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Decompile? I have ollydbg, it's not a decompiler, it dissassembles the code...which can be pretty hard to understand. I find ollydbg the best free debugger/disassembler available for Windows.
EDIT: crap, ollydbg can't open vb executables. I'll have to use Win32dasm then...
EDIT2: disassembled it with w32dasm, it's short, only 689 lines (with comments). Short enough for me to be able to try and make sense of it
sorry, i meant dissasemble...
but yes i've found out too that with a hex-editor and w32dasm you can crack it....
b.t.w. ( i already know the password, and beaten lvl6, 7, and 8 too, but this was the only one i hadn't solved myself yet, so i'll go and strip the app....
hey el-half got a link for that Win32dasm
Or should i just use my uber powers and do a google search??
f2B
This seems to be a link: http://www.downseek.com/download/21279.asp
I don't know anymore where I got mine.
front2back, you need a hex-editor too because you can't edit files with w32dasm (my version).
I suggest hiew because with that you can view the disassembled version of an executable and you can modify it without actually having to assemble it again with an other assemler (because the hex is directly edited)
Thanks for the el-half, i thought that level 5 would be a breeze, but after realising that my Decompiler wouldn't decompile it i went on a witch hunt for a decompiler, but everyone that i've downloaded so far are just as S**t as the other ones.
And i scored a hex-editor from a friend.
cheers
f2b
my personal favorite hex-editor is ultra-edit....
but some others will do too :)
let me know if you got through level5, and b.t.w. just do a search on "level5.exe" on google, you'll come up with some interesting thing....
level5 sucks :(. I downloaded win32dasm from that link, but when I open up level5.exe, all I get are a bunch of symbols. Is there something I'm missing? Even if it did work, it would be in assembly right? I don't think I can read assembly, lol.
/me is surprised he even got to level5
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it's amazing what the help files do. I just needed to change the font and I get correct textual output. Now if I just knew assembly.
/me tries to read the code
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I finally got it. I had to get some decompiler for vb3 off of someone. Then I had to decode some trash, the user and pass didn't even work that I decoded, but the url I decoded worked for level6, so who cares :). If you need any help pm me. Seems as though level6 is about the same with a vb6 prog though :(. We'll see how it goes.
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Any tips for level8? I'm stumped.
http://cs.smith.edu/~thiebaut/ArtOfA.../artofasm.html
Lol, yeah, I had to change fonts too when I used win32dasm for the first time...
Screw me for failing at completely understanding the disassembled program.
/me pm's for help :)
I'm stuck at level 5 changed the font can't understand it still x.x most I can find is the invalid password message.
seems as though you need to decompile for level5 and not disassemble. I have the tool that seems to be the only one that will work. So if you want it pm me. Once you get it decompiled you're still only about half way there, you have to do some stuff to figure out the user and pass. I hate levels where you have to download obscure apps to do them. Good luck.