Chapter 2 - How to use KongHack
Hello dear KongHack user, and welcome to "KongHack - A tutorial for life" Section. Now that you have learned how to use the cheats you have found here, it's time for you to learn how to use the site! Some of you who are reading this might wonder, "Why did Tsumi leave this section as the second part and not the first?". The reason though is that people who find this tutorial will have already taken a few steps that I will describe later here. In other words, we have a lot more of people asking how to use a hack than people asking how to use the search function, which is a shame.
Userscript - Making Your Life Easier
HackTab
SolTab
LinkTab
Forums - Because this Site has a Community
The things you should never forget
Searching - Because there's a searching function
Forums and Sub-forums - Placing things on the right places
Feedback - TIM loves hearing your problems and about his screw ups (and your praises as well)
Bug tracker - Because we're too leet to have anything less
Getting Started - How to login
Submitting something
Following something
Changing Sections
Badge-Hack - The best thing about using KongHack
Downloading the best hack ever
Using it to do your shit
Thanking Kadat
Chat - Where everyone gathers
Using the chat
Installing a 3rd Party Program
Psi
Pidgin
Xabber
1. Forums - Because we have a Community
So now that you have finally registered and are ready to go, you find out that this forum isn't like other forums out there. And we're very proud of it in fact. But because of that, you're lost! Don't despair, Tsumi is here and will help you go through your initiation, and until you're ready to go to the adult's world (on this case, the Hacker's World) you can count on this tutorial.
1.1 Things you Should Never Forget
Hold your horses. Before you even start typing anything in the post box you should know a few rules that are more of the unspoken kind. You won't find them unless you search for them very well, and most of them are actually more Common Sense than anything else. Why do I have to say them before anything else? Because we here are very Ban-hammer-happy! We absolutely hate people who come to us and break these few rules that are worth more than gold.
1. Thee Shall not Demand for that Thou Art not Entitled:
Don't EVER, EVER, demand something of someone. That's the easiest way of getting banned.
2. Do not use any Internet Language form:
If this is your first time coming here, or you're not known, try to make yourself understood. Use appropriate English for the occasion, don't try to look like a smart ass nor superior to anyone. If you don't know English very well, make the most of what you do know and be polite.
3. DON'T SHOUT YOUR WHOLE POST:
We are not idiots. We are not blind. We don't appreciate people who don't know that only a few millimetres separate those who are worth reading and those who aren't.
4. Don't post links to Virus/Malicious Software, links to Surveys:
Seriously, who the fuck would want that? If you want to get banned, go ahead. You won't be missed.
5. Don't make unnecessary spam:
Posting gives points, but it's so few points that you'd need 30 posts (at the time of this writing) to get the same amount of a hack. If you want points that bad, learn how to hack.
6. Don't post fake Hacks nor submit Hack requests in the Hack submition:
In case you don't read the red box, you should read it here. DON'T DO THAT. YOU WILL GET YOUR HEAD "CHOPPED OFF" WITH THE BAN-HAMMER! And I won't shed a single tear for you.
7. The Ignorant Masses is your Master and Lord. If The Ignorant Masses says something, you listen:
Do I need to say anything else? Go and read his sign. If you don't get it, then leave KH while you're still ahead of it.
8. We love to teach people, just as much as we love people who know how to ask questions:
While you might not find always people who will teach you anything, if you know how to ask, people will answer your question. If you ask something stupid, you will get a stupid answer, and risk your account integrity.
9. The Mods are just as vain as they come, but will help you just as much as their mood lets them:
People here are moody. Everyone. There's always a bad day for someone so don't risk it. If you get a "gtfo" or if you start talking shit about something a Mod doesn't like, expect to be hit hard. So tread carefully and watch your words.
10. The Search is your master and lord. If you find something, read it and absorb it. If something is Bullshit, someone will have told them so.
If everyone knew how to use the Search button then we'd have 50% more users. Maybe more. You will hardly ever find a post saying something stupid without someone correcting it, the nice or the mean way. Only ever make a thread asking something that's been covered here if you want some clarification. Anything else will prob get you banned so hard you will be made the laughing stock of the day.
11. The announcements are there to be read, not to make the screen bigger and harder to read.
Seriously, the Moderators and Administrators of the site spend their time writing things that they judge people should read. They also know that making too many announcements and too many stickies just make navigating the forums harder, so why not spend some time and actually read those topics? It might also help you not getting banned as important information is often disclosed in announcement topics.
