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Game hacking is a complex and multifaceted activity that involves altering a game's intended behavior through various technical means. It's not simply a matter of "cheating," but a technically sophisticated practice that ranges from memory manipulation to network packet tampering, and even reverse engineering. At the core, game hacking targets how a game processes data, allowing the hacker to gain unauthorized advantages by manipulating that data in real-time.
Memory Manipulation: Directly Altering Game Data
One of the most common techniques in game hacking is memory manipulation. Games store key data in the system's memory during runtime—whether it's player health, in-game currency, or other stats—and memory hackers exploit this by scanning for specific values, such as the current amount of health. Tools like Cheat Engine are popular for this kind of manipulation, providing a simple way to search and alter values in memory. A hacker could, for example, repeatedly scan the memory to pinpoint the exact location where health is stored, then freeze that value to ensure it never decreases, effectively making the player invincible. Since many modern games use dynamic memory allocation, which changes memory addresses each time the game is run, hackers also use techniques like pointer scanning to track down the base addresses for more consistent results across sessions.
Code Injection and Packet Manipulation: Subverting Game Logic
Memory manipulation is limited by the fact that it mainly works on local games or in environments where the client handles most....
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very good summary of game hacking.