Cheat Engine

[codyproxy]

Hi all.

Me and my friend play sometimes a game called Command and Conquer Generals Zero Hour with or against each other, with the program 'Gameranger', because that program let you play online without gamespy.

Now we both installed a mod which was supposed to be supported by Gameranger. For me it worked, for my friend not.

Tried all kinds of things, but well... not much happened.

Now both of us are programmers, mostly C# and sometimes websites, and then we thought: How does Gameranger connects us with each other, without the need of a virtual network like Hamachi?

So, we checked a bit. Seems Gameranger uses the network option, then 'Direct Connect', where you can see your 'Local IP' and 'Remote IP'. Now for example when i am the one to join a host, the 'remote ip' is my friend's public ip. The remote ip can be changed. Local ip cannot be changed.

Seems gameranger somehow manages to set my public ip in the 'local ip' box (which is normally 192.168.1.1 or something like that). So, how does gameranger change the ip??

Now it seems that the game gets the local ip from the options (which is loaded from an ini file). But if i try to change it in the options in the game, theres a combobox with the available ip's from my network interfaces. Even when i change the INI file to an ip address which isn't part of my network interfaces, it doesn't work.

So then i thought, when i get in the screen in 'Direct Connect' where i see the local ip, shouldn't i be able to change it with CheatEngine? I've done similar things with other games before (most likely for changing my money and such, but never changed an ip).

So i tried all kinds of things to find it and be able to change it... My only result was when i searched for a String. However, when i find it (an ip with a total of 13 chars) and i change it (an ip with a total of 14 chars), the ip indeed changes, but there comes also some weird characters behind is. I think this is because there is only memory reserved for 13 characters and not 14 characters? Or should i find the ip in another way? (didn't find another way)

So, does someone know the game and knows, or wants to try, how to be able to change that 'Local ip' in the 'Direct connect' option in 'Network'?

Or, can someone tell me how i should search the memory for an ip address?

Thanx.