Unix (WoR)

Wondering how to create a Windows 10 on ARM (Windows on Rapsberry Pi) SD Card from a macOS or Linux/Unix computer? Using a free minimal Windows 10 Virtual Machine image and the open source software Virtual Box you can pass your SD Card or USB Drive the Windows on Raspberry (WoR) media creation tool! This easy guide will show you how

Requirements: SD Card Reader/USB Drive, ~20GB Free hard drive space on the host machine to download and Extract the Windows 10 VM and download an ARM64 disk image of Windows 10 for installation.

1. Download and Install Virtual Box

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

2. Download and Install VirtualBox Host Extension Pack

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

3. Download the free MSEdge on Windows 10 Virtual Box Image

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/

4. Extract MSEdge VM .zip, Double click the .ova and Import the VM.

5. Settings > USB Controller > USB3.0 or USB2.0 depending on your SD Card reader

If you only see USB 1.1 controller download the host virutal box host extensions in step 2.

6. Start the Windows 10 VM, Use the bottom Toolbar to select your SD Card Reader and pass it to the VM

the password for the VM’s user account is: Passw0rd!

why Microsoft wanted to have a password on the use account in the first place is beyond human comprehension.

You should see your SD Card in the Virtual Box VM.

Now you’re free to follow the normal Windows on Raspberry (WoR) instructoins on https://www.worproject.ml/downloads

OP.GG For Tecent/WeGame and Chinese SuperServer

Alternative Frontend for WeGame Match History and Account Lookups.

Download: https://github.com/downthecrop/wegame-tencent-china-opgg

Provides account lookups, match history, profile multi-search, statistics and more. Like OP.GG or Blitz.gg for the Chinese (CN) League of Legends Servers. Available for all area ID’s including the Super Server (Dopa/Apdo plays here) which is Area ID 31.

Pregame lobby Multisearch, Game Details and Profile Statistics from WeGame/Tencent League of Legends LoL API

Instructions

Download the Chrome Extension Here
Signin on https://www.wegame.com.cn/
Select Cropsearch

Features:

Match History
Match Details
Multisearch
Profile Navigation
Profile Statistics
Open Source (MIT License)

Support

I will not respond to errors or problems on Twitter but you should still follow me. Report problems here on Github

Twitter at @downthecrop
YouTube at @downthecrop

License

MIT License LICENSE
Copyright 2020 © downthecrop.

How To: Reverse Engineer Any Private API (iOS/Android and Desktop)

Have you ever wanted to access data from an application that doesn’t provide a Public API? Well I’ve got great news. That application is getting its data from somewhere. You just need to find out how to plug into it! This process is called Reverse Engineering (Or hacking if you want to pretend you’re really smart) a Private API. I will document some tips and useful tools that will help you reverse any Private API from any application on any platform.

Reverse Engineer any Private API – Watch the YouTube video here! https://youtu.be/RchCi6E2hVs

Tools

There are a hanful of tools that can be used to complete this task. Windows 10 was my platform of choice for working with the data so I’ll be sharing what I used on here.

Fiddler: Fiddler is an HTTP/HTTPS Proxy that can be used to intercept and decrypt SSL/HTTPS traffic. This application is also useful for replaying requests, creating custom request, and exporting a request as cURL to be converted into Python 3. Fiddler is free to use, just sign in with your Google Account! Make sure you install the certificate and enable HTTPS mode so you don’t miss any requests. https://www.telerik.com/fiddler

MitM Proxy: Man in the Middle Proxy is a great way to read data from Smart Phone Applications. This is what I used to get all the data I needed for my API reversal. Simply download the executable from https://mitmproxy.org/ to start up a server (disable your firewall or open port 8080) and then enter your PC’s IP address into the Proxy Server settings of your Phones WiFi settings. After that navigate to http://mitm.it/ on your Phone and install the provided certificate. Follow the provided instructions on http://mitm.it/ and start sniffing!

Tips

Create a text document to save all your finding and especially any useful URL endpoints you find. Having your information organized will help to ensure that you don’t waste time on the same thing twice or need to proxy your device over and over again to find what a request should look like.

For more information and an example of the API reversed you can watch my YouTube tutorial here.

WebP in Photoshop CS2

Modern WebP format images opening in Photoshop CS2 (2005)

The abandonware Photoshop CS2 still does everything any aspiring content creator could ask for. It even works great on Windows 10. Quality software created by quality people. However in todays modern internet we have a few new formats that were far after CS2’s time. The main problem I run into is opening WebP format files. I’ll go to grab an asset I assume to be a .PNG off Google Images, try to open it up in CS2 and I’m met with the error “Could not complete your request because it is not the right kind of document.” but luckily for us the competent developers of CS2 thought ahead. They allow for plugins to extend the support file types in the program!

WebPShop, the plug-in for opening and saving WebP images directly from Adobe Photoshop
https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/docs/webpshop

available under the Apache-2 License this open source WebPShop plugin works just fine for our legacy version of Photoshop. Unfortunately they aren’t distributing x86 binaries of the latest version but the Apha 0.2.1 version seems to have everything we need anyway. You can download the binary from the 0.2.1 release page. You want WebPShop_0_2_1_Win_x86.8bi. Once that’s downloaded place the 8bi file into C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS2\Plug-Ins\File Formats or wherever you have CS2 installed. Then fire up Photoshop and open any WebP file you like!

Export Options

The plugin also allows you to save .webp files with a quality slider! Just use File > Save As... > WebP and the WebPShop compression Window will open. Enable the preview and compress to your liking.

WebPShop Save As Dialogue Window and Compression Settings in Photoshop CS2

OBS Multitrack Recording Audio Remuxer

FFmpeg Audio Remuxer demo video: https://youtu.be/Q10JB-iD85o

Download on Github: https://github.com/downthecrop/audio-remuxer/releases/

Features:
– Automatically selects the most recent stream recording to remux
– Drag any recordings onto the .exe to remux them into the output directory
– Fast. a 2 hour stream can be muxed in 10 seconds.
– Batch directory support
– Output file prefixing
– Free and Open Source

With Twitch DMCA muting vods lots of people are going to be multitrack recoding locally. This tool can remux multritrack recodings into a new mp4 with a single audiotrack selected. Useful specifically if you record a track with only game audio and microphone selected for archival on Twitch or YouTube.

If you utilize multitrack recording with OBS you might already be using a script to use FFMPEG to remux the video. This program makes remuxing after a stream really easy.