1.2 Getting Started - Understanding Forum's Mechanics and the User Panel.
Now that you've learned ten ways of NOT getting banned, we can get serious. The first thing that we have to know when here on KongHack is how to navigate your own account menu and how to navigate the forums themselves. Don't be in a haste, everything should come with time, little Padawan.
1.2.1 Account - Everything Starts by Having an Identity.
By now you should be aware that you have the option to create an account (actually, to use our hacks you HAVE TO HAVE an account). It is very important that you learn how to use it to the fullest as this will save you a lot of time and trouble. We will now go through all (or almost all) of the functions that your account has and through all the benefits that having one gives you.
1.2.1.1 Drop-down Menus - User Menu and User Control Panel.
If you have not yet noticed beside your name there is an arrow pointing downwards. By clicking on this arrow you will see this drop-down menu. Here you will have access to various options to tweak your experience in this forum as well as have access to functions related to the forum.
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Let us see what we can do here!
1.2.1.1.1 - My Profile - Because All of Us have Public Faces and Private Faces.
The first option we have here is very straight forward and there is very little to do here. Here you can see how others see you. There actually is nothing to do here other than be proud (or ashamed) of your contributions and of what you have told to us about yourself when you have registered.
1.2.1.1.2 My Contributions - Because you have done something for us (or not)
As an extension to the profile, here you will find everything that you have done so far in the forums. Be it hacks that you have submitted, posts (that you posted duh), reviews you have written, sols you have submitted or anything else.
1.2.1.1.3 Message - Because we like to send private messages to one another
Finally we got to a nice page! This page actually has a lot of things to explore, boys and girls. I don't even know where to start from! (J.K. I'm Tsumi, of course I know where to start from.)
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Most of you probably won't have any messages in your message box (I'll call it that for convenience) unless you're already popular (And how I envy you) but let's use my message box as an example, it's brimming with messages! (not).
On the higher part we will find three important items: "Send PM", "In-box" and "Sent".
1.2.1.1.3.1 Send PM - Nagging your buddies
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Of important here is that this looks almost exactly like the compose a message in the common forum part.
Other than choosing whom to send, which is located on the upper part, it's all the same as making a new thread.
Once again, I'll apologize that I'm not explaining the interface of the message composition, but I'm going to explain it all later when I'm dealing with posting on the normal forums.
Once you're done composing your message to your friend, all you have to do is scroll down and click the almighty button "Send PM".
1.2.1.1.3.2 In-box - Also known as homepage of Message Box
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This is the first page, again. Here you can see everything that has been sent to you. Of interest is that there is a Search function, in case you like having too many messages, as well as options for organizing your in box. By clicking on the "Show/hide columns" a small drop-bar menu will drop and you can check/uncheck what option you wish to see in the messages shown. You can also choose how many messages to display in a single page. In my case, I like to display the most messages at a single time, but that's a personal choice, so that's up to you.
1.2.1.1.3.3 Sent - Because having a history is always nice
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This is a copy of the previous page. The difference is that these are the messages that you have sent. Obviously this place works as a repository and a safe-keep for everything that you have said to others privately.
1.2.1.1.4 Shake - Badass feature
Ever felt like having a morale boost? Ever felt so lonely that you wanted someone to share your despair? Ever felt that blackpowers are really that power? Well, THIS IS THE PLACE FOR THAT!
If you ever feel the need for a motivation then click on this awesome button and get that much needed morale boost.
This also works as a badass place to share some laugh. Link all your friends here if you wanna share the meme.
1.2.1.1.5 Missing Badges - KongHack doing the dirty job of keeping track of what you don't have
This place only works after you have linked your Kongregate account with your KongHack one.
In case you have already done it, KongHack will show you everything that you still have to do in order to be one of those badasses (and almost all hackers of a kind or certificated no-lifers) who have CAUGHT THEM ALL! (Sorry for the 90s pun).
1.2.1.1.6 My Points - Everything you should worry about is here
That's right, boys and girls, WE HAVE POINTS! So, how many forums out there can boast that they have points? Bet you will now feel even more motivated to contribute to the forums, because sure I am!
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But not everything is candy here. Most people have their accounts locked because they don't know things about points. So that you don't become one of them, I'll tell you almost everything there is to know about them:
1: You start an account with 100 points; (YAY!)
2: You lose 2 points every day; (Aww!)
3: You can earn points by participating on the community; (YAY!)
4: Your account will get locked if it ever reaches the mark of -100 points (Aww!)
5: There are ways of disabling this point deduction, and two of these are:
a) Becoming a Donor, by donating and contributing to the expences that hosting a website generates. By doing this, you will never again have to worry about points being deduced from your account as well as gaining access to premium features. (YAY!)
b) Becoming a L33TH4X, by contributing to the community, either submitting games reviews, hacks, posting and donations points (which are each dollar you donate). Each of these points have different weighs and the correct formula can be found on the "User Control Panel". You won't have any points deduced from your account for as long as you remain a L33TH4X! (YAY!)
