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4 code repos · 1 tutorial · free

The code, practice targets and reference docs that go with the video lessons and Pointer Lab. Everything is free and open source. Read it next to the lesson it belongs to, build it, break it, and practice on software you own or on open-source games.

Code companions to the video lessons

C++ · 2018–2020 · on GitHub

Written alongside the legacy video series and kept as a record of how the techniques work. The games have moved on (CS:GO has been replaced by CS2, so every hard-coded offset is long dead), but reading and writing another process's memory, walking pointers, scanning for byte patterns and drawing an overlay still work exactly this way. Treat these as annotated examples, not tools to point at an online game.

CSGO-Cheats
7 modules · legacy

CSGO-Cheats

The source for the Legacy: CS:GO cheat series, one project per episode
Language
C++ (x86)
License
MIT
Years
2018–2020
Handbook
Ch. 12, 14, 20, 26, 27
Seven small external projects, each a single Source.cpp: Aimbot, Bunnyhop, FOV, GDI-ESP, Glow, Radar and Triggerbot. Every one opens the process, wraps ReadProcessMemory and WriteProcessMemory in typed RPM<T> / WPM<T> templates, and does one job with them. Offsets came from Hazedumper, and a FAQ covers the Visual Studio character-set and precompiled-header errors most people hit on first build.
External ReadProcessMemory Aimbot math GDI overlay Hazedumper
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Pattern-Scanning
Array-of-byte scan

Pattern-Scanning

Find code by its byte signature so your offsets survive a game update
Language
C++ (x86)
Year
2020
Lesson
Pattern scanning
Handbook
Ch. 14
An external signature scanner: copy a module's bytes out of the target, walk them against an IDA-style pattern with ?? wildcards, then read the address the matched instruction refers to. This is the fix for the problem Hazedumper solves, done by hand in one function, and the same idea Pointer Lab's byte-pattern search is built on. The maintained, tested version is sigscan.
Pattern scan AOB scan Signatures Wildcards
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HWID-Info
Licensing basics

HWID-Info-Grabber

Read the hardware identifiers software licensing is built on
Language
C++
License
MIT
Lesson
HWID lock
Handbook
Ch. 30
The volume serial number from GetVolumeInformation, the computer name from GetComputerName, and a hash of the CPU's __cpuid output, with notes on how easily each one changes. Pair it with the HWID lock lesson to see how a build gets tied to one machine, and with What is a HWID ban? for the other side.
HWID CPUID Licensing Windows API
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External Examples
4 snippets · beginner

External-Coding-Examples

Four short C++ files for the Reverse Engineering Fundamentals lessons
Language
C++
Year
2020
Level
Beginner
Handbook
Part II
Operators: what * and & actually do. Adding Offsets: find a process and module by name, then follow a base address plus offsets. Null Pointer Checks: the same walk, guarded so a zero halfway down the chain does not crash you. Threading Example: several features on their own std::threads.
Pointers Offsets Toolhelp32 std::thread
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Which code goes with which lesson

Every lesson with companion source
LessonSeriesCodeHandbook
Pointers and references in C++: * and &FundamentalsExternal-Coding-Examples / Operators.cppPart II
Reading and writing a pointer with offsetsFundamentalsExternal-Coding-Examples / Adding Offsets.cpp, Null Pointer Checks.cppCh. 11
Pattern scanning (array-of-byte scan) in C++FundamentalsPattern-ScanningCh. 14
Running several hacks at once: threads in C++FundamentalsExternal-Coding-Examples / Threading Example.cppPart II
How to make ESP in C++ with GDI/GDI+FundamentalsCSGO-Cheats / CSGO-GDI-ESPCh. 26
HWID lock and authenticator in C++FundamentalsHWID-Info-GrabberCh. 30
Aimbot math from scratch in C++ (ep 1)Legacy: CS:GOCSGO-Cheats / CSGO-AimbotCh. 27
External triggerbot in C++ (ep 2)Legacy: CS:GOCSGO-Cheats / CSGO-TriggerbotCh. 20
Bunnyhop by reading the on-ground flag (ep 3)Legacy: CS:GOCSGO-Cheats / CSGO-BunnyhopCh. 20
Glow ESP by writing game memory (ep 4)Legacy: CS:GOCSGO-Cheats / CSGO-GlowCh. 26
2D radar from entity positions (ep 5)Legacy: CS:GOCSGO-Cheats / CSGO-RadarCh. 26
FOV changer by writing one float (ep 6)Legacy: CS:GOCSGO-Cheats / CSGO-FOVCh. 12
Dumping and updating offsets with HazedumperLegacy: CS:GOCSGO-Cheats README (where the offsets go)Ch. 14

Pointer Lab learning materials

Tutorial target · reference docs · GPL-2.0
Pointer Lab cover: a pointer chain from a module base, through an offset, to the value

PointerLabTutorial.exe

Nine gated lessons, x86 and x64, in every Pointer Lab download
Price
Free
Lessons
9
Targets
32 & 64-bit
Videos
From Oct 2026
A practice program built to be attacked. Each lesson checks how you solved it, so the lazy technique fails and only the right one unlocks the next: freezing a value that an instruction keeps rewriting will not pass, and neither will a hard-coded address after the object moves. The Pointer Lab from zero video series walks through one lesson per episode.
  1. Attach and writech. 8
  2. The exact scanch. 8, 12
  3. Unknown initial valuech. 12
  4. Floats and doublesch. 10
  5. Find what writesch. 15, 16
  6. Your first pointerch. 11
  7. Multi-level pointersch. 11
  8. Code injectionch. 16, 18
  9. Shared codech. 16
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The tutorial ships inside the release zip next to Pointer Lab itself. Release builds are unsigned, so Windows SmartScreen will warn on first run; the Pointer Lab page explains why, and the source is there to build yourself. The reference docs live in the repository:

Architecture
How the scanner, debugger, assembler and UI fit together. Start here before reading the source or sending a pull request.
Lua API
Every function the embedded Lua 5.4 console exposes, for scripting scans, reads, writes and patches.
MCP API
The tools the MCP server offers an AI agent, with arguments, results and the security posture.
Project file format
The saved-table format, for tools that want to read or write Pointer Lab projects.
Changelog
Every release since 1.0, with what changed and why.

Handbook code samples

Coming with the book
Coming Soon

The Game Hacker's Handbook: source listings

Compilable MSVC examples for every part of the book
Every chapter of The Game Hacker's Handbook includes working, annotated code. Those projects will be published here, free, when the book is released. The newsletter hears about it first.

Everything on this page is free and stays free. Questions about any repository or lesson go to the Discord until the forum reopens, and bug reports and fixes are welcome as GitHub issues and pull requests.