Cheat Engine

[DMAtard]

I recently got into DMA, built my own custom emulated firmware, compiled Mettik's CE-DMA plugin, and started messing around with that in various games. So this is the first time I've ever decided to expand my knowledge of game scanning and reversing.

My current process is to scan for a detail (hp value for example), change the value in game, and scan for it again, until I find the address(s) associated with that value. Then I do a scan and map, and repeat the process to find a pointer and offset for it.

I have developed a simple python script that interfaces and modifies these values, in a simple game (assaultCube). The aforementioned process doesn't seem sufficient in all games, some games (Marvel Rivals, namely) I can't even narrow down to a value for HP.

So, on a lot of cheat related forums I see megathreads that have people posting lists of structs and references (what are these lists called?) and I want to know how to generate these myself. Can anyone mention a few guides I can read through for intermediate/advanced reversing strategies that will enable me to create cheat clients for any game?

Thanks.