[caki]

Gotta agree with Tippex on that one. When I was a noob at RE, I tried to crack safedisc right away, and I didn't even know what a JNZ meant :P. Ahh, well I went and got a safedisc tutorial. Well, I read that tut so many times that in the end a learned a big chunk from it. Thats actually pretty much the only tut I have relied on. I read tuts constantly, to get a feel for new ideas, but the only one I ever followed right down to the letter was that safedisc tutorial. Some people may find this bad, but since that tut wasn't written for noobs, I had to figure out a lot of stuff for myself, and in the end, I learned a shitload.

However, now that I have more experience(I'm still noob, but I do have SOME experience), I find MUCH more pleasure in doing things myself, and I only consult tuts when I am out of ideas (which is pretty much never).

So pretty much: If you have no idea what to do, read a tut and understand it, but don't go around following every tut you can get your hands on down to the letter, because then you won't be able to think independently.

PS

Why would anyone write a tut for FEAR? If your antidebug is nice, and you can use a tracer, its a 2 min. job (Get to OEP, dump, dump other sc memory, append it...). I don't see how anyone could learn anytnhing from that tut, and if you can't learn anything, why would you need it? ... But oh well, I don't like criticising tut writers...