Guided Hacking Packet Logger
🚀 GH Packet Logger
Visualize and analyze game network data with ease
🔍 What Is It?
The Guided Hacking Packet Logger is a high-utility network analysis tool that transforms raw game traffic into structured, readable insights.
Two modes included: Graphical Interface + Command Line version
Ready to use: Compiled executables and full source code included
Extensible: Lua Wireshark plugin provided for parsing demonstrations
No more struggling with unreadable packet dumps. With this logger, you can capture, structure, and understand network communication in a way that is intuitive and adaptable.
🛠 Origins and Development
The Packet Logger began as part of the tutorial Reverse Engineering Game Network Protocols in Sauerbraten.
Originally developed as a Wireshark plugin
Evolved into a standalone application after strong community input
Modularized and abstracted for flexibility across multiple engines
If your target game uses the ENET networking library, you can get it working in just a few hours. For other engines, the provided source and parsing framework allow you to adapt the tool in days rather than weeks.
📊 Practical Use Cases
The Guided Hacking Packet Logger enables you to:
✔ Capture and structure frames from live traffic
✔ Label packet fields clearly for faster analysis
✔ Visualize sequences over time to track updates and state synchronization
Whether it’s positional updates, action events, or communication between client and server, the tool makes hidden mechanics visible. The included Lua examples also give you a starting point to explore and refine custom parsing strategies.
📦 What You Get
Download the ZIP archive and start immediately. Inside you’ll find:
Command line and GUI executables
Full open source code for customization
Example Lua scripts for Wireshark
A complete workflow for packet capture and visualization
Together with the detailed Sauerbraten tutorial, this package becomes more than just a tool — it’s a research environment for anyone curious about how multiplayer networking systems work under the hood.
🌐 Start Exploring
👉 Download the Guided Hacking Packet Logger here
👉 Learn the background with the Sauerbraten Reverse Engineering tutorial