Xbot - Earns Achievement Points Unattended


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So what's the xBot? It's an automated Xbox 360 button pusher to get Perfect Dark Zero's two most tedious achievements: 1000 Death Match Games and 1000 Dark Ops Games worth 30 gamer points each (60 total). Both of these Achievements were successfully obtained by the xBot without having to sit there and push buttons for 40-50 some-odd hours. While it's running its course, nothing needs to be touched. Except for the occasional checking if I got my points.

Why, you may ask, did I build such a thing? Because I can!

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Why did this only get me 60 gamer points? I had already obtained the 10 (10 points) and 100 (20 points) Deathmatch and DarkOps games Achievements (worth 60 total) before making the xBot. Those were eventually obtained by going for other multiplayer Achievements.

Initially I went for the 1000 by hand and I noticed that it came down to only 2 button presses. That and it didn't matter if I actually won matches. I only had to participate in a match while a hoard of bots did the rest by getting to the kill count. I could just stand there like a stooge and let 'em kick my, and each others', virtual butts.

The idea of me sitting there and pushing 2 buttons every 2 minutes manually, ugh, would be boring as watching a 300 baud modem download a 5meg file (Age test...who remembers 300 baud modems?). What if something could mash them 2 buttons for me while I did more important things...?

Thus the xBot idea was born...

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It took me 10 hours to design and construct the xBot. It was made with...

- One Xbox 360 game controller- An Erector set- Two rotational solenoids- Misc. TTL electronic componentsIt's been asked that isn't this considered cheating? Not in my opinion, but your milage may vary. The way I see it is I could spend all day and night mashing these buttons, or challenge myself to build something to do it for me. So far, these are the only Achiemevemts (and the only game for that matter) it will work with without expanding it with more solenoids and either a PLC [Programmable Logic Controller] or some other doohickey.

"OK, OK, so you built this thing. What exactly does the xBot do?" After manually setting up for the respective game type, it presses the Start and B [back] buttons at a timed interval to perform the simple, yet extremely repetitive button presses. This is done by using 2 rotational solenoids driven by a TTL (Transistor to Transistor Logic) controller. The best part is the xBot is non intrusive to the controller hardware which can be removed and used like a normal game controller.

After the initial game setup, the function of the xBot maintains the cycle of game start and relaunching with the following 4 steps...

1: START is pressed at the Match Start screen and the cycle begins.2: Frag limit is reached, screen auto-returns to player review.3: B is pressed to return to Match Start screen to repeat the cycle.4: Goto 1For maximum efficiency, it was necessary to set each game type so they will finish as quickly as possible. Here's the setups I used...

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If the nerd factor flag hasn't already been raised...I'm gonna wave another one right...about.....ooom.......NOW!

xBot driver board construction and operation:

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In conclusion, this is all it does: Push 2 buttons about every 2 minutes to give me 60 points in 40 some-odd hours.

It was a fun project to put together. Mainy because I wanted to see if I could pull something as ridiculous as this off. And it totally worked. And now with the 2 page OXM spread (Thanks guys!) my wife thinks the wasted time wasn't so much wasted after all. =)

Hope you enjoyed the xBot blah blah.

Frag safe!

-Diego K.

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(via Xbox-scene)

I like his "because I can" attitude. :rofl:

Love his T-shirt in the last pic :)

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