here’s how you can unlock the secret debug menu on many coke machines. you can find out how many drinks have been sold, how much money is in the machine, and, in the rare case the machine is unsecured, get yourself a free soda-pop
i just tried that on the vending machine downstairs in my dorms and was able to navigate thru the menu and see some of the options… none of the really good ones tho…
I’d like to try this, but I can’t think of a new Coke machine anywhere around here. The newest machines I ever see are always in amusement parks and such. Regardless, I wrote this down in my wallet in hopes to attacking a new Coke machine when I come upon one in my travels. Cheers.
I love you.
*awaits school tomorrow*
I cant be sure if this is new relavent info or a recycled file. Dont know, so I’ll try it tommorow on a likely target. That said, someone needs to make a good vending machine hack website.
it’s not so clear how to fix those c-switches, it’s very easy to press buttons while they are refilling that machine and i really want to be able to score free soda.
Tried this on the machine in my apartment building. It works! Looks like I have one of the “older” machines, and it was totally locked down, but I was able to see how many cokes it sold and so forth. I’ll be trying this on every machine I run across now. :D
So… howsabout Pepsi machine hacks now? (That’s what are at my own school. :P)
Im not sure if this was jacked from 2600 but there is also this same info in there this current issue.
Tight.
It’s stuff like this that I love you for, hack-a-day.
i just went to my school machine (we have the one that has the glass front and the convayor belt that catches everything) the 4231 did ork but the lunch ladywalked over as i was in the menu and proceded to open the machine while i was there. it had taken some kids dollar and she was getting it back. i just left :)
This is without a doubt the worst hack ever!
I tried this and it DID work. I’ve found it works ONLY on the machines that’ll display changing words. The one’s that only display .75 or whatever the price is constantly will not work!
Is this the worst hack ever because it’s so easy or because your just a downer?
I sent this hack into 2600, but I don’t know if this guy took it. This hack has been around for a while so maybe he found it elsewhere. I didn’t discover it, I heard it from a friend then confirmed that it worked.
I was in Miami last march, and was at Bayside mall. There was a soda vending machine in the parking structure. The maching vended the 20oz plastic bottles, but the led said 50 cent, i put 50 cents it….all drinks were 50 cents….
Theres another coke maching at work, where ocasionally, it would return the bills back through the bill accepter. I’m at $3 now..
finally a hack i can afford!! all the machines ive tried it on are too “secure” or whatever though. Does anyone know if you can hack other vending machines, like food ones?
I cannot wait to try this tommorrow. I’m going to write it down and put it in my wallet.
I also can’t wait to try this hack 2marrow. I will put it on my iPod photo notes feature so nobody knows what im really doing. hahha
I’m in computer right now and I gonna try it in Study Hall :)
how did you get in a computer?
this is a cool hack . if it works ill feel so 1337
wat about the coin dump? Is there a way to do that or anything usefull from the menu? wat about price changing? It’d be better if we could get somthing out of it.
On a pinball machine, you have to have the key to get in the machine to change things like the price. it may only be bookkeeping on the outside of the vending machine and prices on the in for reasons like this
any way to get into a pepsi debug menu?
my school has pepsi and gatorade machines only, mountain dew and code red are the only good drinks at my school.
i tried this on several machines at school and some gafe other options then on other machines there,
i also had an optopn char or something, dunno what that is
I remember this “hack” from a while back, I have been throwing up errors on machines for a while at my work… you should throw the service manuals up… I know they are up somewhere because I had them once on my computer.
I tried it all over UCSB, none of them worked.
I remember finding something like that on a pepsi machine. It didn’t let me get anything free, besides, why would I want free Mountain Dew when I can buy it at the store for around $0.30 apiece in a 24pack.
I was trying to get my money back, and I held the coin return button in for several seconds. Then I pushed one of the buttons (since it ate my change anyway) and instead of getting my soda (lousy thing) it told me the number of sodas it had sold.
1500 cans of Mountain Dew had been sold, higher than any other drink. No wonder so many people were buzzed at work. But knowing the number of drinks didn’t offer the refreshment of a cool Mountain Dew. So, I didn’t pursue it any further.
For pepsi machines, I guees I would start with the coin return button.
oh man this is an old hack! I knew bout this for months.
well ur just so kewl
haha
When I was in school students were usually responsible for refilling the machines. I would suggest gaining access to the c-switches by social enginering yourself into this position or conning / bribbing one of the refill kids. If you can enlist the suport of a cute girl you can probably get the coke distributer to let you in. Those guys are chronic horn dogs.
