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Reversing CodeFusion Wizard Patch Files

24 minute read

project, release, cpp

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CodeFusion Wizard was an advanced patch generation tool created by Krichmar Kobi. It was originally designed for Windows 9x/NT in the 1990s. The last version that was released to the public was v3 before the official site was taken offline. While the tool itself is outdated and ‘dead’ at this poi...

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Research: Last Epoch - Doing It Wrong..

19 minute read

project, release, research, reverse engineering, game hacking, cheat, proxy, last epoch

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Most people that know me, know that my favorite genre of games is ARPGs and MMOs. Without a doubt, Diablo has been my favorite franchise of the genre by far. I still play Diablo 2 to this day on and off, between the original and with mods (MedianXL for example). To me, Diablo II is probably one o...

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arcanus / arcanusdsp - Personal Website Framework

2 minute read

project, release, node, nodejs, ffxi

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Over the last few years I have been learning and using Node.js in a lot of my personal / private projects. These stem into things that I use online as well such as backend services as well as full-on sites using this personal framework. Due to some recent drama, someone that I had shared this fra...

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Steamless v3

10 minute read

project, release, cpp, csharp, drm, steam, steamless

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I recently released the newest version of my Steamless project (v3) which has brought some major changes to the project as a whole. I wanted to go over some of Steamless’ life as a project to help others understand my intentions with the project, its source code, and its future. But for that, I w...

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Dumping Cheat Engine Trainers

6 minute read

project, release, cpp, csharp, drm, cheat engine

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Given that I am a moderator on Cheat Engine’s forums, one of my duties is to keep the forums clean of various things. One of which is harmful files / trainers that could contain things that are harmful to the users that download and run them. When Cheat Engine 6.0 beta was first started and poste...

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Keurig K300 DRM Removal (Brew Any Coffee)

11 minute read

project, drm, reverse engineering, keurig

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Recently I made the mistake of purchasing a Keurig 2.0 coffee brewer. And I say mistake because the price tag coupled with the unknown DRM until I got it was a huge disappointment. After we purchased the machine we bought a self-use coffee filter that fits the machine. However, the filter did not...

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A (Small) Peek Into SteamDRMP.dll

5 minute read

project, drm, reverse engineering, steam, steamless

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During my past progress with building my project Steamless, I wanted to better understand the DRM itself rather then just removing it and not looking into it more. I took some time to peer into the protection setup that the DRM offers once it is unpacked in memory and the protected target is runn...

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Grim Dawn Hook - A New Side Project

2 minute read

project, release, cpp, lua, cheat, hack, grim dawn

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In the last few weeks I have been tinkering with a new project for the new game Grim Dawn. Grim Dawn is currently in early access (open beta) and has been given a little bit of a hype given that it is being created by parts of the TitanQuest team. That said, I was a fan of TitanQuest so I picked ...

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