Cheat Engine

Astaroth4256

I managed to find a player structure and inside that I found an address with player's name (offset 21C), I added that pointer to the cheat table, the name was short - around 10 characters long. Then I logged on another account with also a short name (around 8 characters long), the pointer was still valid. Then I did it again, I logged on an account with a character with a long name (around 15) and the pointer wasn't valid any more so I looked up the player structure and addresses like character's location were valid but I couldn't find the character name inside that structure.

I'd like to understand why the long character name wasn't in the player structure any more, could someone explain?

hhhuut · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2016 7:56 am Post subject:

Are you sure that your strcture-pointer was still valid? Perhpas it didn't point to the correct structure you wanted to see ...

Astaroth4256 · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2016 7:57 am Post subject:

hhhuut · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2016 7:59 am Post subject:

Did you scan for the longer player string manually again?

Astaroth4256 · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2016 8:06 am Post subject:

M-Z · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2016 10:56 am Post subject:

It is probably some library thing. Some common library chooses this way of handling strings. Do not despair, the name is almost in the same place.

Astaroth4256 · Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 3:47 pm Post subject:

I see, well that explains where the string goes to(thanks) but I'm still curious why that one library allocates strings in this way. I'd ask on a programming forums but the community would just burn me for "cheating" games

M-Z · Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 4:21 pm Post subject:

One thing that comes to mind is that authors wanted to assure that this structure will not be longer than 16+something bytes. In order for example not to get too much performance penalty if objects using these type of strings are put into table (vector) rather than list.