Tutorial MACycle - The Improved MAC Changer for HomePass!

[Arkansaw]

A more general question here. Can I get Japanese streetpass hits using this software? Do I have to add special MAC addresses? Thanks.

well there's a guy from Japan region with 80k tags, and I've seen Korea as well (they have their own languages in the notifications). So I would presume the answer is a yes

 

[Avenger2000]

well there's a guy from Japan region with 80k tags, and I've seen Korea as well (they have their own languages in the notifications). So I would presume the answer is a yes

Thanks for the info. I finally got this working under Windows 7. Windows 8.1 didn't seem to work together with the USB network adapter properly. I'm hoping to street pass with Japanese games like Youkai Watch.

 

[MassiveRican]

Just set this up and looks awesome, can't thank everyone involved enough from inception to final version. Homepass is genius lol. Well I setup my Virtual Wifi Network on Win7, and I'm getting the nifty "You can connect to a Nintendo Zone" message complete with a blinking icon. I was curious how long on average does it take for the streetpass to appear?

Well strange, MACycle has already cycled through 2 MAC's, it's currently switching to the next Mac, it seems to restart the hosted network with no problem and I have it cycling through the Prime Mac's just to test, but I haven't seen a streetpass yet, I take it that's not normal?

EDIT: Set it up with a wired connection and it worked. I don't know why it doesn't work via my Wi-Fi card

 

[endoverend]

Any way to make this so it doesn't take up 25% of my CPU??

 

[Rourke]

The only thing that works for me are the 160 MAC addresses. I can see the MAC change when I do a ipconfig /all and see my 3DS pick up people.

But everything else doesn't change the MAC address. So that's connecting to a single custom MAC, to a Nintendo World MAC, or the custom list of MAC's. Whenever I try these I see it running through the normal proces in Network Connections, but the ipconfig says it's back to the original MAC. My 3DS is not picking up anything either.

What's going on?

 

[Rourke]

I've found out that only the Extended Mac's work, but none of the others. I'm not sure why.

By the way, love the program. Makes things a lot easier. If I can make some suggestions to (what I think) will improve it:

1. Add a timer-bar for every indivual cycle. This way people can see how much time they still have to clear their entrance.
2. Add timestamps to the Output field. No explanation required I think
3. I think this is more difficult, but it would be pretty awesome if you can add a checkbox that prevents changing to a MAC that has been used for the last 8 hours allready. It would not only be usefull to the end-user but to improve the streetpass network too.
4. More of a bug in my opinion: the pause/resume state should be cleared when you stop a queue. Right now for example: if I run through the extended MAC's, pause and decide to stop but will continue to do custom MAC's for example it will stay paused.
5. Somehow show the current live mac on the network interface called Wi-Fi. That way everyone can see it worked. Perhaps use getmac for that?
6. Also very difficult I assume: show live what devices connect to it. Virtual Router Manager does this and it's quite handy.

 

[duke_srg]

The only thing that works for me are the 160 MAC addresses. I can see the MAC change when I do a ipconfig /all and see my 3DS pick up people.

But everything else doesn't change the MAC address. So that's connecting to a single custom MAC, to a Nintendo World MAC, or the custom list of MAC's. Whenever I try these I see it running through the normal proces in Network Connections, but the ipconfig says it's back to the original MAC. My 3DS is not picking up anything either.

What's going on?

That is because windows drivers limitations, setting those MACs is forbidden and thus MAC is reverted back to default. There is nothinc MACCycle can do with that.

 

[Damian666]

any idea when we get the latest source?

i want to try to cut down the cpu usage on this baby...

 

[Ashtonx]

edit: nvm it still works, didn't work due to different reasons related on my system, still no idea why the hell it shows different mac addres.
So i Noticed something weird, barely started the software however here's the output:

Okay, will use MACs in a defined order.
Switching to the next MAC. Please wait...
Waiting 3 seconds for cooldown...
Restarting hostednetwork...
Using MAC 1 of 16, 4E53504F4F46.
Skipping to next MAC Address...
Switching to the next MAC. Please wait...
Waiting 3 seconds for cooldown...
Restarting hostednetwork...
Using MAC 2 of 16, 4E53504F4F40.
Canceling the cycle...
The cycle was cancled.
Done!

here's the problem i've been running wireless survey on tomato seeing how 3ds dosen't seem to see it.

when mac was supposed to be 4E53504F4F46 the actual mac was 1E53504F4F46.
and when it was supposed to be 4E53504F4F40 it was 1E53504F4F40

i.e. 1 instead of 4 at the begining.

 

[duke_srg]

edit: nvm it still works, didn't work due to different reasons related on my system, still no idea why the hell it shows different mac addres.
So i Noticed something weird, barely started the software however here's the output:



here's the problem i've been running wireless survey on tomato seeing how 3ds dosen't seem to see it.

when mac was supposed to be 4E53504F4F46 the actual mac was 1E53504F4F46.
and when it was supposed to be 4E53504F4F40 it was 1E53504F4F40

i.e. 1 instead of 4 at the begining.

