PSA 2: 99% of FPGA DMA firmware you're buying is scam

[Xceeze]

Point number one: Bullshit terms and ignoring facts
Let's establish a baseline here. "Emulated", "Private/Slotted Firmware", "1:1" , "1:4" "Pooled" , "Custom Only You" , "half emu/full emu" are all lies. I'm not sure how changing the terms made people forget that in terms of software, this is equivalent to "Private loader unique polymorphic generation AES 256 encryption undetectable external ring0 usb drive required" but being listed on a public media. Some people have decided to take out LOANS to buy something that will ultimately leave them unsatisfied. For some reason, people want to blow thousands on something that gets them "blocked" or worse banned in 1-2 months. A block isn't a win; the block is still logged by Riot for occurring and all you've done is put yourself on a timer that can end at any moment. On the flipside to this, you have firmware sellers who have multiple firmwares and get beamed on a few versions, safe on others, then say they've been fully UD for X amount of time completely ignoring the issues that occurred. I haven't seen ONE firmware seller that doesn't downplay bans or blocks. It's always "Yes we're UD 10 months sir." Again, if everything is "private", "1:1", why does it always get fucked at the same time, all the time? There is a reason these sellers have a limited warranty, fix fee, or both on these firmwares. Because they do not last. When was the last time you bought a cheat with a fucking limited warranty on it? XD

Point number two: Dropshipping is back baby
To top all of this off, these sellers are straight up drop shipping via TaoBao for 2-5x the price. Some sellers will whine and say "B-b-but sir! That is knockoff!" No, it isn't. Even on the chance it is, if you inspect the PCB it's the only thing that is truly 1:1 in this whole thread. Some of these sellers have established a line of communication to the reps that sell these FPGA cards, and still they choose to charge you 2-5x the price of what you can purchase it for elsewhere because you are a sucker. You can buy off TaoBao from PandaBuy or SugarGoo yourself.

Point number three: The DMA Mafia
Most of these seller communities/servers are all deeply intertwined--they all back each other up, all regurgitate the same info, all keep saying they're UD 5000 years. There is no where for the average user to escape the echo-chamber of bad information. Cheatercords that USED to be neutral in the past and at one point attempted to uphold standards are now just used to monetize and direct people to buy overpriced disguised thinking-rocks that will soon lose most of their perceived value. The rock and roll age of DMA is over, these devices are not worth nearly what they're sold to you for and are a massive money pit to the uninitiated. You will be in a perpetual loop of buying detected or blocked firmware, and when you get banned, it's always "user issue, play more legit."

Point number four: Do any of these sellers actually know how Anti-Cheats detect DMA?
No, they don't. As stated in point three, all of these sellers regurgitate the same information. "Timing checks", "AC can't tell difference between fake device", "we are 1:1 copy of real device". Have you tried to view the ACTUAL configuration space of a FPGA? It isn't 1:1 of the actual device you're copying from. All you're doing is confusing the anti-cheat temporarily not to ban you because it doesn't want to make a false ban. 100% of public Valorant firmwares are utilizing "illegal cfg" which just breaks Riot's dump on the device. To which I'll add, your "Full Emu" doesn't fucking matter if the device is configured with junk values/code to break an anti-cheat scan. I can guarantee you none of these full time firmware sellers have ever attempted to check on how Valorant detects DMA, because they CANT. All of these firmware sellers are spending their day shotgunning firmwares at the anti-cheat to see what isn't banned or blocked. They don't have it reversed in the slightest.

Point number five: DRVSCAN is not a unit of measurement for your firmware
People tout this software around like it's god's given grace on this world for how good or bad your firmware is. People say "Green on DRVSCAN" like it's a selling point, when it is a FREE TOOL made as a passion project. If a new illegal cfg method releases, of course it's going to be green on drvscan. If something is put in to the firmware that modifies drvscan, it's going to show green. A FREE TOOL IS NOT A UNIT OF MEASUREMENT FOR FIRMWARE LEGITIMACY. Stop letting people convince you that DRVSCAN has anything to do with how much something is worth.

Closing thoughts
For the love of god save your money. If you want to cheat with DMA, buy a Lambda or go buy a card off TaoBao instead of giving it to dropshippers who don't deserve an ounce of anyone's respect. On top of that, go use ekknod's free firmware that has survived more ban waves than most sellers on EAC. Some of these sellers don't even attempt to hide the fact that they've made shell accounts purely to rug pull once shit really hits the fan. There are accounts that are only a few months old selling products for thousands of dollars. How could that POSSIBLY go wrong? Once they encounter true skill issue, the game is up.

