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Re: SWBF2 Chat Colors restored + Crash to Desktop Protection

Postby theavengers85 » Sun Aug 12, 2012 5:45 am

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?
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Re: SWBF2 Chat Colors restored + Crash to Desktop Protection

Postby 11_Panama_ » Sun Aug 12, 2012 6:37 am

Ancient Chinese secret.
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Re: SWBF2 Chat Colors restored + Crash to Desktop Protection

Postby theavengers85 » Sun Aug 12, 2012 5:56 pm

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

How am I supposed to learn anything that way :mrgreen:
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Re: SWBF2 Chat Colors restored + Crash to Desktop Protection

Postby Bryant » Sun Aug 12, 2012 11:57 pm

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.
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Re: SWBF2 Chat Colors restored + Crash to Desktop Protection

Postby theavengers85 » Mon Aug 13, 2012 4:59 am

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?
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Re: SWBF2 Chat Colors restored + Crash to Desktop Protection

Postby FaiL.? » Mon Aug 13, 2012 11:00 am

Cypher wrote: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?
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Re: SWBF2 Chat Colors restored + Crash to Desktop Protection

Postby Bryant » Mon Aug 13, 2012 2:12 pm

Cypher wrote: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"
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Re: SWBF2 Chat Colors restored + Crash to Desktop Protection

Postby Talon Karrde » Fri Aug 17, 2012 9:59 pm

So basically, Bryant can read the language of the ancients. :whistling:
"Bigotry wrapped in prayer is still bigotry."
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Re: SWBF2 Chat Colors restored + Crash to Desktop Protection

Postby Bryant » Fri Aug 17, 2012 10:11 pm

Talon Karrde wrote:So basically, Bryant can read the language of the ancients. :whistling:


The Sith know many secrets :twisted:
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Re: SWBF2 Chat Colors restored + Crash to Desktop Protection

Postby Eyes Only » Tue Aug 21, 2012 10:52 pm

Bryant wrote:
Talon Karrde wrote:So basically, Bryant can read the language of the ancients. :whistling:


The Sith know many secrets :twisted:

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