Cheat Engine

Twaglord · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 09 Jul 2016 Posts: 3

Okay, I think I found the base pointers for my game. They work every time I close the game and rebooting back the game, the pointers go directly back to their address and I can input values for my cheats perfectly fine.

Ex. Notice the values and my keys, bombs, & coins are the same.
i.imgur(add dot)com/TWwOE6l.png

But when in comes to going to the menu, another room or 2, or going the next level(floor), my pointers stop finding the address and becomes question marks or plain 0. Why is that?

Ex. Notice the values and my keys, bombs, & coins aren't the same
i.imgur(add dot)com/vtVsyfp.png

Those pointers only work if I completely close the game and start the game. But not with going to menu and then going back to my continued game. Help please, thank you.

ParkourPenguin · Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2016 3:58 pm Post subject:

That simply means you found a pointer path that's only valid for the first room or two.

Go to another room, another floor, select other characters, open and close the menu, etc., and rescan the pointer list each time.

Twaglord · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 09 Jul 2016 Posts: 3

ParkourPenguin · Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2016 5:01 pm Post subject:

You're not doing anything wrong as long as you're searching for the right address each time. CE returning 0 results means that there are no valid pointer paths that adhere to the restrictions you've specified. So, expand your scan settings. The most common way is to increase the max level and/or max offset, but other settings can cause the pointer scanner to ignore valid pointer paths.

You can also try to find it manually, but that's usually not a very good option. It can get you the last few offsets of a pointer path that should be valid. Use those and it will speed up the initial pointer scan greatly.

Looking at the assembly preceding an instruction that accesses that address will eventually lead you to where/how the game derives that address. If you knew enough assembly to do that, however, I doubt you would've tried to use the pointer scanner in the first place.

A code injection is usually faster and more reliable than finding a good pointer path, but that can come with its own problems.

Twaglord · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 09 Jul 2016 Posts: 3