Maurice Heumann @momo5502 Twitter profile

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Maurice Heumann

22 days

Recently, many people have been asking me on how to get started with their reverse engineering journey. So I will try to share my path and what helped me on the way 🧵

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

1 year

We have received a Cease & Desist letter on behalf of Activision Publishing in relation to the X Labs project. Because of that, we are also going to shut down BOIII. Thank you all for your support.

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

2 months

I spent the last 5 months reverse engineering Denuvo's protection in Hogwarts Legacy and finally managed to bypass it using more than 2000 hooks 😂 One of the toughest challenges of my life. Here's my blog post about it:

Bypassing Denuvo in Hogwarts Legacy

When I announced my Black Ops 3 integrity bypass, someone commented that my research was not impressive and I should try analyzing Denuvo instead. That kinda stuck with me, so I did what everyone...

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

2 years

I finally reversed and bypassed Call of Duty: Black Ops 3's DRM. The game has more than 400 integrity checks that seem to self-adjust to reduce performance imapct. Quite impressive piece of DRM, I gotta admit.

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

1 year

Multiplayer zombies matches finally work in BOIII 🥳

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

10 months

I can interact with Witcher 3's script VM from C++ 🥳 Not sure if this has ever been done, but it's honestly really easy. The game is very pleasant to mod 😃 That's the last piece of the puzzle I needed to implement basic multiplayer functionality :D

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

2 years

DRM and online services of Black Ops 3 analyzed and replicated. This was a life goal I had for years, but I never managed to do it. Until now 🥳

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

1 year

Testing of BOIII is going great. A lot of issues have been fixed and more performance improvements have been added. The integrated launcher now supports proper updating. If you want to take part in the testing, feel free to sponsor the project:

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@momo5502

1 year

I'm receiving a lot of DMs right now and will try to reply to ALL of them. But it might take a few days. Thank you for your understanding.

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

11 months

I've been reverse engineering the windows lockscreen in order to have animated lockscreens backgrounds. Tbh digging into windows internals is super fascinating 😃

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@momo5502

1 year

Custom emblems and calling cards now work in BOIII 🥳

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

2 years

Finally, here is my writeup about reverse engineering and patching all 1219 integrity checks in Call of Duty: Black Ops 3

Reverse Engineering Integrity Checks in Black Ops 3

Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 is protected by a DRM that, among other things, protects the integrity of the game’s code at runtime. Reverse engineering those integrity checks has been a personal goal I...

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

9 months

My past COD projects made me learn so much about programming and reverse engineering. I have to admit Call of Duty really made me become the person I am today. Because of that, I'm thinking of framing the 4 C&Ds I received from Activision😂

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

1 year

It seems that BOIII fixes Steam's performance issues. I get almost double the FPS compared to BO3 on Steam 👌

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@momo5502

1 year

Dedicated servers for BOIII are making progress 😃

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

1 year

BOIII is making great progress, but there was not much to tweet about. Mainly bug fixing was done. However some notable things have been added: Ranking up with mods and custom maps on dedicated servers now works. The lagometer can be enabled to see connection issues:

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@momo5502

1 year

Server browser is also working now. Obviously it's not filled with actual servers 😂

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

1 year

My Black Ops 3 client BOIII needs testers. Patreon and GitHub sponsors will get early access to the testing today. If you want to try it out, feel free to become a sponsor:

@momo5502 | Linktree

Linktree. Make your link do more.

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

1 year

The migration of BOIII to the latest steam update is done. Development on features and bugs will now continue as planned.

Maurice's Blog 🐍

Welcome to my blog about reverse engineering, DRM and all sorts of programming related things.

momo5502.com

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

11 months

I am NOT affiliated with any of these BOIII clones popping up recently. I am currently aware of at least 5 critical security vulnerabilities that are unpatched everywhere. If you care about your security, I can only recommend not to play BO3 at all.

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@momo5502

1 year

Leveling up on dedicated servers is now working in BOIII 🥳 All this only due to the amazing work of @Brent_Lieshout 🙏❤️

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

1 year

Call of Duty Black Ops III is currently on sale on Steam. That's the perfect time to get it, so you can combine it with BOIII 🥳

Call of Duty®: Black Ops III on Steam

Call of Duty®: Black Ops III Zombies Chronicles Edition includes the full base game plus the Zombies Chronicles content expansion.

