AOMPlayer: A hex editor cannot hack an exe file. Period. You can possibly change a few strings but even that is risky. It's not possible. It's encrypted and compiled. One little value changed will change tons of stuff.
The demo exe is still compiled and encrypted. You can view the names of the commands, possibly, (I believe strings are stored as-is), but nothing else is sensible to touch.
You can hack bits of an exe file with a resourse hacker (Like the icons and images stored in it and a few strings), but never the core programming.
Unless you have a decompiler. Which I beleive is what DrNick is talking about. And then you'll need to be able to compile it again.
Recompiling the exe is illegal. Don't bother.
Also, it might not even be the installed exe. The games needs the CD to start up, right? It might be an exe on the cd.
Anyway, my point is that this is is way above anyone who doesn't do any programming. (Scenario design != programming)
BTW, != means not equal in programming syntax.
Besides, even if it was possible to hide it in a bar file, anyone could open it in AOMed anyway.
Dnas
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