Matt, my biggest mistake was not going with an encrypted bootloader on the Viking360 chip. At the time I was living in a small apartment in the city and I didn't know how popular our modded xbox 360 controllers were going to get. We've already had to hire a legal team and have sent out two lawsuit threats this year to two companies thinking they were going to post our software on their site and sell a Viking360 clone chip. I've actually seen pictures of the clone chip a good samaritan was nice enough to e-mail me.
If you guys can dream up some legally controlled way that I can release the software and source to bonafide Viking360 customers (and not every Tom, Dick and Harry modchip with a PIC18F chip licking their chops waiting to slice and dice our source code for their own use), I'm all ears. About the only thing I could do is have everybody send in their mods, reprogram the chips with an encrypted bootloader, recompile everything, re-upload.... lol it would be a massive effort.
[As soon as another mod shop releases something like the Viking360 I will drop the source code, but right now the closest thing is the GamerModz alpha controller and frankly their product is just gay at $25 rapidfire code updates and no glitches. Their controller doesn't have fast reload, jitter mod, sniper mode, akimbo mode... it's just a plain rapidfire controller.]
Anyway yeah as far as cutting ESE and RapidControllers loose, Ben and Chris have already heard the sob stories, but the new modchip project my wife and I are into it for about $125,000, we cashed out our 401k to invest in the new chip. Ben and Chris in a good month were taking about 60 chips which adds up to some serious sales after awhile. Unfortunately my wife and I are trying to keep a real monopoly this time so we can quickly recoup some of those $125,000 in product launch costs. Cuz right now we really feel like our asses are hanging out there lol.
Einar
If you guys can dream up some legally controlled way that I can release the software and source to bonafide Viking360 customers (and not every Tom, Dick and Harry modchip with a PIC18F chip licking their chops waiting to slice and dice our source code for their own use), I'm all ears. About the only thing I could do is have everybody send in their mods, reprogram the chips with an encrypted bootloader, recompile everything, re-upload.... lol it would be a massive effort.
[As soon as another mod shop releases something like the Viking360 I will drop the source code, but right now the closest thing is the GamerModz alpha controller and frankly their product is just gay at $25 rapidfire code updates and no glitches. Their controller doesn't have fast reload, jitter mod, sniper mode, akimbo mode... it's just a plain rapidfire controller.]
Anyway yeah as far as cutting ESE and RapidControllers loose, Ben and Chris have already heard the sob stories, but the new modchip project my wife and I are into it for about $125,000, we cashed out our 401k to invest in the new chip. Ben and Chris in a good month were taking about 60 chips which adds up to some serious sales after awhile. Unfortunately my wife and I are trying to keep a real monopoly this time so we can quickly recoup some of those $125,000 in product launch costs. Cuz right now we really feel like our asses are hanging out there lol.
Einar
