Cheat Engine

[JackTheFroster]

Background information:

It started years ago, when Angry Birds was released with its spin offs for PC. There was one specific cheat that i enjoyed using (besides playing legit of course). It was pretty simple: Activate the cheat and you can control your slingshotted bird with U,H,J,K. This was around 2012-2013. While searching online for the games today, there were all the latest setups for all games archived. After a little digging, it was obvious that all the games (including most mobile versions) were officialy abandoned and mostly wiped off the surface. This made the activation process at least easier, since the server for validating a valid registration key is not reachable anymore and most of the games activate themselves even without any input. But the problem here is the following:

Geri, the developer of these trainers and cheat tables i used back then, vanished with most of these files. You can search for them and find mostly broken ones with only one working: The Angry Birds Star Wars trainer. All the other ones got broken due to game updates and the updated trainers got lost with the original website being offline today. Only the website got archived, but sadly no trainer. Even all the posts from Geri on this website with the cheat tables were deleted. Through the wayback machine you can just get to the download links, but none of them were archived. My mission is to understand and fix the trainers, or to create at least the cheat tables for each game. While searching for tutorials on reverse engineering and any clue on how to find the values used for controlling the bird, i only get to a point of frustration because i basically dont know anything about all of this and nothing seems to make sense for me. I included some screenshots of 2 errors in hex values (i guess?) being almost the same when trying to activate the cheat with pressing "1" and one other with the cheat working in the Star Wars version. If anyone can help me creating a cheat table, finding the correct values from the trainers or anything else, it would be much appreciated <3

[Csimbi]

Geri did not vanish, he passed away, RIP.
Only his legacy remains.

The AOB signature needs to be updated (an potentially, the code).

[JackTheFroster]

Oh damn... Rest in peace...

I only came further in some digging through his code, but i can't figure out anything since this is quite new to me... i will share my updates on this sooner or later. I would love to update his great work on this cheat!

[byteburner]