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Simple circuit for recording ir signals - would it work? (cheating at lasertag)

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Steve Conner
Sat Sept 01 2007, 11:56AM
Steve Conner Registered Member #30 Joined: Fri Feb 03 2006, 10:52AM
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People today have beer guts at the age of 14, too. At least laser tag got you running around. mistrust
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Ragnarok
Sat Sept 01 2007, 11:31PM
Ragnarok Registered Member #659 Joined: Fri Apr 20 2007, 09:14AM
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This is what paintball guns are for. Running around madly and covering the enviroment with biodegradable paints is... well, forget that.

This is unlikely to help your score.
From what I understand of it, these recharging stations follow a sequence. They emit an IR pattern every few seconds. This pattern tells your gun to upload your score (via it's own IR source), reload your ammo, then reset the gun's onboard score to avoid uploading it twice.
If you play this code to your gun constantly, you'll have plenty of ammo, but no kills (or deaths either).

If you really want to cheat, then what you need to do is be able to create a fake signal to the recharging station that says something like: 100 kills, no deaths. But they'd be on to you quite fast if you were that generous with your score.
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Simon
Sun Sept 02 2007, 02:00AM
Simon Registered Member #32 Joined: Sat Feb 04 2006, 08:58AM
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Ragnarok wrote ...

If you really want to cheat, then what you need to do is be able to create a fake signal to the recharging station that says something like: 100 kills, no deaths. But they'd be on to you quite fast if you were that generous with your score.
Things would stop adding up rather quickly if you "killed" more players than actually died.
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teslaguy
Sun Sept 02 2007, 03:28AM
teslaguy Registered Member #617 Joined: Fri Mar 30 2007, 07:29PM
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i just see one hole in the theory of recharging stations receiving your score....at the end of a game, you do not need to go back to your recharging station, the scores are already uploaded. SO does that mean are rf and then ir charging or what? should i bother to give it a try?
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Ragnarok
Sun Sept 02 2007, 04:01PM
Ragnarok Registered Member #659 Joined: Fri Apr 20 2007, 09:14AM
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Well, on the few times I've done it before, I have had to scan the gun in at the end to upload the score.

I'm not sure it's worth the effort of making this for a fairly low likelihood of success.
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Bored Chemist
Mon Sept 03 2007, 05:29PM
Bored Chemist Registered Member #193 Joined: Fri Feb 17 2006, 07:04AM
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I did hear that putting black tape over the sensors so nobody can shoot you works quite well. Not as sophisticated a cheat, but easy.
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