Real life is eating me up, and chances are you won't be able to find some of those newer badge games on the blog in time - don't panic just yet. Remember to visit our prolific community of "Cum one, cum all, Cumgregate." where experienced dedicators are always around suggesting hacking ideas even before those lovely badges have shown up!
"Seeking for New Authors" - What does this mean?
It means "How to Kongregate" is seeking for new authors.
Wanna know more? Check out the announcement inside the Forum.
A tighter standard on the language usage throughout the whole site - the blog and the Forum - will be applied. Specifically, internet slang & shorthand will be grimly moderated. I never like the idea hacking being linked with the image of retarded teens not being able to spell correctly, yet it's such a prominent phenomenon inside the Forum I think it's time I need to do it the hard way.
So watch out your phrasing from now on - if you want to stay on this site.
"How to Kongregate" has been a success I could only dream of when I first started out this all. Was like, "oh, great, there I found yet another interesting way to hack those fucking games! Must write it down somewhere!" and so this place I used to call "a tiny shelter" was created from null, never knowing it's going to become the thing it is today.
This blog has been playing a key role to many recent events inside the Kongregate community. Before "How to Kongregate", no one dared to challenge COCAK and their self-claimed "semi-official" status; the showing up of "How to Kongregate" destroyed the taboo of "there can only be COCAK" and see for yourself now how many Kong-related blogs have been set up one by one following the boom led by "How to Kongregate". Of course, they will never admit that they were inspired by "How to Kongregate"; those hypocrites are dying hard trying to maintain perfect profiles and keep great distances from the topics of their so-called "playing with impurities", going as far as neglecting the existence of this blog - but sadly for them, this will never work. As long as "How to Kongregate" being the sole blog facing honestly and unprejudicedly to the necessity of game hacking, this place will stand and thrive for the time to come. The little but helpful community mustered by our Forum is just the best to be a proof. While I never think it would grow into something being able to be on par with the Cheat Engine Forums - they make the software after all - I can say without a hesitance however that our community is doubtlessly among the most active ones for whatever that is related with Kongregate. I must thank you all who have participated in our Forum discussions so far for helping to make a fundamental difference between "How to Kongregate" and other Kong-sites. Please keep it up!
As for the main blog, you may notice it's not catching the things up as quick as you have hoped. For one it's because our community is doing an awesome job; oftentimes when I have spotted a new badge or two on Kongregate, I came back to the site and would see someone has already posted it with hacking details on the Forum; for two is due to the lack of challenging factors in recent badges - you should know about the way ActionScript 3 is doing already, just search for whatever you are seeing and voilà - which is a somewhat important source of motivation.
I think I will begin to write about some games that are good but are not on Kongregate, games I really like, better than trying to come up with some readable reviews for those awfully fucktard games just because junkasses inside the Kongregate office decided to put up a little propaganda for shits they've sponsored. That doesn't mean I am gonna stop all the badge articles and videos, no - I still need the ad revenues they generate to keep the Forum running - just that they will come after our community has discussed these games for a while, serving as refined notes for those who do not read our Forum; also, you're going to see some articles featuring games having nothing to do with badges and so on, but nothing too radical. Meanwhile I still plan to fill up each badge with a hacking guide one day, just with no definite date I could promise.
My appreciation again to all your support so far to "How to Kongregate", and wish you will like this slightly new direction of the blog.
It's back... or more correctly, a new one has been made, at here.
The new Forum is backed up by a stable host this time hence you have my guarantee that the Forum won't be gone in another ten days and your posts won't get lost for a second time. It's still in its default appearance but I'll get it more stylized in the following days.
Something apparently went wrong with the ByetHost free space I registered for the Forum which has now gone - they've canceled my account for reasons unknown. Perhaps they stated they do not want to see their service being used for forums inside their Terms of Service, some fucking thing I won't care to read anyway.
So as it currently stands, I will need a reliable PHP-enabled web host to be able to offer you a Forum. And since I do not hope to see any of you to rent a paid hosting service for me as a Christmas gift, I guess it may take some time before the Forum can be reconstructed and even then, I can not guarantee for the stability of the new Forum - those free hosts aren't philanthropists but companies wanna make money, and I have no control over whatsoever they would like to do with their own properties when they think the way I utilize their free service is not going to profit them.
