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[oshanath]

Hello!

I'm having trouble hacking Assassin's Creed III game.
I tried to find the base address for the number of bullets I have.
I followed your tutorials and proceeded up to a 2 level pointer.
When I tried "Find out what accesses this pointer" it's empty.

I should say I have some experience in hacking offline games, but I have never stumbled upon something like this before.

Thanks in advance for anyone who even reads this.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Csimbi]

What is (well, was) the level of your can? (depth)
I think it's highly unlikely that you have the right pointer.

[oshanath]

I'm sorry for this, but what do mean by "the level of your can"?
I can't understand. (My native language is not English if that's the problem)

Okay so I'm switching my subject from ammo to money, cuz it's easier for me to use, but don't worry, I have the same problem even then.

So this is my progress. (Including the addresses I encountered)

1 - I scanned for the money address.
It resulted in 3 addresses. (FD352660 , 11AAAADC , 11AAAAD0)
2 - I selected "Find out what writes to this address" on FD352660 and there were some instructions. It said the pointer address was FD352654 and the offset was 0C.

I inserted that as a 4 byte hex value and scanned and it resulted in a single address. Then I went add address manually , ticked pointer, inserted the address and the offsets, again "Find out what accesses this address" and "Find out what accesses this pointer".

3 - That resulted in some instructions. They said the pointer address was FD4FCA80 and there was no offset.

I scanned that hex value again and had a single address. Again the same procedure as before and after "Find out what accesses this pointer" an instruction appears. Saying the address is FD3892D8 and the offset is 4. When I did a 4 byte hex scan for that address nothing appears, but a dead end.

4 - The other two addresses from the beginning acts just the same.

Now you perfectly get my situation, and I hope you can help out.

And thanks for spending even a minute of your time to help out a guy like myself.

Thanks!

[mgr.inz.Player]

You are using very old method. It's good for older games.

1) find correct address
2) add it to "address list" (just double click found address which is in "found list")
3) right click it and choose "pointer scan ...."


You already know the most likely "ending offset", in your case it is C. Set other things like this:



4) Click OK, choose PTR file location (at least 10-20GB free), it will perform pointer scanning,
5) You have to make few pointer rescans (use forum search for "pointer rescan")

Basically you:
a) restart game, find address again, copy that address to clipboard,
b) open "pointer scanner" with CTRL+M, CTRL+P, then CTRL+O, open latest PTR file, CTRL+R, paste address
c) click OK, save as another file with different name)
d) go to step a)


TIP1:
I personally save PTR files like this:
"ACIII_bullets.PTR" (first pointer scan)
"ACIII_bullets RES 01.PTR" (first rescan)
"ACIII_bullets RES 02.PTR" (second rescan)
and so on.

Sometimes, I remove first scan if it is very big (saving PTR files to different subfolders might help )

TIP2: sometimes restarting game isn't enough, sometimes it is better to restart PC or start new game on different slot, or start game on different/new user account (if you've admin rights, you can create another account, just go to windows control panel)








If above won't work, try bigger max level and without ending offset


If this doesn't work, try again, this time uncheck "First element of pointerstruct ...."

 

[oshanath]

Hello again.

I did everything you asked but the second pointer scan always returns empty.

(Just a side question here. Does "Max level" mean the exact number of levels the pointer has or the the highest level which the pointers will be scanned?)

[Dark Byte]

Tick allow stack addresses, it may give a better entry point for pointers (but you can forget about writing a trainer in another language besides ce though)

Also, seeing you came back within 11 hours, try level 7, or try increasing the structsize as well (e.g. 3092)

Level means highest level
A max level of 5 will find all results of level 1,2,3 and 4 as well

[oshanath]

Sorry for the delay guys.

But it worked.

First I did the pointer scan for level 5.
That didn't catch the correct address.

So I did a pointer scan for level 10 and left it for like 2 or 3 hours and stopped it. (I know you don't like it, Dark Byte)
Then did rescans.

There were 9 pointer paths left.
And all 9 of them worked fine.
And turns out they're all 10 level pointers.
So if I typed 9 instead of 10 would I not have been able to find this?

If it isn't trouble can you tell me why the manual pointer search got lost?

[oshanath]

Oh and another thing,

When I dissect data/structures it only results in pointers.
I followed a tutorial the same way with the same game, yet the other guys got 4 byte values and floats. All I get are pointers. Why?

Thanks!

[Csimbi]

[oshanath]

No no I mean it doesn't matter which game I use, I always end up some pointer values when I dissect data/structures.

[Xathan]

Is 01AC6C00 really your base address? Because when you dissect a structure the inserted address is not the wanted address. Usually I need to insert my base address manually and then it works.

[oshanath]

That address is not my base address.
But even when I find my base address it's the same result.

A normal dynamic(Black) address is a pointer right?
When I dissect data structures there should be pointers.

So I found the base address using pointer scan.
It was a 10 level pointer.
So how do I insert that address with offsets into dissecting data structures?

[Csimbi]

The base address should not matter.
What settings did you change for structures?
(What are the defaults and what are the settings for *this* structure?)

[oshanath]

Here.

[oshanath]

Helooooooooo Guys!!