Custom themes can be loaded using SDCafiine .
What you need
The latest release of SDCafiine (the Tiramisu version can be found here ).
Download and extract the .zip
file and drag the wiiu
folder to the root of your SD Card.
A backup of your Men.pack
,Men2.pack
, cafe_barista_men.bfsar
files.
Aroma
You can create a backup using the FTPiiU plugin for Aroma.
Tiramisu
If you are using Tiramisu you can't add custom music but you can backup your files with Theme-Manager instead.
ONLY use Theme-Manager to create a backup do NOT install themes with it.
A PC with a ftp client.
Windows: Use WinSCP
macOS: Use Cyberduck
Linux: Nautilus or Dolphin, the file explorers for GNOME and KDE respectively - if not usable, use gFTP instead
Section I: Creating a Backup
If you want custom music you will need to use SDCafiine on Aroma so follow the steps below:
Turn on your console without any custom theme. (This will cause issues when getting the files we need.)
Press L + DPAD Down + Select and search for FTPiiU Plugin.
Press Settings and enable everything.
On your PC open the ftp client.
It will ask for your Console IP and Port Number you can see this details on your console. This is a local IP address, so it doesnt matters.
It will ask for a user and a password leave it in blank, just accept.
Now navigate to fs > vol > content > Common > Package.
Select Men.pack and Men2.pack then press Download.
It will ask for a place to download the files, if i were you i would create an specific folder to save all this stuff, but you do you.
Now we will do the same but with cafe_barista_men.bfsar, Go back and then navigate into Sound > Men
Download cafe_barista_men.bfsar
Congratulations!
You just dumped your files, now you can patch them and get custom themes!
Make sure to save these files so you don't have to go through this again.
If you don't want custom music:
Insert your SD card into your WiiU and boot into CFW.
Launch Theme-Manager and press R to create a backup of your theme.
Exit Theme-Manager and put your SD back into your PC.
Section II: Patching your theme files
Open Rom Patcher JS on your browser.
For the ROM file get your original (Men.pack / Men2.pack / cafe_barista_men.bfsar) file
For the Patch File select the (.ips, .bps, .ups, .ppf, .aps, .rup) file you got from downloading the theme that matches the name of the ROM file.
Press Apply Patch.
You now got the file but I want you to do one more step and change the name of the file to the original name of the file.
Section III: Prepping files for SDCafiine
For SDCafiine to load the files you will need create the following folders:
Create an sdcafiine
folder in your wiiu
folder on your SD card.
Inside the sdcafiine
folder create a folder with your Wii U Menu's title ID. This will vary on your consoles region:
USA: 0005001010040100
EUR: 0005001010040200
JPN: 0005001010040000
Inside your title ID folder create a folder with the name of your theme.
Create a content
folder with the name of your theme.
Create a Common
folder inside your content
folder.
Create a Package
folder inside your Common
folder.
Place your modified Men.pack
and Men2.pack
files inside of the Package
folder.
Create a Sound
folder inside your Common
folder.
Create a Men
folder inside your Sound
folder.
Place your modified cafe_barista_men.bfsar
file inside of the Men
folder.
Your final file paths should be
sd:/sdcafiine/[TITLEID]/[ThemeName]/content/Common/Package/Men.pack, Men2.pack
and
sd:/sdcafiine/[TITLEID]/[ThemeName]/content/Common/Sound/Men/cafe_barista_men.bfsar
For SDCafiine to load the files you will need create the following folders:
Create an sdcafiine
folder on the root of your SD card.
Inside the sdcafiine
folder create a folder with your Wii U Menu's title ID. This will vary on your consoles region:
USA: 0005001010040100
EUR: 0005001010040200
JPN: 0005001010040000
Inside your title ID folder create a folder with the name of your theme.
Create a content
folder in folder with the name of your theme.
Create a Common
folder inside your your content
folder.
Create a Package
folder inside your Common
folder.
Place your modified Men.pack
and Men2.pack
files inside of the Package
folder.
Your final file path should be sd:/sdcafiine/[TITLEID]/[ThemeName]/content/Common/Package/Men.pack, Men2.pack
Section IV: Loading the theme
Insert your SD card into your Wii U and boot into CFW.
If you are on Aroma the theme should load automatically. If it does not ensure SDCafiine is enabled in the plug-in menu.
If you are on Tiramisu load SDCafiine from the Homebrew Launcher.
If done properly, you should now see your custom theme!