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ramzero · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 05 Jan 2011 Posts: 6

How to convert a number searched for a number found (DWORD / QWORD)? And vice versa. It is possible?

I searched for a numerical value that contains a comma.

But the displayed number in CE (4 bytes - DWORD) is different from the "real" number.

It's the right address, because I make any changes and the number in the game is changed too, but I do not know which is the default.

How do I, through the number found, change this value to leave the "real" number that I want? It is possible?

Thanks so much.

ParkourPenguin · Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2016 12:57 pm Post subject:

Change the value type to whatever you want. If it's not a standard 4-byte/float/double (e.g. big endian), make a custom value type for it.

ramzero · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 05 Jan 2011 Posts: 6

How do I do that? And how do I know what kind of value it is?

ParkourPenguin · Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2016 1:36 pm Post subject:

Add it to the address list, double click on "Type", and change it to whatever you want. To create a custom value type, right click on the "Value Type" combobox and select either AA or Lua.

In order to tell what type of value an address stores, you look at it. If it makes sense as an integer, it's probably an integer. If it makes sense as a float, it's probably a float. If it doesn't look like anything, debug the game and figure out what the game is doing with that address.

ramzero · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 05 Jan 2011 Posts: 6

How do I program this?

The values are presented like this: 5.576.23

For me this value is presented more as a float, correct?

ParkourPenguin · Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2016 2:13 pm Post subject:

Not really- it has two decimal points. That's not a standard number, unless that's 5 million and there's suppose to be an extra 0 at the end. What's the byte representation of that value? A couple more pairs consisting of the displayed value and the bytes in memory would be nice as well.

ramzero · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 05 Jan 2011 Posts: 6

Sorry, typed wrong

Correct is: 5.576,23

Example:

To: -158,98

Values found using "Unknown initial value":

Type: 4 bytes

3264234832
3273587606
3311808512
3314399232
3314399232
3314399232
3314399232
3314399232
3314399232
3440877094
3440877094
3440877094

Zanzer · Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2016 6:45 pm Post subject:

You can right-click the found results and select a different display type from the one you originally searched.

ParkourPenguin · Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2016 8:22 pm Post subject:

3273587606 - I wonder what this 4-byte value looks like if you changed it to a float as I originally suggested.
answer: it's -158,9827576

ramzero · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 05 Jan 2011 Posts: 6

Even if I change the results to another type as float for example, it does not show me the exact amount initially sought Sad

ParkourPenguin · Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 8:50 am Post subject:

It's pretty common to see games round the data to some precision. It's sometimes necessary to do this because not all numbers can be perfectly represented in floating point notation (e.g. closest float to 0.33 is 0.3300000131). All that matters is changing it in the address list changes it in the game.

Also, if you're searching for a float, you should change the Value Type combobox to Float instead of leaving it at 4-byte. Changing what you're viewing the results as becomes useless if you already know the type of data you're searching for.

ramzero · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 05 Jan 2011 Posts: 6

I found the value.

Now I understand

Thank you