If there was a tool to unlock Darksiders II online trophy, would you use it?

[PostalDudeRus]

Sorry for bad English, next is copypast from different forum. I made new topic because this one was closed.

 

Long story short, about 1-1,5 years ago I was working on a Darksiders II master server emulator (if you ever heard about GoneSpy, it's pretty much same thing) which would allow players to unlock DS2 online trophy without any hacks, CFW or something like that. But project has been abandoned due to lack of knowledge and skills how to pass some problems I end up dealing with so I just gave up, but saved all my files and results.

 

So, I am writing this because now I have found partner who is much-much more experienced in reverse-engineering than I am and he agreed to help me finish my work BUT he asked me to make some posts or topic on trophy hunting communities if it's gonna be helpful or should I say "useful" to community, because otherwise he is not gonna take part in it (and me too, because we both busy with other projects nowadays). Please, response will it found use to trophy hunters.

 

P.S. Please don't get hyped or anything, there are chances it would be impossible to make tool like this, but I can't speak for now for sure. Thank you for attention.

Edited August 12, 2021 by PostalDudeRus

[You]

Wouldn't popping the trophy just get you banned off the site for cheating?

[xZoneHunter]

59 minutes ago, enaysoft said:

Wouldn't popping the trophy just get you banned off the site for cheating?

 

Not if you get it in a "legit" way (or in other words approved by the community)

A couple examples to compare:

- Using software to get digital games on vers 1.00

- Using gonespy as OP mentioned

[ZandatsuRising]

If the servers are down for good and the only way to get them were "cheating" then it should be allowed. For  me it is kind of a Grey Zone

[B1rvine]

1 hour ago, enaysoft said:

Wouldn't popping the trophy just get you banned off the site for cheating?

 

There's specific requirements that need to be met before this type of stuff is allowed; mainly that the source code's available, and that the trophy needs to be earned by doing the original requirements in-game.

 

Edited August 12, 2021 by B1rvine

[NamoPh]

It's currently the only game with unobtainable trophies on my main profile, so if it got approved I probably would.

 

My question is, I recall this game used to have an online "crucible" pass, would this feature be accessible with a used copy of the game?

[Shadiochao]

1 hour ago, NamoPh said:

My question is, I recall this game used to have an online "crucible" pass, would this feature be accessible with a used copy of the game?

 

Yeah, anyone could get this trophy. The crucible pass was for some single player combat arena thing, although that still had trophies of its own.

[Otonio_Bruno]

I'd definitely use it IF it was approved by Cheater Removal Team as B1rvine already pointed out the requirements. I mean I'd love to get rid of unobtainable in my profile, but at the same I don't to get flagged.

 

Anyhow, thank you very much for this project, even if it leads nowhere. This kind of effort is really appreciated.

[Pottercito_]

Thank you so much. I really apprecciate it :))

[Steven-Spiegel]

I wish you luck. I used in the past the gonespy solution for Bulletstorm PS3 and I hope I can finally finish Darksiders II too.

 

Seems more complex with Darksiders II but I hope that you can do it!

[StormJero]

If it's not considered cheating, then yeah i'd absolutely use it.

[Minxx-de]

I would use it to get this trophy! 

[PhoenixIKN]

As someone who obsesses over completing series including stacks I would very much use it if it's approved by the Cheater Removal team. 

[deadpoolfan01]

What a coincidence!  Working through my backlog, grumbling about this unachievable plat and see your post.  I would love it if there was a free, legal way to do this!  It's not so important to me that I would throw money at it but it would be nice to get at least one of these unachievable games off my list.  

 

 

Edited October 6, 2021 by deadpoolfan01

[Otonio_Bruno]

@PostalDudeRus Hi. Some months have passed since your initial post and I would love to know if the responses here stimulated your friend to continue the project or not. Thanks in advance for reaching out in this community, I'd love to help if I also had enough experience with reverse-engineering game coding, but alas I'm just an amateur at coding.

[Gabalus]

This would be great!

[PostalDudeRus]

On 04.12.2021 at 9:30 AM, Otonio_Bruno said:

@PostalDudeRus Hi. Some months have passed since your initial post and I would love to know if the responses here stimulated your friend to continue the project or not. Thanks in advance for reaching out in this community, I'd love to help if I also had enough experience with reverse-engineering game coding, but alas I'm just an amateur at coding.

 

So sorry for such a late response, I do visit this forum sometimes, but more rarely with each day, I just saw this topic because of bump. So, long story short, we did some progress but we abandoned project due to poor community response, I've made reddit and topic here and gave links to my partner (who was leading project, he is mastermind in reverse-engineering and done/doing very complex things with game engines, my role was network coding). He refused to continue because he involved in different profitable and more interesting projects atm, me currently working in music producing, we still in contact, but again, he have no interest in helping me if he got nothing else to do atm (and he is). What we managed to do:

- We found out public key of certificate, when connection establishes between client and server. We found out what domains game trying to reach when trying to establish connection and we were about to make simple software that "catches" game requests and sends some dummy info in return, but that was hardest part. We did everything on original PC version, but after running some reverse-engineer test we also did find that same game build were compiled for different consoles, so if we would spend couple of month on this project we probably could make "master server emulator".

