Cheat Engine

[Foffy]

Hello, friends. First, let me apologize if what I'm asking here is on the wrong place, or perhaps not even allowed. I was curious if what I wanted could be accomplished with this, so I'd figure I would ask here.

I am familiar with the fact some people have used Cheat Engine to help edit games on emulators, and this includes the PS1. For this reason, perhaps what I am looking for could be accomplished, so I should perhaps explain what that is, see if anybody here can help me see if it's possible via Cheat Engine, and hopefully narrow it down to make it happen.

So, the game I'm looking to experiment on is Castlevania Chronicles. For those unaware, this is a remake and enhanced port of a Sharp X86000 Castlevania game. The game includes two game modes, Original and Arrange. Original is the Sharp X86000 version ported to the PlayStation, and Arrange is an update featuring faster screen scrolling, new music, new sprites, new effects, sprucing it up from a 1994 game and giving it a more remixed flavor. However, in Arrange Mode, a staple to the series is actually disabled: knockback. It would appear that the horizontal motion of when you take damage in Original Mode is completely disabled in Arrange Mode, so that when you do take damage, you instead hop in place instead of hop back in response to being attacked. It seems I cannot include urls per a posting message (probably because this is my first post) but I'll be happy to show examples of the differences.

Now, what I want to use Cheat Engine for is very simple: I want Original Mode's knockback values added into Arrange Mode. I would figure this would be easy to do if the values of damage and what the character is supposed to do was found in the Original Mode code, and then just punching that in for Arrange Mode. This way, there's less guesswork and filling it in, seeing as the foundation of both games should be structurally similar that the only thing different between them is horizontal knockback values. My fundamental issue here, as I'm not looking for something visual like HP, MP, or EXP values you can find in menus, I'm looking for mechanical values, so it's more "under the hood" to find. Where would I even begin to look when it involves finding the values for when the player takes damage and how the protagonist is supposed to react?

Hopefully what I'm asking for can be supported by others here. I'm not familiar with this at all, because if I was I would have made a ROMhack for this. The next best thing would be to enable this via Cheat Engine, but I even lack the technical chutzpah for that, so I am asking for help here. Perhaps someone can help me accomplish this want of mine. :p

[ParkourPenguin]