You have been misinformed. While 255 is the limit on a number of things in the MX-3000. eg. Number of steps per macro/button, number of buttons per page, number of pages per device, number of devices per remote. It is not the limit of things such as IR codes, images, sounds, or variables per remote since they are remote wide.

In fact, I have created an RCC file with a direction pad controllable maze that is using 3000+ variables and works fine. It would be annoying to try to use this RCC with any normal remote layout since the variable list is rediculously long but it does work just fine and I dont notice any negative efffects on the remote when using this many variables.

Just an FYI. From my work with DMX: The file structure allows for roughly 4.3 billion indexes so use as many variables as you want :-)

-3B