Madnoob Macromod, mod modded Xbox controller Start Price USD 169.99 Current Price USD 199.99 Time Left - Bid Count 1 Buy It Now Price USD 199.99 Reserve Price - Start Time Wednesday, October 15, 2008 End Time Wednesday, October 15, 2008 Location Greenville, NC See more about 'Madnoob Macromod, mod modded Xbox controller' Description Read the info on my bio for more info about this controller.   Make no mistake. This is the most sophisticated, powerful, and versatile controller on the market. There's practically nothing out there that this controller won't do BETTER. There's been no big budget, mass produced, third party controller that has ever had the capabilities of this custom modded OEM controller. Where the past, big brand macro controllers for the original Xbox fell short, this one succeeds - you can record and save up to 4 macros in real time. And there's been absolutely nothing else like it for the Xbox 360, period. This controller comes with macros for Halo3, including tuned rapidfire that turns the assault rifle into a rapidfire sniper rifle. Other prerecorded macros are repeating melee, and stickynade. But it doesn't end there. In seconds, you will be recording your own button combos while playing your games. You can customize four added buttons for your own games and playing style. You don't adapt to what someone else decided was best. YOU decide what action occurs when each button in pressed. Each button can replay any user-created macro, or can be used to remap normal button functions: A,B,X,Y,R1,R2,L1,L2,L stick button, or R stick button. You can also make these normal button functions toggle on/off, meaning press once and the controller holds the button down for you until you press it again. You need absolutely no programming skill to use this controller. Just pick it up and start redefining the way you play ALL of your games. PROMO VID: http://i18.photobucket.com/remix/player.swf?videoURL=http%3A%2F%2Fvid18.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fb103%2Fklee27x%2Fd6abea75.pbr&hostname=stream18.photobucket.com"> COD4 FROGWALKING: http://i18.photobucket.com/remix/player.swf?videoURL=http%3A%2F%2Fvid18.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fb103%2Fklee27x%2F15559023.pbr&hostname=stream18.photobucket.com"> New DEMO VID:http://i18.photobucket.com/remix/player.swf?videoURL=http%3A%2F%2Fvid18.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fb103%2Fklee27x%2Ff5c80315.pbr&hostname=stream18.photobucket.com"> ***what is a "macro?" A macro is any automated sequence of button presses. Rapidfire, Active reload, COD4 rapidreload, doubleshot.... those are all macros. You can do any of those things and more. Crouch button, BXR, stickynade, duckwalk... you name it. You have four buttons on the bottom and can make 'em do anything you want. Four buttons too complicated for you? You can make any/all of the buttons do nothing... or make em all do the same action. Change it up for different games in seconds. The controller responds instantaneously and recognizes all four buttons at the same time, except while a macro is replaying. Recording a macro is about as easy as using a tape recorder. Your moves are recorded in real time, with a fidelity of fractions of a millisecond. You can adjust the playback speed and loop delay of your macros, in order to perfect the timing of even the most demanding button combos.  Full 60 day warranty covers 100% parts, labor, and return shipping. User’s Manual v1   Please take the time to get familiar with your controller with this simple walkthrough.   Initiating communication 1.        Turn on your Xbox and insert Halo3, if you have it. Else, insert your game of choice. 2.        Insert battery pack into your controller 3.        Press the “search button” on console and controller 4.        Wait until the controller is recognized5.     Make sure your batteries are fresh, or errors can occur. If all 4 LED's intermittently flash in a "circular" pattern, the controller is telling you that battery power is low. The controller works with alkaline or rechargeable packs, but you cannot use a rechargeable battery while the charging cord is plugged in.   Added buttons:                 Notice that there are four buttons added to the bottom of the controller. These will be referred to as T1,T2,T3,T4. See diagram.   When shipped, the extra buttons are assigned to perform preinstalled macros. To reassign the buttons, you will need to enter the dashboard. Also note that you can assign the buttons to do nothing, should you choose. See next section.   Dashboard 1.        Press and hold the back button for approx 3 seconds, until LED3 and LED4 flash. 2.        Let go of the back button a.        