Corrupting software by changing its bits
dlive·@codingnick·
0.000 HBDCorrupting software by changing its bits
<html> <p>With software like the real-time corrupter it's possible to destroy a retro game and making it look, play and behave pretty strange. But how does that work? For that we'll have to take a look at how games handle data.</p> <p><img src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2KzU2627-s0/maxresdefault.jpg" width="1280" height="720"/></p> <p><strong>Bits and Bytes</strong></p> <p>For any stored data, prorgamms and games use bits or bytes(a bit beein an 8th of a byte). These are 0s and 1s. every varaible in every programm on normal pcs is based on them, so if you'd find the<em> walk left variable </em>for example and always have it set to one, the character would run left indefinately.</p> <p><strong>Corrupting</strong></p> <p>Now we'll get to corrupting. When you use a programm to corrupt a game, it rapidly changes random bits, therfore changing locations, picking up object or changing directions without the player doing anything. Therefore it destroys the games code.</p> <p><strong>Why does this post exist for such a short topic</strong></p> <p>Sad story actually i wanted to make a stream doing that(there'll come one in the future I promise) but i had some difficulties and because dlive allready upvoted it I couldn't do anything about it and wasn't able to delete this post. I'm sorry... and yes I did even falg it, my own post xD</p> <p><img src="https://s17.postimg.org/lgxh3nijz/End_of_each_post.gif" width="396" height="20"/></p> </html>