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Reverse Engineering MineSweeper

Posted by Zonk on from the mine-hacking dept.

hdm writes "The first edition of the Uninformed Journal introduces reverse engineering by ripping apart the MineSweeper game included with Windows XP. This paper covers the basics of the Windows Debugger and steps through the entire reverse engineering and cheat code development process."

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  1. But we already know the cheat by P-Nuts · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's a lot of effort to go to just to cheat at Minesweeper. I find it easier to type "xyzzy" followed by enter, shift+enter. Then look at the top-left pixel of your screen.

  2. Another take on hacking minesweeper by markh1967 · · Score: 3, Informative

    There's also a good article on hacking minesweeper here

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  3. Shift-enter FIRST then Enter. by EnronHaliburton2004 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Dude! You have the enter and shift+enter backwards. was getting really angry with you until I did some investigation.

    You type "XYZZY" then press shift-enter and Enter.

    Unless it's different on different versions of Windows.

    (WinXP SP2 here)

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