Cheat Engine

[dds18]

I was trying to freeze a count down timer (In fact, I already lost count to the number of games that I tried to do this, but none succeeded :/).

Most cases I can find a display value, which is written on the screen.

If I freeze or change it, the game will change it back.

If I try to find pointers as per tutorial, it always end up with "easy guess pointer value" being no where to be found.

Also sometimes I can find multiple different display value at the same time (for example, both seconds in 4 byte and minutes*60+seconds in 4byte). Clearly the stored value is different than the displayed value, so it won't help just tracing the pointer of the display value.

Finally, I tried to find "what writes to" the address that holds one of the display value. I always gets more than one of the instructions. If I replace them with nop one by one and check in-game, it always end up with no effect with some instructions and CTD with the others.

You don't usually find timer-freezing in the trainers. Is it really that difficult to do ?