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PS2 Controller Hack Nets Codes for GTA

Posted by Zonk on from the imaginative-gaming dept.

glengineer writes "Gotta love edisoncarter for his cheesy, brute force, and effective hack of the PS2 controller to discover cheats for Grand Theft Auto - San Andreas. He used the parallel port of his PC connected to relays on the PS2 controller to step thru the combinations of button pushing needed to obtain cheats that were not released by Rockstar."

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  1. Re:Sounds fishy by pluke · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not having read the article either or even played the game, i can only go on my prior knowledge of such games, which cause the controller to vibrate when you have correctly input a code. So if that was the case it would make automating the process very quick indeed.

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    "all through my house i set up traps, it seems like the rats have a map, so now i feed the rats crack" - Donald D
  2. Re:article text by gotmemory · · Score: 3, Informative
    K^2 posted this diagram that he made in paint. The post is buried in the forum, so I'll just put the link here:

    http://server3.uploadit.org/files/KSquared-edisonc ircuit.jpg

  3. Re:article text by prockcore · · Score: 3, Informative

    But the real question is my understanding of the playstation controllers is that they speak a serial-uart communications to the ps2. Wouldn't it more elegant to rig up serial-out from a computer to the ps2?

    The nice thing about the parallel port is that it is pin programmable. You can individually control any of the pins directly. Where as with serial you need to talk UART

  4. Re: Catching Button Inputs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    From what I can tell, he leaves it on all day. He's using cheats and convienent locations to muffle or get rid of all the other sounds, and when the Cheat Confirmed box pops up and blips, Cool Edit catches it. Then, he just looks for the spikes in the otherwise flat sound wave, and cross-references to the program to see what code was entered at that time.