Now, you should see LED3 flashing. The controller is now waiting for one of 9 possible responses. You can either press T1-T4 or the back button, or you can press and hold T1-T4. The back button will exit the dashboard and return to playmode. For now, let’s just follow the walkthrough. 3.         Tap the T1 button. a.        You’ll notice that LED3 stops flashing and now lights up solid green. It is now waiting for one of 15 possible responses. If you press the back button at this point, it will assign T1 to do nothing. If you press T1-T4, it will assign user-recorded macro 1-4 to occur when T1 is pressed. Or you can assign a normal button function, such as A,B,X,Y,R2,L2,R1,L1,Lstick button, Rstick button. 4.        For this walkthrough, depress the R trigger. a.        LED3 will begin flashing, again, indicating that the controller has accepted your selection and is now waiting for your next button reassignment. Or you can exit. 5.        For now, let’s exit, by pressing the back button. LED3 will turn off. 6.        Press T1. Master Chief will now fire his primary weapon. 7.        Now reenter the dashboard by pressing and holding back button, and try something different. This time press and hold T2 for approx 3 seconds, until the LED3/4 momentarily flash. 8.        Let go of T2. LED3 is now solid green, and the controller is waiting for a button function input. 9.        Press the L stick (crouch function: assumes you have togglecrouch off) 10.     Press the back button to return to playmode. 11.     Press the T2 button. Master Chief now crouches and remains crouched until T2 button is pressed, again, or until a user macro is played. Replaying a macro will automatically clear any sticky buttons that are set. 12.     Press the T1 button. The controller still remembers your last T1 setting. Master Chief will fire his primary weapon.   Playing back macros First of all, note that the controller ships with some preprogrammed macros, which undoubtedly, you will record over with your own. A Halo3 tuned rapidfire is saved to T1. Note that due to factory calibration of the chip, this Halo3 tuned rapidfire can quite possibly be improved upon, by you! See the FINAL NOTE for more information. In T2 is a simple repeating B macro. This is just as fast as the “new BXB,” except it works at maximum rate for all weapons. So the “new BXB” which is really BYYB, actually is completely stupid. In slot 3, there is a B,L2 button. This is just a melee/sticky nade button. Again, easy to do, and works slightly better than some competitor’s B,Y,Y,L2, which is just plain stupid. In T4, I have saved a handy teabag macro. It is tuned for togglecrouch, so please put your settings to togglecrouch to use this macro. It also doubles as an alternative crouch button in this mode. 1.        Press and hold the back button until you enter the dashboard 2.        Press the button that you want to program. Let’s press T4 3.        Now the led should be solid green, waiting for your reponse 4.        press the T4 button again. This is assigning macro4 to T4 button. (you can actually assign it to any button, but let’s try to not confuse ourselves, for the moment) 5.        now exit by pressing the back button 6.        if not already on togglecrouch setting, go to your controller options in the Halo3 menu and select togglecrouch 7.        hold down the T4 button and admire your perfectly timed victory celebration.   Now let’s record a new macro over this dance. You can always rerecord it, if you want, by recording Lstick, pause,T2. ENTERING MACROSTUDIO 1.        Press and hold the back button. 2.        While holding down the back button, depress T1 and T2, simultaneously; this must be done within approx 3 seconds, else the controller will enter the dashboard, and we’ve already been there. 3.        If successful, both LED3 and LED4 will light up solid green. 4.        Let go of the buttons. The LEDs remain lit a.        The controller is now in the macrostudio. Pressing the back button will return to playmode Press T1-T4 to enter the respective macrostudio for that button 5.        Press the T4 button 6.        The controller has now entered MACROSTUDIO_4A:RECORDING AND ALTERING SPEED a.        LED3 and LED4 will now begin flashing in sync: 4 blinks, off, 4 blinks. This indicates you are in macrostudio4 phase1, record and edit speed. 7.        Press T2, and you will be ready to record your first macro. a.        LED3/4 now flash in an alternate fashion, quickly. The controller is waiting for you to begin recording a macro. It doesn’t start recording until the first button input is given. 8.        Now try a simple macro, such as this: Press R1 (trigger), let go, then press the T2 button to stop recording. 9.        Press the T1 button, and your recorded macro will replay. Press and hold T1, and your macro will loop, endlessly. 10.     If Master Chief is not shooting repeatedly, then try repeating steps 7-9. Altering speed: 11.     