Re: Games (faking scores and things btw)

[jchrr post uni-bielefeld de]

Hi !

> Having worked in session-management support for same-gnome i'm facing
> a pretty problem. It's the same problem all saved games have. The users
> can edit them. So anyone can have 100,000 points (5 times the best score
> possible...) or more very easily...

I had the same problem while messing around with Playstation-memorycards.

It's simple: You can't avoid people messing with the highscores. 
You can encrypt highscores and use CRCs, but even if no sourcecode is
available poeple will try to hack the file-format, just to see their name
in a "global" highscore.

			Jens Ch. Restemeier

P.S.: Idea: Gnome highscore server, a server that collects highscores from 
all over the planet...