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Is it possible to hack/edit the "Internet Checkers" files...you know...the game in Windows. I am curious to see if I can edit the files so that I can make my own messages to send to other players since the default ones pretty much suck and you can't chat in game. If anyone knows how to do this please reply. Thanks.

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I'm certain you can find a more productive use of your time! ;)


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I take that as admission that you can't do it?

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i'm not gonna lie...i don't know how to hack internet checkers!


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LOL...

I dunno how to do it either. I spose you could always do a metadata search of your hard drive for files containing the same character string as the messages say and see if you can edit the text in whatever results appear.


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Hacking internet checkers, thats just f**ked up, shame on you


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If you were to log onto MSN's Zone (or whatever they call it) you can play all those internet games that come with Windows and then some. The good thing about Zone is that you can write whatever you want there, no default messages. Would be much easier than "hacking" or trying to hack internet checkers. I think you would only succeed in crashing your or your opponents' computers anyway. Ever play against people who are using other languages? When they send you a hello in their language, you receive it as a hello in English. So if you were to hack these defaults and change them from, say, "Good Game" to "Gay Game", the receivers would still receive "Good Game" no matter what you did. You would have to have access to their game in order to hack it to make what you want show up.

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Possibly. Possibly not. You'd be better off playing Internet Chess though.

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lol - this one of the most funny things i've read all day. To th Op i really hope you can, otherwise this would all be a waste :)

Profile: stranger
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I am pretty sure RAYZER DOES know how to hack while he plays checkers

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Well, I think the only thing you could hack on Internet Checkers is the skin.

Like this video:

SWF file

I now throw this switch... click.... ...
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Hey dude and dudette, it is not lame to hack files to extract or replace content. It is a matter or right or wrong. You wanna be a white hat hacker? You must begin somewhere...

So, with this fresh in memory, I offer you some tip to do what you want. Replacing text string in a binary file is very very easy, and would not crash original code. It is the original poster's intent to change some of the built-in messgae to say something else. The this is just a simple scan for encoded message with the binary or text file. Most messages or strings of this nature are not encode, so you have 50% of success.

1) Just locate the file, dll, any file, that you think would store this message.
2) open it with a hex file editor. This is like notepad, but instead of ascii you get binary hex digitsl in a table column format.
3) scan for text string or partial text pattern. Replace new text with exactly the same amount of character count. Do not overide any other bytes. Do not delete, do not insert, just over-write.

NOTE: make backup or original file before you even open it in a hex editor. Okay? If you new, always safe to have a backup original copy.

Need more help? I am sorry I can't be anymore detail than that.

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