How you earn points however depends on the type of contribution (You can this in the Point Store page)
a) At registration you get 100 points to start losing;
b) For every post you have you get 5 points + 0.005 points per character in the post (Meaning that I get huge points for every post because I love to write :p);
c) Every new topic gets you 10 points just because you were cool enough to start something (please don't be dumb to start a topic that will get you banned);
d) Just by participating in the chat with something will get you 0.1 points for each time you send something in the chat;
e) Being a real hacker and contributing to the community will award you 150 points! (If you'd like to learn how to hack please read Chapter 3; also, this there will be changes in the way hacks are awarded points so pay attention to the announcements);
f) Voting in a hack and helping the community know if a hack is useful or useless will award you with wooping 5 points;
g) Sharing the love you have for a game and submitting it to the game database will award you even more wooping 25 points!, be it manually or automatically (though most of the games are automatically and there's no real way to submit it manually anymore);
h) By sharing even more love to those who don't love the game as you and allow them to have your progress (be it for Flash, HTML5 or Unity games) will give you 100 points;
i) If you want to be helpful and let others know your thoughts about a game, you can always submit a game Review. This will give you 50 points;
j) Finally but even no less important (acutally it's the most important), if you share with the site your hard and sweaty income, you will get wooping (and i mean it for real) 500 points for every dollar! (So if you wanna be real supporter go and give KongHack your money!)
1.2.1.1.7 Points Store - Transforming those hard earned points into something useful (more likely useless)
Here you will have the option of spending those shines that you have accumulated through your hours since you have registered.
You can see here that there are several options for you to choose wasting your hard earned points.
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1.2.1.1.7.1 The lotto - Because a few of us believe in luck
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By spending 25 points you can get a single ticket of the lotto. You might notice that we have a few hardcore gamblers here on this site (most of them have so much points and little else to buy that they simply throw money in the lotto to fuel its flames).
The lotto works this way:
a) For each ticket you have bought you have 1/x chance of winning (x is the total number of tickets in the pool).
b) At the end of the period of betting, KongHack's Bot generates an array and shuffles it 5 times
c) The number generated is then compared to the number of the ticket, if there is such number then you have a winner.
d) If there is no winner then the points are kept in the pool so that by the next contest it will be given to the winner.
So if you believe in luck this is the way to get big wins with almost no effort! Go go for it! (Btw, I never bet.)
1.2.1.1.7.2 Inventory - Where your conquests are
The lower part of the Point store is the place where you will find all your items/conquests. All the items you have bough will be available for contemplation here.
It is also here where you will be able to interact with the items that allow such interactions. Presently there are only two items that have real functions: the Customize Title and the Customize Color.
a) Customize Title: The name should tell you all that it does. After clicking on the "Change" button you will be able to change what your title is (that's the name that is shown behind your account name);
b) Customize Color: After clicking in the "Change" button you will be able to choose the colour of your account name. Some people like to choose colours that are transparent or seem to be just for the lolz and make it somewhat impossible for people to distinguish who they are. But that's just childish play IMHO (sorry!).
1.2.1.1.7.3 Stuff to Buy! - Because we all love wasting points
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This is the place where you should be spending your points (or not). Here you will find a vast selection of useful (mostly useless actually) badge-like faces, memes and other sorts of animations of doubtful utility to make your user profile look good or bad. (One of the favourites of all times is the "Why u no have better itens, with Lol_wut having bought all of those when there wasn't a better selection of itens).
1.2.2 User Control Panel - Where things get personal
Having finally completed the first drop-down menu I can now welcome to the marvellous User Control Page!
This is the place where you have access to real functions and configurations of your account and site behaviour. You will also find that a few of the options here are repeated here so I'll just use the ones that I had already used before just for the sake of redundancy and in case something changes in the future.
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1.2.2.1 My Info - Because you have to tell something about yourself
Here are some very basic things that you have already told us when you have registered, however, you can always update it! Woot! Feeling like telling us again something we don't already know? This is the place to do that! Also, this is the place where you UPDATE YOUR EMAIL!!!! This is very important, because when an account doesn't have a valid e-mail anymore, it advertises it to everyone! Always make sure it's updated and fresh like a baby's bottom!
