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yaazz

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« on: December 29, 2009, 07:28:00 PM »

Hey there, I have to learn cocoa for a project I am a part of starting in January. Loading up paralells to unlock a game was getting annoying so I coded up a simple application this afternoon.
It seems to work fine but I only own a couple of XBLA games so I haven't extensively tried it.

One thing I know for sure that doesn't work is I have a bug in how I handle the mac "Open file" screen and it will only open once. I will figure this out later but for now I want to make sure unlocking works
some things I would like you to try

-Opening/unlocking a PIRS file
-Opening a folder with a LOT of games/content in it (I havent tried this)
-Unlocking the optional media update

Thanks and enjoy!

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4EJW0E9L
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I take no credit for figuring this out I just wanted to be able to unlock on my mac.
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zouzzz

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« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2009, 10:25:00 AM »

Thanks for MAC users.  wink.gif
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yaazz

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« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2009, 12:34:00 PM »

ZZouzzz, you are the one who discovered this method correct?


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zouzzz

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« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2009, 12:49:00 PM »

No, it's Surazal.
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« Reply #4 on: December 30, 2009, 01:11:00 PM »

Good stuff mate! The title is unicode btw so if you account for that the extra spaces and special characters will take care of themselves smile.gif
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yaazz

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« Reply #5 on: December 30, 2009, 06:40:00 PM »

hmm I have never had to use Unicode before. All I did was strip out the padding nulls, then change the null characters in between the numbers to spaces.
Unicode must just be a 16 bit version of the letter then?
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yaazz

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« Reply #6 on: November 03, 2010, 10:18:00 AM »

figured I would give this a little bumpsky for mac lovers. I use this all the time, its easier than using XM360 for me personally.

A couple of bugs I have found
-Opening up a huge folder will result in a crash. I am pretty sure this is a memory leak. Ill fix this if people actually use this program
Things I want to add
-Add title id next to the game name in the list.
-FTP functionality is something that would be handy for me personally so I plan to add that


Also, if there is any other tools you would like to see ported to OSX, let me know!
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