Cheat Engine

Typically Thomas · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 21 Nov 2020 Posts: 1

Hey all, I'm trying to identify the score address for a game called Not for Broadcast. I wish to write an Autosplitter for speedruns and need to track down the pointer path. I tried finding it by first scanning for Unknown Initial Value as the game doesn't put a visible number on your score. This yields over 1.6 billion results.

I then start playing with the score, doing well to increase it and deliberately messing up to decrease it. Meanwhile, I'm scanning for values increasing and decreasing at the same rate.

Eventually I can bring it down to 3 or 4 values, but when I keep going to specify even more, they all disappear. They also have values into the high millions, and while I don't know what scale the scores are on I can't imagine it's that far apart.

Eventually everything gets filtered out and I can't track it down. I tried using different search methods but none of them find me anything. Any idea how I can find this score value?

Alternatively, each level starts with a string announcing which day it is ("Day 1" "Day 8" "Day 153" etc). When I look for these strings I get about 60 results and I would have thought they're going to be pretty level specific, which is exactly what I want, but then I checked later days and they still have strings containing "Day 1". Is it maybe easier to find a pointer this way? And how can I filter these down given most of these don't get written to after they first come up?

Thanks in advance Very Happy

ParkourPenguin · Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2020 11:51 am Post subject:

The final score could be amalgamated from several values. e.g. each task you get right/wrong could have a value assigned to keep track of it. The easiest thing you can do is keep scanning under different suppositions of implementations and see what you find.

If can't think of more implementations or you get bored after several hours, you can try to find some code that accesses something related to score and learn from that. Try ultimap if your system supports it - the code filter can work too.
(if you don't know how to read assembly, ignore this)