Learn Reverse Engineering (for hacking games)

[@cazz]

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[@VinzCassel]

Hey cazz! Thanks for your work, your channel is very helpful. Just a short question: Do you have any video about manual injection? Or have plans to do it in a future? 1luv♥

[@Stopinvadingmyhardware]

Waste of my time

[@QuadDerrick]

to try the brilliant offer i have for you you have to read 9 tons of text that i will write,, and i will paste a book or two in here first before you can get to read the shit i actually want you to read and ,,, THERE IS A SPECIAL PLACE RESERVED FOR YOU SOME WHERE , , IT IS MAYBE NOT IN HEAVEN

[@VladIDrago]

You the best, thx so much. Good DIY how destroy Electronic Arts and Microsoft (who destroy and stolen Peoples money and invigilation). God with You.Amen.

[@blastoise-pp4cr]

Then dont watch@@Stopinvadingmyhardware

[@paolomontelbano]

Introductions to compsci concepts like this are really great. Would love to see more!

[@KryzysX]

truly said!

[@jtcloete3452]

Bro you are one of the few KZbinrs that's stuff is actually pro and is good dam please please stay on KZbin you are just like awesome

[@josephlang2586]

Might I recommend a channel called chilitomatonoodle? He doesn't teach hacking but he does teach c++ game programming so you'll find lots of relevant gems there.

[@jsonkody]

What? There are many professional programmers on KZbin.

[@bakasenpaidesu]

Nah... there are plenty 😂

[@bakasenpaidesu]

Nah... there are plenty 😂

[@howtobasicshort4724]

Tbh this guy explains it so much better and has a smoother mic than others but you do you i just enjoy his vids

[@Rocket_911]

I think i should learn normal engineering first

[@anime455_]

@@Rocket_911 us

[@elstink]

After learning x86 assembly for the last few months it's cool to see an application where all my studying is useful day to day rather than something that's in the back of my mind when I'm coding in something like c++

[@demonicamente]

Hello! can you help me in a certain game? my discor humanidades

[@Rin-vs4nc]

hey cazz, just wanted to say i've been watching for a long time and your videos are getting better and better! Keep doing what you're doing, you're helping a lot of people out

[@cazz]

Hey Rin, thanks for the awesome comment ❤

[@amop2250]

The video starts at 1:29. The video is great (after the long-a*s ad) ❤

[@cazz]

:)

[@LukeKido]

That's one of the most impressive game hacking overview I've ever seen. You made it all sound so simple, even when explicitly mentioning it's not a short journey and experience matters the most. Thank you

[@LukeKido]

@@riley-arr-g If you have not learnt anything with this video, that's not my fault or problem. It served like a kind of roadmap to introduce me into game hacking. I can search for the tools (and their tutorials) whenever I see fit. I searched on KZbin, got introduced and today (10 months after) it became my favourite hobbie. Have not likes the content? Leave a dislike and ask for KZbin to not recomend the channel, cause your poor and pointless critic can't even be taken serious. Else, if you at least had the balls, you'd be announcing you made a better content about it, something which you obviously shall never accomplish.

[@cyberchef8344]

Oh I had never heard of reclass. That sounds very useful - I always just reconstruct the structs by hand in IDA. No matter how good you guys get, always rewatch the fundamentals. I always learn something new

[@0x157]

what really helped me learn reversing back awhile, was to reverse engineer my own code and try to break it :). Great VID cazz !

[@0xReip]

I will follow your example

[@johnd.6543]

tbh with you this will not help you at all (or it should help you only for the first 2-3 days). Go RE any executable that you not know the initial source code and try to accomplise your target or expiriement with that

[@barrenwanderers5655]

Even if it is tough for others to learn even the basics, doing self-learning every hour of a day or week can help out a TON, especially when it comes to having a lot of free-time or needing to meet deadlines like college.

[@Luzum]

I have a very very basic understanding of reverse engineering from watching other people, and attempting stuff myself, and this is a great video. Very good advice here, I also learned some things from this as well, thanks for the informative content cazz

[@cazz]

Glad I could help!