Yertman
Ive read the comments and it sounds like it wwould work. I just wrote the code on my arm and im going to try it at school tomorrow on all the machines.
I just tried that coke machine debug menu and it worked. iI havent gotten a free pop yet but im workin on it.
The coke machine code 4-2-3-1 has been listed for at least ten years (see http://www.textfiles.com) YOu can’t get a free coke out of it, but inside the machine there is a keypad for that, and even a button to switch to “coupon mode” so the machines will accept coupons instead of dollars.. could probably print those out and get crazy..but you have to open the machine.
Works on all the machines at the Dell corporate headquarters. And my apartment’s machine too. I like to leave it on ERROR …but it resets after a minute.
you cant get a free coke, but can’t you change the price from the outside to like 5 cents??
I haven’t tried this yet. Still looking 4 a good machine
you cant get a free coke, but can’t you change the price from the outside to like 5 cents??
I haven’t tried this yet. Still looking 4 a good machine
you can’t get a free coke, but can’t you change the price to like 5 cents from the outside.
Still haven’t found a good machine yet to try it on.
is the coin dump to dump the coins on the inside or to dump all the coins from the inside into the coin return???
you can’t get a free coke, but can’t you change the price to like 5 cents from the outside.
Still haven’t found a good machine yet to try it on.
is the coin dump to dump the coins on the inside or to dump all the coins from the inside into the coin return???
Coming from a guy who is 35 anmd never done anything liek this, it works and i got ONE free soda after about an hours worth of different maneuvers. We own a repair shop for coin operated toys. I.E. video games, jukeboxes, pinball machines, pool tables, etc. Called Quarters only in oklahoma. Had a new one in the shop, no one around to say hey..stop that and it works. Pretty fun for us safe players.
how did you get it to give you a free one? did you have to open it up or did you get it through the menu?
I tried this the other day at Robotics. We work out of a place in the City called Geason works. I tried it on the work floor and it didn’t work. The machines were TOO OLD. But upstairs at the office there are machines and my friend and I checked it out… IT WORKS! nothing like free soda or anyhting but we could get in. Sweet stuff!
-Copertop
This is hardly a hack. It’s actually dcoumented in the machine manual and known and used by almost any vending machine company to see machine statuses without having to take the time to open them. Coke’s machines are manufactured by Royal Vendors and the PDF manuals are available for download from their website. Occasionally you will see a Royal Vendors Pepsi machine or non-branded machine. If it’s a Royal Vendors unit that’s younger than about 15 years old, this will work. The only button inside the machine is a service button that will send the operator to the menu including the PaSS menu where pricing/etc. can be altered and free vend can be activated. The menu is still controlled via the buttons on the front. The only other input is via an optional switch (key switch usually) that can be set to do things like turn the light on/off, enable free vend, etc. however most machines do not have this switch. Incedentally, there is no way to get the machine to dump out money via the menus — even the service menu. But if you can get to that, you can get to the money.
If all you want to do is get free soda, you’d have much more success downloading the vending machine manual and examining how the vending mechanism acually works. I know it backwards and forwards, and a mechanical attack would be much more successful than an electrnic one.
Anyone who wants to see a real coke machine hack, take a look at the URL my name links to. I hacked a Royal Vendors GIII machine to dispense kegged beer as well as keep its original function of dispensing bottles and cans. What’s more, the beer flow is regulated by valves and meters and a custom built mincrocontroller circuit handles flow calibration, valve control, and the interface between the vending machine and the beer.
Further hacking tricks would involve exploring the interesting serial bus inside the machine – MDB. “MultiDrop Bus” is the serial network over which the vending computer speaks to the coin changer, the bill changer, and optionally several other devices as well such as card readers or receipt printers. The format of MDB is very intersting – it uses 11 bit frames with 9 bit bytes signalled on a 30V optically isolated bus. It requires devices to have <5ms response latency too which is a pretty high requirement for this kind of job!
Also as an aside – WTF is up with this site disallowing capital letters and color pictures? In the name of style? Maybe, fine, but give me the ability to write proper English in my comments, please!
I know how to get into the menu and everything but I dont know how to configure the coke system to give me either free coke, change the price to something cheap, or get all the $ out of the maching. Can anyone give me step by step instructions?
What are you dumb? Have you not read the first five comments?