Once again, this is a driver related limitation, though strange one. You have nothing to do with that rather that change the wireless adapter.

 

[loco365]

So, I've decided to go ahead and release the source for 1.40, seeing as my time to work on any of my existing projects has become almost nonexistent. I may continue it in my spare time, but if you want to peek at the source, feel free to!

http://bit.ly/1rq16m2

 

[KaiserAlucard]

I really don't understand why it isn't working for me. I followed every step, and everything seems to be configured as it should be. And still no streetpass. Anyone could tell me where to look for errors?

 

[GrooBdx]

I really don't understand why it isn't working for me. I followed every step, and everything seems to be configured as it should be. And still no streetpass. Anyone could tell me where to look for errors?

Try ssid NZ@McD1, if you update your 3ds attwifi isn't working anymore.
If you want more information in french try https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OHb26S2bBF8qbD12zAGDu-aUD6bBr9w1dkcB3qQKetU/edit

 

[Monty Kensicle]

How do you change the SSID in Macycle? I can't seem to find a setting.

 

[ortsov004]

I use a software called connec8 to create the hotspot and change the SSID and password as needed
http://connec8.blogspot.com/

 

[Monty Kensicle]

I use a software called connec8 to create the hotspot and change the SSID and password as needed
http://connec8.blogspot.com/

But can it cycle through MAC addresses as Macycle does?

 

[ortsov004]

It can't, I actually use MACycle to change the MACs and Connec8 to change the SSID if I need to, just run Connec8 to setup your hotspot and then run MACycle

 

[duke_srg]

I made a tool to quickly check the real MAC change abilities of your wireless adapter driver in Windows.
Just download it from http://nintendozone.no-ip.org/maccheck.cmd (If you can't download, check your browser security) and launch from the command line like this

maccheck.cmd "your wireless network connection name"

It will work for about 3 minutes, during this time the selected connection will be toggled off and on many times.
Some explanations about the result.
Any MAC - well, you're lucky
With bit1=0 you do not have limitation for a streetpass, all hardware MACs have this value
With bit2=1 you can use only the same locally set like Prime MACs but native Nintendo Zone and other users hardware MACs just can't be set by the driver, it will either fallback to the hardware MAC or change it with something different. So once again, DO NOT use any hardware MACs in that case.
If the result is a limited number of MACs, in most cases with any common MACs available you're able to get streetpasses from the people with the same drivers. The only thing we can do is to select the most common MACs for the variety of such drivers to be the new Prime MACs. So just PM me the output and I'll gather it all.
If can't change, well, you can only report your MAC so others can visit you. No, you can't try other macshift/MacCycle/Mac-whatever- all are working over the driver which was just checked for the real MAC change.

 

[Mhetralla]

I made a tool to quickly check the real MAC change abilities of your wireless adapter driver in Windows.
Just download it from http://nintendozone.no-ip.org/maccheck.cmd (If you can't download, check your browser security) and launch from the command line like this

maccheck.cmd "your wireless network connection name"

It will work for about 3 minutes, during this time the selected connection will be toggled off and on many times.
Some explanations about the result.
Any MAC - well, you're lucky
With bit1=0 you do not have limitation for a streetpass, all hardware MACs have this value
With bit2=1 you can use only the same locally set like Prime MACs but native Nintendo Zone and other users hardware MACs just can't be set by the driver, it will either fallback to the hardware MAC or change it with something different. So once again, DO NOT use any hardware MACs in that case.
If the result is a limited number of MACs, in most cases with any common MACs available you're able to get streetpasses from the people with the same drivers. The only thing we can do is to select the most common MACs for the variety of such drivers to be the new Prime MACs. So just PM me the output and I'll gather it all.
If can't change, well, you can only report your MAC so others can visit you. No, you can't try other macshift/MacCycle/Mac-whatever- all are working over the driver which was just checked for the real MAC change.

The CMD windows closes itself when ends, I suggest to use the command maccheck.cmd Wi-Fi > maccheck.txt.

I got this:

This interface adapter driver can use unicast MAC [bit1=0], which is not a problem, and only local MAC [bit2=1], i.e. not hardware.​

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So... I can use a virtual hotspot with MACycle, and any Mac?

 

[duke_srg]

The CMD windows closes itself when ends, I suggest to use the command maccheck.cmd Wi-Fi > maccheck.txt.

I got this:

This interface adapter driver can use unicast MAC [bit1=0], which is not a problem, and only local MAC [bit2=1], i.e. not hardware.​

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So... I can use a virtual hotspot with MACycle, and any Mac?

You can just run it from CMD or use a pipe po place result in a clipboard with | clip.
It states NOT HARDWARE. Prime MACs are not, but all MACs of official zone hotspots are hardware, you'll never reach them so don't waste your time for that MACs.

BTW this is a most common situation for the wireless adapter in Windows and my script is aware of that, the server sending to the windows clients only local MACs from the lists. It will be good if you post all of the output, it contains hardware and driver information which may help others. I have got a RaLink usb dongle which works with the native Windows7 driver much worse in terms of a MAC change, but with Mediatek drivers it works just like yours.