Cheat Engine

[mrdamm]

Hi.

I'm a big fan of Cheat Engine since it's early versions. I always used the "simple" way to find/modify game numbers, but now I'm going to learn other advanced ways to do it, since some games have implemented hard ways to prevent you to modify these values. For that, I was trying the CE tutorials. At step 6 I noticed a little "error" in the tutorial. In the part that says:

[aikoncwd]

Using F5 (find out what access) or F6 (find out what writes) dumps different results.

F5: Will show any opcode that access (read or write) to the address
F6: Will show any opcode that modify (writes) to the address

If you want to code a script that dumps the player structure, you should use any opcode (that is not shared) from the F5 window, because that opcode will instant dump the information. If you do the same but with an opcode that writes, the script will only works when that address is modified. In some game you will need F5 or F6, depending on your coding methods.

Thats why F5 show more opcodes than F6, but any opcode from F6 option will be showed under F5 option

[Dark Byte]

Find what writes is useless for pointers as they may not change while the game is running (the value changes, but not the pointer)