Cheat Engine

[Lemonlime]

Hey guys.

I tried google it but with no luck.

I need to convert a byte value into 4 bytes, how do I calculate this?
A friend told me that 206 (byte) is 02030030 (4 bytes).

[Psy]

206 is a decimal number, not hexadecimal. A hex 'byte' has a range of between: 0x00 -> 0xFF.

206 == 0xCE as a byte. This is displayed as 0x000000CE in 4-byte notation (DWORD).

Another example:
9999 == 0x270F which is greater than a byte. It requires 2-bytes of storage space (WORD). Displayed as 4-byte is: 0x0000270F.

You get the idea. How in the world can a byte value by some completely different number? I think you seriously need to find new sources of info man. That's the third post at least where the info couldn't be more false.

[Lemonlime]

Oh lol, I don't think I made myself clear enough.

And this info is me who missunderstood something. Don't worry about it, I figured it out

[rooski]

IM trying to do the opposite of this (converting 4BYTE to BYTE) how would i go about doing that?

[Psy]

Well if the value is greater than 255 (unsigned) you have a problem, as a BYTE (unsigned) value has a range of 0-255. So if you're 4-byte value is anything greater, such as 1,000,000, then you are going to lose data in the transfer. There's a reason that different datatypes are used for different purposes.Can I ask why you are wanting to do this? I get the sense that here is probably a better way of doing what you are needing

[rooski]

im trying to make a bot to play old snes games , so i need to read the values , and most are byte . thinking of doing some GA's for it also , anyway DarkByte put this on a previous thread.

[Psy]

Yeah if the values are already BYTE, then just read them into a BYTE and not DWORD. Then you save the hassle of converting. That would be the logical way yup.