Cheat Engine

justicar · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 22 Mar 2012 Posts: 2

I've followed several tutorials showing how to find a pointer to a memory location that will persist after restarting the target app. However, when manually adding a pointer/offset, the offset I find is negative like this:

Dark Byte · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 4:41 am Post subject:

fffffff8 is -8
Anyhow, this is not a pointer but a local stack value (temporary value that will be destroyed as soon as the function returns)

Try this code instead:

justicar · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 22 Mar 2012 Posts: 2

Comes up green, thank you!

P.S. If the code were written as the original, is there a way to manufacture a pointer that can be used in future invocations of the program?

Dark Byte · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 9:53 am Post subject:

no, not unless another piece of code stores that address, or a relative address in a static address
There has to be a link to the address. (e.g direct3d might keep a static pointer to your variable, or a physics engine, etc...)