Reverse Engineering hidden game cheat codes [Game Hacking 101]

Reverse Engineering the classic real time strategy game Age of Empires to understand how hacking functions have been implemented by game developers. Once we understand the hacks, we can binary patch the game and directly implement them too.

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[InsiderPhD]

I love this, please make the next one soon! I really want to see how you write the exploit

[amfm]

This video proves that sub count is independent of quality

[_amih]

Subbed and shared. Quality work, keep them coming!

[jeanyveso.]

This is amazing! Thanks for the video. It could be great to do the same for AoE 2 or Empire Earth.

[varshneydevansh]

I saw Age of Empire and reverse engineering immediately subbed❤

[harmonyinchaos]

thank you for your work mate, really appreciate it! also, your voice is incredibly soothing and perfect for explaining this stuff absolutely lovely <3

[mohiuddinwaresi]

Bro, how did you manage to put the entire program on a singlr graph? It is no easy task. Please enlighten us

[angryman]

saw Reverse Engineering immediately subbed

[eneomaos]

Can you make a video talking about assembly? You explain really well, but I've felt a bit lost.

[draknyte]

Did anyone ever notice the obfuscated cheats were from the base game? (From ancient memory it seems to align)

[NoxernPL]

Nice video but I don't understand why the transposition table uses 4 byte values to store 2 char values with 2 null bytes, wouldn't it be easier to use cx instead of using ecx? Also why does the function use both ecx and edx to access these characters when it can be accessed by using cl and ch.
Is this some form of code obfuscation or just a compiler quirk?

[QWERTZ-NOOB]

Very interesting! Maybe you have heard that ubisoft has shut down The Crew 1, an always online racing game that has an integrated offline mode not available for normal players. Could the same or a similar method be used to make this offline mode available?

[darklord_]

Waiting for more videos from this series

[ahmedlimam]

Such a good video
Got any good resources to practice reverse engineering for a real world problem? with solution?

[kotosif]

Can you show a bit more on how you use Binary Ninja? Not everyone is super familiar with the tool. Better yet would be to use a free alternative like Ghidra or Cutter

[abeard]

I love video as well as call music theme in background . Could you give name of track?

[ibnsaltus]

if you continue with this pattern, you'll beat live over flow in no time

[CoopPlaysYoutuber]

Very nice video mate keep up the good work, do ya recommend any resources to start learning how to reverse engineering because even so your video overall is well explain and understandable i still need to learn a lot lol

[redcloak]

bro thank you so much I can watch these instead of cs420