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[ap13ski]

Hi Dark Byte!
Games developed on the Unity engine are not a surprise to anyone now - they are everywhere.
The main language for Unity engine is C#.
The C# language has a floating-point value type decimal that has a size of 16 bytes (see MSDN).
Quite often game developers use this value type, but due to the unavailability of this value type in the search settings, it is not possible to find addresses with the Cheat Engine directly.

1. Is it possible in the current version of Cheat Engine to somehow search for values of the decimal value type used in C#?
2. Are there any plans to add decimal value type to the standard Cheat Engine set?

P.S. Thanks for everything, Dark Byte! You are my hero!
From Russia with love.

[Dark Byte]

If someone has some documentation/code to convert to and from an string/float then a custom type can be used

e.g is it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadruple-precision_floating-point_format

or is it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal128_floating-point_format

and if not, which one is it?
And is it big endian, or little endian, etc...
e.g for normal values it looks like the value is in bit 64+

[ParkourPenguin]

Looks like neither.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.decimal?view=net-5.0
Specifically here:

[Csimbi]

[ParkourPenguin]

Probably not. It looks annoying to do correctly.

Here's the source code if anyone wants to try:
https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/master/src/libraries/System.Private.CoreLib/src/System/Decimal.cs
Specifically "public static float ToSingle(decimal d)" (Decimal -> float = ConvertRoutine) and "public Decimal(float value)" (float -> Decimal = ConvertBackRoutine).

C#'s Decimal type is a bad implementation of an idea that AFAIK neither has nor will ever have hardware support for. It'll only ever be a custom type.

[Dark Byte]

Hint: write a plugin in C# that registers a custom type

[Dark Byte]

Since no-one posted a solution:
https://forum.cheatengine.org/viewtopic.php?t=616640