SWBF2 Chat Colors restored + Crash to Desktop Protection

[theavengers85]

How do you know what values to edit?

I've always wanted to get into hex editing, but I've never been able to figure out how people know what to change.

I know you can replace strings as long as your replacement string is of equal or lesser length. But how did you enable chat colors/fix the crash bug?

[11_Panama_]

Ancient Chinese secret.

[theavengers85]

Darn it Panama, that's the response I always get

How am I supposed to learn anything that way

[Bryant]

I don't use a hex-editor to make these edits. I use a disassembler - it allows me to read the assembly. Some of the times I can find the flaws and fix them by recoding a section or by inserting additional code.

For the chat colors, I found the section in the 1.0 version and compared it to the 1.1 version and added in what was missing.

If you're interested, check out olydbg - it's the program I've used to explore the code and test my patches.

[theavengers85]

Ahhh, so that's how. No wonder. I did a hex diff on the files, and didn't get any noticable pattern.

Figured it had to be a disassembler. Though assembly code always scared me.

Thanks Bryant, I'll check it out.

EDIT:
Any tips for learning assembly? Any good resources you know of?

[FaiL.?]

Ahhh, so that's how. No wonder. I did a hex diff on the files, and didn't get any noticable pattern.

Figured it had to be a disassembler. Though assembly code always scared me.

Thanks Bryant, I'll check it out.

EDIT:
Any tips for learning assembly? Any good resources you know of?

Hex?

[Bryant]

Any tips for learning assembly? Any good resources you know of?

This is a decent resource http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs216 ... structions

In OllyDbg, you can also right-click an instruction and select "Help on Command"

[Talon Karrde]

So basically, Bryant can read the language of the ancients.

[Bryant]

So basically, Bryant can read the language of the ancients.

The Sith know many secrets

[Eyes Only]

So basically, Bryant can read the language of the ancients.

The Sith know many secrets

Be careful some of the other admins might think youre an evil hacker out to get swgo... again.