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

1 year

BOIII is really getting into shape. With 120 servers and about 50 players on average it's getting very playable :D Big thanks to all the sponsors supporting the project ♥️

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@momo5502

1 year

For some reason, stats were broken on dedicated servers. But they are finally working. This was one of the last major issues in BOIII

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

1 year

We're getting somewhere. cg_fovScale support is nearly finished. One small bug still needs to be fixed in BOIII 😃

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

2 years

P2P multiplayer in Black Ops 3 works with a few minor adjustments and reimplementations 🥳

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

1 year

It seems that #Fortnite now uses the same integrity checks as BO3. It only has 31 of them instead of 1200. That means my research on reverse engineering integrity checks in BO3 also applies to Fortnite. The bypass should also be entirely reusable 😂

Reverse Engineering Integrity Checks in Black Ops 3

Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 is protected by a DRM that, among other things, protects the integrity of the game’s code at runtime. Reverse engineering those integrity checks has been a personal goal I...

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

1 year

BOIII servers now run in Docker 🐳 A documentation on how that can be used will be published soon. This immensly simplifies deployment and increases security a lot 🥳

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

1 year

I need a new project to work on. Does anyone have any ideas? Needless to say: nothing related to COD

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

2 years

Thinking of doing a Black Ops 3 client like X Labs or Plutonium that fixes vulnerabilities (rce, dos, ...), adds ranked dedis and so on to the game. But with ownership check of the original game in place. Would that be something people would play?

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

10 months

The first version of my animated desktop and lockscreen wallpaper app is almost ready. Only a few minor things are still missing. It will be named Aura :D

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

10 months

Synchronizing character positions my witcher 3 multiplayer project is still super buggy but it's making progress 😂

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

1 year

New performance improvements were added to BOIII. FPS should increase even more by ~10-20 FPS since yesterday 🥳

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

2 years

Controller support and steam workshop integration works just fine in my Black Ops 3 project😃

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

1 year

Made a page for BOIII. The project is slowly making progress 😊

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

11 months

The windows lock screen is a composition of different ui layers, in fact even different applications and processes. It's quite a challenge to get animated lock screens to work, but I can now also draw behind the clock. Which is nice 😂

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

11 months

I made progress on the animated lockscreens 🥳 There were a few issues as the lockscreen is an immersive app. But things are getting really stable :D I hope I can release an alpha version soon :)

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

1 year

I've spent the last days answering countless support questions for BOIII People have been sharing BOIII files and thus causing this work There is a reason the client is in testing and only available to sponsors and experienced users This slows down the development immensly :(

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@momo5502

1 year

@MrTLexify All those tools will not work on BOIII. Simply due to the fact that Steam, DemonWare and the lobby system are either emulated or removed.

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

2 months

What I can say is that it doesn't seem to the cause the performance drops many people talk about!

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

2 years

Turns out Black Ops 3 has a total of 1219 integrity checks. Here's the code to patch all of these:

Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

2 years

I finally reversed and bypassed Call of Duty: Black Ops 3's DRM. The game has more than 400 integrity checks that seem to self-adjust to reduce performance imapct. Quite impressive piece of DRM, I gotta admit.

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

15 days

I need help for my Witcher 3 multiplayer project. If you're familiar with creating mods for Witcher and want to contribute to my project, feel free to contact me 😃🙏

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@momo5502

1 year

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

2 years

Blog post & poc source coming soon. Maybe this could also be some nice content for my first real YT video 😃

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

2 years

Turns out Black Ops 3 lacks a lot of the networking code to host actual matches. It seems that all matches require dedicated servers, unlike previous titles. Simply connecting to one another won't work :(

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@momo5502

1 year

BOIII is working on the Steam Deck now 🥳 We'll try to maintain support for it :D Big thanks to @vos6434 for helping to get it to work and recording the video ❤️

Steam Boiii

Black Ops 3 client boiii running on a Steam Deck.Please support momo for this amazing client and get access to playtesting!support momo - https://linktr.ee/m...

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

1 year

I've been working on a customizable wallpaper engine. It allows rendering websites as desktop background. Should I continue working on that? Would that be something people need?

Some Wallpaper Engine

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

11 months

My video wallpaper app is making progress 😀 It allows to browse YouTube videos and you can already set the one you like as wallpaper.

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@momo5502

11 months

I managed to get rid of the blur 🥳

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@momo5502

1 year

@charlieINTEL The article also talks about my project, BOIII, that tries to revive the game and fix all security issues without the help of Activision.

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@momo5502

1 year

Testing of BOIII is going great. A lot of issues have been fixed and more performance improvements have been added. The integrated launcher now supports proper updating. If you want to take part in the testing, feel free to sponsor the project:

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

10 months

I have finally finished a little side project: winescape 🥳 It manages to 'escape' wine and allows loading linux shared objects and calling symbols from an all native windows library

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

10 months

Thinking about picking up my old Witcher 3 mupltiplayer project again 🤔 Current status was that I can spawn 'other players' and make them move to a specific point. Nothing too spectacular tho 😂

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@momo5502

10 months

I bet people are using one of the vulnerabilities I reported back in 2018 that never got patched.

