Hacking Wii Raffle!

[DeadlyFoez]

Well, the 4 minor prizes I already have and have already been paid for by me and shortz1994. But still, the target amount is honestly not known until the after drawing because I don't know if we will be having to purchase a power brick for the winner. So, basically, if we don't have enough to purchase the Wii then right away we will know that the donations will have to be returned. If there is enough to cover the donations then we will carry on as planned.

 

[MassiveRican]

Hey guys how do I find out how much the transaction fee is through paypal for $5 cuz I wanna donate enough to get 5 e-tickets, thanks.

 

[DeadlyFoez]

Just donate $5. You'll get 5 etickets. I couldn't set up the donation link to make it that the donator paid the paypal fees, so I decided that we will ignore the fees and whatever you donated is what you will earn in etickets.

 

[MassiveRican]

K awesome doesn't get any easier than that

 

[DJPlace]

sorry for asking then...

 

[DeadlyFoez]

Don't be sorry. It's alright.

Also, feel free to confess to me in private. I am also a self proclaimed minister. I will not judge you, only laugh at you with my friends in a bar.

J/k. I don't go to bars anymore.

 

[crwys]

Have we came any closer to our deadline?

 

[DeadlyFoez]

Yes, the deadline is Friday, May 4th @ 10PM EST. So that is about 3 days and 3 hours from the time of this post.

If you mean, have we come closer to our goal? We have come a little bit closer, but we are still a little short. I believe if everyone can help spread the word through facebook, twitter, or any other forums and organizations that you can so we can get a little more donations then we will meet our goal.

We would like to thank everyone who has done their part to help make this happen. It means a lot to us to have the community come together for this cause.

 

[Sicklyboy]

I've got nothing else to put in until two weeks from now... :\ hope we can get enough donations into this.

 

[Hunter X]

I'll be making another "generous" donation soon.

 

[DeadlyFoez]

Hey everybody. There is about 36 hours left to donate and earn etickets. Do it while you can. Every little but helps.

 

[pwsincd]

If 36 hours ends and your not up to the mark , why not just extend the deadline ? Would be a shame to see the potential of this ruined by deadlines.

 

[Sicklyboy]

If 36 hours ends and your not up to the mark , why not just extend the deadline ? Would be a shame to see the potential of this ruined by deadlines.

I kinda agree. I think that depending on how much more is needed, it might be a good idea to extend the deadline by a week or two. If you guys are short by hundreds of dollars, then refunding might be the best option. But if you only need maybe another hundred, I think that waiting another week or two might bring in some more donations, hopefully enough to meet the threshold.

 

[DeadlyFoez]

If 36 hours ends and your not up to the mark , why not just extend the deadline ? Would be a shame to see the potential of this ruined by deadlines.

No. I did not put that in to the rules and terms, and I'm not about to change the rules while we are already this far into it because it could piss off some people and it isn't a very professional thing to do and it would cause me to lose some of my credibility. Plus, it may dissapoint some people to be like "Oh great, now I have to wait even longer to find out if I won or if I'm going to get my money back". Also, we've had this up and available for almost 2 weeks now, if someone hasn't taken the chance by now to donate the it is because they don't want to donate or they haven't heard about the raffle yet and there is nothing more I can do to promote the raffle without being an annoying spammer.

 

[pwsincd]

i understand totally , but also think people would understand the extension also... im saying all this without knowing how close you are of course. I dont think credability would be lost lmao . fact that you show determination to acheive this should earn you credability not remove it .. but im 100% sure this isnt your aim.

 

[XFlak]

This is the one time I almost wish I wasn't a part of Team Your Mom... I'd love to participate in this if it wasn't against the rules!

 

[DeadlyFoez]

Hello GBAtemper's. There is only one day left to donate and earn etickets for the Wii Raffle. Enter while you can. This off won't last forever.

Wii Raffle to Benefit the Wii Community!

Team Your Mom, with the help of a few others, are holding a Wii raffle! If it's successful we will likely hold more raffles in the future.

Our original purpose before this came to the idea of holding a raffle was just to see if it would work and prove that the new horizontal Wii's can in fact have the GameCube ports added and that it will be fully functional. After some thought and discussions with other community members it was acknowledged that taking a raw NAND dump of a wii that has never been turned on and is in a completely virgin state maybe benefit some developers with their research as they dig deeper into their understanding of the Wii console.

