Go here, then join a game (not studio). [To clarify, I mean join a game match inside this Roblox game]
You will notice that the Roblox button is invisible and pressing escape instead opens a custom menu.
This is pretty interesting since it’s the first time I’ve ever seen something like this happen. The only time I have ever come close to messing with that level of CoreGui was by using CT’s modded studio and a glitch
Any speculation on how they managed to pull this off and whether or not it’s “legal”?
This seems to be the old settings menu! I opened it up in notepad (studio errors if you try to insert it as a model, even though it’s a .rbxmx file), and I can say this was made at least before Instance:WaitForChild() function came out.
Only one question remains unanswered - how was the default settings menu disabled?
Even I don’t know, but looking at the first messages in the console it’s possible that some script forces the topbar corescript to not load and error.
Ive seen this happen before. I moderate that game so I’m not sure how they do it. They do it for the nostalgia purposes since its an old roblox simulator
I kind of don’t see a problem with it, as long as they’re not doing anything wrong, but it is worrying. Kind of wanted to know how to do it tbh. I hope this game doesn’t get banned or anything. I really hope so, I was gonna play it but forgot to, I was like, omg imma make a good game here if it supports script yay
Probably because it’s type is “Lua” and not a model / script, I don’t think you can open models that are scripts in the notepad, could be wrong but yeah. Never saw the type as just “Lua”.
I don’t know for sure if it’s allowed, but looking at this from a different standpoint is if this isn’t allowed what if it was allowed and all the possibilities for roblox game developers.
Just to provide clarification: He meant that you had to join the game within the game (go to play → Click on a game → Top bar and esc menu are replaced)
Anyways to answer OP: I have my theories on how it could have possibly been done but I’m not confident they would work
As for if games should do this? I’m on the fence…
On the one hand, if games do replace the core guis, it does allow you to have a menu that better fits the game’s theme. In this case, the retro esc menu fits the retro aesthetic of the game.
On the other hand, having 30 million different esc menu guis could make it hard for players to navigate to change their settings. Having a consistent esc menu makes sure that players have at least one functional and familiar thing to navigate so if they need to do something they can find it in that menu in any game. (In this case - the esc menu is still simple to navigate even though it’s totally different)
Personally I think generally I will stay away from changing the esc menu in my games. The esc menu and top bar never truly bothered me for my games, but I can see how other games might benefit from changing them.
The problem here is that this is a security issue and the developers of this game shouldn’t be allowed to do this irrespective of their intention. Roblox explicitly doesn’t allow you to modify the CoreGui or layer developer Guis over them for security purposes and this is an obvious bypass. Their method needs to be investigated and patched so it doesn’t happen in any other live games.