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1.2.2.2 Avatar - Because an image is worth a thousand words
Not much to see here, just one big box that you can put an URL that will link to the avatar that you have chosen. But just because it's a very simple and basic page doesn't mean it's not important. Some people value more an avatar than their own usernames, so be extra careful when choosing an avatar. That's your public virtual (or real) face!
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There are a few things that you should have in mind before you choose an avatar however:
1. Don't choose any explicit (hardcore) porn images for your avatar. There are kids out there you know?
2. Don't put any child porn there, both the hard and the soft kind. You know how illegal that is right? Don't even try it.
3. Don't post anything extensively cruel. That means mutilated bodies, RAPE of animals, necrophilia... alternative forms of sex. You know, those kinds of things are things you better keep for a more mature discussion, and not for an open forum. We deal with hacking here. Gore is something we would rather not see here.
4. If you going to use a QR Code as your avatar, make sure it doesn't link to any malware or virus, that's just going to get you banned. Or even if it's not a QR code, if your image is linked to a virus or malware, that will get you banned as well.
1.2.2.3 Signature - Because everyone likes to have something beneath their message that identifies them.
So you'd like to sign your message eh? Well, then this is the right place to come! Here you will find pretty much a postbox, and the difference is that this message will be posted beneath every message that you post, and every other ones that you have already posted as well.
Unfortunately, I will not teach you how to use all the resources of the postbox right here (Aww! :( ) but don't be dispirited. I will, however, tell you what is important to know here!
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Like Avatars, signatures have to follow a few guideline:
1. Do not post any explicit (hardcore) porn images in your signature. We have a few kids using the site.
2. Absolutely do not share your Child Porn in your signature. Would you like the Feds knocking at your door? You would also cause trouble for us! Do this and you'll be banned.
3. Don't post anything excessively cruel. That means mutilated bodies, RAPE of animals, necrophilia... alternative forms of sex. You know, those kinds of things are things you better keep for a more mature discussion, and not for an open forum. We deal with hacking here. Gore is something we would rather not see here.
4. Do not share malware or virus without WARNINGS! If you'd like to post links to malware/virus or anything of the like, make sure YOU WARN THE PEOPLE WHO WILL GO TO THOSE FILES/LINKS/PAGES! It's more of an annoyance than a problem to really prepared people when they find out they've stumbled upon something of the sort. But we have people who are not prepared to deal with those, and as such, you could very well be putting their personal and professional files at risk. Fail to do so and you'll be banned. No second chances.
5. Don't hog the page for yourself. A signature is an extension of your message, not the message itself. Would you like to go through 30 seconds of scrolling of a single signature of a single message? What if the person posted multiple times? That's just TOO ANNOYING! Don't, just don't abuse the trust that the Administrators put on you. Doing that will, once again (and I'm getting tired of telling this) get-you-banned! YAY!
OK, now that we know what NOT TO DO, let me tell you a few things that YOU CAN DO!:
1. You can post images! Because an image is worth more than a thousand words!;
1.1. Your images can be of almost any type, as long as they comply with those few guidelines above.
2. You can post links! Because sharing content from other sites is allowed as well!;
3. You can write! Because we're not insane and we acknowledge that writing is a good way of expressing oneself!
1.2.2.4 Password - Because only YOU should be able to log into your account
Another very simple page, but that, nonetheless, is very important. Here you can change your password! Woot! Best thing ever! And now, I'll disclose to you some Top Secret Info that you'll only find it here! (Got it directly from The Admin :P)
1. Your password can be as long as you want, but anything longer than 80 characters will be collapsed (Meaning that there will be another password that matches it that is 80 characters long)
2. Your password can have any character that you want! (That's right, boys and girls, you can put spaces, accented characters and anything fancy that you want out there!)
3. Your password is encrypted immediately once it enters the system, as such, it can't be recovered easily anyone! We're very much concerned with YOUR privacy and RESPECT it!
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With all that said, you should change your password as often as it's advised out there, once a semester or a year. This is because people can always try to gain access to your account, and the best way to security is to change passwords as frequently as you're allowed.
1.2.2.5 My Bookmarks - Because no one has an Elephant's Memory.
Have you ever felt the need to follow a thread? Have you ever felt annoyed that you forgot what was the thread that you wanted to follow but could not because you're too forgetful? Have you ever needed to bookmark a page but at the time to check it you got lost in the middle of so many bookmarks that you have stored in your browser? Have you ever just wanted to hit that star that is present at the top of every thread?
WELL then await no more! If you have answered yes for any of the above questions, and possibly any other related to bookmarks and curiosity, this is the place for you!
Get rid of those annoying bookmarks inside KongHack that mix along with the other bookmarks of sites like your porn and homework! You can manage all your KongHack bookmarks directly from this nice and handy page!
