Original RobotRage 2 Training mode working

Some of you might know, but I wanted to let you all know, that some time ago @Karthor from out Discord server managed to force original client to connect to his "server", that allowed him to enter training mode.

The "server" only responds with what the client expects, in other words it's dumb as a rock, just echoing what the real server would say.
The main issue with doing anything with this client are bots checksums (probably MD5) that block us from changing anything on any bot. It's probably some combination of the data below, however I couldn't break it, and I don't want to spend any more time on it (still A LOT of work on Reborn left).

Code:

[#checksum: "1b2bed513d3f0ca0b975b7fd2f237ef5", #status: 0, #propertylist:[#robotDescription: [#ram: [], #torn: [], #hjul: [], #motor: [], #batteri: [], #vapen: [], #wpnPos: [], #special: [], #ammunition: []], #inventory: [], #money: 671, #space: 100, #spaceleft: 10, #maxSpeed: 40, #pansar: 0, #info1: 441, #saveMap: 0, #soldweapons: [#v1]],#Friendslist:[],#RobotName:"DaFDestructor",#Score:0,#UserLibName:"",#GameStats:[#win:0,#lose:0,#draw:0]]

You can play with it here: old.robotrage.pro

and also download whole thing to your PC: old.robotrage.pro/dl.zip

Also tried to decompile/unpack DCRs with tool called offzip, to maybe get some insight what's used to generate the hash, however I didn't really get anything useful from it, other than some config file.

Have fun

Does the code always resets to the one provided here?

I have some old checksums randomly saved, but I need to edit the propertylist, can you potentially add this to the server?

EDIT:
Ok, here is what I got

Code:

"[#checksum: "b37327ac4c4d3fc0673958cf39c2cc82", #status: 0, #propertylist:[#robotDescription: [#ram: [#r2], #torn: [#t3], #hjul: [#h4], #motor: [#mb1], #batteri: [#b3, #b3], #vapen: [#v35, v31, v37], #wpnPos: [#f, #b, #s], #special: [], #ammunition: []], #inventory: [#v7, #v7, #v17, #b1, #h5, #v14, #v23, #b2, #b2, #v6, #t1, #v8, #r1, #v16, #v33, #v1, #mb3, #h1, #v15, #v26, #v21, #v2, #v12, #mb2, #r3, #v32, #v3, #v24, #v9, #v22, #v14, #v36, #v34, #v25, #v4], #money: 87310, #space: 100, #spaceleft: 10, #maxSpeed: 40, #pansar: 208, #info1: -86198, #saveMap: 0, #soldweapons: [#b3]],#Friendslist:[],#RobotName:"DaFDestructor",#Score:0,#UserLibName:"",#GameStats:[#win:0,#lose:0,#draw:0]]"

Don't know if encoded properly, can you try adding this?

EDIT2:

the code expanded too much lol:

I could just edit all the necesary files and send them back and hope it works...

The code that you posted gives "Bad shit!" error in client (it literary prints that), which means checksum is incorrect. Did you change the bot name to "DaFDestructor" there? Well, if you did, you broke it, as name is included in checksum calculation


Also the url you gave is commented out, so it does nothing. Use Notepad++ to edit, it's much easier to read as it has syntax highlighting. And green=comment.

Heh ok, I was literally editing that code from virtual machine, so then checkums should stay the same, everything else is related to robot setup. Or are you implying setup is encoded in checksum as well?
If it is then can't we just generate 3rd robot with the checskum I posted, I know the robotname for that one.

Checksum probably describes all other parameters, so all params must be exactly the same as the ones checksum was calculated for.

I managed to find 4 files with 'checksum','Checksum','md5', or 'MD5' mentioned in them using a custom crawler on the decompressed dcr files.

Notes on ../lobby060/00000839.dat:

Notes on ../arena106/00000dde.dat:

Notes on ../login013/00000661.dat:

Notes on ../robotwars/00000aab.dat:

Notes on ../factory0604/00001044.dat:

I can't dedicate any more time to looking at stuff at the moment, but I will probably look into it more later.

For what its worth, I think I found one of the creators of RR, Magnus Sannerud. His name was in a lot of the code. I also checked his linked in and he lists 'Systems Developer' at 'Raketspel AB' in his work experience.

Also looks like these files were made using Director 8.5

TLDR; I found some interesting files and possible leads, but nothing that tells us how the checksum is calculated.

Just so you guys know, you don't need Internet Explorer to run old RR, you just need an older version of any browser that supported adobe shockwave player in the past...
Here is 1 version I re-hosted:
http://192.168.8.151/chrome_installer_10.0.648.205.exe

thats a localhost IP, but I would be interested in testing out an older browser on my linux machine to see if still works.

eh I am still figuring this out, gotta forward port, own server worth the time... I am not sure Adobe shockwave ever had linux support, MAC OS should work, good luck

http://www.oldversion.com/linux/
http://www.oldversion.com/windows/google-chrome-10-0-648-205-1

Have to dig deep, for em old files that have not been lost:

Code:

action=setrobot&proplist=%5b%23robotDescription%3a+%5b%23ram%3a+%5b%23r3%5d,+%23torn%3a+%5b%23t3%5d,+%23hjul%3a+%5b%23h5%5d,+%23motor%3a+%5b%23mb1%5d,+%23batteri%3a+%5b%23b3,+%23b3%5d,+%23vapen%3a+%5b%23v9,+%23v1,+%23v3,+%23v37%5d,+%23wpnPos%3a+%5b%23f,+%23b,+%23t,+%23s%5d,+%23special%3a+%5b%5d,+%23ammunition%3a+%5b%5d%5d,+%23inventory%3a+%5b%23v1,+%23v4,+%23v16,+%23v17,+%23v32,+%23v33,+%23v7,+%23v1,+%23v13,+%23v15,+%23v36,+%23mb1,+%23r1,+%23v35,+%23v14,+%23v32,+%23v21,+%23v26,+%23mb3,+%23v31,+%23v34,+%23v9,+%23v37,+%23v3,+%23v24,+%23v11,+%23v1%5d,+%23money%3a+16000,+%23space%3a+100,+%23spaceleft%3a+10,+%23maxSpeed%3a+40,+%23pansar%3a+249,+%23info1%3a+-14888,+%23saveMap%3a+0,+%23soldweapons%3a+%5b%23v9,+%23v9%5d,+%23hacker%3a+1%5d&robotid=25352312&robotname=Made+In+China%99&sessionid=%7bC27DA2D8-BBF8-48F8-8821-C1BBB55292A7%7d

Code:

Content: action=setrobotscore&user1id=zZz&user2id=yYy&winner=zZz&checksum=xXx&robotid=zZz
var xXx: 1324

Code:

for a draw no winner
action=setrobotscore&user1id=zZz&user2id=yYy&winner=0&checksum=xXx&robotid=zZz
var xXx = 507

Code:

action=getmyrobots&sessionid=%7b1BCDDC2E-91F9-47A2-87CD-E5FF83454372%7d&uniquecode=&uniquetick=344568730&UC=44213

Code:

action=createrobot&robotname=IMA+NOOB&sessionid=%7b1BCDDC2E-91F9-47A2-87CD-E5FF83454372%7d&uniquecode=&uniquetick=344563490&UC=98650