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Title: Hacking is dangerous in ways you wouldn't expect.
Post by: Howard_Casto on February 14, 2016, 12:35:06 am

Ok so I was back at attacking the xbox one streaming app to try and get non-xbox controllers to connect to it.  I wasn't paying attention to the screen.... I didn't know the horror to come. 

Upon my exit for the night I discovered that during all that testing I had inadvertently purchased Naruto Ninja Storm 4.  So now I'm 8 dollars poorer and have to live with the indignity of owning something Naruto related.

Tell your friends.  Like Pimpin' .... Hackin' Ain't Easy!

Title: Re: Hacking is dangerous in ways you wouldn't expect.
Post by: Howard_Casto on February 14, 2016, 01:57:50 am

Eeek!  Apparently it was 84 dollars, not 8.  Good thing the actual purchase was caused by a bug in the streaming app and they give one do-over a year.

Title: Re: Hacking is dangerous in ways you wouldn't expect.
Post by: Howard_Casto on February 14, 2016, 02:03:24 am

Oh yeah, maybe I should explain the issue so others won't do it.  I reported it to support but who knows if it'll get fixed. 

I was holding down buttons to see if I could find them in memory.  Well one got stuck (old busted 360 gamepad) so I clicked out of the window to clean it and bring up the game controllers box in windows to see if I had it free.  I clicked on the xbox one window to move it out of the way and doh!.... it registered another press of the A button even though I never got it unstuck. 

So the Xbox One streaming window kills the button signals when it loses focus and re-presses them again if they are held down when focus is returned.  Now having a button stuck while you just happen to have the store selected and clicking out and then back into the window is probably a one in a million shot, but that's the kind of luck I have.  So just keep it in mind guys.

Title: Re: Hacking is dangerous in ways you wouldn't expect.
Post by: voltz on February 14, 2016, 11:05:47 pm

Quote from: Howard_Casto on February 14, 2016, 12:35:06 am

So now I'm 8 dollars poorer and have to live with the indignity of owning something Naruto related.

I'm sitting here peacefully with a cold one and this flies in out of left field.

My entertainment for the day. :)

Title: Re: Hacking is dangerous in ways you wouldn't expect.
Post by: RayB on February 17, 2016, 02:14:50 pm

I laugh at anyone with an auto-fire controller!