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This isn't exactly hacking, but it's still a fun party trick. We had a coke machine installed at work about 3 months ago, I did this in front of some people at lunch and retrieved a free coke (the machine was there 4 days and was still awaiting it's setup closure, so it was still wide open and unrestricted).

Anyways: hacking a coke machine.

It's very simple. Each machine obviously has a firmware controller installed on it. It has a basic debug menu in it so that a machine technician can get some info about the machine, and even control some of it's functions. On most machines, this debug is left open - at least enough to get in and play around. On some machines it's left WIDE open - free pop, seriously. Others, you can't access it at all.

How to do it?

It's cake! You have to hit the dispense buttons in this order:
(4) (2) (3) (1)

If the buttons are vertical, 1 is the top button, 2 is just below it, and so on. If they're horizontal, the button on the left is 1, next is 2, etc. If it's two horizontal rows, it's basically the same thing. On the second row, the first button will be number 5-7, depending on the config.

Basically, vertical - up to down; horizontal - left to right, top row only.

Once you access the debug menu - you'll know because the LCD will display something different, often the word "Err" or "ErOr", you can begin navigating the menu.

#1 - Exit/back
#2 - Up
#3 - Down
#4 - Select/enter

Just hit up and down to surf through the options. Different things will display on the screen. I've done this to quite a few machines that are from 1998-2004 or so, but I've only done it once to a brand new machine - so hopefully it'll work on the machines near you the same way it did for me.

Here are some of the menu possibilities:
CASH - see how much cash the machine has in it. This opens a submenu, and you'll go through 8-20 options, one for each slot number. You can see how much money each type of pop has made.

SALE - this is how many pops the machine has sold total. On some machines this is the lifetime total, on other machines it is since the stock guy last reset it.

VER - firmware version on the machine, unimpressive

EROR - shows any errors the machine has encountered, this opens a submenu as well. I don't remember all the abbreviations, but I know it shows stuff like rows getting jammed physically (pop getting stuck), or the machine itself having a problem, bill checking errors, change verifying errors, etc.

RTN - takes you out of debug mode, on most machines it does this automatically after 60 seconds, but on some really old ones you have to select this or people can't get pop - lmao.

CPO (generally disabled) - coin payout mode - this will literally drop whatever kind of coins to the coin return that you want it to

COn (generally disabled) - this one can spit out pops for you, it works similar to the CASH one above, goes into a submenu and you select an option, the options control different parameters of the machine, everything from the cost of pops to how long a quarter will "stay in memory" after you put it in there - you could set this to 2 seconds and it would eat people's money (you have to wonder if someone did this before you sometimes), there's lots of other options

If nothing else, it's a funny trick to access the menu and see basic stuff like how much cash it has in it, and is interesting to do in front of a friend for the reaction.

BTW, my first thread - new to the boards, but hopefully my material isn't noobish idiocy.

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devilblade0 - "i want to know how to use them like when it says (press L+R) what do i do?"


~Polatrite~

This has been posted and reposted all over my internets.

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I have to return some video tapes.

Feed me a stray cat.

Perhaps, a search here returned nothing, so this community benefits from it - right?

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devilblade0 - "i want to know how to use them like when it says (press L+R) what do i do?"


~Polatrite~

LOL it works Nice

I've done this before, pointless but fun.

ha, that was fun, thank you polatrite

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I could never get it to work, personally. But yeah, I'm sure you can agree, old news is old news.

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I have to return some video tapes.

Feed me a stray cat.

lol yeah ive done this long ago its fun to do and good to use on the summer times

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Tried it at Walmart and it didn't work. The only thing that did work was at my school when you hold the bottle and it sends another one down the shaft thingy so you get two for the price of one. Now the machine is out of order.

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If they say no and you do it, it's rape...unless there's confetti, then it's surprise sex

I am going to print this and test this wherever i go. n_n

Yeah, I've done it just for "lol look what I can do", and heard it a long time ago. I have a hard time believing CPO and COn exist though. The machine would have to be opened to enable such options, why not just take the pop/money from inside it, or put the controls for testing on the inside so people don't leave the options enabled, or only enable them when it's open? Having an option in the menu to just spit out money seems pretty dumb. For that matter, every time I hear it mentioned, there are other options that are "usually disabled", capable of doing such things as fucking up the motor or turning off the machine. Quite inconsistent.

BTW, it also works on the ones with the numeric keypad.

