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Thursday · Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 5:15 am Post subject: I need help!

Ok, so I've been trying and trying to find a static pointer for a game
but I never find it. I just end up with approx. 1000 pointers and out of them 100 is static (roughly)

How do I find which one is the right pointer to my adress, I dont really feel like trying each and everyone of them

The one who solves my problem gets rep.

Eraser · Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 8:54 am Post subject:

What i do is i scan till i get 500-2000 pointers from pointerscan. Then restart the game and find the address again (if it changed, if not then it's the same address) and i remove the pointers that are not pointing to the correct address. Then i just choose random pointer from which one's are left and that's it...

Thursday · Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 9:29 am Post subject:

So you use the pointer scan?
let it search for about 2000 adresses.

And after that I dont quite fully understand... You restart the game and do what with the pointers?

(Thanks for the reply Very Happy

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Eraser · Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 1:57 pm Post subject:

Look at the pointer scan window and there is option in pointerscan to rescan pointers. You see it?

Labyrnth · Moderator Reputation: 10 Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 6301

Once you used pointer scan and found the 1000 address's.
Save it,
Close the game
Start the game again
Load the saved pointer scan.
Rescan pointers
If you have any left and they are valid working address's congratulations/
If non are valid then go back to work.

Thursday · Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 7:24 pm Post subject:

I have almost the same ammount, after 3 or 4 tries I have <(less) 30 or 40 (still have over 1000 pointers) or so, that leaves alot of pointers...

I have a question tho.
What are these called...

not the first line, but all the others

Is that the offset?
like... mov [ecx+000003dc],eax
the bold one.

Labyrnth · Moderator Reputation: 10 Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 6301

Thats the offsets for each level of the pointer.

Thursday · Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 4:38 am Post subject:

Thats what I thought, because mov [ecx+000003dc],eax was something i found when "find out what writes to this adress"

So I should be looking for 3dc in the pointer offset in pointer scan then? (among 3k adresses, this will be a pain)

Eraser · Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 6:10 am Post subject:

-.- any pointer works when you rescan. In case pick random 5 pointers and that's it