Cheat Engine

[Astaroth4256]

A while ago I found this issue with string pointers, the one where short strings change their location if they expand to more than 15 characters; I solved it by checking if the string is valid and if not then adding the 0 pointer to the pointer path, but unfortunately I can't have my application run flawlessly for long with this simple solution. A clear example about the pointers:
string pointer: 0, 55, 8C, 200
If the string becomes longer than 15 characters:
string pointer: 0, 55, 8C, 200, 0
Now the issue is that sometimes if the string I'm looking for becomes longer then the 0, 55, 8C, 200 will still be "valid" though it becomes a random bunch of characters, for example "item name 99" turns into "dghs" and the code reads "dghs" instead of going one pointer deeper.

Is there any solution for this that will work in the long run?

[Astaroth4256]

Could really use an anwser, had the application stuck for two hours after it ran fine for 4, it tried to interact with something that didn't exist because the name pointer wasn't read correctly.

[ParkourPenguin]

You could get it more consistent if you always try to dereference it, but it won't be perfect.

Look around that memory region and see if you can find something that determines string length (could be a boolean indicating if it's larger than 15 characters). If that fails, look at how the game is accessing the address of that string. The game must have some way of determining if it's larger than 15 characters; if you find it, you can copy it.

[Astaroth4256]

Still nothing, I tried looking around the string address but there's nothing that says if it's longer than 15 or not. "show what accesses this address" shows an instruction "move if greater or equal" and that's all I got. Still can't read the strings perfectly, the address which is supposed to be the string sometimes turns into a pointer which points to the string.

[H4x0rBattie]

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