misc

Pokemon

solved by : chronocruz.exe

• Using gbgw64 Gameboy emulator
• Load up the provided pokemon ROM
• Start the game
• Continue to tall grasses towards north after exiting your house
• Professor Oak will stop you saying its dangerous to go without a pokemon
• Then he will take you to his lab and give a choice between three pokeballs
• Left most = Charmander
• Middle = Squirtle
• Right most = Bulbasaur
• (Not that these choices matter anyway)

• Soon as you pick your pokemon your rival will choose his pokeball and no matter which one he choses he will get a Mewtwo, which is basically the strongest pokemon in this game. And it is level 50 to further salt your wounds.

• Simple way to win, find the cheat menu within your gameboy emulator
• (In gbgw64 you just right click and there it is)
• Add the following codes
• 01FF16D0 - Unlimited HP so you don’t die
• 0170E9CF - Enemy can’t attack and is hurt every turn with a burn status effect
• Patiently keep attacking your enemy till his health drops to zero and you get the following screen.

• Congratulations, you’re the best pokemon trainer (not really).

Cast_Away

solved by : chronocruz.exe

• We are provided with Minecraft world data.
• Extract the files and now we need a tool called the NBT Explorer which can be used to read Minecraft’s proprietary Named Binary Tag (NBT) file format.
• Now the description says three players ran off with the flag.

• So the flag must be split between the three players.

• Opening the first file in playerdata folder we get

• Further expanding and studying the tree we find

• The value of EnderItems > tag > display > Name seems to be the end part of a flag. Note this value down.

• Repeating the process for the next playerdata file

• This time we find a flag like string in Inventory > tag > pages

• For the third playerdata however :

  • There was no relevant information directly visible in the data.
  • Looking at the coordinates of the player we find

• Using the Search > Chunk Finder function

• We input X and Z coordinates but I was unable to find the exact chunk/block values.

• Moving onto a second tool called Universal Minecraft Editor which a wonderful tool available for free at https://www.universalminecrafteditor.com/

• We load the minecraft world data into this tool and using the chunk locator input X and Z coordinates

• We see there is a sign post within the chunk we located.
• Opening this chunk reveals the in-game objects within this region and their attributes

• We clearly see the value of Text2 looks like the beginning of our string
• Concatenating the three parts we get the full string that is our flag

WPI{zaQa4ttIyNo}