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schlumpf:
Usage scenario
For the purpose of patching binaries like wow.exe, it is useful to have tools accepting a pattern with wildcards and data to put where the pattern was found.

For example, you may want to change the first occurrence of "f*o" to start with "b" in the data "barf0obaz".

To do so, you would create the binary pattern "66 ?? 6f", which equals to "f*o". You then want to replace that with "62", which equals "b".

By applying that pattern replacement, you end up with "barb0obaz".

With this tool, you can easily do that.

Technical information
The tool is written in C++11 and uses CMake to setup project files. It makes heavy usage of lambdas.

Downloads

--- Quote from: stoneharry on January 13, 2019, 04:19:20 pm ---I recompiled this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/f1nqxp26bw9keyg/binary_pattern_replace.zip?dl=0

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* Source (hosted on bitbucket)
* Mac OSX binary (compiled on El Capitan)
* Windows binary (compiled on Windows 7, by Mjollna)
Some patterns
Allow local files (Forget MPQ: don't pack anymore)

* Windows (tested on 12340): "E8 ?? ?? ?? ?? 6A 00 E8 ?? ?? ?? ?? 6A 02" "90 90 90 90 90 6A FF"
* OSX (tested on 15464, 15689): "E8 ?? ?? ?? ?? C7 04 24 00 00 00 00 E8 ?? ?? ?? ?? C7 04 24 02 00 00 00" "90 90 90 90 90 C7 04 24 FF FF FF FF"Allow badly signed MPQs to be loaded (Sending Patches To The Client Through The WoW App)

* Windows (tested on 12340): "55 8b ec 8b 45 1c 8b 4d 18 8b 55 14 53 68 ?? ?? ?? ??" "55 8b ec b9 05 00 00 00 8b 45 0c 89 08 b8 01 00 00 00 5d c2 18 00"
* OSX (tested on 15689): "C7 44 24 18 ?? ?? ?? ?? 8b 45 1c 89 44 24 14 8b 45 18" "b9 05 00 00 00 8b 55 0c 89 0a b8 01 00 00 00 c9 c3"

schlumpf:
Allow badly signed MPQs to be loaded Windows:
find:       55 8b ec 8b 45 1c 8b 4d 18 8b 55 14 53 68 ?? ?? ?? ??
replace with:    55 8b ec b9 05 00 00 00 8b 45 0c 89 08 b8 01 00 00 00 5d c2 18 00

funnybunny:
awesome work schlumpf :D

TheBuG:
I tried getting it, the loading of local files that is, to work for MoP (Retail) on Windows. Your binary replacement tools says it succesfully replaced the pattern, I dumped my files in the Data folder, but nothing happens. Did they change the folder structure for MoP?

akspa420:

--- Quote from: "TheBuG" ---I tried getting it, the loading of local files that is, to work for MoP (Retail) on Windows. Your binary replacement tools says it succesfully replaced the pattern, I dumped my files in the Data folder, but nothing happens. Did they change the folder structure for MoP?
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Let's say you have map files to load - don't dump them in the Data subfolder, but in <WOWDIR>WorldMaps<mapname>

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