Video Lessons

Taught by Heath Howren, known online as Cyborg Elf, on the Cyborg Elf channel since 2019. Everything is practised on software you own or on open-source games, and each lesson maps to a chapter of The Game Hacker's Handbook. New lessons land twice a month starting October 2026.

9 lessons · New series · first lesson October 2026 · Handbook Part II

Pointer Lab from zero

One video per lesson of the tutorial that ships with Pointer Lab, the free open-source memory tool built alongside the book. Each episode opens with the result, shows why the wrong technique fails the lesson's check, then does it live. Nothing to download but the tool.

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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After that: remakes of pattern scanning, DLL injection, and the ImGui menu on offline games; companions for the other Handbook parts; and kernel development episode 2. Dates move when the book launch is set, so the newsletter is the reliable place to hear first.

The catalogue that built the channel. The techniques date from their upload year and the games have moved on, but the fundamentals have not changed: this is still how memory scanning, pointers, overlays, hooks, and injection work. Each one is getting a modern remake on offline games.

17 lessons · 2019–2020 · C++ · Handbook Parts I–IV

Reverse Engineering Fundamentals

The concepts under every game hack: hex and binary, pointers, static versus dynamic addresses, pattern scanning, overlays with GDI and ImGui, HWID locks, buffer overflows, and reversing Unity, Flash, and NES games.

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1. Decimal, hexadecimal and binary for reverse engineering2019
2. Pointers and references in C++: * and &2019
3. Dynamic vs static addresses2019
4. Reading and writing a pointer with offsets2019
5. Pattern scanning (array-of-byte scan) in C++2019
6. Running several hacks at once: threads in C++2020
7. How to make ESP in C++ with GDI/GDI+ (overlay fundamentals)2019
8. How to build an internal ImGui menu in C++ (DirectX hook)2019
9. HWID lock and authenticator in C++2019
10. What is a HWID ban?2019
11. Buffer overflows in C++: heap and stack explained2020
12. Reversing a password check with HxD and PEStudio2020
13. How to use Il2CppDumper to reverse Unity IL2CPP games2020
14. Modding Unity games with dnSpy (Mono builds)2020
15. Reverse engineering a Flash game (Club Penguin)2019
16. NES ROM modding: custom graphics and text2019
17. Redirecting an app's web requests with Fiddler2020

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11 lessons · 2018–2021 · C++ · Handbook Parts II–IV

Legacy: CS:GO cheat series

A complete external and then internal cheat built step by step in C++: a memory class, aimbot math, triggerbots, bunnyhop, glow ESP, radar, FOV, offset dumping, and DLL injection. Kept as a record of how the techniques work; the game has since been replaced and the offsets are long dead.

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1. External memory class in C++: a ReadProcessMemory wrapper2019
2. Aimbot math from scratch in C++ (ep 1)2018
3. External triggerbot in C++ (ep 2)2018
4. Bunnyhop by reading the on-ground flag in C++ (ep 3)2018
5. Glow ESP by writing game memory in C++ (ep 4)2018
6. 2D radar from entity positions in C++ (ep 5)2018
7. FOV changer by writing one float (ep 6)2018
8. Dumping and updating offsets with Hazedumper2019
9. LoadLibrary DLL injection in C++ (injector tutorial)2021
10. Internal triggerbot in C++ (injected DLL)2020
11. Internal bunnyhop in C++ (injected DLL)2021

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5 lessons · 2018–2019 · C# · Handbook Part II

Legacy: Game Hacking in C#

The earliest series, in C#: a hack for any game, a console menu, memory scanning fundamentals, finding player coordinates for an ESP, and a look at the hacker, reseller, and paster scene of the time.

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1. Code a hack for any game in C# (#1)2018
2. Console hack menu in C# (#2)2018
3. Memory scanning fundamentals (#3)2018
4. Hackers, resellers and pasters: the game hacking meta (#4)2019
5. Finding player coordinates for an ESP (#5)2019

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1 lesson · 2023 · continues 2027 · Handbook Part VI

Kernel Development for Game Hacking

Setting up a kernel development VM, WinDbg, and a first driver. Episode 2 is on the calendar after the Pointer Lab series, and the anticheat chapter companion covers the other side of the same boundary.

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1. Kernel driver development for game hacking, ep 1: setup2023

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Every lesson is free and stays free. If you want the full treatment in one place, the Handbook covers the same ground in 44 chapters, and the forum is where questions about any lesson go.