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[rain-13]

Hi!

I want to find pointer to player life in D2 classic v1.03 patch. From newer patches whose pointers are known I know it should b some 3 or 4 level pointer.

So far I have never managed to find that entire pointer myself so I would like to learn how to do it correctly.

From what I remember first thing is to find value itself. That I did find. In this case it is in multiples of 256 hence large number. I know that second step is to find out what writes to this address and then search for the value in extra info window. But in my case it finds 0 results. What do I do wrong?

I also attached screenshot d2_103_ce.png to show what I am doing.

Later I also searched for every other register value but the only one that gave 1 result was EBP=036E3660. So I added found address as a pointer but for offset I had to calculate myself instead of looking it up from Extra Info window. I am not sure if this was expected work flow or if I am doing something wrong?

[Game Hacking Dojo]

What you're doing might work in some cases. However, the value of eax might not be the same as something like add eax,04 before the found instruction might throw your work into the rubbish. It is always better to generate a pointer map and scan within it. Generating pointer maps and pointer scanning is almost always going to be faster than finding a pointer using this method or even assembly.

[rain-13]

[Game Hacking Dojo]

What you were trying to do was search for the pointer manually and it could work sometimes.

If you never succeeded with pointer scanning before it doesn't mean the method is ineffective.

It's so simple that any beginner can do it. How about a 7-level pointer? it can do that easy

Watch this to learn how to do pointer scanning properly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9GCiWjw0i8