Game Hacking Village·25 min
AltF4
Walks through how Super Smash Bros. Melee tournament cheats were caught using replay files, rollback analysis, and controller legality checks.
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Game Hacking Village DC34
Las Vegas Convention Center · 6–9 August 2026 · 5 talks
Game Hacking Village talks from DEF CON 34.
1–5 of 5 talks
Game Hacking Village·28 min
Christopher Hernandez
Shows how a dead backend domain on the 1999 Sega Dreamcast browser becomes a remote code execution chain that ends with DOOM running natively.
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Game Hacking Village·17 min
Falco Girgis
Shows how the Sega Dreamcast's SH4 floating-point hardware is exploited by a hand-optimized math library used in homebrew game ports.
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Game Hacking Village·40 min
dwangoAC
Explains how component aging and temperature shift the Super Nintendo's audio clock, and why that complicates deterministic tool-assisted speedrun playback on real hardware.
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Game Hacking Village·42 min
Ryan Zamuda
Shows a compile-time anti-cheat for Unity DOTS games that relocates sensitive fields such as lives and score across struct boundaries, so memory-scanning cheats break after each build.
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