Cheat Engine

StarfireTBT · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2026 3:54 pm Post subject: One byte endian

Can someone create a 1 byte big endian feature? I'm using retroarch to emulate windows 98 in Dosbox pure and the only value type it reads is one byte.

I know 2 byte endian works for dosbox pure emulating dos games but if I was to emulate windows 98 it doesn't.

I do know 1 byte does work because it works for values under 255 and for values over 255 cheat engine will read a different number under 255.

For example, If I search for 105,000 cheat engine will show the number 40 but if I change it to 5,000 I get the number 136. Cheat engine finds the correct address because if I keep changing it from one number to the other it keeps giving a consistent 40 and 136.

If I check the active box to freeze it, the number changes to 4,959 or 104,959. If I try to change it the number in cheat engine changes but not in game. So instead of cheat engine reading 40 and 136 I might get 255 and 95.

I know cheat engine found something because I can keep going back and forth, changing the number and cheat engine will remain consistent.

ParkourPenguin · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2026 4:23 pm Post subject:

Endianness only applies to values that take up more than 1 byte.

Enable the big endian custom types somewhere in Edit -> Settings and use those.

Dark Byte · Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2026 2:13 am Post subject:

maybe use 2 or 4 byte little endian and disable fast scan (maybe it's a 3 byte value)

StarfireTBT · Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2026 8:07 am Post subject:

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I think you might be on to something, but when I ctrl+alt+a and enter the script I get this error message...

Lua error in the script at line 1:[strink "local syntaxcheck,memrec=...
..."]:3: attempt to call a nil value (global 'get CustomTypeManager')

Dark Byte · Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2026 10:04 am Post subject:

here is a 3 byte custom type for linux