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[aquaboy007]

I'm using CnC Red Alert 1 as example, although its the same in cnc 1. All pointer scans to any dynamic address take too less time to complete, and return 0 results. Even with psychotic and the dont skip options ticked, no results show up. Is it a CE bug?

[Dark Byte]

giving a big enough structsize and level depth ?

Also, is it the win95+ version or the windows 3.11 or dos version you're running ?
If it's the 16-bit one, pointers will be 2 bytes long and you won't find anything

[aquaboy007]

It's the win95+ version, so its 32 bit. I have a structsize of 1024 and the level depth is proper, I can manually identify a level 1 pointer but cant get it through the scanner. What is the struct size anyway?

[Dark Byte]

make sure nott o set level depth to 1 or 2. That won't find anything. Set it to 3 or 4 at least. I usually use 5.

structsize is how big a block it will look for a pointer. 2048 is usually big enough, but if you don't find anything, use bigger like 4096

Also, try the reverse pointer scan

[aquaboy007]

1. What does the reverse scan do? I usually get results with normal, so I never bothered to learn what reverse does differently.

2. In another game, I know the base pointer but I want to find the path from it to a known dynamic address. How do I do it?

3. Is there any way to find if two dynamic addresses have the same base pointer, without comparing the pointer results manually?

[Slugsnack]

if you know the base pointer then find what it points to (dereference it). take the dynamic offset and find the difference. that difference is the offset.

[aquaboy007]

^^ I'm talking about a path, not just a single level pointer.

Say my base is 501501, and my dynamic addy is 1234567, the pointer chain goes like this -

501501 -> 20 -> xxxxxxx
xxxxxx -> 40 -> yyyyyyy
yyyyyy -> 66 -> 1234567

Is there an easy way to find the chain?

[Dark Byte]