Cheat Engine

[davethewave_83]

TLDR version: I tried cheating, it didn't work. Someone made a script that does work; how did he find the op codes to make it? how did he know which codes did what?

Full story, with smilies for those who aren't illiterate
I've used CE to cheat in many games, built my own trainers and even hacked online games by confusing the server into doing things it shouldn't normally do but there's now this game Anno 1404 (not new, but new to me). It has gold and supplies.. I find the gold value and freeze it, then smile wickedly thinking I've cheated. I go back to the game and it's still counting down gold but I just froze it! How could this be Nooooooooooo!!!!

so I check CE, sure enough it's frozen values. I search the gold agiain but it doesn't find anything new. I do an unknown value search (increased/decreased/increased/decreased/unchanged/.....) until I find some code that corresponds to the gold value's behavior "Wahahaha" I say to myself "Found it!! ....

I freeze the values but nothing happens, gold still ticks down...down...down..

so this game is doing something I don't understand, something regular search/freeze/edit doesn't work with.


Someone has created a Script for this game (for the original version) but doesn't explain how the script works, it's just code replacement.

Teach me!!!!

How did he find the code to replace? and how did he know it was the right code?

I have a new update to the game so old script he made doesn't work

I want a updated script but more than that I wish to learn how the script maker found those op codes, is there a secret?

[CodeKiller]

Perhaps it's like flash games : the adress change at each iteration of the main code. I mean while the game is paused and you touch nothing the gold is stored at the adress TOTO, but if you just do something in the game (buying a building) the adress TOTO will stop working, and you must find the new adresse TITI...
So you can only "one shot" search, I mean if you have 5 results for the gole you probably got the right one in the list, change all of them to an "infinite" value, if you have 10000 result, change in the game the gold you have and do a search again, etc.

Anyway, this game shouldn't be this way, so all my previous comment are useless for you. You're welcome.

By the way, some games like Warcraft III (I am not 100% sure) are working like your game is...

And an other way for the game to avoid editing is easy :
store the value in multiple variables (adresses), so you can't just search for a single value (it always be the DISPLAYED value and not the real ones). Like in some flash games where the value is multiply by 8 (you have 100 gold, in fact in memory it's 800).

Have a good day.