Re:Haxing Minesweeper
by unrealhoang on Sunday April 08, 2018 @08:12AM
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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.
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A modern version of these tools is Cheat Engine, which is brilliant: http://www.cheatengine.org
Watch out for the adware bundled into its installers, though. :(
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"
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.
Re:Haxing Minesweeper
by CodeArtisan on Sunday April 08, 2018 @09:24AM
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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