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rilwal

Me and some friends are going to have an Assassin's Creed marathon, and I thought it would be cool if I could have a scoreboard track the players progress live as they play. I have developed the scoreboard itself, and it takes http requests which submit the players synchronisation periodically. I used cheat engine to find the synchronisation in Brotherhood, 3 and 4 but I am currently unable to find the memory address for sych in AC2.

The difference in AC2 is that instead of the synch being a whole number (eg 12%) it is a decimal number (eg 12.67%). I have tried scanning for a float, and scanning for the number * 100 (1267), but no luck. Does anyone know the pointer and offsets / have any idea how to find it?

zm0d · Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2014 5:18 am Post subject:

Your idea sounds cool =)

Well, to help you: Scan for Increased value or Value Between (12.67% might look like 12.67843 in memory, but it gets rounded to 12.67).

Good luck.

rilwal · Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2014 6:49 am Post subject:

No luck with that, I tried using the between option to find floats between the nearest whole number. I was left with only one value after a few scans and it isn't the correct one (it's far off and changing it does nothing). I feel that it's likely this data isn't stored as a floating point number though as it has a fixed decimal position. (Hence my scans for 100x the in game value). Any other ideas? Thanks for your help by the way Very Happy

zm0d · Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2014 6:53 am Post subject:

Try to use "All" as datatypes and use the same filter methods.
If this doesnt work, only use Changed and Unchanged filter methods. This will do the trick definitly, but it going to take a bit longer to filter out everything.

rilwal · Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2014 8:23 am Post subject:

No luck

Looks like we won't have tracking on Assassin's Creed II. I was thinking of dropping it from the marathon anyway and just doing AC3 and AC4 as this will allow us to get further in the games. In case anyone cares, I'll attach a screenshot showing the scoreboard I made. The scoreboard is updated by an autohotkey script that runs on the users computer and monitors the appropriate memory addresses. It is then sent to a Python + Flask + MongoDB app that stores the scores. The scoreboard is a web page that periodically requests the scores from the Python app. The scoreboard also plays music, times the games, shows backgrounds from the current game (which change every 10 minutes) and has scrolling marquee messages. I might try and make it more generic and release it as an open source LAN party scoreboard.