Cheat Engine

[tkx]

I've found the address for money in a certain game, and it works to give myself infinite money by freezing it. But now I would like to experiment further and try to find the function in assembly that subtracts from my money whenever I buy something (and change that instruction to nop).

However, when I try to find what accesses or writes to the address when I buy an item, I can only see what seems to be display functions (they get run many times per second, so when I set a breakpoint it freezes the game).

Does anyone have any tips on what I should do to find a spot to begin debugging?

[JohnT]

if this is what you mean ... that when you try find what accesses is you have
instructions run many times

Try stoping first the what acceses thing




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[tkx]

Hey thanks for replying.

I used "Find what accesses/writes this address" on many different values and it's always the same function that gets called, but with different addresses in the registers, so I think that for emulators, I'm only looking at the emulator and not the game that is being run. I'm not really sure where to go from here. I ended up finding the pointers for all of the values and just freezing them, but it would be so nice to write scripts for them.

[Geri]

In emulators, all values are handled by a few functions only. So they are very, very, very heavily shared codes. They are not like the normal games.