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

@lorenzofb

10 months

NEW: Hackers are infecting players of "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" with a self-spreading malware worm. It appears the worm is spreading inside game lobbies where there's at least a player whose computer is already infected with the malware.

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

9 months

I continued working on my animated wallpaper app. I finally managed to add Windows 10 support for animated lockscreens :D It took me hours of debugging and reversing, but I got it to work :D However, the technique is a bit more invasive than Windows 11 :(

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

2 months

@DeadRingr_ 😂

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

1 year

Please be aware there are scammers going around impersonating me. I suppose they are tricking you into donating them. The account shown below has now be removed, but please be careful and double check everything :)

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

1 year

I just love reading tweets when twitter randomly decides to load in new tweets and jump to a completely random location on the timeline.

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

6 months

I started working on a new side project 😂 It's a game that uses Google's 3D world data 😃

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

1 year

Thanks to @lorenzofb and @TechCrunch for interviewing me and @shiversoftdev about the BOIII client and the current situation in BO3. I hope we can succeed with our mission to create a safer environment for the players ❤️

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

@lorenzofb

1 year

NEW: Hackers are targeting Activision's first person shooter Black Ops III exploiting significant vulnerabilities. These two gamers are fighting back pathing the bugs on their own to protect other players.

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@momo5502

2 years

Source to the project is here. Latest progress will be pushed soon:

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@momo5502

1 year

BOIII is also currently broken. I will investigate together with Anthony

Anthony

@shiversoftdev

1 year

BO3 exe is updated, ZBR, the compiler, and the patch will now no longer work. I will audit the changes and report back with the status of the 4 RCE exploits. I know just from attempting to load ZBR that custom maps/mods with DLLs have not been affected.

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@momo5502

1 year

I'm sorry, there was an issue with our invites to the BOIII Discord :( In case you sponsored on GitHub, you should have received an E-Mail with new instructions. If you're a Patron, our Patreon post was updated and everything should be good again. Sorry for the inconvenience :(

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

2 years

I thought about making YouTube videos about DRM. Similar to the videos by @LiveOverflow or @ghidraninja , but less focused on security/hacking and more on DRM and the analysis of copy protections, like anti debugging, obfuscation and so on. Does this sound like a good idea? 🤔

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@momo5502

1 year

For those wondering, they did not work because large parts of the netcode and the backend connection were removed (for security reasons). Therefore, emblems and calling cards had to be reimplemented.

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@momo5502

1 year

@MrTLexify @Treyarch No need for them, I'll just do it myself

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

1 year

Big big thank you to every one sponsoring and supporting me. I will try to honor all of you by either adding you to the launcher or through other means. However, main goal at the moment is to get to the initial release of BOIII 😊

Classics

@ClassicsGG

1 year

We are happy to announce that we are sponsoring @momo5502 in support of his boiii project! Momo is picking up ATVI’s slack and bringing the dream of a safe and secure Black Ops 3 PC client to life. Read more about his project and sponsor him here:

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@momo5502

9 months

I'm really looking forward to a future of new and exciting projects that don't involve any IP owned by Activision :D

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@momo5502

1 year

The patterns are identical to BO3 in Fortnite. Probably there are other things one has to patch in their DRM to make it work. But integrity checks are definitely just like BO3:

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

2 months

@gamingatdenuvo Pls don't sue me. Thx 🙏

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@momo5502

1 year

@MrTLexify This is completely misleading. Depot updates occur regularly, look at the update history, about once a month. The hash of the binary also has not changed. So nothing has been updated.

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@momo5502

3 months

I have finally found the time to publish my lockscreen wallpaper app, Aura, on Steam 😃

Aura Wallpaper on Steam

Aura Wallpaper - Animated Lockscreen Wallpapers

store.steampowered.com

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@momo5502

2 months

On a sidenote, a bit of self advertisement: I developed an app that enables animated windows lockscreen wallpapers. Feel free to check it out:

Aura Wallpaper on Steam

Aura Wallpaper - Animated Lockscreen Wallpapers

store.steampowered.com

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@momo5502

2 months

✞ st tony ⁷ᵏ

@stepfathertony

2 months

Some of y’all don’t know what this is and it shows

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@momo5502

2 months

Btw. I took the cover image from here: Whoever owns the rights, I hope it is fine :D

Schwere Vorwürfe gegen Hogwarts Legacy und den Kopierschutz, aber was ist wirklich dran?

Die Performance von Hogwarts Legacy lässt teils zu wünschen übrig. Es gibt Berichte, dass der erste Crack hier für Verbesserung sorgt - wir messen...

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

1 year

@TGDefinition Working as a security engineer, I can say the entire situation is super hard to handle. We took shortcuts in our projects. We cut off entire parts of the games. No lobbies, no voice, no backend. That allowed reducing the overall attack surface and thus securing the games.