For only a share of your free time and a lot of patience to navigate to this fucking easy to access page you can have everything you ever wanted to follow shown to you!
Donate now your hard earned points and Karma to Tsumi for a further display of how to use this place better and you get for free the feeling of having contributed to a better KongHack experience included! Don't miss it, it is only available for as long as you read this FAQ! Dial now <http://konghack.com/member_profile.php?m=2099> and learn more how you can get all of these along with your bookmarks!
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1.2.2.6 My Files - Because you can host files at KongHack
Are you tired of having one site for images, another for flash, another for text, another for your porn? Are you tired of having to remember too many logins and passwords that you can't even remember what belongs to what anymore? Are you tired of wasting your time going to different sites and learning different ways of working with the interface?
Well, worry not, your problems have just been solved! By opting to sign in to KongHack you not only have got a place to learn how to hack, got yourself a place in a top-of-the-cream hacking community, but also, you have a place to host files! And best of all, with a very friendly and sleek interface! Everything that you post on the forums will be automatically uploaded to your own space here in KongHack!
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On this page you can see how far you are from being a mere mortal, either into immortality or from it (a.k.a L337h4x).
We will focus the side panels here on this section (That's actually what matters in the UCP).
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<The following sections were shamelessly copied and pasted from the old entries. Any similarities with those are completely consequential to the laziness of the current writer in typing a new text for the already explained sections. Keep in mind that doing this on Real Life is very dangerous and could get you thrown to jail for plagiarism, theft of intellectual property and possible lost of points and grades in your tests. DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES COPY THE ACT OF COPYING AND PASTING OF PAST WRITTEN TEXT. This was done by professionals who were monitored by the appropriate medical service in case the events here done led to injuries and physical and mental damage of the ones who were doing it.>
1.2.2.7 My Points - Everything you should worry about is here
That's right, boys and girls, WE HAVE POINTS! So, how many forums out there can boast that they have points? Bet you will now feel even more motivated to contribute to the forums, because sure I am!
(Insert magical screenshot showing points here)
But not everything is candy here. Most people have their accounts locked because they don't know things about points. So that you don't become one of them, I'll tell you almost everything there is to know about them:
1: You start an account with 100 points; (YAY!)
2: You lose 2 points every day; (Aww!)
3: You can earn points by participating on the community; (YAY!)
4: Your account will get locked if it ever reaches the mark of -100 points (Aww!)
5: There are ways of disabling this point deduction, and two of these are:
a) Becoming a Donor, by donating and contributing to the expences that hosting a website generates. By doing this, you will never again have to worry about points being deduced from your account as well as gaining access to premium features. (YAY!)
b) Becoming a L33TH4X, by contributing to the community, either submitting games reviews, hacks, posting and donations points (which are each dollar you donate). Each of these points have different weighs and the correct formula can be found on the "User Control Panel". You won't have any points deduced from your account for as long as you remain a L33TH4X! (YAY!)
How you earn points however depends on the type of contribution (You can this in the Point Store page)
a) At registration you get 100 points to start losing;
b) For every post you have you get 5 points + 0.005 points per character in the post (Meaning that I get huge points for every post because I love to write :p);
c) Every new topic gets you 10 points just because you were cool enough to start something (please don't be dumb to start a topic that will get you banned);
d) Just by participating in the chat with something will get you 0.1 points for each time you send something in the chat;
e) Being a real hacker and contributing to the community will award you 150 points! (If you'd like to learn how to hack please read Chapter 3; also, this there will be changes in the way hacks are awarded points so pay attention to the announcements);
f) Voting in a hack and helping the community know if a hack is useful or useless will award you with wooping 5 points;
g) Sharing the love you have for a game and submitting it to the game database will award you even more wooping 25 points!, be it manually or automatically (though most of the games are automatically and there's no real way to submit it manually anymore);
h) By sharing even more love to those who don't love the game as you and allow them to have your progress (be it for Flash, HTML5 or Unity games) will give you 100 points;
i) If you want to be helpful and let others know your thoughts about a game, you can always submit a game Review. This will give you 50 points;
j) Finally but even no less important (acutally it's the most important), if you share with the site your hard and sweaty income, you will get wooping (and i mean it for real) 500 points for every dollar! (So if you wanna be real supporter go and give KongHack your money!)
1.2.2.8 Points Store - Transforming those hard earned points into something useful (more likely useless)
Here you will have the option of spending those shines that you have accumulated through your hours since you have registered.
You can see here that there are several options for you to choose wasting your hard earned points.
