This was a pretty long read and I didn't really get much from it. The format of a million tweets is awful. tl;dr it patches the executable by having a shim dll that does the patch when it gets loaded. Pretty common in the game modding community. It finds where it needs to patch by scanning for a byte pattern. What does the actual patch do? No idea, that's what I was waiting for and I never got it. I was expecting a d…
Because the whole article can be written in 2 tweets but you need that social media “interaction”, so the author goes on talking about non essential things.
The crack itself is simple and smart to bypass the check by changing the public key, the only issue from what I have seen is there’s a lot of hardcoded stuff like the key and the functions numbers, so most likely it won’t work in future updates.