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@momo5502

11 months

Animated lockscreen wallpapers are also visible behind the task-manager ctrl-alt-esc window thingy, as that's essentially the lockscreen 😂

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

11 months

If you see my name in any of those clones, it means they have copied my work including the git history. Have a look at the commits and you'll see my last commit will be from before the C&D.

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@momo5502

1 month

@archer_uwu Shipping an x86 application is not that unreasonable. It provides better compatibility with legacy systems. The only benefit you get on x64 is access to more memiry, which is something discord should never need 💀 This post is totally clickbaity 😂

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

2 months

@konstantinos96b You are totally right. The main reason I started doing it was actually as a side project to get into using @vector35 's BinaryNinja a bit more. At some point the was just no going back 😂

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@momo5502

1 year

@project_s2ww2

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@momo5502

1 year

Started experimenting with widgets and thier layout. I'm pretty happy with this 😀

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@momo5502

2 years

My blog post about hypervisor-assisted hooks and detecting them is finally available:

Detecting Hypervisor-assisted Hooking

I recently started to experiment with hypervisors and their use for bypassing anti-cheat or anti-tampering systems. This post will describe the concept of hypervisor-assisted hooking and a few simple...

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@momo5502

10 months

oh shit that's me 😂

WibuSystems

@WibuSystems

10 months

Our #SoftwareDevelopers are on a mission to protect the digital know-how, produce cutting edge #hardware solutions, design pioneering #cybersecurity technologies, plan effective #SoftwareMonetization strategies, build potent #cloud architectures. Apply now

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@momo5502

2 months

@reallyluckyy Ah lul, didn't notice. The post is from yesterday tho if you check the date. I only found the time to publish it today with all the family gatherings. I can assure you it's not an april fools. I wasted too much time for it to be 😂

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@momo5502

5 months

I've been using IDA Pro my entire life. I was never able to become friends with Ghidra. However, I started using Binary Ninja's free version recently and the more I use it, the more I like it. Honestly, great job @vector35 👏 I'm definitely going to buy it sooner or later. 😃

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@momo5502

2 months

@OliverBaumgart It works for the most part, but the folks at denuvo made sure there are enough exceptions to that which require manual adaptations

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@momo5502

1 year

@M3RKMUS1C , of course unlock all is coming to BOIII, just like ranked dedicated servers 😃

✂️ BOIII Unlock All

16 seconds · Clipped by Maurice Heumann · Original video "Black Ops 3, 8 Years Later..." by M3RKMUS1C

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@momo5502

2 years

@thatkidpolito Well, it means that I personally consider the DRM to be quite good. But bypassing it allows to modify the game, modify the memory, apply hooks and patches. This can be used to patch security vulnerabilities that are unpatched or extend the game with new features

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@momo5502

10 months

I need testers. The first 25 people to join this discord: can test the application for free 😃 You need Windows 11 for LockScreen wallpapers to work!

Discord - A New Way to Chat with Friends & Communities

Discord is the easiest way to communicate over voice, video, and text. Chat, hang out, and stay close with your friends and communities.

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

10 months

The first version of my animated desktop and lockscreen wallpaper app is almost ready. Only a few minor things are still missing. It will be named Aura :D

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@momo5502

1 year

I need this.

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@momo5502

1 year

@Chefnoodlezz The publicity and hype this entire project gets is overwhelming, so why your comment?

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@momo5502

9 months

@r3al1tyuk_ Technically only 2 cases with the first one involing 3 letters, cause I thought the first two were fake and ignored them 😅

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@momo5502

2 years

I wanted to play some of my old gamboy games. However emulators on android either cost something or are full of ads. So I made my own 😁

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@momo5502

9 months

I published the HTML UI component that I used to create launchers for my old projects. It is now usable as an isolated dependency-free C++ library.

GitHub - momo5502/html-ui: Extremely lightweight, yet flexible HTML UI

Extremely lightweight, yet flexible HTML UI. Contribute to momo5502/html-ui development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Maurice Heumann

@momo5502

10 months

Going to start my first stream now :D I will try to reverse engineer why Witcher 3 pauses when the window loses focus 😂 Might not be successful tho, we'll see 😃

momo5502 - Twitch

Developer

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@momo5502

1 year

@FollowerOfBigbo definitely gonna do that. i'll just eventually get bored and need something to work on. i'm the type of guy who needs a project

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@momo5502

1 year

@PlutoniumMod We all know that one 😂

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@momo5502

11 months

My latest commit in the LLVM project causes build issues 💀 While I feel kinda stressed about it, this also feels like an achievement. At least a little bit... 😂

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@momo5502

9 months

🌟 I'm thrilled to announce the release of: Aura - The Lockscreen Wallpaper App. It is finally available for all my patrons:

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@momo5502

1 year

I'll be at the 2023 EuroLLVM 🎉

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