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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. Re:"Reverse Engineering Minsweeper" by AndroidCat · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd prefer a game of MimeSweeper, but maybe that would work better as a FPS or god game.

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  3. This reminds me... by orkysoft · · Score: 4, Funny

    Years ago, I worked somewhere, and a colleague had reverse-engineered Hearts (Windows 95), and created an executable that modified the Hearts executable to enable and disable a cheat, that allowed any card to be played, not just legal cards.

    In typical Microsoft fashion, the other players' clients (and the server) accepted the illegal cards without problems.

    That was kinda fun to use on unsuspecting colleagues during the break (though I used it just to make them go WTF? once or twice ;-)).

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    1. Re:This reminds me... by Ratbert42 · · Score: 4, Funny

      I once hacked up the resources for Minesweeper to swap the "4" and "5" bitmaps. A guy in my office was ready to report the bug to Microsoft before we all lost it. He refused to believe us until I showed him how I did it.

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

    There's also a good article on hacking minesweeper here

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  5. Re:Building a MineSweeper player? by Sparr0 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That has nothing to do with difficulty, thats a purely luck-based setup. With most minesweeper boards there will come a point where you have to pick one of two equally probable positions for the remaining mines. One of them will be wrong and lose the game, the other will be right. In "easy" games that happens rarely. In "medium" it happens sometimes. In "hard" it happens often enough that the game SEEMS hard, but its really just you coming up against 50/50 odds one more time than your luck held out.

  6. 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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