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zooq_ai
32 days ago
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Open Sourcing DOS 4
My favorite Hex Editor hack was when I cracked a Windows software simply by changing the instruction "Equal to" to "Not Equal to" where it matches for Software Key with user entered key.
Jerrrry
32 days ago
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branch if not equal.
and noops.
we were reverse engineers, make no mistake
shudza
32 days ago
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It was something like: find "74", change it to "75" lol
someplaceguy
31 days ago
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Yes, but the hard part is that were a lot of "74"s and you had to figure out which one had to be changed... :)
tomduncalf
31 days ago
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Ahaha wow this brings back memories :)
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