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Winning at Candy Crush

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Re: Winning at Candy Crush

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Post by vacri »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #75
kens wrote: post #56

My game cheat story starts way, way back, playing Wizardry on the Apple II. In this game, you go through a dungeon, killing monsters and collecting treasure and experience. Fun, but slow going. So I found out where in memory these values are stored and started manipulating them, giving myself tons of experience and new treasures. Everything went fine until I put in an invalid treasure value which apparently caused so…

I guess its a half full / half empty thing. You wrote: TL;DR: cheat at games and you will be punished And yet I would haver written it, "Cheat at games and you will learn all sorts of cool things." :-)

Kens was being poetic.

Re: Winning at Candy Crush

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Post by gambiting »

smartician wrote: post #80

Maybe I'm overly cautious, but in today's world, where even simple URL manipulation can be regarded as hacking, I would be very reluctant to post exploits like this. It's crazy, but this can be construed as wire fraud or computer crime: 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(4) Whoever— (4) knowingly and with intent to defraud, accesses a protected computer without authorization, or exceeds authorized access, and by means of such condu…

Fortunately not everyone of us is in the US so this does not apply to every reader of HN.

Re: Winning at Candy Crush

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Post by chris_wot »

I once lost a license key for a major enterprise system. It had to get a demo up and running ASAP. Luckily, it was an ASP.Net app. I was able to use .NET Reflector, find a code rewriting plugin, and I blanked out the function that did the cert check (always made it return true) and I was able to login.

Re: Winning at Candy Crush

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Post by objclxt »

Volpe wrote: post #102
smartician wrote: post #80

Maybe I'm overly cautious, but in today's world, where even simple URL manipulation can be regarded as hacking, I would be very reluctant to post exploits like this. It's crazy, but this can be construed as wire fraud or computer crime: 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(4) Whoever— (4) knowingly and with intent to defraud, accesses a protected computer without authorization, or exceeds authorized access, and by means of such condu…

When you say "today's world" I think you mean "today's U.S.A"... The rest of the world, doesn't seem to have as crazy anti-hacking laws, as the US.

Many countries have pretty aggressive anti-hacking laws. The UK, for instance, has a very similar piece of legislation that in theory makes URL manipulation illegal.

Re: Winning at Candy Crush

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Post by damon_c »

dharbin wrote: post #91
rickdale wrote: post #33

Back in the day I would log onto yahoo chess and beat everyone by simultaneously playing expert mode in windows chess and just mimicking the expert modes moves on yahoo as mine. Good times, never lost.

I wonder if you played anybody who was also proxying Windows chess? Battle of the computer wits!

It would be interesting to have the various consumer chess programs play each other a few hundred times to see who wrote the best chess bot.

Re: Winning at Candy Crush

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Post by dc-tech-fan »

egeozcan wrote: post #61

Even though it doesn't have a winning / losing condition, I had coded an automated bot[0] to draw for me in Doodle or Die[1]. Stopped using it when people started complaining though. It was supposed to be quick and dirty, that's why it's a windows forms application. But of course I kept improving it for a while. After implementing a very basic plug-in system, I realized I was spending too much time on it =) Here's an…

Hi, I'm one of the creators of Doodle or Die.

The drawing tool in the game and the anti-cheating systems are both things I created.

I'm impressed with your app. Instead of converting a bitmap to a pixel-by-pixel rendention (which people have done and it looks obvious) it re-draws it like a real drawing, picking one color at a time.

Paying users get a replay feature. It replays fairly realistically and that's difficult to detect as cheating.

Nice work!

Re: Winning at Candy Crush

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Post by Aco- »

just2n wrote: post #81

A long long time ago before I ever wrote a line of code, I'd just play all the games I could. I was fascinated by how they worked. I later found a book on BASIC that introduced programming by having the reader write simple word games. After learning the basics, I then would wonder how FF1 managed to change states from being in a tiled map and exploring the world into a battle screen and back again, which led me to mo…

were you part of any communities? mpc, ogc, game-deception?

Re: Winning at Candy Crush

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Post by pugz »

smackfu wrote: post #50
josso wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wouldn't you need to decrypt, on a jailbroken device, it to get something useful out of the assembly? Or is that not needed for disassembling?

The binaries are not encrypted, they're just signed.

The binaries are indeed encrypted, as evidenced by running "otool -l |grep cryptid". Why do you think otherwise?

Re: Winning at Candy Crush

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Post by jsmeaton »

just2n wrote: post #81

A long long time ago before I ever wrote a line of code, I'd just play all the games I could. I was fascinated by how they worked. I later found a book on BASIC that introduced programming by having the reader write simple word games. After learning the basics, I then would wonder how FF1 managed to change states from being in a tiled map and exploring the world into a battle screen and back again, which led me to mo…

Cool story, and I can see the appeal. But as a (long ago) competitive CS player, I hate(d) your kind.
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