Cheat Engine

db86 · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 27 Apr 2014 Posts: 7

Hey all,

Currently i'm trying to find the pointers for this game related to money, heat, fatigue, strength, speed & intelligence. It's very easy to find the right values:
4 Bytes, exact: money, heat, fatigue
Double, exact: strength, speed, intelligence

However I'm massively failing to find the pointers. When I had the right address I did pointer scan (max level 5, max offset 5000) and ran that for 15 min. Then I closed and restarted the game, searched again for the right address and did pointer rescan for that address. However after the second rescan it wouldn't yeald any results.

Oviously I must be doing something wrong (first time trying this). What am I missing?

Dark Byte · Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2015 6:12 am Post subject:

when you say "ran that for 15 min" do you mean you clicked stop?
Because if you did you'd never find it. You have to let it finish completely (the way the pointerscan works is that it finds the best pointer last)

Try level 6 with offset 5000, but if that takes too long thy level 6 with offset 3000

what also helps if if you're able to at least debug the last one you can get the ending offset which can help you out a bit

db86 · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 27 Apr 2014 Posts: 7

All right thanks, that's exactly what I did. Obviously picked a bad tutorial telling me to run it for 15 minutes Rolling Eyes

Dark Byte · Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2015 6:39 am Post subject:

yeah, it's a popular tutorial but the part it tells you to click stop is just really bad.
for next version I was kinda tempted to change CE to make it automatically delete your pointerfiles on stop as the results would be worthless, but instead I added an option to let you resume aborted pointerscans (even when the game has been closed already)

db86 · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 27 Apr 2014 Posts: 7

yeah I think the resuming option might be quite useful. It's running for half an hour now and found already about 14 Billions of pointer paths, now I would like to stop it and run it overnight Laughing

Dark Byte · Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2015 9:32 am Post subject:

Next version also helps with that as you can do an instant rescan on the results before they are written saving your diskspace

Anyhow, if it takes too long, try a smaller offset or level.

db86 · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 27 Apr 2014 Posts: 7

soo I encountered another problem. I know that health for a game (hand of fate) is a float value. But now after 9 rescans I still have over 200'000 results. I did restart the PC in between. Now when I add one of those pointers to my addresslist it would always be a high 4 Byte value (1084227584). I did rescan my results even for the correct float value (5) but still no change. What am I doing wrong here? For other 4 Byte values I succeeded in finding the pointers.

Edit: Ok I see that when I change the type in the addresslist to float I get the correct value.