Haxing Minesweeper

Re:Haxing Minesweeper by dmitriid on Sunday April 08, 2018 @06:18AM (#16785466)

In Win2000 you could read from and write to memory of any app [1]. Which we did for minesweeper. By setting proper values and forcing the window to repaint we implemented a simple snake game. The body of the snake consisted of bombs and "fruit" you had to eat were flags. I don't remember how we captured keyboard input though.

[1] If your app had admin rights IIRC

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Haxing Minesweeper by unrealhoang on Sunday April 08, 2018 @08:12AM (#16785788)

There were GameHack and ArtMoney, they allow you to track memory address for specific value in game (gold, money, scores...) by input the value before and after changing it, and then allow to change the value at that address.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Haxing Minesweeper by dmitriid on Sunday April 08, 2018 @08:40AM (#16785857)

A modern version of these tools is Cheat Engine, which is brilliant: http://www.cheatengine.org

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Haxing Minesweeper by xenophonf on Sunday April 08, 2018 @09:40AM (#16786032)

Watch out for the adware bundled into its installers, though. :(

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Haxing Minesweeper by Andoryuuta on Sunday April 08, 2018 @03:27PM (#16787827)

Yeah.

There is a link on the download page to a zip of the files, without an installer (or the installCore adware/bundleware).

>"For those that want to have Cheat engine without automated installer and installCore recommendation during installation, click here"

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Haxing Minesweeper by xenophonf on Monday April 09, 2018 @08:22AM (#16792339)

To be honest, that's not really acceptable.

We as a community should be pushing back hard against open source developers who want to monetize their work with malware. There are better ways for them to make money from their work than something that's ethically dubious at best.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Haxing Minesweeper by CodeArtisan on Sunday April 08, 2018 @09:24AM (#16785977)

I once wrote a tool like that but for gnu+linux. You first have to retrieve the memory mapping of the targeted process by reading /proc/<PID>/maps [1] then use process_vm_read/write[2]

[1] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/proc.5.html

[2] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/process_vm_readv.2.html

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Haxing Minesweeper by gruez on Sunday April 08, 2018 @12:21PM (#16786811)

>[1] If your app had admin rights IIRC

only if it's a different user. you can read/write to your own processes without admin

[ Parent | on HN ]