Cheat Engine

ColdFury · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 11 Jul 2015 Posts: 7

Without being able to change the address
(like the game wont change the address ever)

Rydian · Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2015 7:06 pm Post subject:

If the address won't change, then trying to find what changes it to hook won't work because there's nothing to hook.

You could go for what reads and then fake the read instead of changing the write (or add in a write before the read or whatever)?

ColdFury · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 11 Jul 2015 Posts: 7

Rydian · Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2015 7:18 pm Post subject:

Well, what are you trying to do in the first place?

ColdFury · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 11 Jul 2015 Posts: 7

Rydian · Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2015 10:11 pm Post subject:

My personal advice is to not bother following those old pointer methods, they're limited and in many cases not even applicable.

This guide shows you how to use the pointer scanner and other methods.
http://forum.cheatengine.org/viewtopic.php?t=572465

Or you can just use code injection.
http://forum.cheatengine.org/viewtopic.php?t=570083

ColdFury · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 11 Jul 2015 Posts: 7

gameplayer · Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2015 1:03 am Post subject:

Rydian · Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2015 1:50 am Post subject:

Find what reads will get reads as well and will show the offset if it's in a structure and getting referenced like that, and can be faked with that.

And you can use the pointer scanner without knowing anything but one example address anyways.

But yeah what are you trying to do?

ColdFury · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 11 Jul 2015 Posts: 7

hydris · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 09 Jan 2013 Posts: 19

That might be tough, and you probably are in for a lot of reading disassembled instructions.

I tampered with a value that doesn't change before, or there being a very limited amount of times I can scan (e.g disabling cutscenes in a game, can only scan for a difference once, and a single byte will turn up a lot of results).
So the process there was get the starting address of an object, initiate the event, and see the instructions that access that address.

So for your case, you probably (and I say probably because games will be structured very differently) want to find the address of the enemy, then see what instructions access that address when you kill it. Likely you will have to dig through a lot of results (i.e stuff related to experience gain, quest kill counter, etc).