Evolution Of Hacking

[rosey]

Hello, I am Rosey and here's a brief introduction of myself: I've been hacking MapleStory for well over 5 years. I've seen it evolve from it's beta stages and what it has become today. Of course, one can never compare the present with the past because well, what's the past will remain in the past. But there are lessons that each and everyone can learn from the past which would help shape our future.

I've also witnessed how MapleStory hacking has evolved from selfless sharing to "let's not share this lest it gets patched". It's not that I am heavily against the whole act of "secret keeping" but let's all do a quick rewind to 2005 shall we?

Late 2004 to 2005: MapleStory beta. Introduced by nexon to the rest of the world. This was when I first started MapleStory. A simple yet alluring game. But it gets boring after awhile. There were as many warriors as there were thieves and training was a hassle. And then to the hacking scene: CEF was the brain of maplestory hacking. Back then, if I remember correctly, MapleStory wasn't split up into GMS and MSEA. We were one. Everyone was satisfied with wall vac even though it fails miserably at vaccing at maps with multiple platforms. Botting at stirges was the way to go. I can still remember checking on my bot ever so often during Chinese new year. Hacks were extremely simple; get cheatengine and hack away. Tutorials were in abundance. Then shit started turning bad. The infamous wall vac had finally been patched and it was also at that time when the most primitive form of anti hack was introduced.

But this didn't deter the brilliant minds at CEF. The MapleStory section quickly became the most active forum back at CEF. With every patch, you could expect at least 1 hack to get patched. And because of this, better and newer hacks were created that made levelling comparable to opening notepad. Time to pause and ask yourself: What caused the hacks to get patched so quickly? Was it the leaking of hacks everyday at CEF? Yes, it definitely was. Everyone knew that amongst all the hackers, the GMs of MapleStory were also actively browsing the forum. Leaking of hacks soon became a very big problem. But if you were to visit CEF everyday, people there never stopped leaking hacks. Because to them, it wasn't leaking. It was sharing.

Maybe it's because of the different ways we were all brought up. While most Asians strive to be the best of the best, Caucasians tend to be pretty much satisfied if everyone around them was happy. The spirit at CEF was such. It did not take long for Nexon/Wizet to introduce GameGuard to MapleStory. It was the moment we all dreaded. This was when the hacking scene started crumbling, and the golden era was over.

People still shared various ways to bypass GameGuard and the spirit at CEF still remained unchanged. However, many brilliant minds decided that they were done with MapleStory and moved on. The hacking community split, and came the birth of many other hacking forums.

Fast forward to 2007 and 2008: It has been a long and arduous journey for the hacking community. People came and gone. Hacks have been patched and new ones discovered. And it was 2008 when one of the most outrageous method of hacking became public; packet editing and a worthy mention: PG hack. Getting to level 70 takes minutes from level 31. Although I wasn't active during that period of time, It wouldn't take a genius to realise that MapleStory had been utterly destroyed by packet editing.

Everything became so fast paced one could never catch up with it. It's like a cheetah trying to run at the speed of light. As fast as it might be, it can never match the speed of light even at it's maximum potential. It was the usual routine; hacks released > quickly patched > yet more hacks > and patched again. Then everything died down. MapleSEA hacking was literally dead. Wz editing became the only public way to hack. But there was a silver lining to all this; rapidfire skill editing. I was quick to hop into the bandwagon and quickly rosed to the top of the rankings in Fornax with a friend. It was great while it lasted.

I hope that whoever reads this gets my point. MapleStory hacking has come a long way and it has never died. Many undiscovered and unexploited ways of hacking remains. I am pretty disappointed with the current MapleSEA hacking community because it has become "every man for himself". However, I see great potential in Xemectrum. Great minds here lurking around us. I want to stay on here and see what happens and will be writing a pretty comprehensive tutorial on iMax Macro. To quote boredness: Sharing is caring.

Think about it: If hacks were never leaked nor patched, we would still be using that son of a fail wall vac right now. Leaking, has played a big role in the discovery of new hacks. Leaking was never 100% bad. There is still a silver lining in every leak.

Cheers

[KFSPC8]

That's a pretty motivating and inspiring piece of words. I somewhat agree with you that people shouldn't adopt a selfish mindset but instead open up and pass down the knowledge of hacking such that more potentials would be breed and hence fore, more brains to work as a team to come up with new ideas.

