Cheat Engine

Salgood · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 12 Jul 2016 Posts: 8

So running some random pointer scan from some games I have on my computer. One of these games gave back 1,754 addresses when trying to find the basic pointer, that when checked give the same info, (Or at least the first 20, didn't keep checking after that). I do not know how to progress to find the origin of the value that is being written because of this.

EDIT: Attempting to use pointmapping, hoping that'll work.

EDIT #2: So instead of just 1,754 addresses to build pointers from, I have a grand total of 11,656 pointers (thanks to the pointmap) all pointing to the same value and address. So now I am utterly confused on how to find what is really writing to my base address.

cooleko · Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2016 1:58 pm Post subject:

I dont really understand all of your english, but it sounds like you need to (after completing your first search) close the game, open a new game, find the value again, and perform a new search, using the older pointer scan, for your new address you found in the new game.

Salgood · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 12 Jul 2016 Posts: 8

But the problem that I was running into was I found a list of about 1754 possible pointers, and don't know how to narrow my search. But I will try what you said to see if it works. After I finish re-scanning in my pointer map.

EDIT: Nevermind, eventually came to the realization I was finding the client side of things, as the game connected itself to servers. So unless I was hacking into the server it was useless to try and find the pointers.

cooleko · Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2016 4:56 pm Post subject:

Maybe you are confusing the word pointer with address?

Salgood · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 12 Jul 2016 Posts: 8

Yes, yes I was. I was looking for pointers using addresses. My mind was getting tired from fumbling over it all night.

cooleko · Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2016 5:29 pm Post subject:

I know you dont want to apply the knowledge to your current game, but in the future, when you have 100s-1000s of addresses, sometimes the best way is to brute force it.

Add all of the addresses to your list, take a deep breath, freeze the top half of them and set it to a new value. If your in game value changes, unfreeze, delete the bottom half, and split the top half in half again, rinse and repeat until you have found your value.