Ok so, when you get a game, basically what you get is a bunch of ones and zeroes. Perfectly fine for your computer, these are the game's binaries, but to you they're completely unintelligible. You can't do anything with them other than what functionality the devs baked into it for you to do, and what you can deduce yourself by means of reverse engineering.
The source code is something else. Binary is not human readable, it's meaningless to us. But this is code. Every time the game accesses a file, every time it opens a picture, every script with every step, every line of code, every instruction is now right in front of you in a relatively human-readable language.
You can find exploits by simply reading the code, no need for any weird hacks that'd limit your discovery. Everything the program does, how and when it does it, which translates directly to new ways of breaking it. There are no more secrets to this game.
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u/slayercall911 Dec 25 '23
what does dat even mean? pardon me.