Introduction to Game Hacking!

History

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The history of video games goes as far back as the early 1950s, but video games did not reach mainstream popularity until the 1970s and 1980s when video game consoles and home computer games were introduced to the layman public.

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‌ ‌When online PC games became popular and started to draw large crowds in the1990s and early 2000s that’s when game hacking became popular. The game developers devoted countless hours toward preventing hackers, but games were still simple enough to easily reverse engineer and manipulate. Present game companies started taking hacking very seriously. Now they have dedicated teams focused on preventing hacks, also they don’t hesitate to ban players who use cheat and sue the cheat developers who provided them. But the war is still going on between game hackers and game companies as online gaming becoming more popular in recent years.

How to tinker around Game?

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Video games are simply applications but yet they are the most complex applications you can ever imagine. So, if you want to learn game hacking I would suggest not to jump on and try to hack complicated games, start with something easy like Urban Terror, Assault Cube, and CS:GO. Some games are made to help you in learning game hacking like Pwn Adventure 3 and Squally. The best way you can legally practice game hacking is through CTF challenges. You can also make your own game and try to hack it, that way you will get the perspective of a game developer and if you have written several games using a certain game engine, it definitely would be easier to hack another game built on the same engine. Quiet a simple suggestion would be not trying to learn game hacking on new games like Valorant, PUBG, Apex Legend, Cyberpunk 2077, etc. Because they are too complicated for beginners.

How do you get started?

STEP 1: Learn about Cheat Engine

Cheat Engine

What is Cheat Engine?

Cheat Engine is a Powerful memory scanning tool. It allows you to access data stored in your computer’s memory and make changes to that data. This allows you to change the information in a game, such as health, ammo, etc. It also comes with a debugger, disassembler, assembler, trainer maker, direct 3D manipulation tools, system inspection tools, and more.

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It also has a tutorial that you can find in your help menu (Cheat Engine Tutorial Guide) after installing. I will recommend you to go through the tutorial for a basic understanding of Cheat Engine.