't even exist. 

**Issue # 4 - No Homebrew Launcher download in vWii guide**
So the vWii guide has you download Wuphax for use on the Wii U Homebrew Launcher. But it doesn't provide a download to Homebrew Launcher. Not even on the Homebrew Launcher page that's linked. You cannot boot up Wuphax without having Homebrew Launcher on the SD card.
Multiple issues gathered together in an all-in-one post
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ColtonDRG
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Worth noting that currently users are reporting the most likely 5.5.2 exploit to succeed is the one at http://cg.stupiid.ovh/ on delta 4
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ColtonDRG
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Quick update, after some upstream developments, the http://stupiid.ovh/ (same as http://u.drg.li/) gateway is succeeding more than it's failing. Personally, I got up to 15 successes in a row with delta 4.
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Plailect
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@username_1 Your git history is so messy that I honestly can't tell exactly what is different with your fork.
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Plailect
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@username_0 Please split "Idea/Suggestion # 3" and the "FSGetMountSource error" into their own separate issues. I'll fix those later.
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Plailect
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ColtonDRG
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Yeah, sorry about that. I did not proofread my commits. My fork contains mostly the following interesting things:

- A more user friendly index
- A delta selection system making use of the Server Side Includes feature of nginx, so the delta can be selected using exploit.html?delta=# instead of manually altering the exploit.html file for each delta.

My `gh-pages` branch contains the following further alterations:

- Compatibility with GitHub pages by regressing the features that require Server Side Includes
- Seperate delta#.html files for each delta since the other delta selection feature was regressed.

The reason the `gh-pages` branch exists is mainly because we discovered by some experimentation that in earlier versions of the exploit, it might have been more reliable if the exploit was very specifically hosted on GitHub and then passed through Cloudflare's CDN _without_ going through GitHub's own Fastly CDN. For this reason I named it the cg method (**c**loudflare>**g**ithub). Now that the exploit is more reliable, I'm not sure this sort of thing is necessary, but it definitely seemed like it was helping our chances before that.

Also, on the issue of the browser curtains, we mostly speculated that it helped because I personally got it to work many times with them opened but never with them closed. Since the new version of the exploit came out, I have gotten it to work many more times with the curtains both opened and closed. There is still a possibility that it has some effect on things, but it seems to me that it might have just been random chance and I got unlucky when I had them closed. Even when we first started talking about the curtains, my best guess for why it would make any difference was because more processing power was being spent on rendering the curtain models and the animated Mii on the top screen, and that seemed pretty far fetched.
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