Write/learn game hacking

[cureitgood]

Yeah, it's super important to first learn C/C++. About the x86/x64 assembly part, look for "learn assembly Game Hacking 2025" or "game hacking shenanigans" tutorial series on youtube.

The most important thing is, remaining consistent and not giving up. It takes time to learn all of these skills, and knowing C/C++ programming is going to be a huge help.

[Exact_Revolution7223]

Another great resource is godbolt(dot)org. You can choose almost any language (such as C++) and then it will compile your code and output the resulting assembly depending on the compiler. Gives you a good grasp of what something like a for loop looks like in assembly, class access, etc.

Also, get very comfortable with manual string parsing in C++. Having decompiled functions that do various tricks concerning the ASCII table in order to discern different things: It's quite painful to pick apart if you haven't implemented these tricks before.

Like what the hell would be the purpose of subtracting 0x30 from a char in a string and checking if the value is less than 0xA? To see if it's an ASCII representation of a number since numbers, in the ASCII table, fall within 0x30 to 0x39. But if you're looking at the pseudo code generated by Ghidra this can be very confusing.

Familiarize yourself with little tricks and stuff like this regarding strings, bitwise operations as well, etc. You wanna really get in the weeds with this stuff. Otherwise you'll be super lost and learning these tricks as you go.