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Quiz Machine Question Database

Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2016 10:02 am
by mouswald_Rox@hotmail.com
Hi All,

I noticed that certain quiz machines load there games over windows. Where would one be able to access the list of questions within the game? would these be held in a text file on the hard disk or a database maybe? if so is it encrypted, or are all the questions hard coded in the program maybe? I am thinking of getting a paragon quiz machine to try and access these files, but don't want to if there is absolutely no point on trying!?

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated :)

J

Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2016 3:53 pm
by fatbloke
Good luck!!!!

Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2016 7:47 pm
by paragoon
Try James Bond? He's a trained spy so should be able to get the secret files you're looking to access.

Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2016 8:31 pm
by quizard
I would guess that Paragon's are encrypted. It's a bit late in the day if you have ideas of making money out of it anyway.

Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2016 10:15 pm
by JG
It's an approach that would have had some success in 1986, but thirty (Yikes! Jeepers! Wowsers!) yes thirty years have passed since then and from being swarthy, muscular and irresistible to all but the blindest of women, we are now fat, bald grey and mostly dead.
As Ali Campbell once sang, many rivers to cross and those rivers feature hazards such as encryption, autonomic spoilers, low floats, mental insolipotissinitude and high levels of competition.
In probably the nicest post he has ever done on here, I must echo fatbloke and say 'good luck, until we meet again'

Neigh.

Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2016 10:15 pm
by JG
It's an approach that would have had some success in 1986, but thirty (Yikes! Jeepers! Wowsers!) yes thirty years have passed since then and from being swarthy, muscular and irresistible to all but the blindest of women, we are now fat, bald grey and mostly dead.
As Ali Campbell once sang, many rivers to cross and those rivers feature hazards such as encryption, autonomic spoilers, low floats, mental insolipotissinitude and high levels of competition.
In probably the nicest post he has ever done on here, I must echo fatbloke and say 'good luck, until we meet again'

Neigh.

Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2016 10:16 pm
by JG
You may have noticed that I'm writing half as many words, as my postings are coming out twice.

Please bear with me in this period of postal instability.

Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2016 10:16 pm
by JG
You may have noticed that I'm writing half as many words, as my postings are coming out twice.

Please bear with me in this period of postal instability.

Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2016 11:26 pm
by HornyNick
JG. tbh most of your posts are, to me, bullshit. but this time i wet myself. well done sir.

Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2016 12:45 am
by JG
its a pleasure to have such a potent diuretic effect. I've been working on cutting out the bullshit for some time now, but it just comes so naturally to me.

Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2016 10:50 pm
by fatbloke
butts road

Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2016 11:32 pm
by Stubble
When you compile a binary file, especially a simple game such as most of the ones on the Paragon lineup, you include all the necessary sources and libraries and are left with an executable with no readable information. Before you waste your time buying a Paragon, have a look on Fruit-Emu and try and pull text out of any of the files there. Not impossible, but hardly worth the effort.

Posted: Tue May 03, 2016 8:53 am
by mouswald_Rox@hotmail.com
Stubble wrote:When you compile a binary file, especially a simple game such as most of the ones on the Paragon lineup, you include all the necessary sources and libraries and are left with an executable with no readable information. Before you waste your time buying a Paragon, have a look on Fruit-Emu and try and pull text out of any of the files there. Not impossible, but hardly worth the effort.

Thanks, with the exe, is it still not likely that questions and answers will be on a separate file that the complied source will read or would this file also be built into the exe. could you decompile the exe to get it?