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1.2.2.8.1 The lotto - Because a few of us believe in luck
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By spending 25 points you can get a single ticket of the lotto. You might notice that we have a few hardcore gamblers here on this site (most of them have so much points and little else to buy that they simply throw money in the lotto to fuel its flames).
The lotto works this way:
a) For each ticket you have bought you have 1/x chance of winning (x is the total number of tickets in the pool).
b) At the end of the period of betting, KongHack's Bot generates an array and shuffles it 5 times
c) The number generated is then compared to the number of the ticket, if there is such number then you have a winner.
d) If there is no winner then the points are kept in the pool so that by the next contest it will be given to the winner.
So if you believe in luck this is the way to get big wins with almost no effort! Go go for it! (Btw, I never bet.)
1.2.2.8.2 Inventory - Where your conquests are
The lower part of the Point store is the place where you will find all your items/conquests. All the items you have bough will be available for contemplation here.
It is also here where you will be able to interact with the items that allow such interactions. Presently there are only two items that have real functions: the Customize Title and the Customize Color.
a) Customize Title: The name should tell you all that it does. After clicking on the "Change" button you will be able to change what your title is (that's the name that is shown behind your account name);
b) Customize Color: After clicking in the "Change" button you will be able to choose the colour of your account name. Some people like to choose colours that are transparent or seem to be just for the lolz and make it somewhat impossible for people to distinguish who they are. But that's just childish play IMHO (sorry!).
1.2.2.8.3 Stuff to Buy! - Because we all love wasting points
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This is the place where you should be spending your points (or not). Here you will find a vast selection of useful (mostly useless actually) badge-like faces, memes and other sorts of animations of doubtful utility to make your user profile look good or bad. (One of the favourites of all times is the "Why u no have better itens, with Lol_wut having bought all of those when there wasn't a better selection of itens).
<No hackers, leechers, seeders, moderators, computers, hacks or cheats were hurt in the making of this shameless copying and pasting. All rights are reserved to the inventor of the Control + C and Control + V function. This copying and pasting is dedicated in memory of all those who fall victim to lack of creativity, tendinitis, tendisinovites and other repetitive movement syndromes, laziness and writer-block. Thank you for skipping all that but not skip reading this comical relief comment.>
1.2.2.9 Link Shortener - Because even we can make visiting links fast
Following the birth of a huge number of sites that shorten links, in order to make it easier to surf the net, KongHack has made it possible for you to have at your disposal this hugely useful function right here!
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Here you can both create a link by clicking on the "Create New Link" located in the superior left corner of the screen to create your own link. Since this is a small community, the moment that you make a link you can also choose what will be it's name! So if you ever feel the need to create a /FuckMyMother or /Suckmydickbitch link you can do it right here! (Please keep in mind that people who will click in the link will possibly be able to understand what the name of the link is so discretion is recommended.)
Also, right here you can see how people were dumb enough to have clicked on your link and follow it to the utmost destiny that the link leads them to. This way you can see how many people were /suckers or /fags.
And in case you have a change of mind you can also delete those links to allow other people to enjoy the feeling of having a /fuckingidiot or /iamthebiggestgaythereis link.
1.2.2.10 Chat Info - Leaving behind asynchrony communication and getting into synchrony conversation
This is the place where, unless you are like me and have all of these engraved into your mind due to the bitchiness of the several chat clients that you have tried and not worked correctly, you can find the needed information to configure a chat client in order to leave behind candy and jump into better chat clients.
You will also find here examples of clients to use and a few tutorials of how to get them working for you.
1.2.2.11 Site Settings - Where you will find a dedicatory to me the writer
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This is a very bland page, almost blank and tasteless but it is also a tribute to me! Actually, in quite a few parts of the site if you were to read the code and see the comments you will find my name there. TIM and I have very different priorities when it comes to writing code and explanations and because of that, when I win the argument, he makes sure to let everyone know of how annoying I can be in my Grammar-Naziness and how I try to make the site clearer to understand.
Now seriously, right now you are able to choose whether you would like to see the site right in the first page or not. That's all. Click on your favourite selection and hit that Save Changes and get out of here for funnier and nonetheless useful parts of the site.
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1.2.2.12 Email Settings - Because no one likes junk mail.
So you figure that the site has been sending you too much or too few emails? Well don't despair! Right here you can choose whether you'd like to receive more email or less. Very few can be said about it so let's move on.
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1.2.2.13 User Script - Because unless you have this then you're a loser.
