Chapter 225: Coding All Night Long (Part 2)

He caressed her small hands, then her tiny feet, and occasionally kissed her cheeks and lips lightly, feeling a burning passion that led him to take two showers to cool down before continuing to code.

Regarding Legend of Mir.

After a night of contemplation, Zhao Qingfeng finally decided on the cheat settings.

Creating cheats seemed easy to him, quite straightforward.

The main principle was to change the game’s original settings by intercepting or altering data packets with tools, thereby altering the assumed parameters submitted to the game itself and the server.

It essentially boiled down to two types.

One was a background cheat, and the other was an offline cheat.

Background cheats involve integrating the program into the client, intercepting data to enhance functionality, mainly relying on packet encapsulation to intercept, analyze, and modify data transmitted between the client and server, thus modifying the game’s numerical values.

Offline cheats, as the name suggests, operate independently of the client program and have become more popular, although most cheat companies currently use packet cheats.

To develop an offline cheat, one must understand the game itself.

This involves analyzing the code of the game’s client and server, then simulating a legitimate client login to enable features not available in the original version.

Such features include automatic monster killing, trading, and item pickup.

Cheat functions can also vary widely.

For example, assistive features like increasing health, speed, automatic item pickup, and modifying various events.

Or destructive features that completely disrupt game balance, allowing characters to become invincible, clip through walls, fly, or have infinite money.

After much consideration.

Zhao Qingfeng decided to start with assistive cheats.

Because destructive cheats were too aggressive, shortening the game’s lifespan and likely drawing the attention of others, prematurely, which wasn’t good for profit.

Once the direction was clear, things became simpler.

Zhao Qingfeng, with his superb skills, quickly wrote a small program overnight that could track client dynamics.

Then.

He used the STD toolkit for a comprehensive static analysis of the entire game.

After decompiling and reverse-engineering the encryption algorithms, he turned all encrypted codes into plaintext in just one night. This way, by modifying commands, the same encryption algorithm could be transmitted to the server, enabling all cheat functions.

However.

While creating cheats was easy, selling them was hard.

People like Old Liu would always have their employees crack the cheat codes for imitation.

Therefore.

Encryption was essential.

The encryption process was not simple. For inexperienced or new programmers, creating a difficult-to-crack encryption program could take at least six months to a year of careful research.

But.

For Zhao Qingfeng, this was a piece of cake.

He first encapsulated the cheat program itself, encrypting the core code with up to thirteen layers of protection, and added a captcha activation method, ensuring that each cheat could only be used by the original user on their device.

Of course.

To accommodate players who frequented internet cafes, Zhao Qingfeng set a limit of five verifications.

But there was another issue.

Considering the time sensitivity of cheat activation codes, he needed to compile a set of captcha generators.

And to prevent multiple uses of a single code.

He had to assign a unique serial number to each cheat.

Linking the two ensured foolproof security.

After a whole night of hard work, by early the next morning, Zhao Qingfeng had completed a perfect version of the Legend of Mir cheat that would have taken others or teams a month or even months to develop!

“Next step!”

As Zhao Qingfeng stretched, Shen Lingyao woke up.

“What’s up?”

Shen Lingyao came over, noticing the dark circles under the big bee’s eyes, “Didn’t you sleep all night?”

“Yes!”

Zhao Qingfeng raised his eyebrows, “The internal test is tomorrow. Today is the last day of hard work, and I have one more important thing to finish!”

Seeing his excitement, Shen Lingyao also felt happy.

But unexpectedly, she was soon pressed down on the bed by the annoying brother Qingfeng.

“(/ω＼)What are you doing!”

“Tired and sleepy, kisses and cuddles for energy!”

“Ugh… annoying, I’ll bite your tongue!”

“Ouch, that hurts, that’s great! Yaoyao, kiss me, I can’t take it anymore…”

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