[@Coledebord2]

It is actually hilarious how cazz can say with a straight face that any competent reverse engineer would waste their time using Ghidra instead of cracking the full version of IDA pro whenever they want. Even the IDA devs know individuals who are halfway decent at reversing and just want a full copy of IDA to use on their personal PC are going to get it for free if they really want it because its not hard to patch just like anything else we do on a daily basis. Charging thousands of dollars for an individual license for IDA pro is so absurd that it might as well be a challenge to crack it publicly issued to the target customers that are largely made up of professionals and enthusiasts in the software analysis / vulnerability research field to begin with. I'd be shocked if more than 10% of individuals that have it (using it in a personal non-commercial /work capacity) actually paid for it lmao. Hexrays makes all their money from commercial sales anyways, and they do quite well.

[@mathocity8337]

We should be glad that he's giving this content for free.

[@sickboydroid]

I have been reversing engineering Android apps for about 2 years now. When i started out, i was so lost. But i think it was the best thing that could have ever happened to me because i developed my own techniques of re.

[@zigaudrey]

As someone who started Rom Hacking and wish to Disassembly, my philosophy for Retro Rom Hack is "Think like a machine"

[@johnd.6543]

i will strongly disagree. Everytime i RE a application that not know the initial source i try to think like a developer (human), how he possibly made something in his application. Compiler indeed goes in between to take same actions and optimize the code but it not does much... If you mean that you have to follow every asm instruction in your mind then it still not makes sense as a debugger does this work for you, you only set a breakpoint at the point you want to 'freeze' the application. If not use a debugger then yes you need to 'think' like a machine and do every single instruction with your brain and store/read the data every time starting from the entry point. Nobody does this lol

[@zigaudrey]

@@johnd.6543 In a sense that each consoles has a different way to play games. You can't break its mechanism so you will take control, you will literally break it! In Rom Hacking, you will use different tools but one work better on this than another. It's specialize. My quote is about read the code and imagine what it does and maybe you will find something you want to modify. Each code has their own language, right?

[@giostechnologygiovannyv.ri489]

2:54 correction buddy: "low level languages" C, C++, are not low level languages, are high level languages, because they are written in human understandable language, not so abstract, low level is assembly language that still have some words close to the human one but are short instructions and is not portable because depends on which architecture you use, and have some instruction set, but is closer to Machine Language, C, C++ are high level languages, because no matter where you use the same syntax, not like in ASM if you use intel 8080, 4040, etc. is not same as 6800 or 68k motorola or AT&T, each one has a different structure as for example using registers to copy values with mov the destination and source switch, or they have different ways to put the register values, etc. C is high level, is lower than other languages because you can use pointers, addresses and even put a piece of asm in between (yes I agree with that) but still High Level language ;) Electrical Engineer here almost MA... Great video btw!

[@diotone5580]

Glad someone else pointed it out. The real reason you want to learn C/C++ is because most games people want to hack are going to be written in that language, otherwise its just good to know the fundamentals of programming and then learn the syntax of that language you don't know.

[@raymondcjyi]

As an SE student, we do learn about reverse engineering, however we were also taught it may cause legal issues, whether or not it is legal to do it on all games software is generally considered a complicated issue that involve copyright or country law stuff. It is important to note that even if reverse engineering is not explicitly illegal, it may still be prohibited by the end-user license agreement (EULA) or other agreements with the game developer/publisher. Violating such agreements could result in legal action being taken against the reverse engineer. -ChatGPT

[@MCisra3l]

That is true. As a law student i can confirm that code is protected under copyright laws as a work of literature in most parts of the world, therefore altering it without permission from the owner is copyright infringement

[@DeadPool-zf8ex]

Just don't put ur name and do stuff

[@DeadPool-zf8ex]

U can continue doing it and also they will not have any evidence u done that

[@WhyGodby]

😂

[@chaska8144]

@@MCisra3l wait why r u here, are u going to switch careers?

[@alexionut6]

Yours is one of the few channels i have the bell notification turned on. Great content! :)

[@mak5153]

you should make a tutorial series on making a cheat and bypass from scratch, you are the only person I can actually learn from 😂

[@AlexGuy793]

great I learned nothing but great!

[@darrenfrancis8126]

fax all i remember was him saying reverse engineer

[@blarghblargh]

That makes sense. He said in the video that learning reverse engineering requires doing reverse engineering. This is just an overview. Kinda like reading the table of contents of a book, but not the book itself

[@HXD90]

@@darrenfrancis8126 You might need hearing aids then.

