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what vscode theme is that? dracula?

Stack alloc arrays have a constant size at compile time right? Just heap allocated ones can have dynamic size, and the function receiving the array (pointer) just goes to the heap. That way arrays basically don't do any pass by copy of the array on the stack, but instead pass a copy of the pointer to the array to the function. so shouldn't an array always be pass by const ref?

I very much enjoyed your recent video on modifying the memory of a running Windows process. Cool to see some neat C++ features sprinkled in as well :) Thank you

Are you going to keep this library private or open source it some day?

One rare edge case that can happen here: it is possible for a string to begin in one region and end in another region directly after it, in which case your code will not find it. This is very fun to debug if you don't know what's happening, ask me how I know ;)

C++ is gross

ive learned the basic to intermediate stuff from c++, hated it, then went to learn Go

Oldskool memories, I used to live on msdn. Back in the 32 bit days of mmo's that used GameGuard and HackShield that blocked read and write to the processes memory I created and injected, during process start, a dll that acted like a pipe server. The dll would accept an address and a number of parameters through the pipe then execute the winapi function at that address after pushing the parameters to the stack first. It was nice because I could pass the address of WriteProcessMemory and params via the pipe the game process itself would write to the hack program and likewise you could get it to read in data and do all that hacky stuff. I called the API LoseAPI ie the opposite of WinAPI :P It was basically a giant header file with all the WinAPI function names, slightly altered, wrapped around a pipe out to make things easier in the hack program. Hack by proxy ;)

The init statement. Never use it. It's crap. The committee have lost their mind. It's that simple.

I still want to learn assembly

Nice. This is a feature that I would like to see in php

I can't tell you how much I love your videos. What are the chances you'd put a link to a GitHub with a sample of the code you wrote in the video? I'm writing it from scratch and it would be nice to have something to compare the finished product to. Also, it would be cool if community members could fork it and possibly even submit a pull request! Please keep doing what you're doing because it's awesome! Thank you for creating the content you do.

Good answer... You stated which language YOU like, but clarified that whatever we chose doesn't really matter I'm really enjoying you channel

RPM/WPM was how I made most my game cheats. I always loved this method.

part of the reason the vm performance was so poor was that you may not have loaded the virtual box graphics drivers. The little turtle icon on the bottom bar means there is some issue with how it is emulating on the host. Usually installing the guest edition CD fixes the performance for me. You may also need to disable some virtualization based security settings or TPM. Not sure if those impact the sandboxing capabilities of the VM

While using uint8_t will work on pretty much all compilers for bytes, your probably better using std::byte or unsigned char here as uint8_t might not be an alias to unsigned char meaning that the compiler could not treat it as aliasing everything and instead as a unique type. However looking at clang, gcc, msvc and icc on compiler explorer they all end up with uint8_t being treated as the equivalent of std::byte.

Writing the entire memory section every time when you only need to replace a few bytes is a bit of overkill. Not to say the other memory may change between read and write, so you’re risking of corrupting process state unless pausing all threads first.

One of the very few things I remember from programming classes in college: most languages keep variables within the scope of the logic statement they were created within. This is why I declared most of my variables as global, when I was a teenager.

This is pretty interesting for sure. Is there a C# way of doing this? (without memory.dll as it's always flagged by Windows Defender). Nevermind, just learnt about DllImport :-)

If the ReadProcessMemory function was never implemented, game cheating would have probably been much harder 😂. Awesome video as always.

Its almost like ptrace on linux

Then where is that length info useful? Why aren't arrays just pointers? I'm a beginner to C so I don't quite understand

And then when you've decided which one between C and C++, switch to Rust.

Will you do the same for linux?

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so that's how they're able to play custom maps and game mods ! that's awesome!

You should try Rust too! You'll be surprised how "smooth" things go vs C++ (nevermind C). Honestly, in another 10 or so years, you will merely describe your intentions and the program will write itself 😅

The crazy part of all this is that these games actually do have a way to patch themselves but apparently this was just something Sony had kept to themselves. Any game that used medius and also included DNAS (I say this because the only games that seem to have these packet handlers all had DNAS while the ones that didn't (socom 1, twisted metal black) don't) had the ability to read and write memory from the server. Sucks that they had to go through these sorts of hoops when sony already had the tools available for situations like this. Dan uses this functionality for his patch and we use it for our patches for SOCOM 2 and Combined Assault.

@nathanbaggs can you do a video on Sony DVD Architect? It has issues running on windows 10 and 11 since they stopped supporting it. It will open just fine but will crash once you start building your project.

5:29 as a Cybersecurity guy, this one tickled me pink. Incredibly novel use for a very standard part of a hacker's toolkit

ehh the winapi is very high level, you’re not really interacting that closely to os, but besides that python is unreadable and slow garbage

Program at work, come home watch some nathanbaggs, program even more, sleep, repeat

I wonder if that Dan is the SnowDan.

This video is awesome. I can see you've put a lot of effort into it mate.

Ok Boomer

newbie here-so if c was a breath of fresh air-would js or python be pure oxygen in building this game?

9:00 LMAO it's DNA Workshop but your pronunciation was way better

This was one of the best videos I've seen in a long time. Nice work dude. Nothing to suggest you as sollution, you went way deeper than I could've been. Good luck :) Post an update once you have!

Woah! As a fan of love2d, it was interesting to see you hacking on it, I tried to read Balatro's source code once but never thought of modding it, that was awesome.

Did you consider asking the game developers for more info?

I wonder if that EULA trick could be used to install freemcboot

From what I could understand of the Game Developer article, it seems to me that they utilized the EULA itself to patch the game. I visualize this as follows: 1. They replaced (parts of) the EULA with patch code (which would at this step be processed as mere text), and overfilled it past the brim. This overflow would eventually reach a variable that contained an address. 2. They replaced this address for an address within the EULA buffer, meaning the later function callback that used that variable would send the pointer back to the EULA. 3. The pointer would then process the patch code in the EULA as instructions, leaving them free to do as they liked (as long as their patch code didn't ruin the function callback).

I can vouch for Nath. I saw him copying his PS2 BIOS from my bathroom window.

Real men write Assembler

Have you seen the developers (Tony Garcia and Mike Stout) let's play with their commentary on that game? It's up on youtube and full of interesting info about how they've made all of this run on a PS2 hardware. Love it just as much as your video, it's fascinating just how many little tricks Insomniac had and their technical knowledge is truly underrated.

I played UYA for a little bit in 2007 while the servers were still active; I don't know how much memory would you need to overwrite for the buffer to overflow, but it couldn't have been that much, right? Otherwise it would have taken forever for the lobby to load on slow connections back then, and while my DSL wasn't the worst, I don't remember much waiting between the EULA and lobby screens.

Epic video 😁

Understood nothing of it but really enjoyed the video nonetheless! I hope you can figure it out later on