Nintendo Wireless In-Store Countdown Timer

Hi, first post here,

I aquired this countdown timer recently, it dates from about 2006 -





and here I found some info about it -

http://edageek.com/2006/12/21/comtech-m2m-nintendo-wii/

Unfortunately I have no power supply for it, I can see what voltage it takes but it hasn't been easy finding a PSU that will work with it, plus I don't know if the tip is centre positive or negative, or the actual tip size for that matter

Anyway it is an interesting item (albeit) cracked. I am guessing when I do power it on it will show the last image that was sent to it but I wonder if it could be hacked to have different images and data sent to it

So I thought members here might appreciate seeing this item as it obviously supposed to be returned to Nintendo or destroyed so there probably aren't that many around, currently it sits in my cupboard and has done for the last few months or so but one day it would ne nice to hang up with some upcoming games showing and the time til they are released, also I will have to figure out how to reproduce the front panel

Cheers all, any comments or suggestions appreciated

Rich

 

This forum has some wierd spam protection and since you just registered your post probably is in some moderation queue. Could it be that you included a link or something like thata that could have triggered the spam protection?

 

wow neto.

 

There's stickies on the forum that every new user should read. The amount of "TEST" posts and threads I've removed is annoying. I accept and approve posts daily.

 

A suitable PSU looks to cost me about £30 and I don't know if it will even work - so back in the cupboard it goes for the time being.

R

 

would be nice to see it in action.

 

What kinda plug does it use? If its like a more standard plug i suggest opening that bad boy up and looking at the internal circuit board it should have some sort of power circuit and you could easily find the dc voltages by looking at the chip it needs. If you dont mind taking a pic of the cirucuit board i can look to find the voltages. If i cant
find them i know i guy in a chat room who definately can help out.

Regarding hacking it to get new images that one might be a bit more difficult but it can be done. You would need something like an arduino at least for the digits but it might be more involved than that requiring alot of rewiring. Maybe even a raspberry pi could do everything but im not skilled enough to preform such things. Sorry

 

Got mine today !

some pictures <<

if you look inside, you can found a Compact Flash card !!
unfortunately, i can't read anything with my computer

i've found a picture of power supply on eBay



Another version

 

sorry for double post.
i just found interesting stuff !!

motherboard have a SIM CARD WITH MODEM !!!
Without, everything work ! but the display say he can't connect at launch

MODEM DATASHEET <<



if you touch the button behind the motherboard, you can change brightness !





EDIT: Wouhou !! you can read CF card with UBUNTU !!

 

Cool I like stuff like this, on a side note, I wonder if the SIM card still works, just wondering if they had some sort of free internet supplied by Vodafone.....I imagine it would of been cut off by now XD

 

it functioned until I try to use it I've blocked.

 

Hello !
finally, i've made an extract from my Compact Flash card.
you can download it from: http://www.1038.fr/AEE/kiosk.rar
to restore the files, you need UBUNTU and a 1Gb flashcard (1Gb only !!)
this image don't have an extension.
after, in a terminal: dd if=kiosk of=/dev/sdc1

 

Unable to download - server tells me the GET method isn't implemented. Srsly? What kind of HTTP server doesn't support get?

Oh and sdc1 sounds like the image has the first partition's contents, which means the boot sector and partition scheme are lost. Not sure if that's important for this device, but imaging the whole card may be a better idea.

 

Possibly the server was so simple it is only designed to accept POST. For security reasons it makes sense to disable anything that you would expect to never be used.

-doulomb

 

"post" (which also doesn't work, btw) "for security reasons"? never expect "get" to be used? what the actual f-ck. don't even know what to say to this, apart from "you've just made my ignore list".

 

i've got an attack on my website :/
it's good now !

 

So it is.

At first glance, it's an ext3 partition, with lots of image resources, as well as 'playlist' files, under /ftptemp. You should be able to just replace those if you want to display your own images, I guess.

 

I tried and it does not work
There is an inaccessible folder. Perhaps in this folder :/

 

What do you mean? You can't access some folder, the system throws an error, ...?

edit: oh goddammit, somehow I missed the entire /display folder. That's the one you want.
It has the currently active slideshow, and there's a bunch of scripts that were used to download new slideshows from ftp.comtechm2m.com (there's login data, but it won't work any more, so what's on this card is all we get).
For starters, try removing the "playlist" file as well as all jpegs in /display, then copying the contents of one of the /ftptemp/whatever folders there - it's what the scripts did. Then try your own images (resize to 1024x768 and save as jpeg, just to be sure and match the files already present).

Oh and btw, here's just the slides, for those who don't want to mess with the CF card image. Note the hidden '.listing' in /ftptemp, teasing a bunch of slides we won't be seeing...

 

how i can access in /display folder ???
EDIT: i've found -_- (sudo nautilus)