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Zanzer · Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2015 1:56 pm Post subject:

When you do these types of scans, you will need to restart the game and find the values again.
Just because some of those bytes didn't change while running around, doesn't mean a reboot will have those same bytes.
This is why I use injection to grab my pointers. Smile

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Rydian · Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2015 2:58 pm Post subject:

A lot of games nowadays don't have native pointer paths that you can find the old ways, especially games written in "managed" languages. The pointer scanner will find tons of results that the old manual way won't find, and knowing the offset and approximate max size can help cut down on the scan data. If you're low on space you can overwrite old scans with the latest rescans (or just delete the old ones).

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Rydian · Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2015 7:22 pm Post subject:

What type of game is it? Do you have any idea what it's written in?

Try an offset of 2048 and a depth of 6 for the first scan.

What I do is have a folder just for pointer scans, and I clean it out when I'm not needing any of it due to the size.

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Ok I did try offset of 2048 and depth of 6.
But then it took 52GB for only the first scan and still wasn't done yet.
Is this normal ?

You also told me by knowning the approximtate max size and offset it could take a cut off, how do I find those 2 right (I thought the offset by what writes this address but then at the pointer scan it gave me 0 results.

Rydian · Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2015 8:55 am Post subject:

I don't have any experience with flash games myself, from what I've seen people don't bother with pointers and will do AOB AS2/AS3 code edits or edit the flash file if they can find it (there's de/recompilers out there)

jan24 · Cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 12 Jul 2013 Posts: 34

Ok I tried a different game (Karateka) its made with Unreal Engine if I'm correct.
But then again the first pointer scanner was taking up to 52GB again and still wasn't done.
I did use the offset of 2048 and depth of 6.

EDIT:
I was able to catch the HP for GodMode at the game Karateka, by using pointers.
This is my first success so far, so I have posted it at the forum for everyones use (?p=5605079).

Still though I would love to try Offspring Fling! again but I think that game might be to hard for me right now. Any suggestions is always welcome. Smile

Thanks for all your support.

Zanzer · Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2015 3:00 pm Post subject:

Did you find out what instructions accessed the value and then use the offset from the code to reduce your pointer scan?

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Zanzer · Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2015 5:09 pm Post subject:

Edit > Settings > Debugger Options > Debugger method > Use VEH Debugger
See if the game still crashes when you find out what writes to your address.

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Zanzer · Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2015 6:00 pm Post subject:

Try using Find out what accesses this address (instead of "writes to")
Maybe one of those will have an offset.

Flash games don't always have dedicated instructions for specific game values.

Go to the instruction and do a Find out what addresses this instruction accesses.
It'll likely contain a bunch. If not, post an AOB template.
I'll give you the code to create a custom pointer.

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