Nowadays, many of us have mastered or gained a strong knowledge of Toontown's codebase in and out- but there was definitely a significant time period when people were only hitting the tip of the iceberg on understanding how Toontown worked in the backend. In retrospect with today, reviewing back what were the biggest feats at the time (Admin chat, Toon Bot/Autoers/Maxers, Bots, etc.) with much more knowledge with Python, Panda3D, and Toontown's codebase, it's honestly quite fascinating what people were able to accomplish without these public utilities and resources we now take for granted. Knowing someone from such a young age and still talking to them when you're now an adult/young adult, that's quite some time that's past! *If you're out there somewhere, Master Mouse, Master Frizzy, Huddles. Because you quite literally grew up with these people, in one way they *were* your childhood friends. Though, it's definitely a unique feeling to have when you've known someone in the Toontown community for almost half of your life - nearly a decade. Some leave and come back, others just move on with their life. I made a lot of friends during that time too, but out of the hundreds of people I've befriended (and rivaled), I have only seen a handful of them that currently remain in the community. (Actually, I'd list a lot more things here, but I'm going to keep it short to get the gist.) Guess you can say that Team Legend buttons and fast-dancing *can* really teach people a thing or two about how games work, generally speaking. Though, little did I know that these 'exploits' and 'scripts' would give me this strong and beaming aspiration to learn about inner game mechanics & development, computer science, and a dash of cybersecurity. I tried making my own "codes" by modifying others that I found from lists, but a lot of the time I ended up unable to move forward due to Python syntax - was too young to understand that, lol. I remember when people made 'lands' by loading in a bunch of models, that I would have a huge text file listing a bunch of unique models I could find from looking at a bunch of other's creations (I didn't know much about the phase files back then). Anyway, at this super young age, I didn't really know the full meaning of the codes I was pasting in or trying to modify. Unfortunately, many of the iconic videos I remember from back in the day are now unlisted and unarchived, so it's hard to relive some of the nostalgic moments of me watching some of these videos over and over again. I started playing around with the Toontown Injector when I was around 9 or 10 years old and even watched (and made) a hefty amount of Youtube videos based on this topic. I like telling this story to people inside and outside the community, regardless if they even know what "Toontown" is or about. In fact, that certain time period practically defined a major phase of my life I learned a lot, I experienced a lot, and I went through a lot at such a stupidly young age. Openly speaking about this, I use to be one of *those* people who spent a lot of time within Toontown Online's "hacking" scene- and boy, those times were quite memorable. On a side note I still play TTR and I wouldn't dare do anything against the ToS, I enjoy the game enough as it is :) I'm just hoping to find someone who use to delve into this stuff back in the day who I can look back and discuss it with and hopefully learn a thing or two from and I think it would also be quite nostalgic. I know there's a stigma against hacking so sorry to the moderators if this has to get taken down. 11 years later I'm quite proficient in software and no longer script kiddie-esque like when I was younger and I'm hoping to look back at all the code and exploits of TTO that used to fascinate me so much and just see if I can understand it and how they were done. I'm soon to be getting a computer science related degree now, and it was all the flashy exploits and codes back in the day with dll injectors etc that first inspired me to begin learning programming when I was just a kid. When I started playing about 11 years ago, I happened to also find the hacking community and I made alot of friends in it who have all since disappeared into the world. Firstly let me clarify while this seems malicious I'm asking solely this for educational and nostalgia purposes.
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