Cheat Engine

[hippy*]

Hi,

I've read almost every topic about pointers but still couldnt understand / find mine.

Game = Metro 2033 v 1.2

Goal = Get 500 Money

Game is single player only.

I managed to find the money's address, a "2 bytes" type. I can set it to whatever i want ( 500 => working ) then buy or sell stuff ingame and it will add or
substract from 500 ( so it is the actual money value, not only it's display value ).

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So i add that address to the list at the bottom of the windows, then right click it and select "Find out what writes to this address."

When ingame i buy stuff ( thus money decreasing ) i get an entry.
When ingame i sell stuff ( thus money increasing ) i get another entry.

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Clicking "More informations" gives me the guessed pointer value and offset.

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Lets start with the first entry ( buying stuff ).

When i search for the guessed value 14DE5D80 ( ticking HEX checkbox ) should i choose "4 bytes type" or "2 bytes type" ? I went with "2 bytes type" to match previous findings.

This search gives me hundreds of matchs. The last ones are green.

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then i click "Add address manually", tick the pointer checkbox, set type to 2 bytes, type in the address found in green and the offset.

The address is maually added to the list, but it's value is nothing like my money count.

I either get ?? or a value like 12 023, far from my 126 money units.

I did that with every address found by searching the guessed value from the buying and the selling the entry.

Nothing is equal to 126.

Now i dont understand what am i doing wrong, help would be highly appreciated.

Thank you.

PS : english is'nt my first language, forgive the mistakes i made.
Also, clicking on "pointer scan for this address" crashes both Cheat Engine and the game.

[Dark Byte]

When you get multiple offsets, pick the one with the biggest offset, so the 284 one and search for that value.
Note though that it must be a 4 byte hexadecimal value

Then check the results you get. Perhaps you'll find a static or not. It depends on the game.
If not, then select the top address and find what accesses that and go from there. If nothing found then pick the next one

As for the poiterscanner actually crashing the game it's most likely that your harddisk ran out,and your paging file couldn't grow anymore

[hippy*]

By selling stuff ingame i get the money address.

I then click on "find out what writes to this address"

I sell one more thing ingame the comeback to CE.

I have an entry.

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I click on Extra Info

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Then i HEX search for the guessed value. One Address is found.

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I manually add an address ( the one found after the hex search + offset ) and it's pointing to the money address.

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I then click on "find out what writes to this address" of the newly discovered pointer.

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I go back ingame and sell something, then come back to CE windows and no entry there.

I can sell or buy anything i want ingame, nothing appears in this window; but it's not my base pointer ( if that's what it's called ) because when i quit then restart the game and change the value located at ADDRESS 15C36164 OFFSET 24 either nothing happens, or the game crash. ( i have a simple, working vb code to change memory values )