Cheat Engine

[Tybobobo]

I am unable to find much information specifically pointed towards finding countdown timers.

I am looking into creating a little app that will display information from a game timer. So you wont have to have the game up to view the timer.
However I am having the trouble with this game having MANY timers going on at the same time; making the task to find the specific one almost impossible. Not to mention, I cannot freeze or edit the timer, so I cant "confirm" which timer it is.

Any advice or resources that might be handy?

[cooleko]

It's unclear what you are really looking for.

Your first question, how to find a countdown timer, is fairly simple. Typically it will be a 4 byte, float, or double value that literally counts down until it hits 0.

But then you indicate you have found many timers, and aren't sure which timer it could be. Typically, one would think that a timer that says 180, would imply three minutes remaining, if your in game counter has three minutes remaining, then you can be fairly sure that the timer you found matches the game's timer you wanted to find. If it says 120, and the game says three minutes, it wouldn't be the timer you wanted. If you find three that are 180, then they may all be used for that single timer (perhaps a backup to prevent cheating). Simply capture the instruction or pointer for each of those three, restart the game a few times, and see if they all work. If none work, then it wasn't the timer or it wasn't the right pointer/instruction. If one works, then you have found what you were looking for. If all always work, then any one of them is fine.

If you can give an example as the the specific problem you are having, we may be able to assist more.