However , some hackers are not confident about their hacking skills and are afraid that they could not come up with new ideas such that it wouldn't get patched. Just like you mentioned, there was a period where MapleSea hacking was literally dead and most people would certainly not want history to repeat itself .This is probably the exhibition of human nature, survival of the fittest mindset that is carved into the new generation.

I think to further support your speech you should start off by sharing and also give a strong impression that every hacks would certainly have a breakthrough to a new, higher level . To sum that up , this probably would be insufficient to lead people into sharing what they've got ,nevertheless good effort !

[Helanyeoh]

Great words , dude.

The problem here lies in the fact that Maplestory has become a money generating tool. Blame it on avent of forums like W8 & GK. Selling VIPs can be a good way to make some pocket money. Selling hacked equip is even better. Juz imagine a godly equip going for like 3k SGD.
Hacking is still alive & well , abeit at a slower pace, sadly the sharing part is in the past bcz of the fast updates in anti hacking tool.
In the CEF days hacks were plenty & easy to make. Sadly its no longer true now. Law of diminishing returns.
I am in agreement with you, hacking here should be more open.

[pure_fighter]

I support you
But when u recall back to the no-delay skill and svac period,
almost everyone was hacking and of cos abusing the hack.
they call legits to cc instead of running away if they see anyone during vac-ing.
they ks ppl they hate with no delay.
its great to share hack if theres no one abusing it, if leechers starts to learn
I bet there will be a new era of hacking.

[rosey]

Thanks guys for agreeing with me. I'd like to see more productive discussions in this forums because of its potential. I know I cannot change the mindset of the people here with a simple speech. But I believe something is better than nothing.

[PIEzLOVERS]

DEF was not just the core of Maple hacking , it was the core of 80% of game hacking
But noobs won't understand the shit they are saying there .
Cause some don't even know how to use AA

[rosey]

Yeah, I, for one, find ASM an extremely difficult language to pickup. Probably because it is so low level I can't understand. Well, will attempt to pick it up again when memory editing comes back to life.

[Original]

Cheers dude/dudette! I remember those days eh! HAHA. You forgot to write about Dupex, CSEAX,SSEAX, SS Mouse Fly, SSEAX Market Spot,dem,demi! Omg. Those were the days huh? Everyone was happy! Oh and those CS hacks! BYOR,Damage Control and Shadow Partner. OH! OH! And the 4 pathetic debug registers! HAHAH! And thank god for the introduction of AA! And lastly a couple of great people that made cheating possible during that time, for example Sunbeam,Xor,DB,Kaspersky,xLcs and many many more. HAHA!

[happy125]

the main reason y msea is the least hacked and strongest security is mainly due to the rich sporean kids pooling money into $soft so $soft can invest into hackshield allowing any public bypass to be patched within a short time causing ppl to keep bypass private making memory editing not possible.

2ndly, the gms in msea arnt doing anything about hackers. this causes leechers to be proud about themselves as hacking would not lead to banning and they start abusing hacks. when leechers start abusing the hacks, ppl who discovered the hacks would be annoyed and stop releasing and maplers who plays legit would start making noise like a pig. This result in less and less public hacks due to the noob leechers. maple would then patch the hacks and GG. no more public hacks for leechers. Ppl who discover hacks by themselves would sometimes be flamed(like yule) when releasing them to the public. Even worse, some fkin douchebag sparrow would show off his pathetic hack and ask ppl to buy his vip for his load of crap. The sparrow, having some brains, see less leechers here and decided to make frens with the pro ppl here so that he can expand his variety of hacks in his vip knowing hes just pathetic.

3rdly, also the most impt one, is that this is maple SG/MY, split from GMS. Msea mostly consist of sporeans. Sadly to say(i am a sporean too ==), sporeans are 99% fkin leechers who loves to abuse them. like seriously.. see the ppl here willing to learn/ the ppl making hacks.. how many sporeans are there.. even when mostly of the maple community is sporeans. If msea is still combined with gms, im sure theres more hacks avaliable lol.

and wtf am i doing typing this shit lol. i have engineering exams tml!!! ARGH

[qwename]

Well I know I will be doing my part, im back(from a long period of absence...