Thread: Hack and be God in Elasto Mania

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Hello everyone.
This tutorial will explain the methodology of hacking elasto mania (ELMA) game. By learning this methodology you could hack into many games.
The key is to gather experience in this and be open minded.

Tools required:

• - Cheat engine (as a debugger, value's addresses finder, and script-automatizer).
• - D3D Windower (to exit the fullscreen while playing and moving on to CE).
• - elma.exe (the game, ofcourse).

First step - Prepare workspace:

• as said, you'll need the tools mentioned in "tools required".
  
• To configure the D3D Windower, you'll have to identify the DLL location which came with the program(d3dwindower) in the settings of the program.
• Afterwards, click "+" to add a new game and choose elma.exe.
  
• Then, run the game in windowed mode by clicking the play button (to start emulation) and then the computer button.
• Now that you have the game running, open up Cheat Engine and attach elma.exe process to CE.
  

First step - Change the count of gathered apples:

• The number of apples is saved after you collected them. Means, if the map has 5 apples, then to win you'll have to touch the white-flower after collecting 5 apples.
• However, you can find the holder of the apples_collected by searching 0, and then collecting one apple and scan next for 1, and so on until you'll find the right memory-address.
• This is the basic CE scanning and once you found the right address you may change it's value.
• To win all levels just change it to 999999 or so

Third step -Flying:

• Another basic method however more sophisticated is to find the value of the gravity and change it - therefore flying.
• Use the same method you did to find the apples_collected to find the gravity_value.
• The simplest way of researching and scanning is to make a custom level through elma.exe's program and put apples that can change gravity.
• When it's regular gravity it is 1. 2 is for upside gravity, 3 is the value for pulling right and 4 is to left.
• Any other value will cause the character to freeze in the air.

Fourth step - Godmode:

• This is the most complicated part. In order to be invulnerable you have to think what is causing you death and cancel it.
• When the head of the character is touch anything (mostly the ground), you die. Then, why not protecting the head? but how?
• Now you'll have to do a deep research. Scan (the same way you did in the second and third steps) for the memory address that keeps the value of your state.
• Many 'state' values are binary like. Means, they are "1" for state A and "0" for state B. I scanned for "1" moving, and "0" not moving. Why? you'll understand soon.
• When I found the address (using many scans by hotkeys of CE), I started researching the assembly code in the memory-viewer panel.
  
• With a lot of trial and error, I found what i wanted: the function that moves the head of my character. Then, I replaced it with code that does nothing (NOPs).
• This allowed me to move my character forward, but leave my vulnerable head behind.
  

In conclusion,
the summary of this work is that I can now win any level, fly around the map and with addition to all of that I am invincible.

With this tutorial you learnt the method of this hacking, and you can apply it to any game. I wanted to show you the way of thinking I had in my mind when I accessed the game,
and decided to hack it.


Hoped you like it.

Sharp Blade