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Trying to make a trainer but scanning using hex

 
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Radon-222
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 15, 2017 7:12 am    Post subject: Trying to make a trainer but scanning using hex Reply with quote

so i have been trying to make a lua trainer. i got to the point where i needed to search in the memory.
i found from the wiki that i could use a list of binaries to do the search with AOBscan. but that is not what i want. i want to search for a speciffic hex value and thereafter change it. is this possible? do i have to convert the hex code to a list of binaries somehow? is there a function to search with hex values?
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 15, 2017 6:40 pm    Post subject: This post has 1 review(s) Reply with quote

May be some helper function to convert a hex to some aob string, so that it can be search using AOBScan. eg.

Code:

function s2aob(s) -- s is an arbitrary byte string
  return s:gsub(".",function(c)
    return string.format(" %02X", c:byte())
  end):sub(2)
end

-- ntype = 2,4,8 for word, dword, qword, 'd' for double (8bytes), 'f' for float (4bytes)
function num2ByteString(n, ntype, isBigEndian)
  local packfmt = tonumber(tostring(ntype)) and 'i'..ntype or ntype or 'i4'
  packfmt = (isBigEndian and '>' or '<')..packfmt
  return string.pack(packfmt,n)
end

function str2Wide(s)
  return byteTableToString(wideStringToByteTable(s))
end


So to AOBScan a (hex, prefix with 0x) number, try
Code:

local aob = AOBScan ( s2aob(num2ByteString( 0x12345 )) ) -- 4byte dword
-->            AOBScan ( "45 23 01 00" )
local aob = AOBScan ( s2aob(num2ByteString( 0x12345 , 8)) ) -- 8byte qword
-->            AOBScan ( "45 23 01 00 00 00 00 00" )

To AOBScan a double, try
Code:

local aob = AOBScan ( s2aob(num2ByteString( 43.5, 'd', true )) ) -- big endian
-->            AOBScan ( "40 45 C0 00 00 00 00 00" )
local aob = AOBScan ( s2aob(num2ByteString( 43.5, 'd')) ) -- little endian
-->            AOBScan ( "00 00 00 00 00 C0 45 40" )


To scan for a string ,
Code:

local aob = AOBScan ( s2aob("Cheat") )  -- ascii string
-->            AOBScan ( "43 68 65 61 74" )
local aob = AOBScan ( s2aob(str2Wide("Cheat")) )  -- unicode string
-->            AOBScan ( "43 00 68 00 65 00 61 00 74 00" )


It can also combine/join multiple aob like a structure using table.concat,
Code:
 
local aob = AOBScan ( table.concat ( { s2aob(num2ByteString(5)), s2aob("Cheat")}, " ") ) 
-->            AOBScan ( "05 00 00 00 43 68 65 61 74" )





or using MemScan Class, it has many option that may map to the CE scan interface.

For both scan method, you may need to consider what to do if the scan is not unique, there may be risk on modifying false result.

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