Cheat Engine

quanticism · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 15 Sep 2013 Posts: 2

I'm very new to coding in general so please try to hold back the urge to punch me.

I found a green address which matches the value for the number of workers in the game, Starcraft 2. I double clicked that green address to add it into the cheat table. (eg. 0x030DF28C)

I then wrote a simple autohotkey script to read the value at that green address (0x030DF28C) and show me it. The results were as expected.

Then I restarted Starcraft 2 the autohotkey script didn't work anymore.

I then went back to Cheat Engine and selected the new Starcraft 2 process. Cheat Engine prompted me to "Keep current address/code list?" and I selected yes.

It seems cheat engine updated the address value in the cheat table so the address still shows me the number of workers I have. i.e. Cheat Engine changed the address to (0x0341F28C).

So what I want to ask is: how did Cheat Engine update the cheat table address? I'm hoping once I know that, I can make my autohotkey script find the address for my worker count in the same way.

Dark Byte · Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 4:01 am Post subject:

Doubleclick the address in the cheat table to see how it is stored.
Probably something like sc2.exe+1234

That means the real address is the location that sc2.exe is loaded plus 1234
So, if sc2.exe is loaded at 03410000 then the address would be 03411234
And if sc2.exe is loaded at 030d0000 then the address would be 030d1234

To get the location of sc2.exe you must enumerate all loaded modules of that process and filter out sc2.exe and look at it's hModule which is the base

quanticism · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 15 Sep 2013 Posts: 2

Thanks for that. I got the offset from it Very Happy

Unfortunately I've been trying to create my (very simple) script by jumping in with no knowledge and randomly stabbing around in the dark so there are a lot of fundamental concepts that I am completely ignorant of.

I ended up searching around for a while and found a post on Autohotkey forums with a function for getting the base address of Starcraft 2 so lucky me Razz

It's discussed on page2 of RHCP's Starcraft2-Hack/Macro Trainer post in case anyone is interested. I'd put the url but I can't post links.