Tuesday, Apr 22nd 2008 by Chris Davies


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Obviously SlashGear doesn’t condone cheating in games, but if you’re like me (and rubbish at them) then, when playing casually against friends, you might sometimes wish you had a bit of extra help. AcidMods may be able to arrange that; their tutorial shows you how to add pre-programmed macro chips to your XBox controller, together with the new buttons to control them. That means shortcuts like rapid fire are a single press away.

XBox macro mod

In the first part of the tutorial AcidMods details the components and discusses adding the buttons. It seems you can get most of the parts for around $9.95 online. Of course it’ll require some hacking of your XBox controller, so if you’re a nervous modder then you might want to pick up a spare!

The second part deals with adding a switched chip socket to a standard controller. There’s plenty of space inside, but accessing multiple setups on a single chip would be a chore so AcidMods have instead gone for a design where you can switch off the socket and swap out game-specific macros. Chips are available pre-programmed or, with a PIC programmer, you can make your own.

[via Hack-a-Day]

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