Recently, while searching for a game to join, found a game called "Zynastors Crash RPG". When I joined the game, I immediately crashed. I did not go to the lobby (i don't think; no visuals), I just crashed.

Some people in op SEN briefly explained it, but I'm still confused. (they said something about stacked strings after the game title [buffer overflow?]) Exactly what made me crash?

You actually crashed when you clicked the map at all on the list, because the title of the map overflowed the maximum through some hack, it's not the map doing it, SC wouldn't be able to host such a map, it's a hack modifying the name after it's hosted, and so when you click it you crash due to the long map name.

There was a game called Temple Siege that did the same a little while ago.

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DM Said if you type in the name and hold space for like half an hour until you fill it up with spaces. Give or take a couple of spaces and it's possible to get in, he claimed. Who cares

There is 2 different methods, the first method I just used long game names with a lot of spaces, you can pretty much just fill it with whatever tho instead of spaces. The second method I have been using long map names and I have made the game unjoinable, which is also possible to do with long game names to stop people joining.


That was probably me, I was doing that a few days ago.

wait a second... why are you doing that?

Because it's hilarious to cause chaos. Why else? You should check out the chat log he posted on GameThreat with all the stuff people said to him while he was hosting it


Yeah, problem with the first method was a simple memory scan could find the right number of spaces, allowing people to get in.

My only question, Zynastor, if you look at this thread again, is whether the map was actually made with such a long name, or did you change the map name after already hosting it to allow yourself to begin hosting in the first place?

Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Jan 5 2010, 5:02 pm by Falkoner.

1) When you say "game name" is that map name? or the name you make when you host the map? About how many spaces will do this? Isn't there a max limit on characters? or are spaces not affected by the limit? This makes the game unjoinable along with crashing the players?
2) How long is a long map name? Is the "map name" the file name? or the map title?


I'm really intrested in this so I can crash some stalkers that have been following me around, dropping people in game, or in lobby.

Game name is the name when you host it, it can't be done manually, at the very least you need to edit SC's memory to change the titles, the map name is the map title, because the file name doesn't show up when you click it, the map name does, and that's what crashes it, you can find the max length by doing a memory scan for a title and seeing the length of the array.

So, does anyone know if Zynastor's Crash RPG is any better than the others?

Because people will whisper funny things to you. It's for kicks of course. Starcraft is a game.

There are methods for crashing people after they've joined the game too.

I'm reviving this topic since I think that this crash is the same as the other in this topic, although I'm not 100% sure.



Is this spoofing the game name? The name on the list is "Allah@useast>you" but on the side, you can see some numbers"......606."
There also appears to be the same game name twice (on the game list).

Same method, same thing.