Cheat Engine

[Drysc]

Hi, so addresses for things such as HP, MP, etc change every time I play the game and even every time I go to a new stage or part of a stage; basically every loading screen.

So I attempted to use pointers...which I have never used before, so that I don't have to go through the tedious "Save State, lose HP, Scan, Load State, Scan" all the time when I want to cheat.

But... it didn't go so well. I used a guide (Which used MHS for pointer scanning... I haven't been able to find a guide that I can understand that uses CE)

I had two savestates- One where I had found the value for my MP and another where I hadn't and I loaded back and forth between them to see if my pointer worked correctly (but it never did)


Even if I did pointer to pointer, it just wouldn't work

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When I loaded the game where I hadn't found the MP address, it wouldn't work

*I kept trying adding a pointer whenever it didn't work (Stupid idea or not, I don't know)


One other thing, whenever I did pointer scan, I never got only 1 address; it was always many. I tried making ALL of those addresses (happened to be 17 that time) pointers one time and it did not work either (Not pointers to pointers; I just copied the address and changed the pointer)


Heres the tutorial I used: (nevermind, cant link)

Thanks, I appreciate being told what I'm doing wrong or at least given a better tutorial ^_^

[Aqua Regia]

You could always do the tutorial that comes with Cheat Engine, it's awesome.

Or, you could try a pointer scanner.

Or, if you just want to freeze your hp you might as well nop the code that decreases your hp, the code usually don't change addresses.

[Drysc]

I don't really know how to do anything like that \ understand assembly or whatever >>

[Dark Byte]

this is running inside an emulator so the default method of finding pointers will not work here

You need to find the pointer to the base address of the emulated memory, and if you want a offset you're going to need to use the address-baseoffset as offset (offsets will be huge)

that's all I can quickly explain and won't be easy.

[Drysc]