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mashuga · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 12 Oct 2015 Posts: 3

I'm not the greatest with mapping out memory and what little I do know, Wicc showed me 5-7 years ago.

I'm trying to track down a reliable means of finding the current map name. (Trickier than it sounds, map names are fine to find, but the moment you enter an instance, the majority of the in-memory locations still show your position outside the instance.. Whereas I need the instance map name itself)

I can consistently find the value I'm after in CE, but the offsets when showing accessors are negatives and I'm not seeing anything obvious enough to follow.

There's a struct of strings higher in memory, each entry is 0x32 long as far as I can tell, though some entries are seemingly of variable length. That makes me think it's two different structs sitting next to each other.

Anyway, all that as an aside, I really just need a way to get the zone/map name.

Any help would be appreciated.

atom0s · Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2015 12:18 am Post subject:

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mashuga · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 12 Oct 2015 Posts: 3

Wasn't intending to modify and wasn't asking for information on how to accomplish that.

Just where the pointer to the struct was so I could read the name, but I'll concede.

Thanks anyway.

Dark Byte · Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2015 1:58 am Post subject:

do you have anything related to the map (or player?)
if so, find the base address of the map (or related) and do a structure spider
tell it to do a string scan and search for the current map name (it may look like it's frozen at the start, but thats normal)

when the scan has finished you'll have a list of paths from the current base to the string with that name.
on later gameplays you can refine it with a rescan
(structure spider is basically a pointerscan, but instead of the final address it starts with the base)

once you've found it you can extend the pointer you have to use it

mashuga · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 12 Oct 2015 Posts: 3

I've managed to find player coords (was actually by accident) and I've gone through that struct left and right, there's nothing.

I _think_ the layout of memory is basically this:

Big ass list of strings high in memory

Map is just an ID, and there's some conversion to go from ID to offset in the string array.

I've spent a lot of time modding other games but I've never seen one laid out quite like this.

Thanks for your advice though, I do appreciate the idea. Smile