packet sniffing vs memory viewing

[vapor rub]

i have been researching methods for making a showeq type program and was kind of wondering about the pros and cons of packet sniffing and memory viewing to get the information about objects around a character.

any thoughts?

[bonkersbobcat]

i have been researching methods for making a showeq type program and was kind of wondering about the pros and cons of packet sniffing and memory viewing to get the information about objects around a character.

any thoughts?

There has been some discussion of this in the past, so you might want to look back in the history of these boards (with search.)

Quickly though, the advantage of packet sniffing is that there is no way Sony can detect that you are doing. It is completely passive and can't be detected.

The advantage of memory sniffing is that the native client will do all of the network protocol decryption and interpretation and all you have to do is find the locations in memory that contain the "interesting" information.

ShowEQ uses the network sniffing approach. MySEQ (a different project) uses the memory sniffing approach.

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