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Mr Coffee
Registered
04/09/2003
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440
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16th August, 2004 at 12:57:12 -
Encrypting an INI is not going to stop someone from cheating. They can simply edit the game values directly in memory. Tools exist which are designed for cheating in PC games which do this. In fact commercial game companies don't even bother to put in cheat protection unless the game is an online game. If it's single player then if they want to cheat just let them.
99 percent chance that the above post is 100 percent correct.
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Klikmaster
Master of all things Klik
Registered
08/07/2002
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2599
   
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16th August, 2004 at 18:03:45 -
Why not use an array, they rule over INI's and are especially useful for RPG's, plus they can't be hacked into easily, well not as easily as being opened in notepad 
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Tigerworks
Klik Legend
Registered
15/01/2002
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3882
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16th August, 2004 at 19:15:27 -
The latest builds of MMF 1.5 encrypt scores, lives and global values, I believe, to stop memory hackers editing values directly in memory.
- Tigerworks
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Kramy
Registered
08/06/2002
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1888
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17th August, 2004 at 13:07:45 -
What are you using to get the filename? Win2k didn't accept .\filename.sav for me, yet win95/98/me do. I don't know for XP.
I think for TGF the file object has something to get the app dir, and in MMF it's appdrive$+appdir$, and in Jamagic it's Program.getapplicationdirectory().
Kramy
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Nicholas S Wilson
Registered
23/02/2004
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20
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18th August, 2004 at 02:55:15 -
Do you guys have any tips on CGI script... maybe a sample script to use for just reading/writing INIs from the same FTP server with MOOSock?
The encryption thing has failed for me again and again; I'm still in the dark, and I almost hate to speculate.
whoops
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Nicholas S Wilson
Registered
23/02/2004
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20
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18th August, 2004 at 02:56:39 -
And thanks for the suggestions about other methods... it is indeed pretty hard to protect your game from cheaters... and I really have to; because of the nature of this game as an online RPG ...
whoops
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