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rfb · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 01 Apr 2016 Posts: 15

I'm writing this out of deep frustration and surrendering spirit.

I'm genuinely tired of searching everywhere for this information and always being directed to topics that have the exact title that I want, but develops into such an advanced talk that I don't understand the first thing they said.

Let me give you guys a background on my CE knowledge: I downloaded CE and started the tutorial and learned how to do everything there. The things that I found too difficult, I searched on Google and YouTube for explanations and Tutorials. Very well, I've done everything that darn thing told me to do, and I repeated that Tutorial many times.

Later, I subscribed to a lot of Cheat Engine teaching Channels on YouTube, aiming on improving what I knew. I learned from the basic stuff to making a simple injection code using the assembler.

Great, there I am, so proud, so joyful, thinking that I can now start cheating on my favorite old games from PS2. For the most part, I did very well. Some games are just too easy to cheat on. Some offered more challenge, but I was able to think it through; using the Memory Viewer helped a lot. But my knowledge of pointers (given by the Tutorial) never helped me any bit in those tasks.

Then, I came into some hardcore games (to me)...FFX, FFX-2, Dynasty Warriors Series and so on. Everything, and I mean, every little thing I learned about pointers: in the tutorials, on this forum, on Google, on YouTube, never helped me, I used everything I learned, I came up with...: nothing. Every search I made gave me something like "[ecx], eax", which never helped me, because searching for pointers based on these values always returned no results; or the search would give me "[ecx+xx], eax", which for a moment would make me smile happily! Just to have my dreams crushed when the result I was looking for didn't come up when I tried to create the pointer + the offset.

Seriously, I'm tired...not tired of trying, but tired of hitting my head on the wall every time. You know, I thought that maybe the problem was probably just the use of an emulator, so I tried playing a simple game from steam, one that I could deal with directly. What do I found? Well, my knowledge of pointers didn't work there either...: found a dynamic value and tried to find its pointer, results? Not one to be found. Always "[ecx], eax" or something like that.

I wasted hours and I mean HOURS, hours per DAYS, then WEEKS (when my routine permitted) reading everything I could find on this forum that could relate to my problem on pointers, read great tutorials, that explained the origins of pointers and how they work in memory and blah, blah, blah, great stuff, but not practical... .

Also, my knowledge of programming is shallow, at best, and non existent, if realistic. I went through a course of VB6, but it was ages ago and I don't remember a thing of it, not that it would help me anyway, I believe.

Now that I complained enough and gave my background to you guys, so that you know you're dealing with a complete newbie, I'm going to ask my question:

How can I find pointers to games in pcsx2??? To be more specific, let's use the game I'm currently playing: Dynasty Warriors Gundam 2. I was able to realize that in Official Mode (the story mode), the values for the Armor (HP), Special and Thruster (Boost) are static to each mission. Also, the Pilot Points (experience) are static to each character, so once you've found them, you're good for life.

But the problem comes now. The Mission Mode, which is where the player really spends its time, the best part of the game, has dynamic addresses... so I tried doing the same thing I did on Official Mode, but every time I entered another battle, the game would simply change the addresses again, similar to FFX. I tried looking for pointers, what do I find?? Take a guess...:

For the Armor "3097D26D - 89 11 - mov [ecx],edx"

Yay, this thing again! Thank god the CE's Tutorial prepared me for it, right? Errr..., no.

Looking for the address in a 4-byte search in hex gives me nothing; adding a pointer with offset 0 gives me nothing.

This is the before and after of the command in my assembler:

ParkourPenguin · Posted: Fri May 13, 2016 9:29 pm Post subject:

rfb · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 01 Apr 2016 Posts: 15

rfb · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 01 Apr 2016 Posts: 15

Update 05/14/2016 02:33 AM (Brazil):

Man (or Woman, I don't know your gender, really)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You seriously saved my life!!!!!

The AOB to Data from Rydian's Tutorial really helped me a lot. Instead of a pointer, I just needed a scripted data range, since the addresses I need are always at the same distance: (from Armor) Armor -> [Armor], Special -> [Armor+8], Thruster [Armor+18]. So once I've found [Armor], I just need to add the offsets. Now it's basically working like a pointer, since my addresses are static, as long as I deactivate and reactivate my script at every battle.

It's probably not the ideal solution, but it will suffice for now, until I can find another one. I would like to try other things and place them here as I find them. I still have to look at the other tutorial you sent me.

Seriously, you don't know how much you helped me!!

P.S.: If you find anything relating to pointers or dynamic addresses, could you please send it to me? my email is roodneyfb at Gmail servers (Jeez, I'm so limited by this forum...)

Update 05/24/2016 03:29 PM (Brazil):

Thanks to Dark Byte's instructions, I was finally able to find a pointer in PCSX2. I followed the instructions he gave at the "Help me in hacking Final Fantasy X HP" topic (I still can't post URLs).

The game was "Tales of the Abyss". I was able to find everything that goes on in a battle using the pointers and lock it to my heart's content.

rfb · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 01 Apr 2016 Posts: 15