YOU CAN’T GET FREE COKE actualy look don’t just try and get the quick answer look for it, you douche
hey john laur, are you going to post the manual? if not is there one on the net? and if so where???
i just found out about this “hack” from a friend who did it. He, i know for a fact, Changed the price to 5 cents, and bought a coke, and then changed it back. So yes you can basicly get a free coke. And yes, you can make the machine dump all the money, im not sure where it comes out of *inside or out* but it can be done. He wont tell me exactly how to do it cause he dosent want any knowing and i dont know him all that well, but yeah it works.
how can u do that?????? email me ….sk8up@aol.com
what are you a moron there is no possible way to get a free soda or to change the price from the outside
i was around when the guy was restocking the coke machine at scool and i tried to change it when he wasnt looking but i got caught and suspended for 3 days
the 4-2-3-1 debug code works for almost any new soda machine and if you put 2 pieces of tape as long as a dollar on the end of a dollar then add strips that go accross like a ladder that over lap and then put tape on the back of that tape so it si not sticky you can put the dollar in a machine and hold the tape wait for a clicking sound then slowly pull it back out you can get a soda
if you try it on a machine that cost 1.25 put the dollar in 2 times and you can get a free soda and .75 cents. some machines dont work with that because they have a thing so you cant pull your dollar out but when it does work woohoo!!!!!!!!
I know this is not a hack but you get free sodas
if you find a coke machine that has one of the moving conveyer belts that go up and down put a dollar in and pick the soda you want then hold the door closed so the soda cant come out and wait it will try to put it out again then it will give you your money back then put the dollar back in and pick the next soda you want and hold the door closed again untill it gives you your dollar then get 1 more soda but make sure they do not stack ontop of each other and let them come out of the door but you have to pullthem out of the slot fast or it will jam
if the machine jams unplug it and it should go back down and if it doesnt unplug it again but if it still doesnt work atleast you didnt lose your dollar
me and my friends found this out at school when we were skipping 7th period and ended up getting 13 soda before the machine jammed
if you scam the machine like this enough you can go to the debug menu and see how much money it says it has its rediculously high
our schools says 11000 or something like that
I tried it , and opened up the menu , and only had time to see 2 menu items on the display , which was “CASH” , and “SES”
I tried to do that but the machine didn’t give me back my money.
I kinda skipped reading some of the comments so i may be saying some stuff that was already here…
This article was on a site, in 2600 (written by “mEgAbYtE1″ or something like that), on G4TV’s (at the time G4TechTV) The Screensavers (now “Attack of the Show”), all around Gamesurge (server; IRC), and also I wrote (for my refrence only) a simplified guide (made with pen/paper) based on the 2600 article. I found someone on a Gamesurge room saying that they “originally found that out” and that “the guy who wrote in to 2600 stole” his idea but i dont believe him.
also those security guards at my local mall couldnt figure out how to make the coke machine stop displaying “ERROR” (it was a newer machine that uses bottles) :)
~SeanWasHere~
I’VE TRIED EVERYTHING AND I TH9NK I GOT INTO THE MENU BUT ALL I GET IS HOW MUCH MONEY IS IN THE MACHINE OR IT WILL SAY RTN,CASH,ERROR,SES AND SL 1, SL 2 SL 3…… HOW DO I GET IT TO GIVE ME A FREE SODA?
Is it posable to hack a Candy machine.
Please send me a mail if its posable
Ha I dunno what was wrong with the machine,but my sister found a machine at Wal-mart last year. She put the money in press drpepper and the money would come out along with a soda. She would do this numerous of times. Yes she kept getting soda and her money back. It was pretty funny.
this hack has worked for me once (the 4231) and all that it showed was CASH then flashed some amount that i didn’t care about. i tried going up and down the menu, but apparently that was the only access that i had. (this was at wal*mart) i tried various codes on all of their machines. it only worked on the DIXIE NARCO machine.
btw, does anyone know the hack pass for royal vendors machines? at my school, i want free chocolate nesquik milk! it’s $1.50! so anyone know??? anyhelp will be great!
someone link to a coke/pepsi machine manual please.