DeadlyFoez plans to document the whole process and his experience with adding the GameCube ports back onto the Wii console.

So here's the deal:

• $1 USD will earn you 1 eticket in the raffle
• 1 eticket per prize will be randomly drawn
• Donations will only be used to cover the cost of prizes and estimated Shipping and Handling costs
• If demand for etickets is greater than anticipated then more prizes will be purchased and raffled off

The Prizes

1. A new model Wii that does not come built with GameCube ports, but DeadlyFoez will add the GC ports before shipping the prize to the winner.
2. Third Party GameCube Controller (Donated by Shortz1994)
3. 16MB Third Party GameCube Memory Card (Donated by Shortz1994)
4. Protective case for the Nintendo 3DS
5. Screen Protector with Cleaning Cloth Set for Nintendo 3DS (2-Piece Set)

Rules

• You must be 18 years of age to enter.
• Only one prize per person can be won.
• If not enough donations are raised to ship any of the smaller prizes then the winner must pay for the shipping or the prize will go to the next in line.
• If not enough donations are made to purchase and ship the Wii console then all donations will be returned less the PayPal fees.
• Anyone caught trying to cheat by using multiple paypal accounts, email addresses, etc.. will be disqualified from the raffle and their donations returned less the PayPal fees.
• You may opt out of receiving any particular prize if it is of no use to you.
• No one needs to be part of any particular group or forum to earn etickets.
• The only time donations will be returned is if a person was disqualified from the raffle or if not enough donations were received to purchase and ship the Wii.

How to Enter

• The donation link will become available April 20th, 2012, 10PM EST.
• Send cash via the yellow DONATE button on Official Wii Raffle Page
• For each $1 USD you donate you will earn 1 eticket in the raffle.
• Your eticket purchases will be determined by your NET paypal purchase amount. For example, if you send $5.00 USD but after paypal transaction fees the amount received is less than $5 (e.g. $4.75 USD), you will only earn 4 etickets. Paypal allows you to select how transaction fees are payed and by whom, so you can ensure the net amount received is $5.00 USD exactly by opting to pay the fees yourself, so that you will pay $5.25 USD (or whatever it works out to be).
• You will receive and email within 24 hours to confirm your donation amount and the corresponding number of etickets you earned.

The deadline for donations that will earn you etickets is May 4th, 2012, 10PM EST.

The Drawing

Within 48 hours after the donation deadline, each name will be drawn at random until all names have been drawn. At that time the top winners will receive an email acknowledging the prize that he or she won. If any winner decides that he or she does not want to receive the prize that he or she won then the next person on the drawing queue that has not won a prize will be notified, so on and so forth.

If we do end up raising enough funds to award more prizes then starting with the most expensive prize purchased, they will go to the next person in the queue who has not yet received a prize. We will determine if there will be more prizes once we have concluded the drawing and confirmed the locations of the initial winners.

The Fine Print

DeadlyFoez will attempt to add the GameCube ports to a new Wii. This project is strictly about that only and the disc drive will not be replaced, so although you may not be able to play official GameCube retail discs, the Gamecube games can still be loaded using DML, a WODE, or by some other means. If we are unable to purchase a new white Wii, some of the plastic pieces to the case may be missing from the Wii like the doors that cover the gamecube ports and the black plastic face that sits flush with the gamecube ports. In the very unlikely event that this experiment is a total failure then the 1st place winner will have the choice to receive a wii without the gamecube ports or a Korean Wii.
If the winner of the Wii lives in another country then DeadlyFoez will region change the wii at the winner's request. In addition to that, DeadlyFoez will order a power brick with the correct plug type and have that shipped to the winners location upon request. If another power brick is ordered then the one that originally came purchased with the Wii will not be shipped to the winner.
The GameCube controller, the GameCube Memory card, and the 3DS Protective case will all be shipped without the original packaging, but the items all have less than 1 hour of use, so pretty much still like brand new and undamaged at the time of shipping.
No one may dispute the donations that he or she has given.

Wii Raffle Homepage​

 

[DeadlyFoez]

XFlak has been kind enough to write up a nice little random drawing batch file to pick the winners for us.