In case you still don't have this very handy tool you should go and do yourself a favour and download it, the link to it should be located on the right side of this page. At the left side of it you will be able to configure the behaviour of the userscript. If you ever feel that something is lacking, say there is no chat or there is no hacks showing, or you'd like to remove them in order to make your 56k connection faster in the loading of page you can customize it here. Go on and do some changes just so you can see how everything works, their names should give you pretty much what they affect and as such I won't make this section bigger than it deserves to be.
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1.2.2.14 My Security - Because NSA has made all of us more paranoid than we should have been otherwise.
So you feel like the government has reasons to monitor your usage of this site, or you're afraid your little brother will get you banned by posting a "where the fuck is hack X? Why the fuck you won't hack game Y, even my dead grandmother could do it you faggots!" or you don't want your lover looking at all that porn you have stashed under the cover of "My Files"? Then this is the place where you make it possible for people to log in from different locations (read IPs) possible or not. It should be very easy to use and I strongly suggest you enable this function. It won't take you more than 5 minutes in order to enable it and every time your ip changes or you try to access the site from a different place it won't take more than 3 minutes until you validate the new ip.
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1.2.2.15 UCP Home - I was itching to get here.
This is possibly the best place to look at when you feel depressed. Right here you will find how into or how far you are from being a recognized member of the community.
In case you are not a L337h4x, this will show how much of a badass you still have to become. If you are then it will show how much of a badass you are! Read the page because I don't feel like explaining things that are so well explained here.
1.3 Searching - Because there's a searching function
So most of the times you'll see a nice and very well hidden button called "Search" in forums, but just as often you'll also see that along with it there's this empty bar where you can input stuff, any stuff, and it works wonders. It just so happens that we also have this neat stuff called "search box"! Now, don't get me wrong, I'm sure you people are smart and must know how to use a search box right? But then it doesn't hurt how to remind you people AGAIN!
First of all, if you guys are looking for a game, all you have to is to TYPE THE NAME OF THE GAME! There's a magical auto-complete function inside the search box that will look for the game that you are looking for and if there is a game with that name already submitted in the database it will then show you in a neat drop-down menu all the games that correspond to that! You don't even have to press enter OK?
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If you're looking for a post or something else, then there's no other help then finishing the search and pressing the ENTER button after you're done inputting the search parameters and start the query.
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Since we have AJAX implemented in the site only the part under the big red menu will change. You will notice that there is 4 Sections right below the red menu. These are: Search, Games, Topics and Posts.
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In case you're wondering what each one shows, just create a brain and read the names, they're very appropriate for their functions! If you're looking for generic search it should show under the "Search" tab.
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Click on the Games will show all the games that have the keywords that you have searched for. This is very helpful in case you know only part of the game name and the direct game search doesn't return the game that you're looking for.
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Under the Post tab you will find all posts that have the words that you have searched for. This might generates huge amounts of results if you use generic words so please have in mind that in case you're looking for words in posts unless you want to have all posts in the forum as a result.
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Finally but not least, the Topics tab will show you all the topics that are related to the words that you have input. Like the Posts, try to be as objective as you can but leave some margin for error. If you're looking for "Tutorials" don't look for "Tutorials that teach you how to shit", that is too damn specific and will most likely NOT DIRECT YOU TO A TUTORIAL TEACHING HOW TO SHIT! You might find it if you instead input only the words "Tutorial" and "Shit". (I still think you will not find that tutorial but who knows... you might want to make one instead!).
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1.4 Forums and Sub-forums - Placing things on the right places
So now that you've made sure that what you want is not anywhere in the forums, and that when you post you won't get banned because of something idiot, it's time to make sure you post things in the right place.
You'll notice that we have a very neat place, with many many forums and sub-forums. As a matter of fact, this very tutorial is placed in the Tutorial Sub-Forum of the Resource Forum. Or so it should have been.
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With so many forums and sub-forums, it might be a pain in the beginning, but with time it grows on you. The only thing that you should be aware is that, for the sake of better organization and easiness of reading, we'd like you to post your related things on the right place! It isn't that hard is it? If you want to post something in related to kongregate, post it on the Kongregate section. Newgrounds, on the Newgrounds one, and so on.
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It is also helpful to pay attention to what comes on top of the Forum. There you will find the Sub-Forums. There are Sub-Forums because there might be several posts inside a forum that are very objective or that have the same topics. As an example there is the "Tutorials" section under the "Resource" forum.
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This is one of those cases when too many threads have the same idea and it would be interesting to have all of them under the same section in order for easiness of finding and organization. I hope you pay attention to this as this makes life easier for people who don't want to use the search because they don't have a specific word they want to search and instead want to find instead a topic (not a thread) they're interested in.
