Cheat Engine

DeniedAnal · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 12 Jun 2015 Posts: 6

With some games i mess around with ce there is an Mono tab which i'm not sure what it does and what can it be used for.

Can anyone tell me what it is or give some kinda a tutorial on it?

Dark Byte · Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2015 3:48 am Post subject:

It allows you to find the ingame names for variables and methods.

It also allows you to jit in methods that haven't been jitted yet, disassemble it at IL level and some other extra's. But the main thing is that structure dissect can give a really useful list of variables when dissecting a structure

Rudo · Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2015 4:12 am Post subject:

Can I have some sort of video tutorial to show how to mess around with this awesome-looking feature, sir?

aikoncwd · Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2015 4:50 am Post subject:

Dark Byte · Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2015 5:10 am Post subject:

for mono you have to activate it first. (it's intrusive)
once it's active it will fetch data when you look at memory and dissect structure, as long as no debugging is going on.

Setting any form of breakpoint will disable it's functionality until the breakpoint is removed. (if a breakpoint where to trigger while CE is waiting for the injected mono thread to return data, it'd enter a deadlock state)

Rydian · Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2015 5:15 am Post subject:

The Data/Structure Dissection thing works with it in 6.4, find the base address of a structure and tell CE to make a new structure off of that and it'll pull in all the data.

Dark Byte · Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2015 5:31 am Post subject:

Mono support is different from .net
While in .net you have to reload the symbols, that's not needed for mono, as it fetches the data realtime instead of based on a snapshot.

(and referencing a method that hasn't been jitted yet, will autojit it for you)

Rydian · Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2015 3:40 pm Post subject:

I was under the impression that Mono was an open-source implementation of (an older) .NET library/runtime? Does it actually function that differently or is this because CE can load it differently?

Dark Byte · Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2015 4:59 pm Post subject:

Mono provides better/easier to use inspection and control function as opposed to MS's .net

Microsoft's .NET also provides some useful profiling functions, but they require environment/registry edits and restarting of the game, while mono does not require that