I have managed to pull off a forum for this blog under some request. While I am not very sure about the necessity of a forum, it's nevertheless good to have one than none. I must mention it though that I am using the preview release of phpBB 3.0, so if you happen to notice anything weird along the way, please bring it to my attention so I could check to see whether it's about my forum settings or some unresolved bug of the software. This also effectively replaces the function of that old "Pissed" post.
Some of you probably have already watched my video guide for "Bot Arena 3" since Sunday and are waiting for this article, so here it is, finally.
Roboslayer Badge (easy – 5 points)
Lay waste to 10 opponents in career mode or challenge mode.
So someone has mentioned a while ago that this blog can serve as an important reference to all game coders. I really think not, because most likely those who are capable of coding will also have a rough idea on how to build up some basic anti-cheating checks, and chances are they didn't code them in simply because they do not care that much about cheating, as long as they are receiving damn good money from their sponsors. Still, we are going to explore two simple yet efficient countermeasures against hacking in our following paragraphs, if there really are clueless developers out there that are reading this blog.
Champion Robotics Engineer Badge (hard – 30 points)
Complete your fulfilling career as a master of all things mechanical.
Do we have any amateur coders here that think local shared objects are really a hassle? You need them to create a saving feature but are also fear of them being easily tweaked and hacked, like this?
One thing that will only take you a few minutes to do but can probably help you fending off more than 90% of .sol Editor users, is to create a hash - using MD5, SHA-1, etc. - out of all your variables that's gonna be stored inside the LSO, and put that hash inside the file, too, to be checked by your game when it is about to load up any save. It won't stop smartasses like me from decompiling your .swf and see what kind of hash algorithms you were using so to create the necessary hacking hash I need, but will be sufficient enough against most of the average guys always crying for helps out there.
Mechanical Samadhi Badge (hard – 30 points)
Be one with the robots. Master control of them, and complete all 7 challenges.
Trying to use text strings instead of numbers is a good idea, because most people who are using Cheat Engine just know about searching numbers; but the method has been proven powerless against real thinkers like, yes, me once again:
[How to Kongregate] "Bot Arena 3" Challenge 4 Modification
(For the hex segment mentioned inside the video, it goes as below.)
43 49 52 43 45 53 20 22 58 54 22 00 4B 55 52 4F 4E 20 22 53 48 52 45 44 2D 4D 4B 33 22 00 52 41 00 4F 4E
Now one of the methods being mentioned oftentimes to solve this issue is to employ a certain degree of obscurity like, using something as random as J97_IDdtH instead of CIRCES "XT", or dN92_p_oCCTy in place of KURON "SHRED-MK3", and recording the correlation down in some other isolated place. However, my own estimation is that all these shit jobs can probably block out only around 30% of hacking for you; there are still many other ways for us resourceful people to stitch out the correlation ourselves through the rest part of your codes, and chances are if someone knows how to decompile your file and locate those text strings at the first place, a little more extra analysis and deduction over your codes won't baffle him either.
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Let's conclude this with a good question: what kind of players are the lamest?
I'd answer that with "whichever stupid scum that thinks changing a few integers with Cheat Engine is all about hacking and whichever fucking teenage idiota that thinks hacking is wrong." Just to think about how much information NSA, CIA, and the USA government in general are hacking around the world on a daily basis? Oh wait, they don't call it hacking - they call it information monitoring, homeland security ensuring, terrorist activity recognizing, etc. etc. Now anyone, please tell me where in the fuck you see anything wrong in that? We will be all dead if there are no hacking! The US will collapse under the evil threat from the terrorists and we will become plain farts! Hacking is vital for US, how the fuck can it be wrong?
So he has come! I don't know what kind of words those COCAK people have been sharing with him, but apparently not something very good! To view the full message from Greg and the reply from my part, follow this link.
Great! It seems that with our recent vigorous propaganda, we are starting to draw some attentions, mostly pissed. So here comes a place to centralize all your curses instead letting them scattering across several posts.
Greg is right. No one is forcing people to collect all of those badges. But in case you want to collect them all, and are searching for any useful tips, you are lucky to stumble across this little place; a full coverage will be given soon on how to beat the requirements to retrieve all of the Kongregate achievement badges, either through normal plays or some of the, lazier, methods. Stay tuned.
