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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. 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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  2. 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.