pd
05.05.2009, 17:43:16
Ah, looks like somebody who knows about the topic. 
About the Temporal thing, DCoder is the one to ask here (he'll certainly see this early enough) as I got no clue.
Syringe detected your DLL and the Hook and that means the code should be actually executed. Maybe try to add a MessageBox call to see whether it really is executed.
Anyway, concerning the debugger, we're using IDA Pro, but OllyDBG should work as well.
The reason you can't start gamemd.exe just like that is because it checks for the launcher running. I hacked that check away and could run gamemd.exe by itself to debug.
RA2MD.exe is of no worth, it's merely a copy protection and anti-debugging utility, it contains none of the game logics.
Funnily enough, Westwood left many log messages in gamemd.exe so the check is very easy to track down, even I could do it when I was new to disassembling.
Again though, I say DCoder can help you out here, he's been greatly enhancing my IDA Pro database from back then and we have a really good part of the executable unveiled, even if not entirely analyzed. Using that would make the start for you relatively quick.
Even though I've retired from this project, I'd be happy to see more people joining the project.
About the Temporal thing, DCoder is the one to ask here (he'll certainly see this early enough) as I got no clue.
Syringe detected your DLL and the Hook and that means the code should be actually executed. Maybe try to add a MessageBox call to see whether it really is executed.
Anyway, concerning the debugger, we're using IDA Pro, but OllyDBG should work as well.
The reason you can't start gamemd.exe just like that is because it checks for the launcher running. I hacked that check away and could run gamemd.exe by itself to debug.
RA2MD.exe is of no worth, it's merely a copy protection and anti-debugging utility, it contains none of the game logics.
Funnily enough, Westwood left many log messages in gamemd.exe so the check is very easy to track down, even I could do it when I was new to disassembling.
Again though, I say DCoder can help you out here, he's been greatly enhancing my IDA Pro database from back then and we have a really good part of the executable unveiled, even if not entirely analyzed. Using that would make the start for you relatively quick.
Even though I've retired from this project, I'd be happy to see more people joining the project.
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