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Does it work on new machines only or the old ones

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WWDD? - What Would Dale Do?

lol I love doing that at school my record is five bottles for one doller

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You can also hit 432112311 and hold down the change return to get all the change =D

It's not a hack but its pretty cool and stupid. Behind most machines at the bottom is a gap. If you look under there you can see bottles of soda that is meant to be put inside the machine. Just put your arm under there and grab as many as you like.

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If they say no and you do it, it's rape...unless there's confetti, then it's surprise sex

I found this old document i haver on cheating a coke machine! It never worked for me though. D:



Ok. First of all, I have tried every single file I could find on how
to rip off coin changers, candy machines, etc. etc. None of them worked.
Believe me, I tried every one. I don't know if these articles were just to
gain a better U/L D/L ratio or what but they didn't work. I have one that
does.

This trick only works on COCA COLA machines. Don't ask me why. It has
something to do with the validator on the machines.


Take a dollar bill (as crisp as possible) and lay it
george-side-up with our dear first prez. facing left as if you were going to
stick it in the machine. now take some scotch tape and make 2 strips a long as
the dollar. now take those pieces of tape and attach them to the white edge of
the dollar facing you (just the one edge). your dollar should look like this
now.

-----
- - <---- Dollar
- -
- -
- -
+---+
| |
| | <---Strips of tape
| |
| |

Now take scotch tape and make bars across the two pieces of tape
already connected to your dollar(sort of like a ladder) overlapping each one
just a little. get down to the bottom and turn the bill over and do the same
thing on the other side (just the ladder rungs). now take a pair of sissors
and trim the tape to make it all even and square. now take something hard and
run it over the tape a few times to ensure that it won't come off. (remeber
kindergarten? put the glue on and press down hard while you count to 10?)
now you're ready. take your new and improved currency to the nearest coke
machine with a dollar bill vindicator and insert your dollar. you have to let
the bill go in almost until you cant hold the tape anymore (it's important to
let the bill get in far enough for the scanner to read the dollar) and then
whip it back out. You should hear the click of the machine and your change
drop out. make your selection and voila! Now the cool thing is when you find
a machine that only takes 50 cents. cause you get your coke and 50 cents!!

Thats tight im doing that on monday lol

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Theres another way to hack a Coke Machine.

You have to find one with a belt that goes up to the pop, and then the pop drops onto the belt. From there the Coke makes its way down the belt and into a slot for you to reach. Look here to see what I mean: http://photos15.flickr.com/20268002_385f398814.jpg

When you find one, pop in your money, and select your beverage of choice. As the belt starts to move up and down, put your hand into the slot where the drink comes down into, and hold close the trap door. The pop wont be able to get out, so the machine will think it didn't work, and refund your money. Porceed to buy another pop. You CAN do this as many times as you want, but be warned, too many and it WILL jam. I usually go with 2 pops, just to be safe. Also, when the pop drops into the slot, grab it before it hits the bottom of the enclosure. I think it has a sensor there that tells the machine there was a pop that hit the base. That way the door wont close, and your other pop wont get stuck.

Have at 'er

im tryin this! there are a whole bunch of thos at my school

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I'll try this at the mall as soon as i can afford the 3 dollars for a coke.

Three bucks?! Holy crap, where do you live?? A pop is only like, $1.50 CNDN here, which is $1 US. I guess it is a good thing we have these hacks, so then it wont cost you so much

They upped the price. in the grocery store they cost 1.59USD while at school they cost 1.25USD and at the mall they cost 3USD.

at my school they cost a dollar but at the grocery store you can get like 12 for 3 bucks (@MIR-->) so why not just go to the store and get a twelve pack for the same amount as one coke?

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Mine only cost 75 cents

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50 cents.

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"If you prick us, do we not BLEED? If you tickle us, do we not LAUGH? If you poison us, do we not DIE? And if you wrong us, shall we not REVENGE?"
~ William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice.
Thanks to Parasyte for introducing me to this.

Hate you.

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[MPH v1.0 US] Has 640 codes, with credit in all the notes. (last up-date 8/25/07)
http://www.the-random-site.com/SUB.xml

I know it.

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"If you prick us, do we not BLEED? If you tickle us, do we not LAUGH? If you poison us, do we not DIE? And if you wrong us, shall we not REVENGE?"
~ William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice.
Thanks to Parasyte for introducing me to this.

All of these work I ahve tested/done all of these. and with the one $ and tape use a five instead

Thanks!

I would but i rather buy a case of BAWLS instead and never need to sleep agian!