Cheat Engine

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Hi CEF ,

As the title says; by experience, when encoutering shared code and (e.g) you want to segregate good guys from bad guys, what is your method ?

Would you analyze the data first using the data structure tool or memory regions ?

Would you analyze the code messing around with breakpoints, traces/stack ?

I'm asking that because in CE's tut, analyzing data is very easy because the structure is very simple, it's obvious that the id is the 10th offset.

However, when I look at other games, the data structure is way bigger and sometimes the ID is not 4-Bytes aligned, it could be a 1-Byte or 2-Byte value and CE could take that byte and interpret it as a 4-Byte value, making the ID very hard to find if the adjacent bytes are "random" to each entity.

By experience, do you have any tips to find filters ? I'm aware that this could be a noob question, I'm neither a complete begger nor a pro, I'm just learning.

Thank you for your time

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[Stregum]

There is some interesting stuff, thanks !