Cheat Engine

AuroraGriffin · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 26 Oct 2008 Posts: 14

How do you deal with money amounts like $1,000, ... as opposed to just plain 1000?
I go to imput something like that, and I get an error message, instead of results.

Labyrnth · Moderator Reputation: 10 Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 6301

$1000 in ce is 1000

If this is not what you mean, try to post a little better so we can get the idea.

AuroraGriffin · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 26 Oct 2008 Posts: 14

I've tried doing without things like the "," in 1,000, but it doesn't work.

Dark Byte · Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 6:36 pm Post subject:

tried scanning 1000 in 2-byte, 4-byte, float and double ?

AuroraGriffin · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 26 Oct 2008 Posts: 14

[SPW]Jsin · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 12:22 pm Post subject:

dont put commas

AuroraGriffin · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 26 Oct 2008 Posts: 14

I've tried going without the commas. That doesn't seem to work, either.
Is anyone here familiar with "SimCity 3000 Unilimited"? That's one of those
that I'm trying to affect.

Maybe we can use this for example purposes? If anyone know this one, ...
please tell me what to do about it?

Psy · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 2:01 pm Post subject:

If I remember rightly, the cash is stored as either a DWORD or a QWORD (ie. 4 or 8-bytes in length). Should be straightforward to find with normal exact value searches... Not sure what to suggest... all the obvious stuff like are you targeting the right process?... and then maybe choosing the 'all' scan-type to scan outside of the 32-bit range, and possible include read-only memory too...

~Psy

AuroraGriffin · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 26 Oct 2008 Posts: 14

Yes. ... Darn, ... I wish I knew more what I was doing, but I guess that'll be
some time. I just pretty much started using this utility.

hcavolsdsadgadsg · Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 12:43 pm Post subject:

Go through the tutorial included with CE.

Tideo · Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 4:59 am Post subject:

well i did sim city 4 if that counts O.O

i just searched for the exact amount of money

then i changed the amount i had...then i scanned for the new amount i had

then if there was a couple left i did it again then i did whatever

AuroraGriffin · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 26 Oct 2008 Posts: 14

I know, that's how it's supposed to be done. I tried just that here, both with
and without commas (to cover all my bases), and it didn't give me anything.

Psy · Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 6:25 am Post subject:

AuroraGriffin · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 26 Oct 2008 Posts: 14

By text, I was simply referring to the commas

Psy · Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 7:35 am Post subject:

A 4-byte scan will not take special characters. Just ignore anything like that, as it is not stored in memory as you see it in-game most of the time (ie. in game might have commas, spacing, or currency symbols like $ £, but in memory its just stored as the literal value, say '1000').

~Psy