How do you detect dark dex?

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#206

Since you can’t do anything to instances under CoreGui, not even read their name, not much can be done in this regard.

#207

Is there anything we can really do?? Except create a post about a new studio feature for limited coregui access.

#208

You can attack other factors of Dex, like globals that it calls at runtime, properties being set on objects in your game, stuff being deleted, etc.

#209

Dex / Synapse creates a new frame inside RobloxGui called NotificationFrame and a Dialog named Dialog in a unknown location in the game.(With some other junk most likely.) Which was a form of detection.

#210

That would be Synapse creating the frame. It was patched some time ago.

#211

Quite the opposite, it still exists but Roblox just patched the method of accessing coregui to know that the frame exists. So basically “patched”.

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#212

We just need to do what Football fusion or that other game does. Any other way will be randomly punishing your players.

#213

What do they do anyway? I don’t know.

#214

I’m not sure who to reply to as it’s been mentioned multiple times, but the methods used to detect Dex and Synapse are temporary at best. This goes for any client-side anti-exploit. Aside from the reasons stated before, an exploit can simply disable any client-side code automatically on injection before anything else runs.

#215

@coolswagger75
@qwertyexpert

You can not access core GUI, but if you are only looking to patch dex you don’t need to access core GUI at all, dex doesn’t only put a GUI into core GUI. It has other factors such has folders that are not in core GUI, and globals. That’s how I patched dex at least and it still works today on all versions of dex.
It’s not 100% bypass proof but it works.

So I’ll list the ways to can patch dex.

  1. Looking for dexs objects that aren’t in core GUI (recommend)

  2. Find first child (eh not that good but still ok)

  3. Memory checks ( work well but is NOT recommended for big or medium sized games)

  4. Looking for dev console errors ( not recommended)

  5. Mouse detection ( works well but I wouldn’t use it because of false positives )

Hope this helps feel free to message me with other questions.

Also game.descendant added won’t work as it will spam errors in the output.

And game.item changed was discontinued to my knowledge.

Your best bet is looking for it’s folders.

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#216

I literally don’t know how to do any of those things.

#217

Then you should learn lua before trying to patch a super hard exploit.

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#219

It’s super complex but you can use game.selectionchanged on some instances I think to detect when they click on a gui. The reason I say its complex is because you can’t really tell between exploit guis and regular game gui’s so it will kick you everytime you press anything.

#220

Please don’t ping me about this.

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#223

How would you look for dex objects that arent in the coregui? game.Parent:FindFirstChild(“Explorer”,true)?

The folders of dex are parented in the same level as the game itself?

#224

That method was patched by Roblox awhile ago.

#225

So why does he talk about looking for objects that arent in coregui right now? He said that theres folders that u see dex put in the game like Dex Output and such.

#226

Dex creates “Dex Output” in game and another folder called “Dex Storage” in nil, etc. Those could be used as detectables.

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#227

Hm, well when you go into game and try to print its location, you’ll get the nil instance folder location issue. His way sounded great but…isn’t the right way.

#228

A summary: dark dex cannot be detected and even if it could it would be patched easily resulting in a waste of the developer’s time.

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