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Omnimaga => News => Topic started by: DJ Omnimaga on November 20, 2011, 11:53:05 pm
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After releasing tools to jailbreak a Playstation 3 using a TI-84 Plus (http://brandonw.net/ps3jb/) and a TI-89 Titanium (http://brandonw.net/ps3jb89/) last year, BrandonW has now released another amazing tool for console owners that involves a TI-84 Plus calculator, this time for Xbox 360 users: Salamax!
http://brandonw.net/360bridge/
Salamax is an Xbox 360 Controller Bridge for PC and TI-84 Plus/Silver Edition. As mentionned on BrandonW's software page, "the Xbox 360 employs a security mechanism that prevents people from just attaching any USB peripheral they want to it and using it. This means no aftermarket/third-party controllers, no USB keyboards/mice, and no automation of controller functions."
Basically, with this, you can bypass that protection and you can use, for example, a Wiimote with your Xbox 360. More information are found on Salamax page above.
Brandon Wilson showcased a video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iIrdrFfx8I) of Salamax on HCWP last wednesday, but he has made an updated one yesterday:
This once again proves that calculators have more uses than maths and gaming!
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Nice! USB hax FTW :P
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Hope this doesn't get shut down like almost ALL his other projects :P . Love it!
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Another epic creation from Brandonw. Wow.
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Awsome, of anything I have seen,... just... awsome...
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Hope this doesn't get shut down like almost ALL his other projects :P . Love it!
Actually, the only one to be truly shut down (with no hope of revival) is the Skylanders portal -- and even though I can't release it, I accomplished everything I wanted to before they put a stop to it.
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I meant, it's likely that many lawyers visit your site frequently :P on behalf of e.g. TI.
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Awesome! Great achievement! :)
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Hope this doesn't get shut down like almost ALL his other projects :P . Love it!
Actually, the only one to be truly shut down (with no hope of revival) is the Skylanders portal -- and even though I can't release it, I accomplished everything I wanted to before they put a stop to it.
What did the Skylanders portal do?
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Hope this doesn't get shut down like almost ALL his other projects :P . Love it!
Actually, the only one to be truly shut down (with no hope of revival) is the Skylanders portal -- and even though I can't release it, I accomplished everything I wanted to before they put a stop to it.
What did the Skylanders portal do?
It was documentation and code to communicate with the Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure USB "Portal of Power" accessory, reading and writing decrypted character data to/from it as well as emulating the portal from a graphing calculator. Activision felt it necessary to hire a law firm and send somebody to my door to hand-deliver a cease-and-desist notice telling me to stop (and to not release anything else, and take down what I did release -- which was crippled documentation (lacking the encryption key)).
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Can he use the calculator to control it?
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Can he use the calculator to control it?
Yes, but I didn't really bother to flesh that out. I think I left in some testing code that presses UP if you hold down [2nd] or something wacky like that.
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I always enjoy seeing the cool things you produce. It's a shame all the companies hate people doing awesome stuff with the hardware. You should be able to attach and use whatever device you want to as a controller. Honestly...
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It got in the news of ticalc.org :D
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Brando just keeps surprising us, amazing!
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Wow whats next? a calculator sending a Nasa ship to space? This is amazing BrandonW has done it again!
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Hope this doesn't get shut down like almost ALL his other projects :P . Love it!
They did? Or do you mean how he got bashed on PS3 sites rather than when he got sent a DMCA by TI for posting the keys? From what I recall most of his projects were received positively in general.
Also one day I need to move my 360 to my bedroom and try this. My computer is sadly too far away from it.