Now press the T4 button. LED3 flashes quickly. Each flash represents an increment in the playback speed of the currently selected macro. There are 128 steps of speed increase, which can increase playback speed up to 100 times. When the maximum speed is reached, the LED no longer flashes, but remains solid green. However, if you increase your macro speed that much, it is likely that the button presses become so short that the controller won’t even recognize them! 12.     Press the T3 button to decrease the playback speed. LED4 flashes. Each flash represents a decrease in playback speed. There are a total of 128 steps upward from the starting point, which can decrease the original playback speed by a factor of 2. 13.     Press the T1 button at any point during this exercise to see how your changes have affected your macro. 14.     Pressing T2 at any point will get the controller ready to discard and record over your current macro. If you pressed T2 accidentally, you can remove the batteries and reinsert, to avoid overwriting your currently selected macro. You can then reenter the macrostudio4 by following steps 1-5 to continue editing your macro’s speed. And keep your finger off the T2 button, this time. 15.     When you are happy with the playback speed, press the back button to go on to the MACROSTUDIO_4B: DELAY EDITOR Editing delay When you have successfully entered the Delay Editor phase of the macrostudio, you should notice that rather than blinking four times, the LED’s are now winking 4 times, repeatedly.   For macros that are designed to repeat/loop, sometimes it is essential to have an accurate delay at the end of the macro. In stage 2 of the macrostudio, you can add 256 increments of delay, each one lasting approximately 10 milliseconds. Note, you cannot remove delay. So if there’s too much delay, you have to rerecord your macro from the beginning.   16.     Press T3 to add some delay. LED4 flashes quickly. Each flash indicates an additional increment of delay 17.     Press T4 to remove the delay that you just added. LED4 flashes. Each flash indicates that you have removed an increment of delay that you have previously added. When you have removed all of the extra delay, the LED3 stays solid green. 18.     At any point, press and hold T1 to watch Master Chief perform the adjusted macro to see how your changes have affected the loop delay. 19.     Pressing T2 in this stage of the macrostudio will do nothing. 20.     Press the back button to exit the macrostudio and return to play mode.   Don’t forget. Now that you have returned to playmode, the controller still remembers your original settings. Unless you have assigned the macroslot already, you won’t be able to play it back, yet. If you followed the tutorial to a letter, it will still be assigned to button T4. If not, then follow these steps. 1.        enter dashboard 2.        Tap the button (T1-T4) to which you want to assign your newly recorded macro. (Don’t try to make a macro “sticky.”  It’s not currently supported and will just be normal) 3.        after you select the button, the LED3 will be solid green, waiting for your response. Press the T4 button, and your previously selected switch will now be assigned to replay macro4 4.        exit the dashboard by pressing the back button. You can reenter the respective macrostudio for any previously recorded macro to change the editing that you have done. But remember, during the speed editing, pressing of the T2 button will ready the controller to record over your selected macro.   FINAL NOTE: For highly timing sensitive macros, such as Halo3 tuned rapidfire, please take the time to read these notes and tips. The typical controllermod is mass programmed onto a PIC microchip. Due to factory calibration being off by as much as 1%, it is quite likely that a competitor’s rapidfire may not be optimally synced. Believe me, although it may take a bit of learning and trial and error, it is possible to produce as perfect a Halo3 tuned rapidfire as possible (with the main limitation being that the chip is not running from the same clock source as the controller, so it will always be infitesimally off. This means that holding down the rapidfire button for extended length of time, there will be an occasional misfire, no matter how well you tune it). The key tips to remember are to make your signal “square.” By that I mean to try to make the trigger on time about equal to off time. It by no means has to be perfectly square for optimum rate, but should be approx square. Second and most importantly, while in the macrostudio speed editor, the playback speed may be very slightly different from the playback speed during normal play. This is to conserve memory writes. If the controller saved each speed change as you went along, it would conceivably wear out the EEPROM. Instead, it only saves once you’ve settled on an edited speed and exited the macrostudio. When playing it back in playmode, the playback method is very slightly different. For things like Halo3 tuned rapidfire, this means you may have to do your final speed editing by going back and forth between the macrostudio speed editor and playmode. Also note that because the speed editing occurs in very small, but discrete, steps, it is possible that you may have to rerecord your macro a few times to find the optimal sweet spot.   