These days almost everyone in tech including us, has gotten way too used to letting AI and instant Google searches do the heavy lifting. Whenever you get stuck on a problem, the muscle memory is to just ask an LLM (Gemini sucks), grab an MSDN snippet, or paste something from a forum. We realized we were losing the raw problem solving edge, so we are doing an experiment: build a working usermode manual PE mapper and an internal cheat for a game with absolute zero internet, zero docs, and zero AI assistance.
This repo will serve as our open source codebase and an ongoing dev-blog documenting the entire process, including the crashes, reversing notes, and workarounds.
We want to keep this authentic and genuinely challenging
- No AI: Of course :)
- No search engines / online docs: No Google
- No source: No looking at existing manual mapper repos or hooking libraries
- No Advanched tools: Just IDA and WinDbg allowed
We wanna make it a hobby project so we will LARP! (Larping does not have same meaning like social media...) It can be cringe or nor we dont care we just wanna have fun and documenting our experience and discoveries.