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'''GSCentral''' is a [[Gameshark]] code site which has had two incarnations over the years. The database, while large, is filled with many untested codes which may or may not work.
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[[File:Gsclogo.jpg|220px|thumb|right|The current GSCentral.org logo.]]
  
==History==
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'''GSCentral''' is a [[Game Enhancer]] code site that was created by [[Jim Reinhart]] on January 22nd, 1998. The site has had two incarnations over the years. The recent incarnation, the GSCentral.org domain, is currently and solely maintained by [[Rune]] who is going by his first name, Jim on the forums.  
GSCentral was created in 1998 by a person going by the name [[Jim Reinhart]]. At some point much later a clone of the site (''GSCentral.org'') was produced after [[Rune]] either was banned or left on his own (depending on who you wish to believe). The original lasted until sometime late 2005/early 2006, when it disappeared without any particular notice. The GSCentral.com domain is still owned by [[Stinky613]], presumably until March 10th, 2012.
 
  
As of early October, 2006, the majority of GSCentral's veteran members (and staff) left due to dislike of Rune's recent administrative actions, and his bullshit regarding when the code database would be up. The exodus of the GSCentral members began when Rune took down the forum (the only thing left at GSCentral), and took away the administrative powers of the very people who made the site worth visiting (Parasyte, Viper187).
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As of September 16th, 2014, the forum was running version 5.1.3 of vBulletin's forum software. The state of the site became a shell of its former self. The code database no longer functioned properly, everything from the vBulletin 4 forum needed to be imported into the existing site, and there is insufficient activity except from the increasing number of spambots. The website went down towards the end of 2015 and has yet to re-open.
  
Many call the actions Rune took that day '[[Batshit fucking insane]]!', which is indeed quite accurate considering in just one night, Rune got rid of all of the talented and capable individuals at GSCentral, and soon replaced them all with a bunch of clueless newbies.
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Not too long after the exodus, the GSCentral Forums were hacked by unknown person(s).
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== History ==
It is unknown at this time whether or not those who did the hacking were ever caught, or found out.
 
But it is rumored to be the doing of a coalition between [[GameFAQs]], [[NSider]], and [[Haxxor World]].
 
  
== Present ==
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Originally, GSCentral used the domain, GSCentral.com. The site lasted until sometime late 2005/early 2006, when it disappeared without any particular notice. Eventually, a clone of the site, GSCentral.org, was produced after [[Rune]] was either banned or left on his own accord (depending on who you wish to believe). The GSCentral.com domain was given to [[Lazy Bastard]] by [[Stinky613]], after Lazy Bastard promised it would never be given to [[Rune]].
The reason given for taking the code database down was to prevent "thieves" from stealing their content. The irony of it all is that GSCentral gets a large amount of its content from other sites, and often fails to give proper credit. Since then more codes have been added but it is not known whether or not the codes have been credited.
 
  
After a ridiculous amount of procrastination, the database was ''technically'' restored. There is no way to browse codes, and is only accessible though a buggy search box.
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In early October, 2006, the majority of GSCentral's staff and veteran members left due to dislike of Rune's recent administrative actions and his ambiguity regarding when the code database would be up. The exodus of the GSCentral members began when Rune took down the forum (the only thing left at GSCentral), and took away the administrative powers of the very people who made the site worth visiting ([[Parasyte]], [[Viper187]], etc.).
  
== Technical Information ==
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[[File:Gscentral-hacked-1.jpg|220px|thumb|left|The result of the attack by SweZape. Picture provided by [[GSHI]] member, [[Unicode]].]]
The hosting is provided by the German host [http://all-inkl.com/eng/index.php?cna=&cnb= All-Inkl]. It runs on Apache Apache 1.3.36, and has PHP 4.4.2, FrontPage extension 5.0.2.4803, mod_fastcgi-SNAP-0404142202, mod_ssl 2.8.27, and OpenSSL 0.9.6i. Due to circumstantial evidence, it is presumed to have access to a MySQL database.  
 
  
The newly added search function has a limitation of only accepting 3 or more characters. Non-alphanumeric characters are stripped. For example, you can't search for "C-12" and get the game "C-12 - Final Resistance", but the full name of the game gives results. The maximum search string is 8,197 bytes (8 kilobytes exactly). After this, the server gives an HTTP 414 error, complaining about the input being too large.
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Sometime between late April and early May of 2012, GSCentral (amongst other websites) was defaced by a hacker known as [[SweZape]]. Apparently, SweZape's intentions were not to harm the site, but to alert [[Rune]] of the various exploits. In the index page of the forum, [[SweZape]] stated, "Secure your site next time. Sorry for causing any inconvenience.. But this is the best way to get your attention." The site returned online shortly after the attack, only to get hacked again by [[SweZape]] a week later. This time, the updates.php page of the forum was modified with the following message: "Hello again. Since nothing has changed since last time I'm giving you a last warning. Secure your site or next time wont be as harmless as these last warnings." As a result, the administrators of GSCentral worked closely (and formed a friendship) with [[SweZape]] in improving the security of the site.
  
Each game is split into pages. Each page has a likely unique key generated and checked for by mcrypt. Each key is 32 characters in length. Invalid (but of the right length) keys give this error:
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On October 21st, 2013, a user on the vBulletin official forums by the name of "Mr.Danko Jones" (presumably [[Rune]]) posted that GSCentral has been hacked once again. The hacker of this attack has not been identified. In the post, the user stated that the hacker deleted all of the administrator and moderator accounts. This led to GSCentral switching over to the unstable, vBulletin 5 forum software and also a change of hosts.
  
