Cheat Engine

[haunted5]

Hi Guys,

I have been making basic cheats for a while now. Generally I would use pointer scans to get the addresses I wanted. These days I have been trying to write AA scripts in order to make cheats.

I would like some help with the following:

Making a Health cheat that doesnt effect enemies:

So generally when i try a health script, I would find the value for Player and an enemy, compare them via dissect code, find something that differs between the two and always stays that way so my cheat will work through the whole game. I am currently trying dragon age origins. When I compare the health value for Player and Enemy, there is nothing I can use which is different but stay the same levelling up ingame or next time I load the game. So my question is, where do I go from here. What else can i try to identify player from enemy.

Experience Modifier:

So basically I have the value for experience. I want to make an experience modifier. The problem is that the new exp value comes off the Float stack and so i cannot double it to get the modifier result i am hoping for:

For example:

Lets say EXp = 0
I kill something and get 50 exp
The value 50 is copied from stack and i can add code to double it(using fmul) but next time i kill something ingame, lets say i get 40 exp. The float from stack will not be 40 , but will be 90 (50 + 40). Because the float is already increased in someother part of code, how can I find the place where it has been increased. I tried searching for 50 when i get 50 exp followed by next scan of 40 for next kill, but eventually i get 0 values. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Strangely enough when i try to explore the stack value that got me my exp value, it contains random numbers every now and then but mostly zero. Here is a code snippet:

00666B30 - d9 44 24 04 - fld dword ptr [esp+04] >>>> This is Exp loaded from stack
00666B34 - d9 59 4c - fstp dword ptr [ecx+4c] >>>> This is value stored and popped into my Exp address

Thanks In advance guys

And since its my first post, Thanks Dark byte for this awesome software that has made gaming fun for me again

[Corruptor]

[Acubra]

[haunted5]

Thanks very much corruptor,
That idea about EXP is what I should have done. For some reason i didnt think about it even though its so simple I just need to subtract the two and go from there.

I did use the dissect data option by following Geri's tutorial, but I have compared the values (not just health but the whole structure) and found nothing i can use. Some values are different that i can use but it seems either they change next time I load the game or they change as I progress in the game. So I was wondering if there was any other ideas I could use.

I will look at the backtrace tutorial you mentioned as I dont know how to go about it. Thanks again

[gaming04]

There's one method I have been using recently that avoids the use of a structure: Pointer Comparison. When all else fails, you compare the pointer address to see if it points to the player's pointer. This is easy stuff once you understand how to find the base pointer of the player.

I wonder if anybody else knows this and is not willing to part with it.

[haunted5]

Hi gaming04,

Please do elaborate or link to some tuts that tell us how to find the base player pointer.

Thanks

[gaming04]

I learned this technique on my own because Geri's method never worked for me. So that means no tutorial links for you.

First, you need to dig all the way down and find the player's base pointer.
Such as: "***.EXE+0000ABCD"

...a lot of offsets...

Then, compare the pointer currently in use for that code to the player's pointer. If it matches, then the code is currently being used for the player.

Example AA:

[haunted5]

Ok, Thanks for that ..

I am currently trying to understand how to use back tracing. I will look into player pointers after this.

Thanks again

[haunted5]

Ok gaming04,, i think I understand what you have posted about base player pointers. Would I be right in assuming that you would get the same result by using a pointer from a pointerscan with the lowest offset? What I mean is finding good pointers via pointerscan and then choosing the one with the lowest offset in the script to compare pointers?

Thanks