Cheat Engine

[Pie]

Hi all, this is my first post here (so be nice ).

I'm trying to do make a trainer for Age of Empires 2, especially for the resources and the population limit. (yeah I know there's cheats, it's just nice to have a trainer, ).

So I started scanning for the resources, which was pretty simple. In this game, there's 4 resources (Food, wood, stone, gold).

I found out that if the address that holds the Food value = x, then:
wood.addr = x + 4
stone.addr = x + 8
gold.addr = x + c

Which might come in handy later on.

Now the issue: the game changes the addresses every time a new game is started. Of course I could scan again, but I'd rather find the pointer(s).

So I did as suggested in the tutorials. I clicked on the Food value -> "Find out what writes to this address"

Result:

[darkwalker31]

I read some stuff on the internet about finding pointers, i might not know much but i think ecx is the pointer eax*8 is the offset. Try adding an address manualy with a offset of 375 and a pointer address of 0174F160.

Im also having the same problem with emulator pointers, when i scan it returns with the same non-static value as before.

It could also be a multi-leveled pointer if it is you would have to find the main base pointer.

Also try Unknown Initial Value search since the actualy value of the food might contain a different value then the one you found, (might be multiples) etc to make it harder for hackers to change it, and they use the value that you found to access the text.

Good Luck

[Xenico]

I would prefer "what accesses the address"...
Did you add the address(es) manually?