Tutorial MACycle - The Improved MAC Changer for HomePass!

[loco365]

Requests? Add Pause button.

And mind if u explain me how to Homepass with a friend? Idk which MAC to type in the Custom Mac tab.

Pause button is on the to-do list, although it'll be much easier with the Sequential button, but I have ideas on how to add it in Random mode. I also plan to add the ability to append a list of custom MACs.

As for the Custom MAC, you and a friend have to use the same MAC address. I'm not sure if there's any set way, but I believe it can work by using a friend's MAC address that's assigned to their access point to communicate with them.

 

[GamerzHell9137]

Pause button is on the to-do list, although it'll be much easier with the Sequential button, but I have ideas on how to add it in Random mode. I also plan to add the ability to append a list of custom MACs.

As for the Custom MAC, you and a friend have to use the same MAC address. I'm not sure if there's any set way, but I believe it can work by using a friend's MAC address that's assigned to their access point to communicate with them.

Right now i'm homepassing.
After 10 streetpasss come to my 3DS i stop the program and play my streetpass games.
Then i run ur program again and start Sequential and it starts from the 1st mac that i already streetpassed so i need to wait till MAC Nr 11 comes, kinda annoying.

And he gave me his MAC but it didn't work for some reason.

 

[darren42]

Your friend also needs to set up a streetpass hotspot and use that mac address so that their streetpass data gets uploaded

 

[Radz]

Pause button is on the to-do list, although it'll be much easier with the Sequential button, but I have ideas on how to add it in Random mode. I also plan to add the ability to append a list of custom MACs.

As for the Custom MAC, you and a friend have to use the same MAC address. I'm not sure if there's any set way, but I believe it can work by using a friend's MAC address that's assigned to their access point to communicate with them.

I'm not 100% sure how you are storing the list nor how you are randomizing it, but what you could do is create the randomized list prior to actually starting the process and then process that randomized list in the exact same manner as the sequential list. I'll look at the source code to see if I can give you a more exact solution.

UPDATE: Looking at the code, I think it should be easy enough to convert your randomizing process to create a new list which is then passed into the MAC cycling portion of the program and it simply always runs as "sequential" but the lists are just different each time. Instead of just putting the randomly pulled MAC directly into the MAC changing process, you instead place that MAC into the list which, when filled, is then processed the same as a sequential list. It will take slightly longer for a random list to initialize this way, but the benefit of being able to pause or even allow for custom burst sizes (10 at a time and then it pauses automatically for instance) would, I feel, be worth it.

 

[kapnbanjo]

Hello,

Love the app, it's been working great, however...

Currently the laptop I am using to pull this off is sitting in my laundry room on a shelf. Being hard wired is all well and good, but what I'd like to do is have one wireless card connected to my wifi and another wireless card (usb wireless adapter) broadcast that connection.

I've been able to set that up, but the problem I run into is when I run Mac changer that the shared wireless disappears and then when it comes back it's a new network name so I have to go and update the share permissions to share the network to that connection, but when the mac changes again, same thing.

Is there some way this can work?

 

[adiktus]

kapnbanjo Do what I do. Create a virtual machine of windows 7 and connect your USB wifi to that virtual machine.

 

[FredMSloniker]

Would it be possible to add an option to pause cycling, or even to make n number of steps through the cycle? It'd be nice to be able to (for instance) make ten steps through the full random list, check how many people are at the Mii plaza gate, be all 'hmm, need four more', cycle it four more steps, et cetera until I have a set of ten, then play in the plaza before starting again. Being able to pause the cycle would prevent me from wasting time revisiting MAC addresses I've recently visited.

Oh, that's another good idea! Make a log of how recently you used a specific MAC address and add an option to not use it again within a certain amount of time.

EDIT: wait, how did this board get my avatar? I didn't put it in manually.

 

[TaunTaun 22]

YES FINALLY

Would it be possible to add an option to pause cycling, or even to make n number of steps through the cycle? It'd be nice to be able to (for instance) make ten steps through the full random list, check how many people are at the Mii plaza gate, be all 'hmm, need four more', cycle it four more steps, et cetera until I have a set of ten, then play in the plaza before starting again. Being able to pause the cycle would prevent me from wasting time revisiting MAC addresses I've recently visited.

