The infamous PIN cracker first came to scene at this version of GMS. The PIN is a security measure that was put upon all users since v0.12 at 11/16/05 that followed the User ID and the password after logging in. I don't think it was a way to protect your account better since there's a crack like this. It's more of a buffer before the hacker gets to your valuables. You would have to work hard to get a person's User ID and password in order for this cracker to be useful for you.
In other terms, the PIN cracker was more of a macro as it automatically does the cracking task for you instead of manually doing it. Here is a demo of the PIN cracker.
Credits to pincrackerdude. 8/4/07
This Calls For A New Scam
I've seen people offering services to help PIN crack accounts if the person gives them their account info. Well sure it's a good thing this macro will find your PIN, but your items won't be in safe hands. You probably won't get your account back.
12/08/2006
A UCE (Undetected Cheat Engine) called Zenx is out for MPCForums. It basically mimics the original CE program.
A client-sided clothes hack was out for fun though it serves no purpose what-so-ever. It makes you look better but other people in the game can't see your new clothes.
A new vac came out called dEMI Vac. It locates the point where the character is standing and drags monsters to you. But it doesn't literally drags. After you kill the mob, you get to loot at the same spot.
Hacking during 2006 wasn't as popular as now. There's hardly to document. But here are the summaries of the versions instead.
v0.21 - 4/4/2006
The beginning of vac-hacking?
Skip to 0:27 to see the action and 0:40 as proof of the version. 4/12/06
v0.23 - 5/2/2006
The Zakum patch was up and running. At this era, only Zakum was the powerful boss in Maplestory. There is a series of quests that need to be completed for every player before battling it.
The pre-quests:
Collecting document pieces from a series of maps.
Maplestory's nearly impossible jump quest at this era.
Collecting golden teeth to make the Eye of Fire as a pass to get into the battlefield of Zakum.
Would there be any exploits to this? Possibly. Continue reading.
Modification of the game's physics (jumping, falling, etc)
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~Exploiting Zakum's Jump Quest
The quest awards you 15k experience for completing every time and had no limits to how many times you can do it. Which one of the hacks you think was suitable for massively gaining 15k experience per [short time]? That's right, the fly hack. At a daily rate, you could gain unthinkable levels by doing this. Keep in mind that in this era, training/grinding was boring and slow.
~Exploiting Other Jump Quests
I'm pretty sure if you knew how to fly hack on one jump quest, you knew how to do it for all! Here are all the other jump quests that may have been hacked on:
Kerning City Shumi's JQ Line
Lith Harbor John's JQ Line
Sleepywood Sabitrama's JQ Line
Ludibrium Assistant Cheng's JQ
A reason why the quest lines were abused was because they were repeatable and gave ores as rewards. Ores could be used as profit or making equips.
v0.28 - 8/16/2006
An interesting program I found helpful and convenient was called DXWND. It can make a full screen game into window mode. In this era, the game was only able to be played full screen. By making the game in window mode, it allows hackers to easily access their CE and activate hacks. Earliest date of adopting DXWND into the Maple community was 8/23/06.
NNF is a well-known person in the hacking community as well as Scania. People witnessed him vaccing and botting as said in the forums. He contributed to the community by submitting his own AC. Rumors had it that he made other hacks as well, such as the Free Market Switcher (find 'Rache').
A couple days after v0.24 was released, people experienced a disconnection problem with the Sleepywood Sauna. Some claimed that the female NPC receptionist was missing and that's what made them d/c. Many people said that this 'glitch' that's happening was from NNF. By using an advanced vacuum hack, he vacced NPCs into the lobby map and when players enter this specific map, it causes the game to overload and crashes. There wasn't any said list of NPCs except the female receptionist. Only a very few channels work in every world, but it changes irregularly over time. A chain of failed server checks follow-up this problem and not until the next version did this problem get resolved.
Some say NNF did this to wreak havoc on the game because he was tired of noobs leeching off hacks from hacking communities. He successfully brought the fall of all hacks and bypasses after the next version of the game was up...but not for long.
March 1, 2006 marks the day where the new town Ludibrium is opened. There's a PQ in the town for player levels 35-50. Again, the same struggle from KPQ had spread to this PQ as well. Players had 1 hour to complete the PQ. So if the party leader has an auto-clicker, you're in luck to leveling faster.
Kerning City Party Quest Competitiveness & The First Botting
Ever since I played GMS in the summer of 2005, the K.P.Q. (Kerning Party Quest) had been out ever since. The game was v0.09. Since the PQ was a quick way to train your levels from 21 to 31, it was crowded and only 1 party per channel can participate at a time. Party leaders had to be awake and aware of tracking the party members' progress that were inside the PQ and as soon as they come out, he/she will spam their clicks onto Lakelis to beat the rest of the queuers. The leader wouldn't want to fail the rest of his/her party, so he/she would have to do his/her best to get themselves in. If failed, the party would wasted their time and have to wait again.
I don't remember seeing any hacking activities at this time, but the first kind of botting called auto-clicking was used. It's a handy tool that can click instantaneously per second. To effectively use this, Party Leaders, you would stack the dialog box of Lakelis such that when you auto-click the 'Next' button, it would also click on Lakelis thus opening her dialog boxes many times until you get inside the PQ. Now doesn't that relieve your fingers?
When recruiting party members, you would want to invite the stronger players and the experienced. But if you're experienced and level 21, you could use the auto-clicker to your advantage. Smacked in the middle of Kerning City is the recruiting center for the PQ and if you had played in my time, you'd see messages like, "J>PQ I HAVE TRACK AND AUTOCLICKER @@@ @@@". A lot of people wanted to take advantage of these players with benefits so they would be a priority.
