Cheat Engine

[ryu1215]

I was recently trying to find a pointer using the methods that I learned in the included Tutorial. Everything went fine up until a certain point; when I tried to do a scan (4-byte hex, just like in the Tutorial), I didn't come up with any results. And apparently, doing it again and again is no kind of solution. I don't have any programming experience and know next to nothing about how addresses and values are stored, so there's not really anything that I know to do about it. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[justa_dude]

You're probably searching for an offset address instead of the one the trace tells you to search for. Honestly, I'd stick to the pointer scanner.

[ryu1215]

The pointer scanner causes my poor computer to have an aneurysm. And no, I'm not searching for the wrong address. I didn't have this problem one time and then give up; I tried several times, all with the same degree of effectiveness.

[justa_dude]

You sound pretty confident that you're doing the right thing. Why do you think you're failing to come up w/ results?



In some games, I feel safe making assumptions regarding pointers - setting the maximum offset to something small like 256 and the maximum depth to something like three will significantly ease the burden of the pointer scan. You might be able to try filling in the offsets you've managed to find.

If you still fail, you might be looking at a more complex data structure or even a value with automatic scope. It is certainly possible that there is no static pointer you can use. Try using code-injection to grab the address or manipulate the value directly instead.

Cheers,
adude

[rain-13]

Is code injection same as DLL injection? And how can code injection grab the address? Doesn't it mean that incected code must know address to grab? If so, then how does injected code know address?It still needs pointer or something?

Sorry if my questions are stupid, i am just noob who has similar problem.

[XaLeX]