[@darrenfrancis8126]

@@HXD90 nah just that i dont understand the concepts hes talking about. its like an 8th grader learning calculus

[@Diego-8842]

03:09 - THANK YOU for this bro, i have printed and saved it here, thanks again, this will help alot ! ❤ 🤣

[@boody8844]

As beginner Full-stack developer, I am deeply interested in topics such as low level computing and reverse engineering. but I am a bit overwhelmed and not sure if I should stick to improving my full stack skills or if I should jump right ahead into learning C. Any suggestions?

[@albertslepak7963]

I say at least give C a try. Especially if you're interested in low level development and/or hacking, learning C/C++ will open up a whole new world to you that you might fall in love with and make your future career :)

[@cazz]

As others have said, if you are deeply interested in the lower-level side of things, it wouldn’t hurt you to give C or C++ a try. You can certainly make a career out of those skills. Even if you don’t make a career out of it, it’s the most satisfying and interesting area of programming in my opinion and it can be a hobby. With that being said, if you’ve got your foot in the door as a full-stack developer, you should of course prioritize that if you enjoy it. Good luck brother!

[@mikehunt6234]

@@cazz I agree, the satisfaction of having near complete control over low level processes is why I love c and c++ so much.

[@DMSBrian24]

if you're interested in it, go for it, if not, ignore it, money-wise it's not worth it i can tell you that much (unless you're very, very good at it)

[@guillaumelacroix8730]

if you want to give C a try, hop into the CS50 course of harvard, it's online and the first weeks are about C

[@Zorcky-2C]

Thank you for this formation. I'm now a reverse engineering expert and a certified videogames hacker

[@angeloducocarreon8481]

thank you so much brother 😊 im an IT specialist 3year student in Philippine in PANPACIFIC UNIVERSITY

[@Blackbirdhandle]

Fascinating. Whole new world opening up for me

[@yolamontalvan9502]

Than you, thank you for mentioning the name of some debugging tools. They are not only just for cheating. They help me find bugs in my codes. I subscribed.

[@alfonsopayra]

my gosh... i end up wanting more. Please, walk us through a reverse engineering session for a game in unity

[@TheCrazyblader]

Bro thanks a lot for your work!

[@the_real_aristotle]

just found you channel a few days ago in my recommended feed , i love your content bro

[@AngeloGianni-t1i]

Yours is one of the few channels i have the bell notification turned on

[@subhayukumarbala1680]

Reverse engineering is like playing a game outside of the game to unlock a reward inside the game.

[@-Vaxires-]

This is a very interesting video! I've got an actual question about something that I didn't quite get throughout the video. What would you have to do to reverse engineer a game's savedata if it has a checksum. How do you do it?

[@99temporal]

Skip the checksum check or hook the "save" function to sign your own save files(doesn't work if the file is signed on a server)

[@jmvr]

​@@99temporal yeah, just make your own checksum. All a checksum is, is a way of ensuring that the save data is unaltered, whether that be through bugs, or through cheating. If you know how the checksum is generated, then all you have to do is generate the checksum for your own custom data

[@ilikata141]

If you're here just so you can see the code for a game to reveal some easter eggs.Welcome to the club.

[@teev660]

some time ago I wanted to learn gamehacking, even tho now I stopped learning it I still watch your vids cause they are so amazing! you could make much more views if your vids weren't centered about gamehacking but you still choose to do so! respect

[@DuckForPope]

This is a very nice introduction. But no mention of WinDbg? The time travel debugging feature is truly amazing.

[@johnd.6543]

indresting i didn't knew for this debugger too. All those years i need debugging applications i use only x64dbg for c/c++ and dnspy for c# (and devenv.exe when i debug my own code in VS)

[@stevencowmeat]

Awesome vid👍 when I first started reverse engineering was kinda overwhelming and difficult. I would go in with a goal and most of the time fail😂 but I kept at it now I can sometimes find what I need. Just need to learn a bit of asm as rn I heavily rely on the pseudocode.

[@ZakariaMahmood829]

great welldone bro

[@muhammadalijalaluddinrazal3753]

the 1st hack i ever done was change price of items in the shops to 0 n weapon damage to 999999. i just edit the json files using notepad.

[@Zondels]

This was a high quality and really informative video. Good job!

