Tweaking

[Argghman]

It seems to me that the original intent of this place was to trade modified stuff. So does anyone here actually know how to program and tweak or hack something? Or have something that does? Also, i'm trying to find out about hex editors, what are they exactly, and where can you find more info on them. The small piece i do know is that they exist, and that my friend uses it to make sure there are no obvious viruses before running something.

[BADFlSH]

All I can tell you about them is that you can use them to view an exe in hexadecimal form. For instance useing a hex editor I opened explorer exe and changed my start button so that it says Adawg (one of my nicknames). You can download hex editors at www.hotfiles.com (http://www.hotfiles.com) but be carefull what files you mess with, some of them like explorer.exe are important.

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[Ender_Wiggin]

I have done a lot of tweaking in the past using hex editors, other tweaking apps, and a lot of manual stuff. If you are looking for anything in particular to tweak...I might be able to help you. Just ask away.

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[CluelessSi]

is there a way to uncomplie/unbuild a c++ program? but not to dissect it to assembly http://www.gotapex.com/ubb/tongue.gif

[chrissy]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>All I can tell you about them is that you can use them to view an exe in hexadecimal form. For instance useing a hex editor I opened explorer exe and changed my start button so that it says Adawg (one of my nicknames). <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

You have to be careful when doing that though. The numbers of char originally there has to match or be more than (I think) than the replacement text. So you can use 'Adawg' to replace 'Start' but you couldn't replace 'start' with 'crabbie'. If you were to use more characters, it could a few issues http://www.gotapex.com/ubb/smile.gif

[CluelessSi]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by crabbie:
You have to be careful when doing that though. The numbers of char originally there has to match or be more than (I think) than the replacement text. So you can use 'Adawg' to replace 'Start' but you couldn't replace 'start' with 'crabbie'. If you were to use more characters, it could a few issues http://www.gotapex.com/ubb/smile.gif<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
haha i guess CluelessSi is out of the question =)
I think they just did bad job at programming. if everything is relative and dynamic then no problem =)

[BADFlSH]

That is true crabbie. Also as I said, explorer is important so if you are going to mess with it, or any other file for that matter, make sure you have a backup incase you mess something up.

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[JoeSmooth]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Argghman:
Also, i'm trying to find out about hex editors, what are they exactly

Ahh the good old hex editor that takes me back. Now children get comfortable and listen to Grandpa Joe lecture.

When I was a kid all the best games didn't have cheats built in. No secret codes, nothing. You wanted to play Castle Wolfenstein (not the 3d version!) you had to play it straight. Ahh how true, how sad, well until you got yourself a good hex editor. Then it was simpley a matter of modifying a single byte, saving the change, reloading the game and seeing what happened. Boy what fun! I wasted weeks doing this crap! but it was great!.

Anyway the best use of the hexeditor is for modifying a saved characters (ie like diablo or something) information. Usually the game is too large to go through and find anything useful to modify and have it still work sto take a look at your saved game files.!

Good luck!

ps. The only Hex Editor I know for the PC is in Norton Utilities (preferably the DOS version) and I don't recommending running it under windows!

Joe Smooth

Oh my God. I am old!

[Argghman]

Hey thanks you guys for answering my question. My friend was talking about using it to spot any viruses or trojan programs that might be on the computer. He whenever he downloads something he uses a hex editor to look for something like "del C:" or something of that nature. Can you use hex editors to spot things like that for zipped files?
Thanks again for the info.

[Paladin]

Go to www.tweak3d.net (http://www.tweak3d.net) it is a very good place.

[Paladin]

And if you uncompile C++ or any program like that please give me a call because I would like to kiss your @ss. And BTW it is almost impossible to uncompile c++.

[kick@ss]

It's not impossible to de-compile code. It's actually very easy. You get assembler code. Unfortunately you can't decompile your dll's and exe's into a more advanced programming language like C++.

[This message has been edited by kick@ss (edited 08-22-2000).]