SolarStrike Software

What is the best way to get data from a java web start game? Im sure it can be done with packets but that is extremely tedious.

You, hopefully, can extract just the content you need (the .jar, for example) rather than needing to run it in a browser. Run that separately (as opposed to through a browser plugin) which will make it much easier to access the game's memory through read/write functions.

You probably don't want anything to do with sockets. You're right that it would be a ton of extra work, but I suppose you could make a clientless bot that way.

The game does consist of a bunch of jar files and such but ive never heard of a way to launch it other then using the website play.button or by using the java control panel. If i understamd what youre saying i should be able to lauch it more like a normal .exe game and use say cheat engine to get addresses?

Edit: Perhaps something like http://jsmooth.sourceforge.net/ is what you mean? I'm sure it can be done without apps like this but it's what I found while searching around.

You should be able to launch the .jar files by opening it with the Java VM. Try just double-clicking the main .jar.

Hm, i will check into it when i get home.

*.jar is archive files format that exist since DOS time.
In the packet is a file which say where to start for the java-vm.

If I want cheat on such a game I would simple reverse engineering the code in Java and C#(and all dot net) it is very simple, their are tools for that and unlike in c the whole var and class names are their.

Next step would be then connect with your own version of the game.

The game doesn't really allow you to edit it, when you do try to edit the files it just re-downloads them.

edit: I'm not finding any .jar file for it yet... I don't know much around how java stores stuff normally. I can use the jnpl to launch it but I haven't found a jar yet.

Seek *.class I don't know where the browser save them put likely in a tmp directory.
The problem is if you want change the program while running it isn't like a c prog because the program running in the java vm and the java vm is a program on its own, so it is twice at complex then normal.

The java vm simulate basically a CPU with function stack and a heap,so you can change the PC and push/pop object on it.
If you find the right addresses, but this is only theoretically I don't know which counter maser they use to scramble memory.