[@cazz]

Glad you liked it! Thank you :)

[@KillianTwew]

The guy who built our custom alert system for temperatures in a cryofarm was unfortunately let go. His application uses secret commands only he knows to communicate with the Microcontroller that's actually reading the sensors. Hopefully this will allow me to atleast figure out what they are!

[@kaimz8984]

Now that's call best walkthrough.

[@DanielEzaka-p6t]

Dis is d kind of stuff people could share, ride on bro.😉😉

[@legendisapro3007]

the only sponsor thats worth my time, gj

[@guitaekm]

Hi, keep in mind, that most of the time neither decompiling nor disassembling is legal. Read the license of your game for more information

[@WibleWobble]

Not illegal if you dont tell anyone

[@thecrxguy420]

It's not the channel I needed, but it is the channel I wanted though.

[@Seven_Red_Suns.]

3:51 but You can also modify assembly with it tho.

[@dragonzapeducation]

Good explanation

[@santyrozasmillan]

The love and positivity here is overwhelming. God bless you all!

[@yameen3448]

I got the best idea ever! Buy the expensive disassembler. Figure out how the disassembler works and make it open source!

[@友恵_Tomoe32]

素晴らしい動画をありがとうございます

[@CSEngineerInsider]

Thank you for this information.

[@LastBossSagaFive]

Thanking for this video.

[@henriquemachado4912]

Get a pop filter for your mic! Otherwise great video. Keep it up!

[@kairavb]

also i have a question, i am confused between windows and linux... what should I use as my main developer PC, currently I am a Computer science student and wants to explore various fields inside Computer Science like AI, reverse engineering, cyber security, full stack, etc I am interested in most of them!! Thankyou in advance :)

[@Jarion]

Should I be able to write code in assembler, or is it enough to know how to read code to crack the DRM protection of games?

[@ozgurpeynirci4586]

You have to write assembly to crack drm

[@johnd.6543]

@@ozgurpeynirci4586 compilers can convert your high level code to asm too. The real use of asm is only when efficiency is 1st priority and not sastified by compiled source. Hackers using hooks to create a jump instruction where they want, then execute their own compiled code (from a injected DLL for example) and then jump back to the original code to continue execution

[@parkourguyyy]

man, if I didnt work so much I would love to take a good programming course. I find this stuff so fascinating, even if I dont fully understand everthing going on

[@primalmachine7945]

so ghidra is breaking the file to the assembly language which i guess could make senes because not all files are created with the same program language but almost all are breaking down to assembly because assembly was used to create all of them whether directly or indirectly

[@bullkage]

One hint: Maybe use something to protect your mic of breathing into it. It will improve your mic and voice quality in the videos :)

[@shtxucristian]

Hey! I started watching you some months ago and i really love your content and the way you explain things in the video =D As a suggestion, i would like you to make a video teaching how to make kernel aimbot (like a part 2 for the external overlay) Much love and keep doing this shit cuz its cool

[@cazz]

For sure in the future brother 👌👌

[@PoliticalPanic]

Thx for this wonderful video.

[@ki.rakuman]

hello there. I know it has been a month but I was wondering, what learning resources you recommend for reverse engineering? any media is fine, but if you have videos that would be really helpful. And better yet, if it is free. Anyway, thanks!

[@AhmedAymanM]

2:30 C# is on top

[@johnd.6543]

in 99.999% of cases it's not a good thing for a appication to be easy decompilable

[@ivan5595]

Can't escape the snail 3:40

[@CaballoSalvajeTrese]

This channel is pure gold

[@cazz]

thank you :))

[@aq3z]

the fact that i specifically only learned c and c++ and had a general understanding of assembly just before watching this video is crazy its destiny 💯💯💯💯

[@Ozzymand]

Guess the reason why IDA is so expensive is becuase if the user is a cheat maker, you already know he has no shame to pirate the software in the first place

[@spasm]

ida pro was originally cracked using ida trial

[@KennethIsrael_aiikendoit]

new learning ty

[@ApurvKumar-u4m]

can I ask a question? So I am practicing to become a c# developer so I am using sql , my question is can reverse engineering be used to obtain information on a database? Like are stored procedures enough to secure your database?

[@jmvr]

Unless the database is encrypted, the data can be read from the database without any special authorization. That's why you only want to store data that cannot be easily used against you, so encrypt any passwords you store (with SHA256 at least, never MD5)

[@mstox8368]

Thanks dude

[@Lord_V20]

FINALLY FINALLY, IT IS SO RARE

[@marcedouard421]

So the best way to start trying to learn reverse engineering would be to start poking around assembly in one of these programs?