WE MIGHT return to it one day, but I can't promise anything beyond that.

[titanplatine]

17 minutes ago, PostalDudeRus said:

 

So sorry for such a late response, I do visit this forum sometimes, but more rarely with each day, I just saw this topic because of bump. So, long story short, we did some progress but we abandoned project due to poor community response, I've made reddit and topic here and gave links to my partner (who was leading project, he is mastermind in reverse-engineering and done/doing very complex things with game engines, my role was network coding). He refused to continue because he involved in different profitable and more interesting projects atm, me currently working in music producing, we still in contact, but again, he have no interest in helping me if he got nothing else to do atm (and he is). What we managed to do:

- We found out public key of certificate, when connection establishes between client and server. We found out what domains game trying to reach when trying to establish connection and we were about to make simple software that "catches" game requests and sends some dummy info in return, but that was hardest part. We did everything on original PC version, but after running some reverse-engineer test we also did find that same game build were compiled for different consoles, so if we would spend couple of month on this project we probably could make "master server emulator".

WE MIGHT return to it one day, but I can't promise anything beyond that.

hi thanks for the update and working on that, i was wondering where did you learn to do that and where someone should start in order to learn doing that kind of thing ?

[Hysteria]

What’s really make me angry , the one who wrote the guide & anyone will write a guide you know for sure that the guide meant for trophies hunters & never tag online trophies in the guide & bingo the game axed cuz you thought you can get in offline mode & that’s why I relay on Xbox achievements guide , guess what? cuz it’s better.

[Prometheous101]

If its a 3rd party server I am pretty sure at least some people would go for it. Especially completionists that have ps3 version on their profile.
If the trophy can be done legit with this 3rd party server and the code is free for everyone to see - mostly PSNP mods to approve that no trophies can be autopopped with it.
 

[Ultraxian]

Wouldn't it be the same as those servers for warhawk and other games with shutdown servers? Plus wouldn't you get banned for having unlockable trophies after the shutdown date.

Edited June 1, 2022 by Ultraxian

[Otonio_Bruno]

7 hours ago, PostalDudeRus said:

 

So sorry for such a late response, I do visit this forum sometimes, but more rarely with each day, I just saw this topic because of bump. So, long story short, we did some progress but we abandoned project due to poor community response, I've made reddit and topic here and gave links to my partner (who was leading project, he is mastermind in reverse-engineering and done/doing very complex things with game engines, my role was network coding). He refused to continue because he involved in different profitable and more interesting projects atm, me currently working in music producing, we still in contact, but again, he have no interest in helping me if he got nothing else to do atm (and he is). What we managed to do:

- We found out public key of certificate, when connection establishes between client and server. We found out what domains game trying to reach when trying to establish connection and we were about to make simple software that "catches" game requests and sends some dummy info in return, but that was hardest part. We did everything on original PC version, but after running some reverse-engineer test we also did find that same game build were compiled for different consoles, so if we would spend couple of month on this project we probably could make "master server emulator".

WE MIGHT return to it one day, but I can't promise anything beyond that.

 

Thank you for answering me back, very kind of you. I totally understand you and your partner have other priorities and didn't pursue this project due to lack of much interest by players.

Also very nice to read what progress you made even the project itself doesn't go further, it's nice to read updates.

 

Finally, I will still be keeping an eye on this in any case you and your partner decide to come back to this.

 

Have a great day!

[Joey-_-1999]

I hope that someday in the near future OP and their partner will manage to make this trophy achievable again. I really love this series and hope I can finally have this plat!! I wonder if there was an organized petition for this emulator server would that be like the spark you guys needed to make this work? Will keep an eye out for further posts on this ray of hope of forum

[Hysteria]

I just got it by mistake long time ago without even realizing that’s even an online trophy.

[LifeIsSenseless]

On 01/06/2022 at 0:17 PM, PostalDudeRus said:

 

So sorry for such a late response, I do visit this forum sometimes, but more rarely with each day, I just saw this topic because of bump. So, long story short, we did some progress but we abandoned project due to poor community response, I've made reddit and topic here and gave links to my partner (who was leading project, he is mastermind in reverse-engineering and done/doing very complex things with game engines, my role was network coding). He refused to continue because he involved in different profitable and more interesting projects atm, me currently working in music producing, we still in contact, but again, he have no interest in helping me if he got nothing else to do atm (and he is). What we managed to do:

- We found out public key of certificate, when connection establishes between client and server. We found out what domains game trying to reach when trying to establish connection and we were about to make simple software that "catches" game requests and sends some dummy info in return, but that was hardest part. We did everything on original PC version, but after running some reverse-engineer test we also did find that same game build were compiled for different consoles, so if we would spend couple of month on this project we probably could make "master server emulator".

WE MIGHT return to it one day, but I can't promise anything beyond that.

Hey man,

 

I would totally use that if the mods here approve it to be a legit method! Big thanks for working on it at all and I understand that it isnt the most pressing matter you have at the moment :D. Let us know whether you work on it some more and what you achieved. I would gladly listen to your progress! All the best to you, thanks for giving us some hope ;).

 

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