Cheat Engine

ponana · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 15 Aug 2012 Posts: 5

A notepad file containing unsaved data crashed on my system during a save (facepalm). It is still open, but unresponsive. Is there any way I can use cheat engine to retrieve the data from the notepad file? Thanks in advance.

Dark Byte · Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 11:02 pm Post subject:

Target the notepad process and do a text scan for one word or sentence in there (do both unicode and non unicode if you don't find it first)

ponana · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 15 Aug 2012 Posts: 5

Ok, I searched for a word and got 8 addresses, which sounds about right. Where do I go from here?

I appreciate the response, it's half five in the morning here and I haven't slept yet because I cant solve this problem!

Dark Byte · Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 11:12 pm Post subject:

rightclick each address and do a browse this memory region
You can then read the memory around there

If you found a block that contains all of the original text, then click file->save memory region and fill in the start and stop address (you have to find those manually.

(you might be able to copy/paste, but big copy/pastes are sometimes buggy)

ponana · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 15 Aug 2012 Posts: 5

Thank you so much! I can see all of my work! one problem though, the 2 memory addresses I found were: C810E2BDCA and C810E2E86A. These are 10 characters long, and wont fit in the "from" and "to" boxes. I got these addresses of the left side of the bottom section of the memory viewer, is that wrong?

Dark Byte · Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 11:26 pm Post subject:

Hmm, seems you're in 64-bit windows and this is a bug in ce

Try typing it over

Or, click tools->lua engine and type in:

if unicode:

ponana · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 15 Aug 2012 Posts: 5

I got an error, "error:[string "s=readString(0xC810E2BDCA, 10912, true) ..."]:3: attempt to call global 'writeToClipboard' (a nil value)". Again, thank you so much for your time! :)

Dark Byte · Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 11:33 pm Post subject:

Oh, you're not using a recent version of Cheat Engine.

In that case, replace "writeToClipboard(s)" with "print(s)" so it outputs it in the lua display, from which you can copy as well

ponana · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 15 Aug 2012 Posts: 5

That fixed it. I really cant thank you enough! If I had the money I would shower you with gold and oversized cookies for eternity. I have literally been up for 5 hours stressing over losing my work, and you completely restored it on your own! Thank you! You are an awesome person!