VBA Fakers at it again - Laterza rears his ugly head with VBA-Cloud.

**Squall Leonhart** · May 22nd, 2009, 01:19

Laterza(also known as skynet and maxcv) and his fake emulator project VBA-Cloud have crawled back out of their hole in the dirt to try to fool emulation sites once more.

Among a simple ResHack, he declares to have fixed numerous non existant bugs, in both emulation and the emulator itself.

However our lead dev mudlord has once again disproven his lies with a few tools he had laying about to provide us with this.

fraud
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* no file changes in DLL, unlike what they said......
Scanning -> C:\Documents and Settings\****\Desktop\VisualBoyAdvance874\libpng13 .dll
File Type : Dll, Size : 60416 (0EC00h) Byte(s)
[Heuristics] -> Flag : 00000000000000000000001100100011
[!] File appears to have no protection or is using an unknown protection
- Scan Took : 0.984 Second(s)

Scanning -> C:\Documents and Settings\****\Desktop\[VBA-Cloud]emu100.b300\libpng13.dll
File Type : Dll, Size : 60416 (0EC00h) Byte(s)
[Heuristics] -> Flag : 00000000000000000000001100100011
[!] File appears to have no protection or is using an unknown protection
- Scan Took : 0.984 Second(s)

* Dubious resource hacks
* Its possible to create a patch that replicates changes.
- Normally the patch would be MUCH bigger if code was added.....

A patch has been made to convert VBA-M into VBA-Cloud as well, further to confirm that VBA-Cloud is nothing but a hack.

Just given you all a heads up about this laterza/skynet/maxcv troll.

**h4tred** · May 22nd, 2009, 11:43

Here is the patch that Squall was talking about.

http://users.tpg.com.au/mudlord/things/patch.zip

Please go easy on the bandwidth.

Due to the nature of the tools used, patches that compare against code thats added or removed (which shows in a increase or decrease in file size), result in the patch's increase in size to cater for the changed executable.

So really, nothing added, nothing removed, just a res edit. Apply the patch on the latest VBAM windows compile to see.....

--mudlord.