1.5 Feedback and Bugs - Because TIM and the development team loves hearing your problems and about his/their screws ups (and your praises as well!)
Now that you already know how to search and post, it's about time you know what to do when you come up with something useful for the community. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you were useless before this, but that's just how things happen to be! (j/k)
More often than not, you'll have some sort of problem using the site, and that is totally YOUR FAULT! Because TIM is just awesome! But, even if that is the case, don't feel bad. Share it with us! Here on KongHack we have this amazing but not as much as TIM bug tracker for all your needs. To find it it very simple, just scroll down ALL THE WAY DOWN the screen and see the black link calling you to get lost in it.
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Once here the first thing you have to do is to login again. It's very easy actually, just use the same username and password you use to log in once in the main area of the site.
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Once logged in, a screen full with colours should appear and you'll most likely feel as lost as a baby in a new world. But that's OK, Tsumi is here to guide you through your visit here. We'll just cover the basics here.
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1.5.1 My View
You'll get logged on by default on the "My view", which will show you almost everything you need to know.
Right on the higher part of the screen you'll find a grayish bar with the most important items you'll need.
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Under it you'll find 5 panels which should show you everything you need to know about bugs, feedbacks and suggestions that are logged in this page.
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On the top left part of this are issues which have yet to be assigned in any sort of way by anyone of the development team. On the top right part are the issues submitted by you, independent of their status. On the middle left are the issues which have been solved. Middle right are those that have been recently modified in w/e manner, just as the name says, and finally the bottom left are those that you have chosen to follow.
1.5.2 Reporting Issues
Moving on, we will get to the juicy part of this. On the gray menu we have the "Report Issue" and this is probably the reason most of you will come to this part of the site.
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First thing first, you'll want to select a category, just like that red star is telling you. Once you've chosen between a Bug, an Improvement and a Feature, it's time to complete
1.6 Badge Hack - Because this is what you came for.
Chances are that if you play games in Kongregate then you're looking for hacks to get that damn badge that been eluding you all day. So why not have someone do the hard job for you and give you the badge INSTANTLY then play the game through?
1.6.1 Getting KBH - If it were easier you should give up on life
In cause you haven't yet learned how to use the search, please do. There is a thread dedicated solely to KBH (Kongregate Badge Hack) that not only allows you to download it, but also tells you if it is working or not.
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In case you're dumb enough I'll explain to you what you have to do. You have to click on the link that is right bellow the DOWNLOAD phrase. Just that...
1.6.2 Getting KBH to work - It might not be as easy as it sounds
Once you have downloaded KBH and opened it (if you have problems opening it please read the troubleshooting section next) you have to prepare the program to do the job for you:
1 - First you click on files/menu and then Login
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2 - Input your login information here. We do not need your loser's account so rest assured.
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3 - On the URL field you input the URL for the game that you want to get the badge. (for help finding this read the next session)
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4 - Choose which Badge or Score you would like to submit a new value from the "Select Categories"
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5 - It should already have the value needed for the badge but in case you want to change it select it from the "Stats to Submit" box and change the value on the "New Stat Value" field
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6 - After you've finished selecting the stats you want to submit click on the "Send packet to Kongregate"
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Change Log:
Version 0.3 (13-09-28): Completed up to 1.4.2. No screenies nor anchors yet. Introduced the logging system only for fun. Need to fix spaces, enters, tabs and all the other parts of it. Still a long way to go huh...
Version 0.4 (13-10-04): Restructured the first sub-section, reusing Gate' 101 Tutorial as a model. No pictures yet. Gotta work on more stuff yet.
Version 0.5 (13-10-05): Continued with UCP, too many things to talk about it. *Rolls eyes* You bitches better enjoy it, not that I care if you don't. At least you guys will have a place to refer to.
Version 0.6 (14-01-17): After 3 monthes without updates I have decided to work on this "Wiki" again! Major overhaul of the 1.2 section to adequate with the changes that the site has gone through. Still need the screenshots, will probably leave them for last. I'm still accepting help here!
Version 0.7 (14-01-17): So I'm doing overtime here and I have updated it twice in a day! Woot, someone should give me cookies, I definetly deserve some after doing this update. All the dropdown menus have been completed, I mean, user ones. Now I'm going to the real deal of the site, including the search, how the forums work and the report bug features and etc. I'm considering changing the order and pulling a few of the things up and pushing a few things down but I'm still undecided. I'd like to thank gates for posting here! Thank you "gates"!
Version 0.8 (14-01-20): Completed Part 1.3, 1.4 and started 1.6. To work on part 1.5 I'll need to log in Mantis but I screwed up my account there so I'll make it later.