Oh, that's another good idea! Make a log of how recently you used a specific MAC address and add an option to not use it again within a certain amount of time.

EDIT: wait, how did this board get my avatar? I didn't put it in manually.

Amazing idea dude! Thought of the same thing last night! I would love that. Also, it would be nice if the Nintendo World MACs were back up

 

[JRave]

I'm not 100% sure how you are storing the list nor how you are randomizing it, but what you could do is create the randomized list prior to actually starting the process and then process that randomized list in the exact same manner as the sequential list. I'll look at the source code to see if I can give you a more exact solution.

UPDATE: Looking at the code, I think it should be easy enough to convert your randomizing process to create a new list which is then passed into the MAC cycling portion of the program and it simply always runs as "sequential" but the lists are just different each time. Instead of just putting the randomly pulled MAC directly into the MAC changing process, you instead place that MAC into the list which, when filled, is then processed the same as a sequential list. It will take slightly longer for a random list to initialize this way, but the benefit of being able to pause or even allow for custom burst sizes (10 at a time and then it pauses automatically for instance) would, I feel, be worth it.

Thats basically what the macPass beta 1.1 does. You can even edit/add MAC's to the list and reshuffle them via the program. http://gbatemp.net/threads/homepass-macpass-beta-1-1.354279/

 

[kapnbanjo]

kapnbanjo Do what I do. Create a virtual machine of windows 7 and connect your USB wifi to that virtual machine.

I'll give that a try.
Unfortunately it's only a little Atom powered netbook, so I don't know if it has the oomph for a VM, but we'll see.
Now to go find who has the most resource efficient VM, I'm gunna guess Virtual Box if it's what it was last time I was playing with that stuff

 

[FredMSloniker]

Got a bug report: if you click 'start' without making a choice of cycling method, the program complains, but the 'start' button becomes 'stop' anyway and the cycling method selector is grayed out. Clicking 'stop' simply repeats the error message about not having made a choice without reverting the button to 'start'.

 

[loco365]

Got a bug report: if you click 'start' without making a choice of cycling method, the program complains, but the 'start' button becomes 'stop' anyway and the cycling method selector is grayed out. Clicking 'stop' simply repeats the error message about not having made a choice without reverting the button to 'start'.

I'll take a look at that when I get working on it. I have a few free days this week so I'll attempt to push for an update (Bug fixes and feature requests) within the next week or two.

This makes me wish jobs and schools never existed and we learned everything at once.

 

[wutAbeast]

Anyone running the macycle while playing a game, get any streetpasses?

 

[Nintendo3dsDude]

Anyone running the macycle while playing a game, get any streetpasses?

Yes but i don't run it while i play my games because sometimes i get an error i don't wont to corrupted my streetpass games.

 

[loco365]

You won't get an error if you streetpass someone while playing a game. And it won't corrupt it, either.

 

[Radz]

With all the StreetPass changes lately, it's just unusually buggy for a Nintendo product. I've crashed a time or two recently when it was doing nothing but sitting there open. It's not directly related to HomePass, but since HomePass has caused people to use StreetPass Plaza more, statistically more crashes are inevitable.

 

[Nintendo3dsDude]

You won't get an error if you streetpass someone while playing a game. And it won't corrupt it, either.

Yes it will my game almost got corrupt while warrior's way was saving lucky me i hold the R botton just in time

 

[d4mation]

Yes it will my game almost got corrupt while warrior's way was saving lucky me i hold the R botton just in time

I have MACycle running nearly 24/7 and play my 3DS in the same room. I've had absolutely no problems.

 

[wutAbeast]

Strange, I don't get any hits, while playing playing SMT IV. I must be unlucky or something.

 

[Nintendo3dsDude]

I have MACycle running nearly 24/7 and play my 3DS in the same room. I've had absolutely no problems.

I have MACycle running nearly 24/7 and play my 3DS in the same room. I've had absolutely no problems.

When i run it i get errors sometimes so i'm not risking it.