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rain-13

Could anyone name me some games that are easy to hack/reverse engineer?

I am still newbie to game hacking and looking for some easy games to get started.

By easy I mean you can easily find addresses. For example Prince of persia warrior within is not easy because after days of messing with CE I haven't managed to find out my coordinates, weapon, life addresses. But Diablo 1 is easy because it took me only few hours to figure out most character related addresses.

Game I am looking for should be at least 16 bit

Pluses:
* Dll functions have meaningful names names instead of ordinalxxxxx
* hacker's documentatin about IDs (ex: table that tells which number means which unit)
* open source hacks/trainers/exploits or CE tables (So I could compare table what I get with table made by professional)
*Enough things to hack (Super mario would have only 2 things to hack: time and life, which is bit too few)

Main purpose of that game would be learning to hack not to enjoy the gameplay.

InternetIsSeriousBusiness · Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 9:39 pm Post subject:

House of the Dead 3 is easy to hack.

atom0s · Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 11:49 pm Post subject:

Minesweeper; probably the easiest game to hack and learn the basics on.

If you want to learn about DMA / code shifting, I'd suggest one of the Need For Speed games.

rain-13 · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 3:14 am Post subject:

What else than mines cound and time can I hack in mine sweeper?

Need For Speed <-- which game? here are many games of it AFAIK.

And what game is good for basic pointer stuff? and which is good to learn debugging such as olly dbg or IDa?

And could you suggest some goals with these games.

And What's Code shifting, and what it can do?

I'll look into these games...

And who shall I hack in House of the Dead 3. cant come up with any better ideas than god mode.

rain-13 · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 7:42 am Post subject:

ok then hacking is what? calling game functions and replacing them with your own.?

How do I get started with this? First I need to find function. how I do this?
hor example. I want to find function that gets called when I train grunt from barracks in warcraft 2. What would be steps for this?

info: when it's training unit it displays "training:" and little image unit i am training.

or when I loose I get "You failed to achieve victory!". How do I find that function that's called on loose? and how do I raplace it with func that tells me I won?

Problem is that this text comes from language file, and it's not directly coded into function. Does this matter?

Edit: how to breakpoint fullscreen games? when you breakpoint them , you will see black screen that wont go away which means you cant access your debugger. how to solve this issue? Any hack way to 1st minimize app and then freeze it?

Edit found solution: always on top window attribute helps here.

atom0s · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 4:55 pm Post subject:

Slugsnack · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 5:17 pm Post subject:

i think you are limiting yourself too much by not being imaginative. even taking the case of mario you could do so many interesting things. have it so when you jump you go twice as far or you can walk through monsters without dying. or you gravity doesn't play a part when your cheat is activated. you could vac all the monsters above your head so they follow you around. make the monsters walk crazy fast or crazy slow. all these things are possible, challenge yourself

Kurifodo · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 6:25 pm Post subject:

it depends on how/what ways you want to hack games

1. Is modding/edditing

The two most common games that are easy to mod and most commonly modded are Combatarms (.rez edits) and Mooplestory (.wz edits)
I cant post a link to moople or its real name because it is restricted on this site

2. Is hacking

Again two of the most common are CA and MS
Also Crossfire, Warrock, Soldierfront, suddenattack, projectblackout, M.A.T,
Battlefield (all series), and metal assault. Are all pretty easy to code .Dll's
like you previously stated.

3. Is cheating with Cheatengine and or Packet senders/editors such as R.A.P.E packet sender and rPE.exe Winsock editor pro

there is tons of video tuts and text tuts all over the web to use these 3 programs

rain-13 · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 4:33 am Post subject:

C-Dizzle · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 11:25 am Post subject:

I used to practice on Halo:CE

emilysoft11 · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 23 Jun 2011 Posts: 1

Think you just at by the restriction that didn't imagine yourself are too many.Even adopt the mario situation that you will do so many interesting things.When you jump up you, have it to go thus two because of far and far or you can at don't die under once walk monster.Or when your aring your beguilement be stimulated gravitation pull of the earth nonappearance a part.You will have holiday all monsters, you don't understand consequently them to follow behind you in the neighborhood.Make the monster walk beside herself fast or become mad slowly.

rain-13 · Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 3:23 pm Post subject:

how do i find out functions called on jump in mario? or how can I find out what func is called when I run into monster? any tutorials about this?