Final note 2: While replaying a macro, all the other buttons T1-T4 are not recognized until the macro ends. Furthermore, all sticky buttons are cleared and reset. While this is in some regards a limitation, you can exploit this, once you know how it works. Just play around with it. Also, if you press and hold two macro buttons at the same time, they will alternate, one after the other. If you hold more than two at a time, they will loop in order, from the one assigned to T1 through the one assigned to T4.   Final Note 3: If you forget what slot your macros are saved to, just enter dashboard and assign each button to its respective macro. It’s a quick and easy way to refresh your memory.   TIPS/FUN: Any of the preinstalled macros can be easily rerecorded if you have overwritten them. 1.        Halo tuned rapidfire: see the FINAL NOTE for more detail. Just record R1,pause,T2. Make the R1 and pause time about equal. Then increase the speed until it works. 2.        Repeating melee: just record B,pause,T2. 3.        Melee/nade: B,pause,L2,T2 4.        Autoteabag: Lstick,pause,T2 Other macros to try 1.        Halo2: Quadshot: R1,R1,X,YY,T2. Don’t forget to add delay to make it loop perfectly. 2.        COD4: rapidreload: B,pause,YY(right when the bullet counter fills up), T2. Now go back and speed it up until it’s perfect for your weapon of choice. 3.        COD4 frogwalk: I did this by pressing R1 and A at the same time, let go A, press B, press T2. Be sure to hold down R1 all the way through. 4.        Gow sniper shot: with sniper rifle in hand, press R1, then hit R2 to get a perfect reload, T2. Add some delay so you don’t mess up your next shot. 5.        Halo3 “Feeling Humpy?”: This might be the funniest “glitch” I have found. B,R2,B,T2. Speed this up pretty fast, and don’t add any delay. You need to hold a reloadable weapon that has been fired. When you hold the button down in melee range, you lock onto your opponent and continually push him. You can stay locked on indefinitely (until he notices you and smacks you). But if you got on him from behind, he will first wonder WTH is going on. If he tries to jump, you can actually push him off a ledge. There’s nothing he can do to escape. Of course, when you let go of the button, the last “B” takes effect, and you land a melee 100% of the time. If you kill someone with this macro, you must immediately follow up with an autoteabag. 6.        Original Rainbow6 “hellfire”: This is still may favorite online FPS of all time, and I wish it had never changed. With any assault rifle, make a “rapidfire” that is actually a slowed down “stacatto.” Short R1, relatively long pause,T2. You are aiming to get a slower overall firing rate, but all single, aimed shots. You can get a fire rate of about 1/3 normal and all aimed shots, and it’s devastating. Of course, if you are playing the original Rainbow6, you’ll also want to make a duckwalk button. 7.        Halo2 “perfect jump”: In Halo 2, you can create a jump macro that immediately tucks, then untucks at the apex. A,Lstick,pause,Lstick,T2. 8.        Halo x Laserpistol lock: In case you missed it in the promo vid, you can lock the trigger, in case you are carrying a laserpistol. This isn’t even a macro. You just set a button to “sticky” and select the respective trigger. You can easily do this while playing the game, even. Note that playing a macro will unlock and reset all sticky keys, so take advantage of this by locking on the left trigger. Hitting a rapidfire macro for your primary weapon will automatically fire the supershot. Also, remember that the controller performs autoshutdown after 5 min, so your supercharged shot has a shelf life of 5 minutes. 9.        COD4 rapidfire: note that the optimal rate of fire is different between games and even between different weapons. Try experimenting with rate and with double/triple taps. Also note that the single player and multiplayer modes have different firing rates. You can make rapidfire much faster in COD4 multiplayer that you can in single player mode or in Halo.   I want to post an update on the Rapidfire. The Halo3 assualt rifle "one-hole" accuracy occurs at least 80% of the time and can usually be tuned up to >90% with some trial and error. Place a Bid!