Cheat Engine

[thphlstr]

Im trying to get CE (6.8.3) to modify some emulator games, but im having trouble.

Opening CE, then opening Fusion (genesis EMU), then open the fusion process in CE, and then I try to find the listed address value on other sites. I can manually find then, but when i alter the value nothing happens in the game. Does the game use different values in the emulator than normal?

I also would do a search for a known value in the game (like gold), do a search, spend 10, look for a value lowered by 10, but then nothing is found.
Is there some sort of trick to do stuff in CE with Emulators?
The game i want to mess around with is Shining Force, and its sequel.

[FreeER]

emulator games are run in an emulator for a reason. Do you know what that reason is?

Yeah, typically it was designed to run on a different type of processor. Often those other processors store values differently in so called "big endian" format. Where 10 on your computer would probably be stored in a 4 byte value as 0A 00 00 00 (shown as hex) on the emulated processor it would probably be stored as 00 00 00 0A. As you can see, it's reversed. Now you can do this conversion yourself with a calculator or you can find some custom type scripts that can be added to cheat engine to let it do it for you here

Of course there's all the other possibilities any game can have like it being stored as 1000 to have place values for cents or being multiplied by 8 (though that one's more of an old flash thing) etc.