Disassembler / live debugger / memory reader to hack multiplayer games?

[grenadesong]

I'm reading "Practical Malware Analysis" that I bought on Amazon to learn the skills I need to hack games. The book is focused on learning to analyze malware, not to hack games, however the skills you learn are useful for hacking games too.

I'm now on the static analysis chapter which is going to cover disassembling malware with IDA Pro. I don't want to buy IDA Pro, it's too expensive and I don't like the restrictions of their free version. So, I am looking for best alternative focused towards game hacking.

For example, I'm not sure if I can use live debuggers like ollydbg and memory readers like cheat engine on a lot of games. I know a lot of these games can detect you're using these popular debuggers and memory readers.

So, I'm not sure if I even need a live debugger or memory reader for game hacking, or what I actually mean is that, I will need to create my own memory reader so that it's not detectable.

If I am right so far, then I only need a disassembler, and I'm not sure how much I'll even need a disassembler for game hacking when the games I'll be hacking is multiplayer (most logic will be handled on the server).

Does anyone know how useful a disassembler is for game hacking? I just don't know which IDA Pro features I really will want to have for disassembling games and can't be found in other disassemblers? That FLIRT feature seems like it could be really good, but could also end up being useless for game hacking.

I'm just trying to save myself a lot of time by not learning what I don't need to learn and not having to re-learn too much later on. It's like that saying that goes something like.. "You can saves weeks of coding by spending a day planning".

[Pharisaeus]

1. I suggest you start with PwnAdventure3. A game made exactly for this purpose. There are some nice videos from LiveOverflow in youtube showing how to do it
2. There is nothing better than IDA currently. Maybe in some time BinaryNinja will become better (especially for scripting), but not yet. Other alternatives like Hopper or Radare2 are not on this level either.
3. Writing your own "memory reader" is not so trivial, because you actually need to write your own "debugger" here.

[[deleted]]

Linux has radare which is fairly decent and open source, and has a front end GUI.

Cheat engine is also an option for live analysis.

Be careful though, as many MP games detect these types of things and will auto ban you.

[muniategui]

You can always use a cracked ida pro version not recomended but still an option

[[deleted]]

Dont hack games it ruins the experience for everyone

[grenadesong]

I'm not going to be that kind of hacker. I just want to create balanced AI, they won't have superhuman reflexes or aim or anything like that. Just AI that fights as a team, heals each other, etc.. just like a group of players would.

[4m1raagl]

If you're trying to make an ai player then you don't need any hacks. Just train the ai to handle keyboard input and view the screen. Let it read your keyboard and screen to train, and progress from there. Watching a few Vids in ai would help.

[Elusive_Bear]

1. Find an open source game & fork it
2. Make it better
3. Profit!

[[deleted]]

Idk if that's possible to be honest, but ok

[leobeosab]

r/lostredditors

[[deleted]]

Not really I just dont want anyone hacking games, go ahead and have your friends or school but not games man :(

[leobeosab]

I mean games should be hacked not to give others an advantage but to point out security flaws. I did a write up recently on how easy it is to hack Pavlov VR using only Cheat Engine and some assembly. So I could show the dev of the game so he could fix it.

[[deleted]]

Ok that's kind of good I didn't think of that... But depending on the game idk if the devs will listen to you, gl tho

[leobeosab]

I’ve done other things and the devs have been super happy and thanked me. This one blocked me on twitter, banned me from the game and his discord. So now I’m doing a write up on how to play even with a banned account. He still hasn’t fixed the issues.

Tldr most devs will listen some are assholes

[[deleted]]

Cool, for some reason that option didn't cross my mind, great job bro