Arcade Games in Console

dIxie · 01-19-2010, 10:39 PM

I am currently working on creating some old arcade games such as asteroids and tetris that will work and appear in console. I have gotten most of them to work but I do have a question. Is there any way for me to register a score and store it as an executable so that I can re-save over the executable that is there. This may not be possible but any info or code that you could give me would be incredibly helpful. BTW I am trying to do all of my code in C.

**berry120** · 01-20-2010, 09:06 AM

I'm not sure of how you'd put it in the executable - that'd involve changing the program at the same time that it's running which is a bit awkward at best and plain not allowed on some systems.

Why not just put it in a separate file somewhere like every other game does it? If you don't want people editing the score then you could look into some form of basic encryption...

**root** · 01-21-2010, 04:22 AM

no. the exe file running the game will be locked.
also in order to do that you'd need to release the source as a part of the game, in the game, and include a compiler in the game, so that when a high score was registered the source in the game would be altered to include the high score then recompiled to replace the existing .exe, all in all a rather messy approach.

you'd also probably find that you couldn't link the compiler without permission from the creators.

what you need to use is a text file to store the high scores.
this can be read/written/replaced with simple file functions available to C.

01-19-2010, 10:39 PM	#1
dIxie Baseband Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Canada Posts: 68	Arcade Games in Console I am currently working on creating some old arcade games such as asteroids and tetris that will work and appear in console. I have gotten most of them to work but I do have a question. Is there any way for me to register a score and store it as an executable so that I can re-save over the executable that is there. This may not be possible but any info or code that you could give me would be incredibly helpful. BTW I am trying to do all of my code in C. __________________ dIxie The hacker mindset doesn't actually see what happens on the other side.

01-20-2010, 09:06 AM	#2
berry120 Site Team Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 2,627	Re: Arcade Games in Console I'm not sure of how you'd put it in the executable - that'd involve changing the program at the same time that it's running which is a bit awkward at best and plain not allowed on some systems. Why not just put it in a separate file somewhere like every other game does it? If you don't want people editing the score then you could look into some form of basic encryption...

01-21-2010, 04:22 AM	#3
root Site Team Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,945	Re: Arcade Games in Console no. the exe file running the game will be locked. also in order to do that you'd need to release the source as a part of the game, in the game, and include a compiler in the game, so that when a high score was registered the source in the game would be altered to include the high score then recompiled to replace the existing .exe, all in all a rather messy approach. you'd also probably find that you couldn't link the compiler without permission from the creators. what you need to use is a text file to store the high scores. this can be read/written/replaced with simple file functions available to C. __________________ I didn’t fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian… Im sick of people saying 'dont waste paper'. If trees wanted to live, they'd all carry guns. "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; The inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."

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