Yeah, I love to put the debug menu on. It makes people so mad for a minute. We have like 8 coke machines, all of them work. I go through and put them all on debug. Then the bell rings, and every one RUNS for a coke. Then they can t get one and the are SSOOOOOO mad……its funny
this hack works…true…but you cannot receive free sodas (as far as i have experienced)…
at my local hangout (aka farmer’s market) i always 4231 the machine outside and try new menus and combinations of button presses. i always see “eror” “cash” “rtrn” and “sale”. i have also come upon a submenu inside (i believe it was rtrn) where it said what looked like enjoy but said “ejoi” or something like that. also, in one of the other menus, i held down up or down and the money amount would change anywhere from 0 to around 12 bucks! i am sure that there are hackerz higher than me in skittles, so if you guys know how i can save that price or anything…email me or somethin’, ya know? skydakiri@hotmail.com and if you n00bies out there wanna know more, also email…fools! muahahahaha! or ask me about my other hackz that i have performed!
This hack defiantly works. I’ve tried on 3 different coke machines and its worked fine each time. Sometimes it wouldn’t work at first, but pressing the buttons harder and/or slower always helped.
As for getting free cokes and other more interesting options, read the WHOLE article first! It describes that only certain machines allow the “real” hacks. This can easily be noticed by extra menus besides the standard CASH, SALE, RTN and EROR. So far I’ve only encountered standard machines, but its allways fun to show off to friends! ( Also one knows how much cash there is to loot! ;-p )
the pepsi debug code is 4312 or 4321.
i need step by step instructions on the
4-2-3-1 code. how do you know witch buttons are 4-2-3-1 ? the buttons are not numbered.
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doode this shyt dont work .. some one holla at me if u know how to gets a free pop .. betheltrueplaya1@yahoo.com
Love is two people sipping Coca Cola from the same straw on a warm sunny day.
how the hell do you do get a free coke!
imean ican get to the menu but then what.
its just stupid numbers after that .
like i can skrolland everry thing but what then!!!!!!!!!
we have one of these vending machines in our fraternity, and the vendors haven’t restocked it in 6 months so we hijacked the machine. we drilled out the lock and configured it for coke, diet coke, water, AND can or bottled beer! right now we have Coors Light and Corona
but yes, as john laur said, this isn’t really a secret, all the manuals that describe how the system works are available here: http://www.royalvendors.com/royal.html …we have the GIII with EVS, it seems like a common machine.
next up, we’re gonna put baggies of drugs in the snack machine…jk…i think a beer vending machine is illegal enough already…
Hey dudes, if anyone here know how to change the price or get free soda or, anything cool PLEASE Email me at RyanBm9@hotmail.com Thanks!!
I have tried it and it worked i got a couple of bucks from it and some coke as well it is pretty sweet being able to hack into a coke machine
Please contact me too if anyone knows how to get a free coke or to change the price.
Melissa@higherstandards.co.uk
I’ve gotten 2 dimes from a machine when I was messing around with the code on it. I believe it is possible to get money from it. I will also try to catalog and write a simple manual on how to use all of the functions.
either im blind or the code is not entered…can anybody tell me what the code is??
i Need to Hack and get Money..And I Need To Hack And Get Free Sofrware
All you really need to do for free coke is the good old Jolly Roger, but that is opening the machine. If you doing ths in public, this is not recommended. YOu want to make it look like an accident.
ya da royal vendors thinhgy wurks i got tha translated codes for yall. some these only work if some retard forgot to turn the service switch off!
Eror Error Display Mode
CPO-Coin Payout Mode
tUFL-Tube Fill Mode
tESt-Test Vend Mode
PASS-Password Protection
CASH-Cash Counter Display Mode
SALE-Vend Counter Display Mode
PrIC-Selection Price Setting Mode
StS-Space to Sales Programming Mode
Con-Machine Configuration Mode (C1-C10)
CCOC-Correct Change Only
PrEU-Preview Data Password Mode
LAnG-Language Selection Mode
tinE-Time/Date Setting Mode
Lit-Lighting Control
rFrG-Refrigeration Control Mode
bLC1*-Block Selection Mode
bLC2*-Block Selection Mode
dISC*-Discount Setting Mode
OUEr*-Manual Switch Over-ride Mode
SdEP*-Set Depth By-selection Setting Mode
rUnd*-Remote Vend Mechanism Routine ENJOY!
If you go to http://americasleastwanted.com you can find operators guides for the coke machiens.
u all are dumb shits. im 12 yes u can get a free soda.
what u do is u access the debug menu. go to sale
scroll down and it will say VeND click the enter one in this case the 4th button
and it will say cys (choose your selection)
ok, so it does work on some machine. the basic thing is: pass 4 2 3 1, and it will only show you how many its sold, the serial number of the machine, how mush money it has in it. there are c-switches that are either already activated by the keyholder or that you need to activate. if it is activated, you CAN get a free coke. go to con, and on one of the submenus (forgot which but one of the later ones) there is force vend. that will get yo u=your coke. or just do cpo, and buy a coke with some of that money.
