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Anyone currently digging into the MapleStory World internals? I've been messing with the engine and finally got a decent workflow going, but I've hit a bit of a crossroads regarding the architecture of the automation script.
Current Progress:
Right now, I've got the data collection side sorted. Using il2cpp, I've successfully mapped out coordinates, monster structures, and item metadata. This is all being fed into a LuaScript wrapper to handle the actual hunting logic and auto-purchasing. It works, but it feels like I'm fighting the engine instead of riding it.
The Technical Wall:
I started poking around xlua.dll and ran into some heavy obfuscation. I've managed to de-obfuscate a few key functions and pull the offsets, but I'm debating the best way to move forward.
In my experience with Unity-based MMOs, bypassing the Lua bridge is often safer, but it's a hell of a lot more work to maintain when the game updates. Reversing the obfuscated functions in xlua.dll gave me a clearer picture of how the game handles event-driven actions like looting, which is much more efficient than just polling memory addresses via il2cpp.
Who else is poking at MSW's xlua implementation?
Current Progress:
Right now, I've got the data collection side sorted. Using il2cpp, I've successfully mapped out coordinates, monster structures, and item metadata. This is all being fed into a LuaScript wrapper to handle the actual hunting logic and auto-purchasing. It works, but it feels like I'm fighting the engine instead of riding it.
The Technical Wall:
I started poking around xlua.dll and ran into some heavy obfuscation. I've managed to de-obfuscate a few key functions and pull the offsets, but I'm debating the best way to move forward.
- Should I keep hammering at the il2cpp layer for state management and world data?
- Or is it cleaner to hook directly into the xlua bridge since the game seems to rely on it for high-level script execution?
- The obfuscation in the dll suggests they're trying to hide the bridge's dispatch mechanism specifically to stop us from hijacking the game's own Lua calls.
In my experience with Unity-based MMOs, bypassing the Lua bridge is often safer, but it's a hell of a lot more work to maintain when the game updates. Reversing the obfuscated functions in xlua.dll gave me a clearer picture of how the game handles event-driven actions like looting, which is much more efficient than just polling memory addresses via il2cpp.
The xlua functions often wrap the il2cpp calls. If you can bridge the two, you get the best of both worlds: the stability of memory-based coordinates and the power of the game's internal script triggers.
Who else is poking at MSW's xlua implementation?
