This repo contains some codes and notes about how I've done the challenges of TheZZAZZGlitch's April Fools Event 2024 (funny meme intro video is available here).

The results video is now available, go check it out to see what the other participants have done and to learn more about this event!

I'd like to thank TheZZAZZGlitch for organizing this event once again, as well as the community for playing it. Once again, I had a very fun week trying to overcome the challenges that it had to offer.

I've participated in the 2018 and 2022 events, and am very happy to be a part of the event once more!

For this year's April Fools Event, TheZZAZZGlitch set the bar very high up. We got a very nice Pokémon Mystery Dungeon-inspired game (this time, it is a full standalone GameMaker game and not a funky save file), with, like the previous times, an online leaderboard with a lot of challenges that gets unlocked as you progress through the game. It was very impressive, and a bit hard too, but a really cool thing to play!

I will not really talk about the game itself and its challenges here (I was too lazy to finish them all, and the game gets very hard after finishing it :c), and focus more on the traditional hacking challenges that this year offers us.

This was a bit different from the previous years, as the hacking challenges were directly available online and not in a spooky scary dark cr4ck cavern. There were four challenges in total, that could be completed in any order, and it is noted that "Their difficulty is equivalent to 3rd-4th tiers of previous years.".

So, let's check them out!

This document is mostly dedicated to the pret project and its contributors. Without it, it would have been a lot tougher to get over the challenges without the symbols and clear code they made available for everyone to see, so huge thanks!

All the write-ups are present in a separate file for each challenge:

• Hacking Challenge I - Hall of Fame Data Recovery (Red/Blue)
• Hacking Challenge II - The Sus-file (Crystal)
• Hacking Challenge III - gbhttp
• Hacking Challenge IV - Pokémon Write-What-Where Version (Emerald)

• challenges/ - Some files related to the hacking challenges.
• tools/ - The directory containing all the programs I've written for this event.
• TODO.txt - The file that contains all my notes throughout the event.