Cheat Engine

[Georgeforeman]

Hi,

I'm trying to write an application that monitors a stat in Lord of the rings online (mmorpg).
The application part is fine - it's a nice C# app that can follow pointers and read the memory address. I have it working on small games like solitaire when I give it an offset list.

Lord of the rings, on the other hand, isn't working. I thought it'd be simple, but now I'm starting to wonder if it's even possible.

The stat in question is the PvP ranking/XP/infamy counter.

I've read all(most) of the tutorials on the forums, but I'm still getting no closer.

Here's the steps I take:

1) Find the memory address by ranking up a bit.
2) Check what writes to that address and it's offset.
3) Search for that value

It never finds that value - as if that value is being wiped instantly.

I've tried using the pointer scanner, but that too doesn't seem to want to pick it up.

Trolling around irc channels, I had some advice that the pointer is probably in the stack, which, as far as I can tell means that it's only there temporarily and quickly gets removed.

I tried breaking on the address in question and the game instantly breaks when I toggle the breakpoint on.

I'm quite lost, and probably quite out of my depth - But persistent!

Does anyone have any idea of how to proceed? Or does anyone have lotro and think they could have a look to see what's going on?

If screen grabs or further information help please just let me know

Please keep in mind that I'm a little (<- understatement) out of my depth so may need things explaining a little.

Thanks!

[Geri]

[Georgeforeman]

Hi,

I had a little look to see whats accessing it. Here's what I have:

http :// www .mikeefranklin.co.uk/asm.gif

Does that mean anything to you?

(Sorry, can't post clickable urls yet)

[Geri]

Doesn't look to be promising if these are all the codes. I don't know the game so I have no clue how it works. Maybe check the addresses on the registers and You may find something that is useful for You. But I can't give more advice than that. Never played this game.

[Georgeforeman]

Ok, thanks for your help Geri. I'll keep looking.

[Georgeforeman]

I'm still going with this one, slowly working my way back.


Here are my notes:

pastebin. com/ShHGaYsr

If someone has time, can they give that a quick once over and see if I've done anything wrong so far?

It seems as though there's some code looping through a hashtable and looking for a certain key (which I think I've found as a constant), but now i'm trying to trace back to where the hashtable itself is set.

I *think* it's all correct so far, but I'm getting stuck at pastebin. com/CUEYHdS2 line 41. ECX is being set from LOCAL.5 - I've no idea what that means. Can anyone help?