Hey, does anyone have pictures/diagrams of the machine’s inside? My school is supremely gansta, and I am there for a magnet program. The machines are broken open often, and there’s a rush of people to steal drinks. I thought I might slip in and flip the switch, but I don’t know where it is. Tips, anyone?
Hey Jake, How do you get to the debug menu??
u hit 4 2 3 1
go to the debug menu enter the error menu go to then one that says vEnd and hit enter it should say co1 co2 co3 co4 and so on go to co8 and thats force vend.
this 4231 code does work!!!!! but i dont kno what do after i enter it….
This code will take you to a menu but u cant do nothing there.email me for REAL codes!
nice #88
I remember there used to be a coke vender i would buy drinks from; you could insert the money and when making your choice of drink push two buttons at the same time, and you would get two drinks!
sadly they saw they werent getting the right enough money and saw what was happening on CCTV!
May be worth a try on older machines
dude, wtf that dolla where u put the tape on the dolla doesnt work. it just sends it back out. any help or send some pics…….
Can somebody please tell me the code. My computer can’t read them. if you could leave another comment with them that would be great! thanks!
hey, i can get it to say VEND, but what do i do to make it say cys(choose your selection)???????????????????????
Ok I cant get into the “read” part on this artical
so can any body email the codes to me please?
You can get every soda out of the machine PLUS all the change too, using water.
About 10 years ago I heard about spitting warm salt water into the dollar bill changer of any can vending machine, so I tried it. It works. It still works too.
In case you haven’t heard of this, I dont think it really has to be warm or salt water, as I have done it with all 3 many times. All you need is a simple method of pouring a large amount of water (as much as gallon) into the dollar changer slot. Better to have too much than too little.
While you pour the water in the dollar slot, you will start to see wierd shit happening. Every now and then tap the metal on the machine… you may get a small buzz shock… if you do, chances are you can have your way with the machine.
Just keep putting water in until you can push a button and get sodas to come out. Sometimes you push the button once per soda, other times it has simply dropped all the sodas out for each button.
click down the change return button repeatedly while pouring the last of the water in, it takes more than to get the sodas out. Once I had to put in a dollar and push a soda button to get the change out…
I did this at a golf course at night in Maine, where I was fishing at 2 am. Me and a buddy loaded up 3 backpacks of soda and put the rest in a trash can, and palced it in front of the machines… all the golfers the next day had some free beverages, and I had enough change to buy gas, smokes and a small bag of weed.
hello, can someone please tell me how the trick works?
what is the code?
if you know it can you please email me on gordonrules82@hotmail.com
thank you
please email me the code
I Tried This In School And The Only Option I Got Was SLE – Sale Whuch Was SLE 0 – 13. I Couldn’t Get Any More Options But In The Colledges You Can Get All Of The Options Apparantly. I Want To Know How To Hack Them Milkshake Vending Machines That Are Gay. The Only Way We Get Free Drinks Out Of Them Is Stick 2 Coins Together Or Knock Them Out. Problem Is There Starting To Nail The Machines To The Floor.
This is what you do
press 4-3-2-1 which opens the menu then press 2 to go throuigh the menu untill it says errorthen press 4
this locks the machine which means that any money put into it well be kept in there but no soda comes out
aftter watching a few goons try to get soda and whatever go up to it and press the coin return and 1
enjoy some random persons money :)
haha i was on my school campus today and i was walking by one of those soda refilling dudes with the pallet of pop, and he was on his cell saying “i dont know, its stuck in service mode” well if i didnt run over there fast and check it out. sure enough it said ***SERVICE MODE*** (this is a somewhat old pepsi machine btw, not coke) with buttons a-f and 0-9, as well as CLR and *. well i was hitting random buttons and it said “REGULAR PRICE 0.00″ and let me input it, hit * to save, and sure enough, i set it from 1.50 to 0.50 and it works, even though it wont accept quarters only
HELLO I NO THE CODE IS 4231 BUT I CANT GET A FREE POP AND THE 1 THING WHERE U TAPE TAPE TO A DOLLAR ,I DONT HINK IT WORKS UZ IT DONT TAKE THE DOLLAR WITH THE TAPE ON IT
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i just tried that on the vending machine downstairs in my dorms and was able to navigate thru the menu and see some of the options… none of the really good ones tho…