Legalizing gay marriage in Crusader Kings III with Ghidra

Post by codezero » Wed, Apr 07, 2021, 2:56 AM UTC

PeterisP wrote: post #168

codezero wrote: post #14

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When I was a kid, this is the first thing I did that I'd call programming, but it was to use a hex editor on my Warcraft (the original game, yeah) save files to give myself more gold and wood. I had a friend teach me how to convert to hex, learned about LSB/MSB then away I went. It's amazing how cheating or tweaking a game can spark a lot of interest professionally.

Ah, I recall in high school we made a localized version of Warcraft by hexediting the strings in the executable - though with this approach it was a pain in cases when you needed longer words than English had.

Post by pseudalopex » Wed, Apr 07, 2021, 3:14 AM UTC

retrac wrote: post #23

mabbo wrote: post #2

It seems odd to me. Paradox is a Swedish company, and Sweden is a fairly liberal country. Same-sex marriage was legalized in 2009, and even the Church of Sweden gave the go-ahead on performing same-sex marriages the same year. The game logic around this is simple enough that changing two byes fixes it, so it's not a technical issue. What gives?

I suspect it has approximately nothing to do with what the patch implemented. And a lot more to do with it being effectively a guide to reverse-engineering the game executable. Paradox makes multiplayer games. They probably saw this as How To Cheat 101. As to not wanting to do the work to make it implementable without a binary patch, well, it's just not in the game. I can imagine hesitance to start modifying the game…

Post by yellowapple » Wed, Apr 07, 2021, 9:18 AM UTC

buran77 wrote: post #120

Ambroos wrote: post #110

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Code is not people.

There's a philosophical discussion here longer than a comment can afford but the bottom line isn't "code is not people". While I took GP's "wife" remark as a joke, I feel like you're implying that as long as it's "not people" it's a free for all. Like someone "exploring" how it feels like to spend your money, wear your watch, and drive your car. Since this is a digital world, hacking doesn't have to lead to a loss fo…

Post by MrBuddyCasino » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 12:53 PM UTC

orwin wrote: post #152

MrBuddyCasino wrote: post #115

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This is what people don't get. Marriage is a concept with a unique purpose. Marriage is an institution that straight male humans and straight female humans invented to solve their coordination problem around heterosexual life-partnerships. Gay people should be entitled to the full rights of monogamous cohabitation (tax, adoption rights, inheritance etc) via civil partnerships. But not marriage.

For you, what is the difference between marriage and wedding?

Post by HelloNurse » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 3:54 PM UTC

junon wrote: post #154

HelloNurse wrote: post #149

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Changing JZ into JZ to the following address has the advantage of ease of editing: same length, same opcode, reliably copied, pasted and inspected value. A NOP sequence is more general but making it the wrong length is not impossible.

NOP on x86 is one byte. Patching out an instruction with a NOP is always possible. Further, not all jumps are equal; while you can certainly patch the assembly and let the assembler manage the variant selection and relocations etc., doing bytecode patching is a different story. You might have to change the jump instruction altogether depending on how "far" away the pointer is. Also, jumps hold conditions in most case…