The ULTIMATE Guide to Game Hacking for Beginners

This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.

– Morpheus, The Matrix

Alright. So, this guide is meant for people who want to learn how to approach game hacking. You won’t be able to hack Valorant after reading this article, so if that’s your expectation, I’m sorry but I won’t deliver on that. I will not cover hacking of multiplayer games in this article, but I do think this guide is worth a read regardless. I want to focus on the general principles behind game hacking/modding, and to teach you to think for yourself so that, one day, you can do whatever you want. But stay away from Valorant because I need my RR.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. The Basics of Reverse Engineering
  3. Advanced Section: Reverse Engineering a Save File

Introduction

To be able to hack something, or modify something as you see fit, you need to have a thorough understanding of how the system works. The system can be anything: a game, a person, industrial control systems, etc. Since we’re interested in game hacking, that means we need to understand how our target game works. How do we gain that knowledge? Well, we need to learn how to reverse engineer software. That will be the whole premise of this article.

I assume that you have a basic understanding of computers. If you don’t know what memory is, and if you have no programming experience whatsoever, this article will probably go over your head. But you can try to follow along anyway.

I will start with the basics, so if you feel you know the basics already, feel free to skip further ahead in the guide. And with that, let’s get started.

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