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		| kokkinogenis Advanced Cheater
 
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				|  Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2015 9:50 am    Post subject: how to search time |   |  
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				| Hello ! I have an offline game in my PC. A racing game. Now, i want to change the clock, that tells how much time you did, to go to the finish line. but the time is strange writen. Its like that for example: 0:14:39 
 
 0                           :  14                         :  39
 
 stands for minutes   |   stands for seconds  |  stands for microseconds
 
 
 How i have to look for it on the cheat engine ??
 
 
 TNX.
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		| Zanzer I post too much
 
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				|  Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2015 10:07 am    Post subject: |   |  
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				| Some standard ways to store time are: As a float/double representing the number of seconds (sometimes milliseconds).
 As a 4-byte/8-byte representing the number of milliseconds.
 
 I'm not sure you understand what microsecond means.
 Does that number count up to 1,000,000 before changing that 14 to a 15?
   Or does it only count to 1,000 (milliseconds)?
 Or, worse, do you only see it count up to 100?
 
 Anyway, convert that time into a single value.
 
 For total seconds, calculate: minutes * 60 + seconds
 Then, tell CE to search for a range between +/- 1 of that value
 
 For total milliseconds, calculate: (minutes * 60 + seconds) * 1000 + milliseconds
 For this, best to tell CE to search for a range between +/- 1000 of that value.
 
 So in your example:
 
 Seconds = 0 * 60 + 14 = 14
 Search for a float between 13 and 15
 
 Milliseconds = (0 * 60 + 14) * 1000 + 39 = 14039
 Search for a 4-byte between 13000 and 15000
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		| kokkinogenis Advanced Cheater
 
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				|  Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2015 1:35 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| Ok, i did it ! Thank you very very much !! |  | 
	
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