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Unveiling Hidden Gems: Exploring Easter Eggs Through Game Reverse Engineering
Have you ever heard of Kajko and Kokosz? They are comic characters created by a Polish comic creator named Janusz Christa. Two Slavic warriors travel the world, tackling all sorts of problems with their village along the way. Over the years, various media related to them have been released - comics, computer games, and recently, they even got their own TV series on Netflix! Some people also suggest that they are the Slavic version of Asterix & Obelix, as the characters’ visual appearance and archetypes are similar in both series. Those suggestions were, however, never confirmed.
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Unpacking Encrypted Game Files
In the last post I described a way that allowed to unpack content of proprietary format. That format was fairly straightforward with no encryption nor decompression and thus it was possible to grab files that are stored inside without even touching a debugger (we used one tho, but it was not necessary). This time, however, things will get a little bit more interesting. Today we will tackle a game from the Crazy Chicken series, to be more precise - Crazy Chicken Kart 2 (or Moorhuhn Kart 2 in original)
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Unpacking Garfield Game Files
You probably heard about Garfield, the cat with orange fur that loves sleep and lasagna. It turns out he is not only protagonist of comics and cartoons, but also computer games. One of such games uniquely named
Garfield
was released for PC in 2004 by company namedThe Code Monkeys
. In this post, we will take a look into the structure of files used by the game.