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Eris How do I cheat?
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Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2020 12:27 am Post subject: Pointers not working after game |
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Hi, first time using this program and first time posting, so I apologize if my problem is something simple or caused by my own inexperience.
I am trying to make a Cheat Table for a (single-player) strategy game to let me increase the population cap. I followed the guide (Dark Byte's one that's stickied to the top of Pointer Tutorials. Can't post urls yet) to generate pointermaps, run pointerscans, and was able to find the pointers (there were about 14 with dif. offsets per node at 2, and 56 with it at 3) for the population cap value. I put these in, restarted the game, started a match, and voila! They loaded perfectly letting me edit the popcap easily (about 12 of the 14 were pointing at the same address which was the popcap).
However, a problem arose when I exited to the main menu and started another match. Suddenly none of the pointers lined up anymore. Most of them pointed at nothing (???????) while some pointed at new addresses with incredibly high values (no clue what they were for). After a bit of testing, I found that the pointers were accurate for the first match I play every time I start the game up, but only for that first match.
As I am unfamiliar with Cheat Engine, and with how any of this coding stuff works, I was wondering if someone with more experience would let me know if there is a way to find a pointer that would work for every match instead of just the first one, or if that is even possible to do.
Also, please let me know if there is other information I should post that would help. Will try to update in the morning.
Thanks!
-Eris
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Csimbi I post too much
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Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2020 7:18 am Post subject: |
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This tells me you did not find the right pointer.
Load a previous pointer scan again after program reload - that way you can find persistent pointers.
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Eris How do I cheat?
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Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2020 1:12 pm Post subject: |
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I apologize if I misunderstand, but what you're saying is to do a pointerscan, then restart the game and load the old pointerscan to compare with a new one?
I thought that's what I did, but will try again and update on results.
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Eris How do I cheat?
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Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2020 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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So I tried again, following these steps:
1. Started the game, started a match, found the popcap value, generated pointermap.
2. Restarted computer
3. Started game again, started a match, found the popcap value, generated pointermap
4. Pointerscanned the pointermaps against each other and saved the pointers it provided me.
5. Restarted the game with the saved pointers. Started a match, the pointers worked.
6. Returned to main menu, started a new match, the pointers did not work.
I did only use dif offsets at 3 because my computer doesn't run the pointerscans very quickly. Please tell me if I did something wrong or if finding these pointers isn't possible. For now I have settled for just restarting the game every time I want to mess with the popcap so that my saved pointers work.
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