Cheat Engine

Wombleinc · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 03 Dec 2019 Posts: 8

Hello,

I am trying to find literally anything that I can use to get an address on don't starve. I've been told that pretty much every value is run through one or two addresses which I've found to be true. I have however found small details that I could use if I knew everything there was to know about assembly language.

I found that health is stored in a string as currenthealth but I don't know how to use this to create a script. I tried to disassemble this address and there is nothing that appears to be health around that string.

I've attached a lot of the stuff I've found below and would appreciate any help that I might could get. Let me know if you have any questions. I know this is prob the hardest game to find addresses for but it's honestly one of my favorite games.

ParkourPenguin · Posted: Thu May 21, 2020 7:08 pm Post subject:

I'm guessing you're trying to make some sort of an injection copy.
If you inject at 0036A31B, it could go something like this:

Wombleinc · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 03 Dec 2019 Posts: 8

I know this is a dumb question but could you possibly help me understand what this is doing? What is the sudo code behind this? Were basically comparing based on the currenthealth string and the fox string?

ParkourPenguin · Posted: Fri May 22, 2020 1:12 pm Post subject:

The comments are there to help people understand the code.

At a high level, it compares the game's string associated with a value against a list of provided strings. If one matches, it saves the address of the value like any other injection copy.

Wombleinc · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 03 Dec 2019 Posts: 8

Here's another question for you if you don't mind. For something like this game and really other games but this one in particular what is the best path to learning what I need to know to find other things to use?

An example of what I mean:

- Should I start all the way at the beginning and learn x86 and x64 assembly? Is there things I can look into that go over video game structures? It seems everything I've looked into is tailored to a specific thing that has no relation when I am looking at a call structure in cheat engine.

-Would learning lua or another programming language help me better understand the structure of video game assembly? I'd love to be able to make my own tables when games that I have interest in come out or to re-do some older tables for games where the tables are outdated. An example being Stardew Valley (I know how to fix some things here and there if the addresses are semi the same or still near the original Array of bytes)

I'm slowly grasping concepts but I still get stuck on the way assembly works and what call structures are doing. I watch cheat the game, steven chatman and guided hacking but I still don't understand outside of the games they're using.

ParkourPenguin · Posted: Fri May 22, 2020 3:13 pm Post subject:

You should learn how to do something before seriously trying to do it. That's especially true for any programming language, not just x86/x64.

There's a lot of stuff in gamehacking that can't be discussed generally because games are different from one another. e.g. the way values are organized in structures will be completely different from one game to the next.

Scripting languages like Lua won't help you much with learning assembly. I guess it would be better than no prior programming experience, but you could draw better connections with a system programming language or at least something that's directly compiled to assembly.

I don't know what you mean by "call structure," but maybe you're looking for the term "calling conventions"? Or do you mean something more general, i.e. reading and understanding assembly? The former you can search for, the latter comes with continuous practice/experience over a long period of time.