Some of my favorite moments in DMA community from the past year:
-Having sellers say 35t is fully dead and 75t is now required to play (BUY NEW CARD SIR VERI SAFEU PLZ TY ONLY $500 USD)
-Timing checks, where did it come from? Who timed the check? Who checked the time? Who the FUCK said this was a thing?
-Selling "private driver" firmware, what does this even mean? Device drivers have nothing to do with FPGA DMA detection.
-Getting banned out of a few discords for saying $1500 emulated firmware is a scam (it is)
-Every seller being or knowing an FPGA dev for 3+ years
-Every seller having "private" firmware that has been UD for 4+ years
-Valorant blocks 1909 winver "DMA is dead"
-Ekknod's Wifi source comprising a large amount of the paid DMA market
-KMBOX detections (and false detections/blame incidents)
-Sellers coping with detections on "private" firmware multiple times
-Unnamed firmware seller holding people's funds hostage while they fail to provide working firmware to multiple people for over 60 days
-The multiple threads across the web that "firmware devs" create talking about surface level information, trying to seem quirky and knowledgeable in order to get themselves upvotes and sales.
-Ekknod's discord being a gathering place for some fulltime basement dwellers
-Watching P1111_ exit scam
-Watching BOSSCFW exit scam
-Watching firmware sellers cope about Fortnite disqualifications
-Watching firmware sellers cope about VAN:Restriction
-Watching firmware sellers cope with "manual bans"
-Watching firmware sellers cry about anyone who challenges their view
-Watching firmware sellers reach out to rage bait youtubers who know jack shit in order to "legitimize" themselves.
-Watching a massive "1:1" firmware seller get around 10k apex accounts banned in the first EAC DMA ban wave with their "1:1 custom only you" firmware, turns out it was about 7-8 different bins for everybody. One of their main resellers then said everyone was detected on all firmwares (not true)
-Watching firmware sellers use GamerDoc misinformation as fact (This guy is a professional troll and is under NDA for any real VGK anti-cheat info, you are stupid)

This post was made in good faith. Hopefully hundreds of thousands of dollars will be saved and put towards something more useful in your life than buying a overpriced, over-saturated, snake oil of a device. Or at the very least, you will use the information in this thread to make an informed decision.

[Toxic.dll]

Good post, but about the GamerDoc info, he is really a troll but on fact Riot is ignoring softwares (not making improvements to software detections) and focusing only in hardware, mainly in DMA

Soon if you get much reports they prob gonna add a another type of restriction for Virtualization, HVCI, Kernel DMA Protection etc like they already do on VCT Client

[Xceeze]

Originally Posted by Toxic.dll

Good post, but about the GamerDoc info, he is really a troll but on fact Riot is ignoring softwares (not making improvements to software detections) and focusing only in hardware, mainly in DMA

Software is already in a decent place for Vanguard in terms of detection. Not like you can go out and buy a software here(epvp) and play for more than a week or two. To say they aren't focusing on software isn't entirely true since some semi-private softwares did get hit within the last few months that were previously UD.

Originally Posted by Toxic.dll

Soon if you get much reports they prob gonna add a another type of restriction for Virtualization, HVCI, Kernel DMA Protection etc like they already do on VCT Client

Pretty sure this is already planned to enforce IOMMU/HVCI once more client computers are compatible. I would imagine around the Windows 10 depreciation we will see this implemented.

[Toxic.dll]

Originally Posted by Xceeze

Software is already in a decent place for Vanguard in terms of detection. Not like you can go out and buy a software here(epvp) and play for more than a week or two. To say they aren't focusing on software isn't entirely true since some semi-private softwares did get hit within the last few months that were previously UD.


Pretty sure this is already planned to enforce IOMMU/HVCI once more client computers are compatible. I would imagine around the Windows 10 depreciation we will see this implemented.

They released a detection focusing EFI Cheats mainly, and wave the bans that was delayed, they are not UD just delay bans due low user base

And yea i agree they are good enought for softwares, thats why they are focusing on DMA only

I would say if you want mainly for val its better try find a private software (Need be done by a good dev, not a paster else its useless)

[Will47922]

One question, sometimes the FW can be working normally and still lead to a ban?

[Toxic.dll]

Originally Posted by Will47922

One question, sometimes the FW can be working normally and still lead to a ban?

Yes, a lot of times tbh
And almost all FW have flags that gonna get you banned on first "manual"

[JuuGang]

so whats the purpose of even buying dma if theres still a ban factor? dumb question ik but still, curious.

[Toxic.dll]

Originally Posted by JuuGang

so whats the purpose of even buying dma if theres still a ban factor? dumb question ik but still, curious.

A Public DMA take more time to get you banned than a public software
For who dont have connections, its the better way way to cheat, DMA or 2PC Colorbots

[Xceeze]

Originally Posted by JuuGang

so whats the purpose of even buying dma if theres still a ban factor? dumb question ik but still, curious.

You will last a few weeks on public DMA (or less) compared to buying public 1PC software.

