Cheat Engine

Barra_97

I've been getting back into hacking and tried searching for static pointers for Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time,
problem is though that after i try to restarts or import those adresses onto my laptop, they fail everytime.

For example, you can easily get the rupee counter.
Doing pointer scans often shows up with some valid results that should be static.
I save them, change them so it does point to the right adress,
do one of the above and suddenly they don't work.

I know there is a specific pointer that should point to the start of that memory block (something like Project64.exe + 0xD1AC) but that never worked.
I used to do some adress calculating to get it but i forgot the way to do this.

Not sure what to do now.

Barra_97 · Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2018 6:39 am Post subject:

After some searching i found that using an AoB scan with a lua script might help out better than searching for a static pointer.
When i try to toggle the script on and see if it works, it won't cross itself out.

Second time i hit a roadblock now.

This is what i got:

Dark Byte · Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2018 9:48 am Post subject:

it should never cross itself out. it either never gets the cross set, or you doubleclicked

in case it never gets set then that means that the aobscan likely didn't get found.
try running the script in the autoassembler (execute) and see what the error is that it returns

also, your script doesn't need the alloc/dealloc for newmem as you don't use it

Barra_97 · Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2018 10:43 am Post subject:

It states:
"Error while scanning for AOB's:aob1
Error: Not all results found."
If i use the byte array in a normal search however it finds the spot with no problem.

Also i just found some minor errors when restarting the emulator. The byte array still had some inconsistent parts, yet the result remains the same.

Dark Byte · Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2018 11:16 am Post subject:

not sire but emove the linebreaks from that aobscan. it's possible they get picked up as wildcards and mess up the scan

Barra_97 · Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2018 11:20 am Post subject:

There are no linebreaks in the aobscan code, it's all in one line.

Barra_97 · Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2018 1:37 pm Post subject:

I just tried it with a diffrent piece of memory and it worked fine. I'm trying to get the AoB to be more uniqe against other signatures and report back.

Dark Byte · Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2018 2:19 pm Post subject:

what I also just noticed is that your aobscan has quotes, don't use them for aobscan

Barra_97 · Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2018 4:40 pm Post subject:

I removed the quotations, made the aob more unique and retried executing the autoassembly to check for errors. It's not throwing any, but it's still not updating the address (_inventory) i use.
I know it should work since another script is working just fine.
Lastly i tested if it will use the symbol if the aob is shorter, but that didn't work either... I'll tinker with it and probably call this case closed.

That is unless you want me to say if i fixed it.

Edit: It was a typo in when using _inventory. I wrote __inventory and didn't notice until now.