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phantom887 · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 27 Aug 2011 Posts: 7

If there is more than one instruction which accessed an address, how do I know which one to use to get the pointer? Or does it matter? Sorry for the noob question and thanks in advance for any response!

gaming04 · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 1:04 am Post subject:

It does not matter until it matters.
Understand this and you are ready to go. Wink

phantom887 · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 27 Aug 2011 Posts: 7

I wish people wouldn't get my hopes up thinking someone responded and then have it turn out its just a useless answer.

Dark Byte · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 12:26 pm Post subject:

It doesn't matter in most cases as you're only interested in the offset and not the instruction

There are a few cases where there is a difference in offset, but generally speaking they are all the same so you can pick any

phantom887 · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 27 Aug 2011 Posts: 7

Thanks Dark! I love that you, as the site admin, get involved in the forums. Its great.

cwjakesteel · Cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 24 Jun 2009 Posts: 31

I had this problem too. I realized that it didn't matter. I don't even know about eax or esi, or mov or whatever these mean.

When will it ever be complex enough to matter?

SwaggaJackin' · Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 10:10 pm Post subject:

One situation where it would matter is if you want the code to be executed numerous times, or only occasionally.

If you got an address that is being read or written to 100 times per frame, and you want your code jump to be executed that many times, it would matter. It works vice versa as well, if you got an instruction not being executed often and want your own code to do the same, you could make your hook there.