Spoiler

@echo off
setlocal

chdir /d "%~dp0"
set PATH=%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%\system32\wbem;%SystemRoot%
chcp 437>nul

echo Raffle Picker 5000 by XFlak
echo.

::raffle.csv should be structured the same as the sample provided with this script, with one donator per line listing email address and number of etickets, i.e. ,

if not exist raffle.csv (echo raffle.csv does not exist, exiting...) & (@ping 127.0.0.1 -n 3 -w 1000> nul) & (exit)



echo Building temptlist.txt from exist raffle.csv
echo.



if exist templist.txt del templist.txt>nul
if exist winners.csv del winners.csv>nul
if exist winners_private.csv del winners_private.csv>nul

copy /y raffle.csv raffle.txt>nul

::Loop through the the following once for EACH line
::for /F "tokens=*" %%A in (raffle.csv) do call :buildlist %%A
for /F "tokens=*" %%A in (raffle.txt) do call :buildlist %%A
goto:quickskip

:buildlist
set etickets=

set /a count=0

::get etickets
echo %* >temp.txt
sfk filter -quiet temp.txt -rep _*","__ -lerep _" "__ -write -yes
set /p etickets= temp.txt
sfk filter -quiet temp.txt -rep _","*__ -write -yes
set /p email= >templist.txt
goto:buildlist2

:quickskip





echo Selecting random winners
echo.

if exist raffle.txt del raffle.txt>nul
del temp.txt>nul
set number=0


:processlist

set lines=0


::Count current number if etickets in templist

::Loop through the the following once for EACH line
for /F "tokens=*" %%A in (templist.txt) do call :countlist %%A
goto:quickskip
:countlist
SET /a lines=%lines%+1
goto:EOF
:quickskip


if /i "%lines%" EQU "0" goto:fin


::get randomnumber with the same number of digits as the current number of etickets (hardcoded support for up to 6 digits)

set randomnumber=%random:~-1%
if not "%lines:~1%"=="" set randomnumber=%randomnumber%%random:~-1%
if not "%lines:~2%"=="" set randomnumber=%randomnumber%%random:~-1%
if not "%lines:~3%"=="" set randomnumber=%randomnumber%%random:~-1%
if not "%lines:~4%"=="" set randomnumber=%randomnumber%%random:~-1%
if not "%lines:~5%"=="" set randomnumber=%randomnumber%%random:~-1%


::remove leading 0's in random number (if applicable)

if "%lines:~1%"=="" goto:skip
if /i "%randomnumber:~0,1%" EQU "0" set randomnumber=%randomnumber:~1%
if "%randomnumber%"=="" goto:processlist
if /i "%randomnumber:~0,1%" EQU "0" set randomnumber=%randomnumber:~1%
if "%randomnumber%"=="" goto:processlist
if /i "%randomnumber:~0,1%" EQU "0" set randomnumber=%randomnumber:~1%
if "%randomnumber%"=="" goto:processlist
if /i "%randomnumber:~0,1%" EQU "0" set randomnumber=%randomnumber:~1%
if "%randomnumber%"=="" goto:processlist
if /i "%randomnumber:~0,1%" EQU "0" set randomnumber=%randomnumber:~1%
if "%randomnumber%"=="" goto:processlist
:skip


::reject random number of greater than number of current etickets

if /i %randomnumber% GTR %lines% goto:processlist
if /i "%randomnumber%" EQU "0" goto:processlist


::number the list of etickets

FINDSTR /N . templist.txt>templistnum.txt

::get random winner according to random number selected
sfk filter -quiet templistnum.txt -ls+"%randomnumber%:" -rep _*":"__ -write -yes

set /p winner= >winners.csv
echo %number%,%winner% >>winners_private.csv

::repeat and select the next winner until everyone has been selected
goto:processlist


:fin


del templist.txt>nul
del templistnum.txt>nul


echo.
echo Finished
echo.
echo Press any key to close this window . . .
start winners.csv

pause>nul

We figured it would be best to post this up so everyone can see the code that we are using and proving that this was a fair raffle. Xflak even plans to do the drawing himself, and record it down and post it up to youtube for everyone to see so no one has any good reason to dispute the drawing.

You may download this script and try it out yourself from HERE

 

[crwys]

So I am assuming you made enough funds to proceed with the raffle?

 

[Heran Bago]

Thanks for bumping the thread crwys. Just in time, I totally forgot about the raffle!