[@LiaaMarchiano1]

I love how I was thinking about how changing programming languages from Cheat Engine to another program like C++ and when I was thinking about it you started mentioning Cheat Engine lmao

[@emna904]

Please upload a video every day

[@HooptyDaDoopty]

Whats that font? It's so clean, its so perfect

[@leopearce649]

Your actually a legend

[@snay6869]

my god amazing video

[@cazz]

I appreciate it brother

[@snay6869]

@@cazz please do upload ML content of you have that already ❤

[@abhijitatwal6791]

I'm not sure how you get a sponsorship after uploading a video on how to create an aimbot, but more power to you. Great content

[@cazz]

Hey man, I don’t really understand it either but I’m not complaining. Although my content is predominantly about hacking, I don’t think I’m negatively contributing to the world. My message is greater than simply cheating in games. I want people to learn how to code as I think it’s amazing. Anyway thanks for the comment and good luck on your journey !!

[@B1SQ1T]

@@cazz honestly, I have no intention of ever cheating in games but I’m a comp sci student currently just trying to figure out how to adapt the stuff I’ve learned into a real world scenario and this games/game hacking is just one part of what I’m interested in. Tbh I feel like the majority of your viewers would be more interested in how everything works than actually trying to cheat just for the sake of cheating

[@HXD90]

@@B1SQ1T Nah bro, just speak for ya self. I wanna cheat my ass off

[@HAAAAAAAAHHHHHH]

@@HXD90 lol i love hacking on pay to win games

[@randomorc1]

great video cazz

[@sarcastic350]

I would like to call reverse engineering a modification rather than hacking

[@smeboo9044]

As someone who loves to learn the low level aspects of this stuff I would love to see a video of how exactly I can experiment with this stuff without potentially getting banned from games that I enjoy! How do you setup an environment that allows you to test on games (that allow you to test on of course) and won’t get you banned if you accidentally leave a program running in the background and start up a game with anti-cheat. Also what games and resources are out there for me to test on? I can already apply some of this stuff on “Assault Cube” but what’s the next step? Thanks! 😊

[@aqua-bery]

I've had a thought. Could you bypass some sorts of anticheats by having the whole game and anticheats install and run in a sandbox? Like have it run in its own little container so that it can't see other programs and other folders. Then you could just have dummy folders and programs so that the anticheats and game think it's all okay

[@sirseven3]

Probably permissions higher than the game, eg like where windows has many different levels of account permissions Guest Standard Elevated user Administrator And the fun one System

[@bighamgrizles]

you could but you would have to own or rent a significant amount of property to the point you may as well make ur own video game for that much

[@yoapolloboy]

Great content! Do a video about obfuscating programs

[@kairavb]

good luck to you!!

[@YannMetalhead]

Good video.

[@clausius5120]

Great video

[@cloudinc2841]

I was gonna say that nsa program is certainly a backdoor, but they wouldnt need to do that since they already have backdoors in our OS'

[@beuhthesecond8021]

daddy cazz coming in clutch once again for my stupidness

[@alineluiz4401]

Супер связка! Рекомендую всем!

[@squigglesmcjr199]

AWESOME VIDEO

[@HXD90]

So what’s wrong with the CE debugger?

[@IntangirVoluntaryist]

I used to be one of the best at this kind of thing in the 90s and 2000s

[@kozynthetaquito5506]

first, this is an amazing tutorial. thanks for making it. second, how in the hell did brilliant sponsor a video about hacking in games lmfao

[@Jamesthe1]

Wait, huh? The NSA released their own decompiler?

[@user-jf7zp8uw1s]

great vid, can we get a guide on games w protected memory (unreadable in CE)/ anticheat

[@erikl5340]

Thank you for the very informative video ! Keep up the good work !

[@cazz]

Thanks, will do!

[@triennial9307]

Hey cazz, do you know the if iaito or cutter is the better option these days? Thanks!

[@elvischen7696]

Thanks for a new video!

[@Rubalix]

Step 1: Learn c++ or the language the game/app/site is in. Step 2: Learn the basics of reverse engineering Step 3: Do more research and practice and maybe even make your own basic app and hack it.

[@deadlybolte2130]

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