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vng21092

i tried to find some static addresses in starcraft broodwar, im familiar using the pointer scan method (its easier?). so i went and found the address for minerals and pointer scanned it, i got exactly 42 base addresses with only one offset each that point to it. i restarted game and rescanned the list for the new address... 0 results. so i pointer scanned the new address again and saved it into a new list that again resulted in 42 addresses with one offset each. when i compared the two lists, i saw that all 42 base addresses were EXACTLY the same, but the offset changed, any ideas on how to find the static address?

STN · Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 7:16 pm Post subject:

I don't know how the pointer scanner feature in ce works but broodwar is a very old game and possibly easy to hack. Why can't you hack it normally through code injection instead of using pointers ?.

Simply put a bp on minerals address and debug it. I don't think it would be hard to differentiate mineral types (probably id stored in registers) or it might be each mineral type is accessed by different code location which makes it way easier.

vng21092 · Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 7:35 pm Post subject:

I'm very new to this stuff, I saw a couple videos of code injection but I never actually understood it, or wrote a program matter fact. And I'm clueless on the debugging part.

iroku · Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 8:12 pm Post subject:

1: find the adress you want
2: right mouse click > find what acesses this adress
3: a window should pop out run the game a bit untill something shows up(an assembly line like mov [eax],[edi] or sum
4: click on more info and maybe take a printscreen of that

vng21092 · Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 9:22 pm Post subject:

assuming that "find what writes to this address" finds what writes to an address, wouldn't it also show up in the access too? whats the difference between the two?

TsTg · Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 9:27 pm Post subject:

vng21092 · Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2013 7:46 am Post subject:

So when should I know when to use which?

iroku · Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2013 11:57 am Post subject:

Fresco · Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2013 3:16 pm Post subject:

in starcraft you can't find any pointers because there are none, code injection is the way to go, also you could try to find out what the console code showmethemoney does and call that algo to just add the minerals and gas.

iroku · Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2013 4:02 pm Post subject:

not sure if possible. If starcraft doesnt really really use static adresses but take a look at:

h ttp://forum.cheatengine.org/viewtopic.php?p=5467645#5467645

should be helpfull

vng21092 · Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 1:51 pm Post subject:

yea I was suspecting that, thanks guys. Any pointers to some good code injection tutorials?