Hacking? Kind of?

Question

It’s not really hacking, at least not black 🎩. But I wondered if it was possible to change code in existing games and try my own things? Not sure if this is illegal or not. If it is let me know please and if it isn’t I’d like to know how.

Answer 1

As others mentioned, get a decompiler and it'll convert it back to code for you. As for legality, it depends what you're going to do with it. If you're doing it so you can read their code and learn from it, then no one is going to find out anyways, so read away. I've learned a lot from doing that. However, if you're planning to steal their code as your own, reuse it, redistribute it, make money in general, etc.... then you're violating copyright laws and being a crappy person in general. Doing it because you plan to create hacks for games isn't illegal, but it is against the terms for most games and you may lose your account over it or find yourself banned if caught.

Answer 2

No, you don't have to sell or post it. It is plagiarism regardless of how you use it. Credit must be given.

Answer 3

You have to decompile the code and then you have to make the changes and hope that the code does not break

Answer 4

It can be illegal, especially when it comes to modifying game code maliciously. Tools such as apktool or any other software capable of decompiling packaged software can do it.

Answer 5

No, even using small parts of the code can be plagiarism. You MUST give credit.

Answer 6

No worries. 👍

Answer 7

Thanks, but how is it done? Like what software and such. And is it illegal?

Answer 8

But it’s alright if I simply look at it and MAYBE reuse SMALL parts of it right?

Answer 9

I’m not going to sell it or post it anywhere or anything though. Just maybe a few lines for something I’m working on, but if it’s illegal I’ll have to rethink things

Answer 10

Ok thanks, :-(

Answer 11

Learn from it bro. If you're going through this process just to steal their code, then you're more than capable of learning what you need to learn in order to accomplish what you're working on yourself. You can learn from their code and master techniques that are used, but copying/pasting their code is certainly illegal and as Jonathan said, it's plagiarism.

However, if you don't mind me asking you, what is your project that you're working on? I may be able to provide you with resources that'll be more valuable than stealing their code. I'm a game developer also.

Answer 12

I’m not going to steal any code.
And what I’m working on is kind of hard to explain. But what I need help on is that I can’t figure out how to 1: turn it into an application(not sure the game would help me there) 2: I need to figure out how to save the users place so he doesn’t have to start over every single day.

Answer 13

No worries, you don't need to tell me the concept of the game if it's under development. :D However, what platform? Are you using a game engine or you create it from scratch? What programming languages? etc...

Answer 14

That’s the problem I want it just for family to try out and then if it’s good enough maybe getting it to the App Store. So apple. And yes scratch(not the drag and drop programming language though ;-) programming languages is undecided, I am good at python JavaScript is ok and I am slowly working on C++ but not enough experience in that to do anything at all.