How to start into Game Hacking

**'Bruno** · 08-13-2012

First of all, you don't start hacking right way, so.. if this is what you are looking for, Give up.

Ok, I feel the need to create this thread as this question keeps being asked over and over and over... (We all can see this from threads created)
So this pretty much will be useful to Link for those who are BLIND and can't look at stickies before posting.

How to Game Hack:

Your first step should be picking up a Programming Language to learn. This is not an easy step as there is multiple languages.

My personal Opinion is for you to start with a lower level language as C or C++ (I did start with C)

Be patient, get a book, get some documentation, READ IT.
If you are not at a school, you won't get someone to teach you everything. You need to explore (We are here to assist you on your problems as long as you tried something first and you show to us that you want to proper learn)

Proper Learning: Learning by trying, and reading what stuff does and how it works. Not Copy & Pasting already written code and Click run button.

After you feel comfortable with this Language (I will be honest here, this will take time, a long time.. Most of the books at the end of each chapter has small projects for you to practice what you learnt, which is good and informative), start looking into specific Memory Manipulaton WinAPI functions. Such as:

Your best friend will be that Documentation (And google), is says everything but everything you need to know about those functions, and how do they work: MSDN Library

These steps are the baby steps, do not get ahead of yourself, or you will end up failing as almost everyone did.

Few tips:

Forget About GUI Projects for now, It is much better to start coding on a console project. No gay auto generated code and you will learn without stupid events that objects create. (See.. you have no idea what I am talking about, yet it is there right on your first project)
Why Books? Because most of them explain decently, have good examples and will be teaching you on the correct order. Plus, of course, practice exercises.
Copy & Pasting code is bad... You are not creating anything new, you are just copying what someone else did. You won't be learning and you will be hated most likely for those who actually know what they do and could help you.
There is some more stuff that you need to know to proper game hacking, but as for now, this is enough. As I said, don't get ahead of yourself.
Get back here when you feel ready for more

Any question related to this, there is no need to open a new thread. Just post here and ask away.
Peace.

**Void** · 08-13-2012

Maybe you should add some general terminology of what to look up and maybe a brief description. i.e. Reverse Engineering, diassembling, ect.

**'Bruno** · 08-13-2012

Originally Posted by Void

Maybe you should add some general terminology of what to look up and maybe a brief description. i.e. Reverse Engineering, diassembling, ect.

"4. There is some more stuff that you need to know to proper game hacking, but as for now, this is enough. As I said, don't get ahead of yourself."

This thread is just to stop all those threads about where to start bla bla bla, its link and close. If they reach this far, they will know what to do eventually. ; )

**.::SCHiM::.** · 08-14-2012

But this wont stop those threads, just saying.

They'll keep coming, they are relentless, they are legion they and always forget, expect them!

But seriously

its link and close.

Are you going to close the threads as they pop-up? Because that'd really clean the programming section up. I believe most of the people that post such threads do it only because they want to say something on the forum instead of actually wanting to start/learn anything.

**'Bruno** · 08-14-2012

Originally Posted by .::SCHiM::.

But this wont stop those threads, just saying.

They'll keep coming, they are relentless, they are legion they and always forget, expect them!

But seriously

Are you going to close the threads as they pop-up? Because that'd really clean the programming section up. I believe most of the people that post such threads do it only because they want to say something on the forum instead of actually wanting to start/learn anything.

What do they want to say when they open a thread with: "omgz i dont knowz how to code pliz give injectoxz"?

You misunderstood what I typed.
And as I said, they will come, of course, but there is no need to type the same answer over and over again, link to the thread and done.

If you understand what I mean

**Hassan** · 08-15-2012

I used to close such threads but Dave said you can't just do that because you are annoyed ! Just help them and that's all.

**Broderick** · 08-15-2012

Originally Posted by Hassan

I used to close such threads but Dave said you can't just do that because you are annoyed ! Just help them and that's all.

Which is why the programming section is so full of crap.

**Auxilium** · 08-23-2012

Originally Posted by Broderick

Which is why the programming section is so full of crap.

And who are you to say that? If it's so crap why don't you try doing something about it rather than complaining ?

**Paul** · 08-23-2012

9/10 would rep if i could

**Retrojump** · 08-23-2012

Sounds good, I want to learn C++ or something, because I'm interested.
So I visited this subforum and first watched the sticky, this one ^^

**lucasheer715** · 08-26-2012

Thanks, I think ill wait awile to learn c++ but i got down C and .Net.

**ugotm1lk?** · 08-31-2012

nice stuff bro !

**francmargallo** · 08-31-2012

well i only know c and a little bit of java. and our c programming was all about procedural programming, while our java was all about OOP but the fact that we just started with the java thingy.