Cheat Engine

[Jol Haly]

I used the string search feature that outputs all strings to file, reason is I'm trying to record a match in an online, chat-based game.

It's made in Unity.

But the strings are not in chronological order, they've been shuffled.

Can cheat engine be set to automatically save new strings to file as soon as they appear in memory, so the chronological order can be preserved?

All the strings I want have a specific pattern, specifically they are enclosed within HTML tags so with regex I could isolate the type of string I want, but how do I get cheat engine to continuously scan the game memory for new strings as they appear, then save them to file?

[Meas]

You'd probably be better off using code injection to get 'notified' when a new chat message appears and then save it to a file manually.

If you're feeling lucky you can also try browsing the memory region that stores the chat messages. But it depends on the game if it will keep old messages in memory forever. So, I'd go with code injection.

[Jol Haly]

I did confirm it does retain old messages in memory forever, in fact it keeps 2 copies of each message at a random memory location.

Can you elaborate further on this code injection you speak of? I've never done this before.

And given I can't predict beforehand where a new message will appear in memory, how would I even begin to write code to notify me when one does?