Is anyone interested in producing an infinite money cheat for SP?

[talkol]

I've heard of various exploits for getting tons of money (like the repeatable 12k briefcase). These all take time and effort - I'm talking about a method of getting infinite amount of money in SP in 30 seconds of work (for the player).

 

The idea:

 

I believe the key lies in the BAWSAQ stock market because it's external to your game.

 

Since it's a community market, your game goes to a R* server and asks for the stock prices. If we intercept this request and reply a low value of all stocks (like $0.01) you could buy a ton of them and pay virtually nothing.

 

Then we disconnect our fake market and sell these stocks in real value, generating well over a 1000000% profit ($100K -> $1B)

 

Doing this will require research and I give it about 50% chances of being possible. Since it influences SP only, I have a feeling R* would not go into the trouble of encrypting the BAWSAQ and protecting it.. These protections are normally directed at MP to keep the game balanced. But here, who cares?

 

So, how would this go technically:

 

1. I've confirmed that BAWSAQ only works if you have network connectivity, meaning the data is coming from the cloud.

 

2. I've connected my PS3 to the internet through my home laptop so I could inspect all of the traffic. Then I've captured it using a tool called WireShark (a network sniffer).

 

This generated about 600Kb if traffic. Most of which is irrelevant. The current step is research - sift through the .cap files and analyze the network requests - in efforts of locating the BAWSAQ request.

 

3. I've only looked at the data for about 30mins.. What I've been able to see is some good news and some bad news.

 

The good:

 

The requests seem to be simple HTTP requests made to the R* cloud service. They're not encrypted with SSL so you can see the URLs requested and they have meaningful names like GetStats.asmx

 

They are all .asmx requests which means the R* service is implemented in C# and ?Net. Also, the content type is XML. These are all good indicators that this should be possible.

 

The bad:

 

The payloads themselves for the XML are binary.. Meaning I wasn't able to read them. I don't know if this is encryption or compression. I suspect the latter because it's easier to encrypt the entire request (why encrypt just the payload). So now the harder part is figuring out how to change the XML content and lower the prices.

 

4. Assuming this is possible and we figure out the binary XML payload format and able to generate our own, here is what can be done to provide this cheat to anyone else:

 

A. We would write a simple DNS server that will respond with our own servers IP address instead of R*. Anyone could go into their PS3 or XBOX network settings and put in this custom DNS server. This will cause all asmx requests to be sent to our server.

 

B. We would implement a simple HTTP server that will examine which URL is requested. If it's not the BAWSAQ URL, it will proxy to R* original server. If it is BAWSAQ it will respond with our carefully crafted $0.01 prices XML.

 

C. To return the prices to normal, you would only have to reset your DNS settings to normal (after buying all the stocks of course).

 

SUMMARY:

 

This is not trivial as you can see, but maybe possible (the only unknown is step #3).

 

Is it worth the effort and is anyone interested in helping out? I don't have much free time and I can't do the whole thing alone.

[CarimboHanky]

one thing is a money glitch, other thing is kinda trying to mess with server info... evenknow its a game that still a punishable crime.

 

jail is not worth the risk for couple virtual millions

 

after all how fun would the game be if you dont have to hustle either on the street or in the bawsaq/lcn to earn money to buy properties and stuff... money cheats are pointless and take away the fun in games!

Edited October 12, 2013 by CarimboHanky

[talkol]

I don't think this would be considered a crime..

 

Remember, you are only influencing your own game, this is an SP only cheat. I don't see how it's much different than editing your own saved game.

 

Also, for R* to frown on this stock manipulation would be kinda hilarious. Your characters f**king assassinate others to influence stock prices in game..

[CarimboHanky]

im sure is not the same to influence the market by doing some scripted mission that to manipulate the market this way.

[Kifllom]

if it is only for single player solo , create another profile an account and edit your save file with the tool on pc to give yourself the amount of money that you want , don't bother breaking into a game feature that might just create alot more problem

[talkol]

if it is only for single player solo , create another profile an account and edit your save file with the tool on pc to give yourself the amount of money that you want , don't bother breaking into a game feature that might just create alot more problem

I'm not aware of a tool that edits ps3 saved games for gta 5

[Kifllom]

google is not your friend then

[talkol]

google is not your friend then

I have seen a bunch of these advertised but always dismissed them as money grabbing scams.

 

Are you aware of a respectable tool that's free?

 

This could also be another jetpack direction maybe instead of unlocking it, we can enable it in save. I'll be happy to research that..

[CAPZlock]

Isnt this the plot from the movie Office Space? Lol

[F1REFLY9145]

I have 1.6 billion for all 3 characters don't see the reason for infinite money. since I don't see myself spending 1.6 billion in the game. even after buying all the properties and clothes and online cars.