Binary patching game cheat codes [Game Hacking 101]

Reverse Engineering and binary patching the game Age of Empires, to permanently enable both the "reveal map" and "no fog" cheats - even when "no cheat" mode is enabled in the game.
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[@247CTF]

🕹️🕹️🕹️ Does anybody know the cheat code to get more subs on KZbin? 🕹️🕹️🕹️

[@Gadgetman1989]

Nerdcity had a video on it lol

[@superservices4818]

Run a phone farm with device spoofing

[@triloksuthar6742]

would love to watch DLL injection technique. GREAT video as always!!

[@247CTF]

You got it!

[@cazurro96]

It would be awesome to have some DLLs injection videos! Nice content and easy to follow!

[@247CTF]

Will do!

[@mazsuuavuli5310]

More Pls!

[@tumio599]

PLS Find for me address at time 2:24

[@mrvb6408]

Surely the easier option is to patch the code to write the values you want to the expected location, this way you just patch in one place instead of 6 separate subroutines?

[@247CTF]

Yup, that's also a good solution. It's a little bit trickier though in practise, as we would need to find space to write new instructions, modify the application flow, set those bytes, clean up any mess we made, then jump back to the original location. Will explore this in a future video!

[@danielmcpherson9062]

I LOVE THESE VIDEOS!!!

[@nicholasdurand9370]

Subscribed so I catch the DLL injection video! Looking forward to it

[@247CTF]

Coming soon!

[@superservices4818]

You're goddamn right I want to know more about DLL injection!

[@247CTF]

🥳

[@phuongpro99]

What exe you using to read asm code of aoe ?

[@247CTF]

Binary Ninja / x64dbg are the main tools used in the series

[@rillban1]

DLL injections please! Awesome content :)

[@247CTF]

Done!

[@eneomaos33]

Hey, I'm a newbie here and I have a question. I know I'm trying something too big for my ability but I would like to hear your input. How hard do you think it is to port a PS2 game to PC? There's a game that I love but the company that made it doesn't care about ports or remakes, so it's "The Forgotten One" of games.

[@247CTF]

I'm no expert in this either, but rather than porting - I suspect emulation will be much easier!

[@neoXXquick]

nice .. good stuff

[@247CTF]

Thanks!

[@antdgar]

Nice

[@247CTF]

😂

[@velocityra]

I enjoy your videos, but how come you're not using Ghidra for static analysis (has great decompiler, free) and x64dbg for dynamic analysis (quite a bit better and more modern than ollydbg)?

[@247CTF]

I use x64dbg too in other videos. Will use ghidra when it makes the content easier to understand. Many ways to achieve the same result, but so far things have been easier to explain without bringing ghidra into the mix!

[@velocityra]

@@247CTF Ok :)

[@Gadgetman1989]

Curious what would be needed for a game like Ride to Hell Retribution

[@247CTF]

No idea, but you should be able to apply similar techniques and play around with it in the single player game.

[@callmecyb7825]

How did you know these functions at 4:37 are going to draw the map?

[@247CTF]

Take a look at the first video in the game hacking series playlist "Reverse Engineering hidden game cheat codes" for more details on those functions

[@jester369]

Can you tell me how you find the address in 2:25 ? I don't see any reference to it :( / I am a newbie, thank you very much!

[@247CTF]

Take a look at the previous videos in the series to see where those magic bytes come from

[@jester369]

@@247CTF I found the address there. however i traced the code it came from functions belonging to map! am I mistaken? my English is not good. Can you describe it? Thanks a lot.

[@dailydoseofmemes_shorts]

Im to dump

[@247CTF]

Na, you got it!

[@elpresidente2876]

Very cool video !

[@247CTF]

Glad you liked it!