Security script: encryptions

[Ellie]

I am after a script to check if the game is currently encrypted through the RMXP method.

I'll be hiding it inside a larger script, in case you're wondering "couldn't someone just delete the script", and I'll work out some way of disguising it, changing the variable names and calling it some random name like "Time System" or something.

It is basically just to stop at least some of the people who unencrypt games so that they can change variables, their stats, etc, to cheat.

Thanks,
~Wyatt.

Just to clarify, something like this:

if game = $encrypted
do_something
else
do_something_else
end

 

[rataime]

Well, there's an easy way to do this : the FileTest module can't access to the rgssad, but the load_data method can. You could try :

if FileTest.exist?("./Data/Items.rxdata")
p 'baaaad'
else
p 'gooood'
end

It should probably work quite well.

Still, as people decrypting your game have access to the files themselves, it won't be more than "mildly annoying", I guess.
As for the cheating thing, no need to decrypt the archive anyway, given that the savegame is in a quite easy to load (and well documented) format.

 

[Ellie]

Cool, I didn't realise it was that simple

Oh and yeah they'll have access to the files, nothing I can do about that other than encrypting it even more with some other encrypting tool etc. And about the cheating, by that I mean they could open the game in RMXP and change the stats through the database, or change monster stats, and then play the game - but this way it will stop them playing if the game isn't encrypted.