Cheat Engine

[zilianbra]

How did you come up with Cheat Engine? Did you guys, who worked on It, were physically together?

Cheat Engine is a very organized project, full of functions, fascinating.
Did you have any experience doing this kind of program before?
What made you start this project and kept you updating it?

Could you please tell me how did you learn to program drivers?

Is this the algorithm for the pointer scan?
- Given a initial address
- Scan every pointer in memory possibly adding ou decreasing an offset to the address pointed so that it matches the original
- Repeat process for a limited number of levels
?

Thank you

[coolman++]

There's one guy you gotta really appreciate for this. Dark Byte. He created a free software to use (much better than that ArtMoney or HexEditorPro crap) that has FREE support forums, in which he makes more than 50 posts WEEKLY. Even his tutorial is hard work. Sadly, not everyone appreciates his tutorial because people are stupid.

[Dark Byte]

I started Cheat Engine one week before I started my study of software engineering (embedded software) and applied what I learned to it (also helped me greatly during my study with the extra experience it gave me)

And after my study finished it was a nice side project(doing the same thing constantly is boring) and also a little bit of extra income


Windows driver developing I mostly learned from reading the documents by Matt Pietrek and the system developer internal books by intel


As for the pointerscan, close.
first generate a map of where every pointer in the game is and the value it contains (progressbar at start)
then take the initial address and lookup pointers that have a value between the given address-max structsize and the given address
Then for each pointer found, do the same(telling another thread to do that, or call it recursively), till max level is reached.