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You don't need to tamper with the client to cheat. Anything that can scrape a screen and programmatically provide input will get you far and will be difficult f
by 10000truths 3y ago
You don't need to tamper with the client to cheat. Anything that can scrape a screen and programmatically provide input will get you far and will be difficult for anticheat to reliably detect without hitting false positives. Hell, you might not even need the client, if you can reverse engineer the wire protocol and pretend to be a client.
- altairprime 3y ago> You don't need to tamper with the client to cheat. You do if you're trying to cheat using software alone. Hardware-assisted cheating will continue to occur, but without access to software-only cheats, the total size of the cheating market is considerably less. Anyone could use the Konami code in games that accepted it, because it cost nothing and was easy to remember; someone who doesn't otherwise cheat might do so because it's so easy. But to use a Game Genie cheat, you had to buy a physical object, and look up codes in a manual of cheats, and know that you were cheating, and see that cartridge reminding you each time you play. That awareness stops a lot of people from cheating. Today's cheating opportunity cost is more Konami than Game Genie — no hardware required, just enter your CVV code to enable the cheat.