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Analogous to the old Wii, the Wii U also has a first-stage bootloader dubbed boot0, which is placed inside 16K of Mask ROM in the Latte's ARM core Starbuck.

Analogous to the old Wii, the Wii U also has a first-stage bootloader dubbed '''boot0''', which is placed inside 16K of Mask ROM in the Latte's ARM core [[Starbuck]]. Wii U's boot0 resembles the Wii's [https://wiibrew.org/wiki/boot1 boot1], and contains a number of features that include the ability of loading a recovery second-stage image from a SD card.

Being 2x bigger than the Wii version, Wii U's boot0 contains a number of features that include the ability of loading a recovery second-stage image from a SD card.

 

boot0 loads boot1 as an [[ancast image]], and does the typical decryption to load it. However, Starbuck ancast images have a slightly different format.

What follows are general descriptions and pseudo-code that illustrates the several sub-stages of the Wii U's boot0.

What follows are general descriptions and pseudo-code that illustrates the several sub-stages of the Wii U's boot0.