"Cheating" Program

[Hell0]

Ok i think this is a cool little idea. I was wondering if its possible in VB to have a program of whatever. and make a new different program that could like change the code of the original program to make it do things that its not supposed to. kind of like a hack and tamper with the code. this would be so cool. Is it possible?

[formlesstree4]

Yes and no. Not here.

[Hell0]

what do you mean?

[formlesstree4]

Mostly because that kind of knowledge can (and usually is) abused. If a programmer wanted his program to jump out of the computer and breakdance in front of you, he'd do it.
Usually, saying you want to "hack" a program is bad news and leads to trouble. I also think hacking a program is against the rules here (I want to say it's against the rules if the EULA of the program you're going to hack is also against it, but I'm fuzzy on that detail).

EDIT: I notified a moderator to let them come in and decide if this thread is against the rules. I leave it in their capable hands.

[Hell0]

oh sorry i didnt know, i just thought it was a cool idea

[Jacob Roman]

Why not do it through emulation and hack a rom? At least then its safe. Start with the Nintendo. Everything you need about the Nintendo will be in the Nintendo Emulator in my signature youll find below that has a ton of links of where I got my information to write the emulator. Ironically another emulator author who wrote YoshiNES in vb6 found it and we teamed up to improve it. With the information gathered you can manipulate the code in the rom and practically modify the heck out of it.

Btw I know its in VB6, but it can easily be ported to VB.Net with some minor changes in the code syntax.

[Hell0]

sorry lol im not looking for anything complex like that. just pretty much i was wondering if one vb program can detect that another vb program is being used and can edit the code for example like if lbl1.text="abc" and change it to like lbl1.text"cba" from a different program

[Joacim Andersson]

sorry lol im not looking for anything complex like that. just pretty much i was wondering if one vb program can detect that another vb program is being used and can edit the code for example like if lbl1.text="abc" and change it to like lbl1.text"cba" from a different program

No, you can't change the source code of the program since the source code doesn't exist when the program has been compiled. Besides it's not cool at all to try to reverse engineer a program, in fact it's illegal to do so and it's also against our forum policies to even discuss how to do anything like that. So I'm afraid that this discussion is over and the thread is now officially closed.