Cheat Engine

SaleMCSE · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 08 Jan 2010 Posts: 5

Hi all, i want to use cheat engine to try and find an address that stores my current Hit Points in game called DragonOath.

The reason why i need this is because a lot of times i get very low on hp and then i have hard time healing myself. So i wanna make a program that will play a sound when I'm like 30% hp left.

My problem is: When i scan the game's memory for the exact value of my hp it gives me different address every time i run the game. Is there a way to find a the real value even if i restart the game?

Dark Byte · Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 4:23 pm Post subject:

If all you want to do is read it out then try pointers or code injection on the routine that reads out your own health for display.

Of course, I probably won't have to tell you that just changing that value won't do a thing

SaleMCSE · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 08 Jan 2010 Posts: 5

yup i know that, and i need it only to read the memory for that number.

I did all Cheat Engine tutorials and i got some of it in my head but still can;t figure out pointers hehe.

Guess i will have to try tomorrow since it is 4:26am here atm.

Also if u can point me to some good pointer tutorial i would appreciate it alot

Lemonlime · Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 5:38 am Post subject:

Just look in the pointer tutorials section, theres plenty of great tutorials Very Happy

Psy · Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 6:16 am Post subject:

SaleMCSE, post up with your method and how far you've got. Use pictures! We'll be able to help better..

SaleMCSE · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 08 Jan 2010 Posts: 5

OK I will now explain what I do and show you my problem. Fist I run the game and scan for my current HP

htt p://img695.imageshack.us/img695/8900/hp1l.png

For scanning I’m using: Exact Value / 4 Bytes, after healing and rescanning I get 1 address

htt p://img683.imageshack.us/img683/6308/address1.png

Now I go “Find out what writes to this address”, I heal once more and I get

htt p://img192.imageshack.us/img192/3192/point1.png

So now I usually turn to some Pointer tutorial to figure out what to do next, since this is my first time using the program and I started learning it last night hehe.

Anyway I load more info and I get this

htt p://img695.imageshack.us/img695/8558/info1.png

I’m also noob in ASM but as far as I can figure out, there is nothing adding to the value of my preheal HP it just moves one value to another (I might be wrong), but anyway this Is that tutorial tells me to do next. I start new search in Exact Value/ 4Bytes with HEX ticked and search for 180113B0

htt p://img695.imageshack.us/img695/5830/scan2k.png

As u can see I got 3 addresses, now I will “Add address manually” and add them as pointers (I will add all 3 since I have no idea witch one is true tbh)

htt p://img683.imageshack.us/img683/5601/add1d.png

I’m adding the Offset as 000006d4 because as I understood the tutorial I need to do that because of [eax+000006d4], ecx. When I do this for all 3 I get

htt p://img69.imageshack.us/img69/2744/point2.png

As u can see I get the correct value of my current HP in all of them, also when I heal they all change and are correct again. But this is now where my problem is occurring. When I leave that map or reload the game, the values are now

htt p://img402.imageshack.us/img402/9662/wrong1.png

*in this case i reloaded the game*
Any suggestions? Or did I do something wrong or missed something?

P.S. i had to post links like this since the forum is not allowing me to post urls yet.

Psy · Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 9:27 am Post subject:

At this stage:

SaleMCSE · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 08 Jan 2010 Posts: 5

yes that is what i feared, i did try using Pointer Scanner and it was running for like 5 mins and found over 500k pointers before i turned it off. But since u suggested it. i will do that and leave it be hehee

Btw when i do Exact Value / All(Byte to Double) it finds my HP in double, 4 Bytes, 1 Byte and so on. Does it mater witch one i use as my starting point for Pointer Scanner?

P.S. i will try using the Exact Value/ 4 Bytes pointer scanner until i get replay from you

Psy · Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 11:57 am Post subject:

No it doesn't matter.

SaleMCSE · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 08 Jan 2010 Posts: 5

ok there has to be something wrong. is it posible to go into like 8 pointer deep and still nothing, i keep getting like 5-8 addresses and only 1 of them work when i go to see what accesses that pointer, but the thing is values in that window are added all the time, not only when i heal.

Also can u explain me how to use that Automated pointer scanner?
I did it once and it found tons of addresses but i couldn't figure out how to filter them.