Learn Reverse Engineering (for hacking games)

A simple overview of Reverse Engineering. To try everything Brilliant has to offer-free-for a full 30 days, visit brilliant.org/cazz/. The first 200 of you will get 20% off Brilliant’s annual premium subscription.
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[@cazz]

To try everything Brilliant has to offer-free-for a full 30 days, visit brilliant.org/cazz/. The first 200 of you will get 20% off Brilliant’s annual premium subscription. Thanks for watching :)

[@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

[@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++

[@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.

[@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]

:)

[@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

[@alexionut6]

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

[@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.

[@nomcpr]

Great videos, I hope you keep them going ❤

[@TheCrazyblader]

Bro thanks a lot for your work!

[@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

[@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!

[@user-fk1nk1fe5c]

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

[@yoapolloboy]

Great content! Do a video about obfuscating programs

[@OkatuLegends]

Thank you for this information.

[@the_real_aristotle]

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

[@-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)

[@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.

[@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

[@coolman36kmaway34]

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

[@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.

[@kaimz8984]

Now that's call best walkthrough.

[@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.

[@mathocity8337]

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

[@PoliticalPanic]

Thx for this wonderful video.

[@Blackbirdhandle]

Fascinating. Whole new world opening up for me

[@Zondels]

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

[@cazz]

Glad you liked it! Thank you :)

[@herq6035]

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!

[@user-fj9wk4rz1k]

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

[@Zorcky-2C]

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

[@user-jf7zp8uw1s]

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

[@kairavbhatia6981]

good luck to you!!

[@dragonzapeducation]

Good explanation

[@randomorc1]

great video cazz

[@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 😂

[@triennial9307]

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

[@0xhf]

hey! what theme was used for ida pro at the beginning of the video?

[@mstox8368]

Thanks dude

[@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)

[@CrusadeVoyager]

Nice vid waitin 4 more ;

[@user-ps3gc6wu9i]

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?

[@fuckbitchesgehmoney]

bro youve made the exact video Ive looked for numerous times, shits crazy

[@therealb888]

Assembly is kind of my kryptonite. How do you approach assembly? Also what tools are you using in this video? How does IDA pro compare with ghidra? Can you crack Ida pro via reverse engineering?

[@ChrisM541]

"How do you approach assembly?" --> Assembly = human-readable machine code. Every CPU-executable program ever written (and will be written for some time to come) has to run as machine code for the CPU to understand. How do you learn? There is, literally, no other way to do this than getting your hands dirty. There's huge tomes of tutorial info via Google. 1st things first, choose your platform - PC? Console? Mobile? - then choose your CPU - base that off the kinds of games + platforms you want to crack. Good luck. Warning - it's very difficult to become good at assembly...not an expert...just good!

[@alfonsopayra]

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

[@KennethIsrael_aiikendoit]

new learning ty

[@kamikaze_sno]

amazing explanation 🔥🔥

[@cazz]

Glad you liked it

[@leopearce649]

Your actually a legend

[@tinymike318]

Love you for this

[@kairavbhatia6981]

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 :)

[@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

[@mohamedcamaro4157]

thanks i appreciate this clear tutorial you made,but is there any alternative "free" learning sources?,as much as i'd love to support you but im unfortunately unable to buy such subscription,however im willing to learn reverse engineering to have an actual job thanks

[@910tho]

Tutorial please and thank you ❤

[@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

[@angeloducocarreon8481]

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

[@clausius5120]

Great video

[@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! 😊

[@yash1152]

5:24 which software is that? showing the "CPU" registers etc i really want to use a decent alternative to the Turbo Assembler for 8086

[@yash1152]

5:50

[@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!

[@ayon12351]

Finally a youtuber who actually explain and not Just "do this and that and try and You May get there"

[@name4792]

When you develop hacks do you use a virtual machine or your own pc?

[@shortError404]

What are some good resources to learn assembly??

[@squigglesmcjr199]

AWESOME VIDEO

[@shootergameschannel3625]

Hey im interested in learning assembly language but i dont know where to learn from. Can you tell me where i can learn it?

[@kushyglowy8409]

Super interesting

[@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

[@user-wm5ix7zy3r]

Thanks for your

[@evazq4317]

Subbed. Do you answer questions about chatgpt?

[@HooptyDaDoopty]

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

[@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

[@Seven_Red_Suns.]

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

[@CaballoSalvajeTrese]

This channel is pure gold

[@cazz]

thank you :))

[@pabloqp7929]

awesome!!

[@tomoe32]

素晴らしい動画をありがとうございます

[@mrtoxic593]

are you ever gonna do lua vids i think that would be cool to see

[@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

[@bettercallriggy]

So, if I decompile a game like jalopy, can I steal- I mean borrow the code for the fuel draining or something else? (I got Minskworks at my door plz help)

[@beuhthesecond8021]

daddy cazz coming in clutch once again for my stupidness

[@elvischen7696]

Thanks for a new video!

[@ChrisM541]

I think you would have enjoyed the 'golden age' of games programming in assembly - the 80's-90's (C64/Spectrum/Amiga/ST....6510/Z80A/68000).

[@Lord_V20]

FINALLY FINALLY, IT IS SO RARE

[@erikl5340]

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

[@cazz]

Thanks, will do!

[@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 👌👌

[@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.

[@alien_eny]

I would like to ask you what is the name of this theme can you share it?

[@subhayukumarbala1680]

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

[@whyitmatters6906]

Can reverse enginner something such as a game be the equivalent of leaking the code in the terms of what you can to recreate it? Or leaking the code will always tell something we don't know?

[@cazz]

Leaking the code will always tell us something that we don’t already know. Because most games are compiled executables, you can never get the original source code unless the code leaks or the devs release it. When you don’t have access to the source code (and when you do) you sill have to reverse engineer, it just becomes a lot easier if you have source code to refer back to.

[@kzelly632]

yoo that's so nice bro thanks for showing us the basics

[@cazz]

It’s my pleasure 😇

[@YannMetalhead]

Good video.

[@kagestreams]

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

[@gang_albanii]

new version of ida free with cloud decompiler is more than enough to begin journey

[@emna904]

Please upload a video every day

[@lordsuchi5056]

Hello nice vid but I learned python should I still go all over and learn c or can I do with python?

[@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

[@moon911x]

Thanks for your valuable content for us 💚

[@dalibor5178]

Subscribed.

[@sus....3894]

can you make video on data mining for game or other application please

[@user-nq2sw7pv5i]

can you make part 2?

[@syedrashidraza5630]

I have a genuine question about Cheat Engine. About almost every video game has a condition in their EULA which does not permit to "reverse engineer, derive source code, modify, decompile, disassemble, copy, or create derivative works of the Product, in whole or in part, except where permitted by law". However if I use cheat engine to use simple memory hacks in a single player offline game just for my own fun such that no one is being effected and it is having no effect on the production house, does it fall under "fair use" and hence not violate the EULA. Plz shed light on this. Thanks in advance!

[@cazz]

No, you are still breaking their EULA, even if you do it privately and offline. The game is their product, you purchased a copy, but they still own the intellectual property. You are violating their copyright by reverse engineering the game, even in private.

[@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?