Octolings In The Wild (This Is Bad)

It's not anticipated for this to be an incredibly widespread issue, but one or two Squidboards users have already encountered this problem, and we wanted to make sure to alert everyone.

A kernel exploit for the Wii U has now been made public for Wii U's on an older firmware version. The simple and relevant explanation of what this means is that it is now much easier for unscrupulous folks to modify their Splatoon save files.

The very negative side effect of this, is it means a person could potentially modify their save file to change their character ID from 0 or 1 (Inkling Boy and Inkling Girl respectively) to 2, which represents Octolings.


Playing as Octolings would be super cool! ...but only when the game is made for it to happen...

If you encounter a player that has done this, you need to make sure to stay in the lobby until they leave it, and then play one more match. This should ensure the game doesn't put their hacked Octoling character into your Inkopolis Plaza. The Plaza is not programmed to handle Octolings, and so if one is placed into it, your game will crash whenever it tries to load them. This includes the title screen, which means your save file is effectively 'soft-locked' and cannot be used until either Nintendo patches this issue, or your plaza is cleared by the beginning of a Splatfest.

It is possible to back up any of your Wii U save files to a flash drive, and we'd recommend doing so if you wish to be absolutely safe.
 
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I hate jumping into this thread, but this hacker stuff concerns me for a different reason. I'm not afraid of running into a hacker, the chances are low and for all we know it's not happening anymore. It's just the fear of the hacker that's a problem.

How many people have decided to stop playing until it's patched? 10s? 100s? 1000s? I have no idea at all. But I just don't want this fear of a hacker, present or no longer present, to hurt the Splatoon community. So I am confused why the developers haven't acknowledged or patched this simple glitch.

So don't stop Splatting. Plus, there's little difference between not playing till it's patched, and not playing till a Splatfest clears your plaza, should you get Octoling'd. Either way, you're not playing the game.
 
I hate jumping into this thread, but this hacker stuff concerns me for a different reason. I'm not afraid of running into a hacker, the chances are low and for all we know it's not happening anymore. It's just the fear of the hacker that's a problem.

How many people have decided to stop playing until it's patched? 10s? 100s? 1000s? I have no idea at all. But I just don't want this fear of a hacker, present or no longer present, to hurt the Splatoon community. So I am confused why the developers haven't acknowledged or patched this simple glitch.

So don't stop Splatting. Plus, there's little difference between not playing till it's patched, and not playing till a Splatfest clears your plaza, should you get Octoling'd. Either way, you're not playing the game.
you're a voice of reason amongst a sea of scardie squids. I completely agree with you. Everyone, get back to playing already.
 
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NIntendo Just make the Octolings Playable NOW!!!!!!!!!
 
Hopefully. Would love to play as them.
If it does happen, what will online matches be like? Every time there is a new weapon, ERRYBODY uses it, so I feel the matches would be packed with octolings for months on end. Could we also go to Octovalley? Or will there be a new city for octolings? WILL THERE BE A NEW STORY MODE-yeah, too much to anticipate. I guess we'll just have to...............wait.
 
If it does happen, what will online matches be like? Every time there is a new weapon, ERRYBODY uses it, so I feel the matches would be packed with octolings for months on end. Could we also go to Octovalley? Or will there be a new city for octolings? WILL THERE BE A NEW STORY MODE-yeah, too much to anticipate. I guess we'll just have to...............wait.
There going to do something big, they just cant release octolings and not add anything to splatoon
 
Thankfully I haven't ran into any. But I do find that rather, obnoxious and rude if these hackers know what they are doing to other peoples wiiu's and simply don't care. Honestly, Why do we need to hack every single game that comes out. Can't we just enjoy it the way it's suppose to be played
 
Thankfully I haven't ran into any. But I do find that rather, obnoxious and rude if these hackers know what they are doing to other peoples wiiu's and simply don't care. Honestly, Why do we need to hack every single game that comes out. Can't we just enjoy it the way it's suppose to be played
Hello any clans for tryouts or Skype players my name is fighterliker
 
These players should be banished to the Booyah Base weapons test arena, where they can do nothing else. Any other ideas?
 

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