Cheat Engine

A7Xreece · Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 11:41 am Post subject: GAME

ok i'm playing a game called Populous: The Beginning and I want to make the people move faster as a test to see if it works. I know they move at 70 but when I scan for things at 70, hundreds of things come up, how do I know which one it is?

Dark Byte · Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 11:52 am Post subject:

Try finding something that does change and is located near the 70
e.g x,y,z position, or health, or whatever

Then when you've found it, try finding that code that accesses it and see if you can find a way to distinguish between your own and the enemy. And if your own, change the speed to what you want

Alternatively, when you've found it (on the currently selected unit) do a pointerscan for it.
Then select another character, find it's address again, and do a rescan for the new value. You'll then have a pointerlist with pointers that point to the speed of the currently selected unit

but if the speed is a global veriable and not dependant on the character, then it's a bit more tricky to find. Try doing a textscan for the speed, sometimes you're in luck and the integer value is stored nearby (use decimal display in memory view)

A7Xreece · Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 12:04 pm Post subject:

what's a pointerscan?

Dark Byte · Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 12:19 pm Post subject:

rightclick the address and choose "pointerscan for this address" (ce 5.5+, but I recommend ce 5.6)

then do some configuring (the default is good enough, but I usually disable the option to stop a path when a static has been found)
and then it'll scan.
After a while you'll end up with a list that is for 99% completely useless.
Restart ce(the pointerscan eats up all memory), and find the new address.
Then go to memory view->tools->pointerscan, open the old pointerfile and do pointerscan->rescan and scan for the new address and wait till it's done
When it's done, you'll be left with a pointerlist that is more usefull

restarting the game and then a rescan will get you an even better list.

If you end up with 0 results, you either gave the wrong address, or you didn't do a big enough level or structsize during the first scan

A7Xreece · Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 12:49 pm Post subject:

ok, to pointscan I need to have an address but I don't know which address it is, if I select loads it'll slow the computer right down and either restard the computer or my game will close then the whole thing will fail, if I do one at a time i'll be dead before I finish, I would do the health thing but I know the max health and if I attack it I won't know what the health will change to and it recharges a bit every second. Also if i pointscan it will save in my files and I don't understand what that does.
I'm a total faliure

A7Xreece · Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 6:14 am Post subject:

The only things I know are changing values and stuff, i really suck. I've cheated twelve sky but that's easy so...yeah lol

Womanizer · Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 9:16 am Post subject: Re: GAME

[quote:6ab0b96760="A7Xreece"]ok i'm playing a game called Populous: The Beginning and I want to make the people move faster as a test to see if it works. I know they move at 70 but when I scan for things at 70, hundreds of things come up, how do I know which one it is?[/quote:6ab0b96760]

I already tryed that and my game was kindof destroyed. So don't try that.