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When going through old versions of Gunbound, I don't want to install the entire game just to look for a few files. Gunbound installers are created using You must be registered for see element., and there are tools that extract the files from the .exe file, it's a simple process that I'll...

If you can't read x86 assembly, you should turn back now. This is an introduction to reverse engineering using Gunbound as an example. The file I'm analyzing in this tutorial is NyxLauncher.exe (1,126,400 bytes, 1100 KiB, SHA1: 242c4c9e7f004088e6252ae12060b8738f39d9f5) from...

The goal is to write a source that compiles to the exact same bytes as the original. Of course, this may be impractical in certain cases, but I don't want to improve on the code until I have an idea of what it looks like. This also means that I will be using the original tools that PW developers...

Going by Google Translate, I assume the person wants to know about the signatures for the functions exported by elementskill.dll, so that he can load his own version. I encourage him to use OllyDbg or IDA Pro, since finding out a function signature is not as demanding a task as reversing the...

Hi there, I have noticed, after a long absence, that there is not much focus on reversing the client files to get something that can be compiled and ran. Of course, this is normal since most people will want to play on the latest servers with all the features. Meanwhile, I have completely...

Hi there, I am releasing the source code I wrote for pwprotector.exe. It is not the official source, but rather, my attempt to recreate the exact environment that the original file was built in. The disassembly of my executable is "identical" to PW's, which hasn't changed since 2006/02/15...

Thanks for this, although Delphi... I'm starting to reverse the game executables, just finished with pwprotector.exe. If I ever get to reverse all the files, then I'm moving on to the server binaries.

I see, time to read up on cryptography...

If you extract the archive using the password provided by MrKiller, you'll notice that groups of files in the same folder will have the same header bytes. Thus I suspect that this archive isn't genuine, or the encryption method is just beyond me.

Added v1.3.1 ptemplate.conf fix, even though it's not really in the right section...

Hi, After a slight investigation into dungeon timers(default to 4 hours), the way to change this lies in gs.conf. You only have to add the lines "idle_time = 1200" and "life_time = TIME_LIMIT" somewhere between [Instance_xxxx] and [Terrain_xxxx], where TIME_LIMIT is in seconds. TIME_LIMIT...

Are you familiar with using IDA Pro? If so you can try debugging elementclient.exe. I've messed around with some values when you click the change race button/list and it seems to work as expected. If you can, add 'qwenames' on Skype for more information.

Pun intended?

Another possibility is that in glinkd/gamesys.conf the version= may be set to the wrong number.

Attached is a serverctrl.jsp which I modified to add another line showing the actual RAM usage after taking into consideration buffers and cached memory. You must be registered for see element. If you don't know what disk caching is, refer to You must be registered for see element. page. Cheers