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XCM Rapid Fire Gear Lite: Xbox Controllers Go Fully Automatic
Posted by Mark Wilson at 4:30 AM on October 4, 2008
With the upcoming XCM Rapid Fire Gear Lite kit, Xbox 360 gamers will be able to add machine-gun style turbo buttons to their controllers. Working across multiple games and easily toggled with a top-mounted switch, the kit will also nearly double the controller's D-pad range of motion to 6 degrees in each direction. It will essentially take the stock 360 pad and juice it like [fill in your favourite baseball player here who you are absolutely SURE never used steroids].
The only catch is that the mod will require you to get your hands dirty; soldering is a must. But Extreme-Mods will be offering players the option to send in their controllers and have the magical modding elves do all the hard work. So you can cheat at Halo and COD4 without having any sort of technical knowledge whatsoever. Score!
Neither pricing for the standalone kit nor the install service has been announced. [XCM USA]
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venomous_duck41
Posted 4:58 AM 4/10/08
@Strahd414: agree. is that a bannable offense?
venomous_duck41
DarkHavoc99
Posted 4:55 AM 4/10/08
Gears of War chainsaw duels? You would win every time!
DarkHavoc99
I Think We're Property
Posted 4:54 AM 4/10/08
Isn't this the part where Mad Catz just makes a controller that does all this already?
I Think We're Property
ripfire
Posted 4:53 AM 4/10/08
If you feel like you have to resort to "hardware assistance" to feel satisfied with a game, it's time to move on to a new one.
ripfire
Strahd414
Posted 4:50 AM 4/10/08
I see the rapid-fire mod too often these days in CODIV.
Strahd414
SgtToastie
Posted 4:45 AM 4/10/08
I love beating people at games as much as the next guy, but I'm not using a hardware mod just so I can be awesome.
SgtToastie
ripfire
Posted 5:18 AM 4/10/08
@ezman: That's what she s... oh nevermind..
ripfire
ezman
Posted 5:16 AM 4/10/08
@venomous_duck41: Should be if it's not. Keep in mind tho that not everyone that fires quickly has the mod... I've been accused before of using it and I don't even fire that fast.
ezman
FightingChance
Posted 5:08 AM 4/10/08
@DarkHavoc99: I was just thinking of this, I wish they had done a 'press these buttons in this sequence as quickly as you can' thing instead of just hammering on one button.
FightingChance
DarkHavoc99
Posted 5:47 AM 4/10/08
@FightingChance:
Agreed.
DarkHavoc99
bpapa9013
Posted 5:25 AM 4/10/08
@ripfire: Agreed, just like using a mouse keyboard hack on the 360 version of Halo3...
bpapa9013
bpapa9013
Posted 6:42 AM 4/10/08
@FightingChance: Agreed.
bpapa9013
dead_red_eyes
Posted 7:57 AM 4/10/08
@DarkHavoc99:
I was thinking of the same thing.
@FightingChance:
That would've been great!!!!!
dead_red_eyes
rcast1986
Posted 8:03 AM 4/10/08
@ripfire: ...or get a grip on reality.
rcast1986
xoforoct
Posted 9:56 AM 4/10/08
hehe, i can fire fast enough already with the pistol i get accused of modding all the time...
xoforoct
crd22
Posted 11:40 AM 4/10/08
I bet people feel real special cus they win a video game by cheating.
Seriously though, I can't believe people actually do so much to be better at COD... and it doesn't even make you better at all!
crd22
kevinyung89
Posted 5:43 AM 5/10/08
If you're not cheating, you're not trying hard enough.
kevinyung89
nizz
Posted 2:43 AM 7/10/08
I admit I hacked my controller by using existing parts I had laying around (button from a old garage remote and some stripped RJ-45) and did the mod for fun. The rapid fire is really out of sheer laziness of repetitively pulling the trigger for guns like the G3. It also makes Last Stand more fun.
nizz