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[[Rune]] posted an update on November 12th, 2013, which stated that a man named David was responsible for hosting GSCentral since 2006, but they were ready to host the site elsewhere. By changing hosts, this introduced a few new problems for GSCentral. In order to import the contents of the previous board into the current one, [[Rune]] would need a working, complete version of the database. It is unknown why he didn't have a backup, but Dave did and he apparently gave Rune a faulty database. This angered GSCentral's returning members who questioned Rune's efforts in restoring the site to what it once was. Not much has been done for the site except the numerous vBulletin software and inaccessible code updates. Unfortunately, the forum became a haven for spambots selling dumps. There has been very few attempts at removing the spambots which could signify that [[Rune]] has accepted the fate of GSCentral.
  
'''"''' ''An error occurred. We are unable to satisfy your request. Please contact the webmaster to notify him of this error. Upon contacting us if you could provide the URL address you tried to access and details on where you found this hyperlink it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. We apologize for the inconvenience.'' '''"'''
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The site went down towards the end of 2015 and never went back up since then. The last snapshot from wayback machine dates October 23, 2015.
  
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== External links ==
  
It has been discovered that nowhere near the quantity of codes that should be up actually are. Recently however more codes have been added. It is not known whether or not the codes taken from other sites have been completey credited.
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* [http://gscentral.org Official website]
 
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* [http://gscentral.com GSCentral.com - May it rest in peace.]
== External Links ==
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* [http://gamehacking.org/vb/threads/1680-GSCentral-org-is-no-more GSCentral.org is no more]
*[http://gscentral.org GSCentral Main Page]<br>
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* [http://gamehacking.org/vb/threads/6477-GSCentral-org-s-forum-is-HACKED! GSCentral.org is Hacked]
*[http://gscentral.org/board/index.php GSCentral Forums]
 
*[http://www.gscentral.org/wiki/1999.html GSCentral's attempt at a wiki] - It's not editable, it's just html pages.
 
  
 
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Latest revision as of 22:44, 6 July 2016

The current GSCentral.org logo.

GSCentral is a Game Enhancer code site that was created by Jim Reinhart on January 22nd, 1998. The site has had two incarnations over the years. The recent incarnation, the GSCentral.org domain, is currently and solely maintained by Rune who is going by his first name, Jim on the forums.

As of September 16th, 2014, the forum was running version 5.1.3 of vBulletin's forum software. The state of the site became a shell of its former self. The code database no longer functioned properly, everything from the vBulletin 4 forum needed to be imported into the existing site, and there is insufficient activity except from the increasing number of spambots. The website went down towards the end of 2015 and has yet to re-open.

History

Originally, GSCentral used the domain, GSCentral.com. The site lasted until sometime late 2005/early 2006, when it disappeared without any particular notice. Eventually, a clone of the site, GSCentral.org, was produced after Rune was either banned or left on his own accord (depending on who you wish to believe). The GSCentral.com domain was given to Lazy Bastard by Stinky613, after Lazy Bastard promised it would never be given to Rune.

In early October, 2006, the majority of GSCentral's staff and veteran members left due to dislike of Rune's recent administrative actions and his ambiguity regarding when the code database would be up. The exodus of the GSCentral members began when Rune took down the forum (the only thing left at GSCentral), and took away the administrative powers of the very people who made the site worth visiting (Parasyte, Viper187, etc.).

The result of the attack by SweZape. Picture provided by GSHI member, Unicode.

Sometime between late April and early May of 2012, GSCentral (amongst other websites) was defaced by a hacker known as SweZape. Apparently, SweZape's intentions were not to harm the site, but to alert Rune of the various exploits. In the index page of the forum, SweZape stated, "Secure your site next time. Sorry for causing any inconvenience.. But this is the best way to get your attention." The site returned online shortly after the attack, only to get hacked again by SweZape a week later. This time, the updates.php page of the forum was modified with the following message: "Hello again. Since nothing has changed since last time I'm giving you a last warning. Secure your site or next time wont be as harmless as these last warnings." As a result, the administrators of GSCentral worked closely (and formed a friendship) with SweZape in improving the security of the site.

On October 21st, 2013, a user on the vBulletin official forums by the name of "Mr.Danko Jones" (presumably Rune) posted that GSCentral has been hacked once again. The hacker of this attack has not been identified. In the post, the user stated that the hacker deleted all of the administrator and moderator accounts. This led to GSCentral switching over to the unstable, vBulletin 5 forum software and also a change of hosts.

Rune posted an update on November 12th, 2013, which stated that a man named David was responsible for hosting GSCentral since 2006, but they were ready to host the site elsewhere. By changing hosts, this introduced a few new problems for GSCentral. In order to import the contents of the previous board into the current one, Rune would need a working, complete version of the database. It is unknown why he didn't have a backup, but Dave did and he apparently gave Rune a faulty database. This angered GSCentral's returning members who questioned Rune's efforts in restoring the site to what it once was. Not much has been done for the site except the numerous vBulletin software and inaccessible code updates. Unfortunately, the forum became a haven for spambots selling dumps. There has been very few attempts at removing the spambots which could signify that Rune has accepted the fate of GSCentral.

The site went down towards the end of 2015 and never went back up since then. The last snapshot from wayback machine dates October 23, 2015.

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