#13

There is a fella hacking the firmware for the Roland MV8000 here…https://www.mv-nation.com/index.php?topic=227.msg2299;topicseen#msg2299 Looks like it is very much early days.

I’ve got a hacked firmware on my vacuum. I installed a spotify client so it can play “sadie the cleaning lady” while it vacuums. Any suggestions for other cleaning related songs for the playlist would be much apprecietated.

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#14

Oh, wow, that’s fantastic!

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#15

Outkast’s “So Fresh, So Clean”? (I have to confess that I didn’t expect hacking a vacuum cleaner to make an appearance when I started this thread but I’m very pleased it did!)

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#16
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#17

Did anybody use rockbox back in the day? It was pretty amazing that you could turn a $20 mp3 player into something that could play everything from FLAC to MOD to Doom WADs.

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#18

I use rockbox exclusively on my iPod and have done for years, and having flacs available is a real boon as that’s my preferred format. It’s fantastic.

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#19

Aguanile = clean your house

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#20

I have to confess: I never bothered much with FLAC because, on the occasions that I could hear the difference between a FLAC and a 320kbps MP3, I never minded the pay off of slight loss of clarity over space on my MP3 player

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#21

Hell yeah, teenage me had to play DOOM on his MP3 player!

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#22

I have often looked for sp-404sx custom firmware. One or two official updates have been released, I wonder if they could be reverse engineered to allow for firmware which would address changes the sp404 community’s have long desired.

#23

I’ve tried looking into this as well but got nowhere. From my very limited experience with binwalk it seems that most of the firmware is encrypted so I’m not sure if it’d be possible (tho I could be completely wrong).

I’m also a big fan of JJOS (which I have running on my MPC 1000) and it’d be great to make something similar for the 404.

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#24

Fortunately I have a 160GB iPod classic, so space was never much of a problem - the main advantage for me is not having to think about converting formats, but just moving over whatever the file happens to be saved as - and moreover by just copying and pasting in a file browser and no tedious mucking about with iTunes (which I can’t run on Linux anyway) or various sub-optimal kludges. It’s the only Apple device I own, and I’d have given up on it yonks back if it wasn’t for sensible third-party firmware.

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#25

That makes a lot of sense. I’ve never had an issue with iTunes, despite how irritating it can be, purely because I use iOS devices for music making and having iTunes on my PC means I can store local backups of apps that sometimes disappear from the store never to be seen again (I had to track down a business or enterprise edition for this feature but it’s gold!)

On a side note, there’s something quite fun about seeing familiar phrases like “mucking” and “yonks” and suspecting that you had to be a fellow Brit!

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#26

Could the firmware be compressed and not encrypted? I hear the two can look similar. I think 404 has the ability to compress and uncompress files, I noticed the back up save feature crates a compressed file in the 404’s files system. It would make sense to me for an update to be compressed for the download and then uncompressed on the unit itself. If this is true, cracking the firmware might just require figuring out what kind of file compression the 404 uses.

#27

That’s a good point. I was under the impression that the back up files were just a concatenation of the different sample and project files into a single .bin but it makes sense that there’s some compression going on.

I’ll see if I can find some info on it online. Maybe someone has already figured it out and shared it on github or somewhere else.

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#28

It never ceases to surprise me what people have done. There are masses of Maschine units out there that could be great controllers in an iPad setup but they aren’t class compliant. I always hoped somebody would be able to do something to prevent them ending up landfill.

This looked massively promising but it doesn’t seem to have moved on since 2017.

#29

There is perhaps a clear reason why this never came to fruition:

#30

Questions for JJOS and MPC 1000 owners:

There are various releases available for the sole OS3, there’s also an OS128SP… I’m a bit lost with all these OS versions… :grimacing: I have a normal MPC 1000 (no external LCD screen).

  • Which OS did you get ? Which one did you install ?

  • Is it worth getting the large screen too ?

Correct me if I’m wrong: I’d have to buy the OS2XL for 123$ if I want to use the OS3 on my MPC1000 ?

Thanks.

#31

The 128 versions are for the modded big screen MPCs. OS3 has all the features of the 128 versions but works with the standard screen size. I went with OS2XL because I thought that the features from big-screen 128 might not translate well to small-screen OS3. Also you can load both OS2XL and OS3 and choose which one to boot into at startup. Hope this helps :+1:

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#32

Yes, it helps a lot, thank you :wink:

I also realize I can probably try it for free before I buy a password, great.

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