If I were a noob cheater coming in to the scene right now, I would honestly recommend picking up an Arduino 2PC color/AI for a public option. It is going to be 1/5 the price of a DMA setup and will probably last you the same amount of time or longer. I know too many first hand instances of people blowing $1000-$2000 on firmware only to get ****** over right outside of their "warranty" period.

[StephLace]

Thank you so much for this post. While I’m not a Valorant player, what FW can be safe enough that it won’t cause a ban right off the bat?

Mind you I only play COD but I’m reading a lot lately on FW and such and I’m even more confused as to what to get after reading your post.

[Xceeze]

Originally Posted by StephLace

Thank you so much for this post. While I’m not a Valorant player, what FW can be safe enough that it won’t cause a ban right off the bat?

Mind you I only play COD but I’m reading a lot lately on FW and such and I’m even more confused as to what to get after reading your post.

For non-Valorant/FACEIT, just use ekknod's multimedia located at ekknod.xyz
It is free and has outlasted all these paste firmwares which just use Ekknod's Wifi 2.0 source as a base to work off of, or worse yet just use a program called Telescan to "copy" a device from your PC in poor fashion.

For Valorant/FACEIT, buy any firmware! You'll last between 1 week-3 months depending on if you want to spend $200 or $3000. If that sounds worth it to you, DMA is right up your alley. Keep in mind buying Val/FACEIT fw doesn't make you safer on EAC. It's a different anti-cheat with different methods of detection.

[Relentless]

Basically they all selling invalid cfg space trick. Gg wp

Also you’re so true about GamerDoc and his tap fest. Some ppl are convinced timing checks are real, yet when I go to GamerDoc (claiming to be head analysts), he says “I’m not sure how they work ask ekknod lol”.
Aswell as that I know plenty of people using 35T cards going absolutely fine in the high ranks.
Also 1:1 is a thing it’s just misinterpreted it refers to having a 1:1 / exact copy of the donor card. Just some sellers who don’t even know what they’re selling changed it to mean “you get your very own unique serials”.
For emulation, well it’s also real. You can emulate a real device. Some might get blocked but not all. But yeah there’s always the chances of you getting blocked, even if you spend $2000.
Also about drv scan, if something is invalid config space it will show red. You don’t need to wait for ekknod to add x method = red on the code. It does checks to see if a device is legal config space.

Originally Posted by JuuGang

so whats the purpose of even buying dma if theres still a ban factor? dumb question ik but still, curious.

Because all of you kids on EPVP wanted to cheat, but we did t want to invite you to our private cheats. So a public method game along which was undetected. All the people unable to find a private cheat started using it.

Originally Posted by StephLace

Thank you so much for this post. While I’m not a Valorant player, what FW can be safe enough that it won’t cause a ban right off the bat?

Mind you I only play COD but I’m reading a lot lately on FW and such and I’m even more confused as to what to get after reading your post.

For cod pretty much any firmware, ekknod is fine. But if you decide to buy firmware. Buy something with a legal configuration space.

[todayta]

Glad someone finally called out the absolute dropshipping scam in the marketplace , No way you should be paying 200 for a device that cost like $30 equivalent to manufacture, it's why i have a list of sellers in my signature now.

As for firmware talk , i completely agree, even fw like shockazulu who charges hundreds are driverless, if you can't flash something like ekknod's then save the time and get a $10 donor network card and just shadow copy config.

I don't think DMA is a snake oil or useless, it has its place, against ACS that aren't well protected against it it can be quite useful, it's one of many tools like arduino colorbots or CV cheats or internal/external etc, that has its pros and cons, the relentless bs marketing has just gotten so bad it's frustrating.

[.MOON.]

Originally Posted by todayta

Glad someone finally called out the absolute dropshipping scam in the marketplace , No way you should be paying 200 for a device that cost like $30 equivalent to manufacture, it's why i have a list of sellers in my signature now.

As for firmware talk , i completely agree, even fw like shockazulu who charges hundreds are driverless, if you can't flash something like ekknod's then save the time and get a $10 donor network card and just shadow copy config.

I don't think DMA is a snake oil or useless, it has its place, against ACS that aren't well protected against it it can be quite useful, it's one of many tools like arduino colorbots or CV cheats or internal/external etc, that has its pros and cons, the relentless bs marketing has just gotten so bad it's frustrating.

+rep for the nice links

[Xceeze]

Originally Posted by todayta

I don't think DMA is a snake oil or useless, it has its place, against ACS that aren't well protected against it it can be quite useful, it's one of many tools like arduino colorbots or CV cheats or internal/external etc, that has its pros and cons, the relentless bs marketing has just gotten so bad it's frustrating.

true. it isn't snake oil or useless, but the current market makes it out to be that way. i have seen some truly revolutionary stuff done with these fpga cards, it's just too bad all of these scammers give it a bad name.