Hi hackers, how are you? Perhaps kinda tired of having to manually click the "Skip intro" button everytime you watch an episode on Netflix, the "Skip ad" button in every YouTube video, the "Skip preview" button for Prime Video, and all that other "skip this stuff" buttons?
I've developed Skippy, an app that does it for you for every app that you might use!
Skippy scans your screen and using OCR detects all those texts for typical skips buttons. Then automatically taps them for you using and Android accesibility service.
It has native support for English and Spanish, but it is also easily configurable for your own language.
Let me know if you have a chance to try it out or if you have any feedback at all!
Hi there! That's a great point you are making. Of course I can agree that it sucks if a cheater ruins the fun for anyone else.
I'm really not a gamer myself, I just like messing around with code and learning how it all works. There is really a lot to learn from this kind of projects. The content out there on low level programming tends to be a little daunting, arid and hard to understand. So I thought game modding could be a nice package for people to get interested in that kind of skills. The tool generates legible, explained source code and it helps you with the steps for compiling and what not. I think it could be great to motivate beginners to start getting their hands dirty and grasping some of the concepts out there.
I guess most client side hacks (the ones you can make with this tool) are not so great with any modern multiplayer game anyway, as real core domain logic and syncing is often executed server side. And on top of that there is all the basic extra stuff like validations, kicks, bans, anti cheats, etc.
For local or single player games, they could work a little better. But what's the harm in that, right? it's just you in there.
Again, even with all that said, I can really see your point, I totally get it! I hope this reply sheds a more positive light on all of this.
Have a great day!
Hi, how are you doing?
I've recently started diving into reverse engineering stuff. And with all the fuss around Among Us lately, it seemed like a fun thing to hack.
I've noticed that a lot of basic hacks are based on replacing some method implementation to return a fixed value, or do nothing, or writing to some memory position to change the normal game behavior to your advantage. So maybe something like that could be done for Among us.
First I learnt that it was a Unity il2cpp based game and found Il2CppDumper, a great tool for getting class names and method/field offsets in the game. That was great for understanding what I needed to modify. But then I didn't know how to modify it.
So I read a lot of great tutorials here and there and noticed that there were a lot of beginner hackers (like me) struggling with this part. There is quite a bit of low level programming stuff like assembly for function hooking, pointer arithmetics and that sort of thing.
After kinda figuring it out, I've managed to make a simple mod that allowed you to change the speed of the little guy you control by hooking some functions and changing some fields in the player object.
Then it hit me: the process to write the code to perform that sort of mods in any il2cpp based game would be exactly the same. Get your Il2CppDumper output => hook functions => do your modded stuff.
So as a personal fun weekend challenge, I decided to make a tool that would be simple to use and would allow anyone to make basic mods without programming at all. And thus, il2cpp-modder was born.
Given the output from Il2CppDumper and some rules telling il2cpp-modder what you'd like to mod, it will generate C++ code to perform DLL injection in your game and run your mods. There are 4 built in mod types:
- Make a function return a fixed value (eg, always return true, false, 0, 1, 99999, etc)
- Set an object field to any value you want (eg, keep your player health at 100)
- Replace a function call arguments (eg, always call your coins setter with 99999)
- Replace a function implementation (eg, just rewrite the whole thing. Programming required!)
Maybe this can encourage less experienced hackers to try and make their first successful mods!
I really hope this project can help someone. I had a lot of fun building it and I've learned a lot for doing it.
If you have a chance to try it, let me know if you found it useful! Or if you had any trouble I'll try my best to help you.
Hi! I've looked around a few games and more often than not they are using il2cpp. I've also noticed that newer versions of games that used to run mono are now using il2cpp.