Cheat Engine

Slugsnack · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 6:39 am Post subject: Pinball Mouse Vac

I'm working on an AA script in Pinball for Windows XP to vac the ball to where the mouse is. Yes I'm aware there already a built-in one but I'd like to try to make one also.

So I have found the X coordinates of the ball are stored in these addresses:
00A00F28
00A00F0C
00A00F40

And the Y coordinates of the ball (the value decreases as you go up, took me a while to find these Evil or Very Mad

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00A00F10
00A00F2C
00A00F44

I propose to find the mouse X/Y coordinates in memory, then I was thinking of writing an AutoAssembler script to move the X value of the mouse into (00A00F28, 00A00F0C or 00A00F40) at every specified time interval. Then same with the Y coordinate.

I came across a few problems already:
1) The X/Y memory addresses I found are dynamic and I'm having trouble finding the pointers. I don't know how to use the pointer scanner on CE so I just attached the debugger and clicked more information for probable value held at pointer then scanned for it without much success.
2) I have no idea how I'm supposed to scan for mouse X/Y coordinates. I'm not even sure whether Pinball will hold the mouse coordinates in memory.

Slugsnack · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 3:35 pm Post subject:

Stop spamming Mikey lol. Help me instead Wink

Btw I'm not even sure if Pinball will have the mouse addresses since it doesn't need them in anyway. But then that doesn't explain why the built-in mouse vac works. Guess it's time to get good ol' Olly out again :p

wofo · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 5:03 pm Post subject:

Could be a multilevel pointer, look at a video tut for the CE tutorial, go to step 8. That is almost the same (I think, not tested).

If you can do it then send me in a pm plz Very Happy

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Good Luck

Slugsnack · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 5:15 pm Post subject:

I know how to find multiple level pointers, I did the whole CE tutorial but I'm just having a bit of trouble on this one for some reason. If someone could test it, that'd be great.

Lord Hacker · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 6:34 pm Post subject:

I could test it. ^^

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

hcavolsdsadgadsg · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 10:09 pm Post subject:

What about checking if the ball is going past your flippers? That way you could just set it back somewhere else and keep playing instead of just dragging the ball all over the place.

Slugsnack · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 2:05 am Post subject:

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

To not let the ball get below the flippers you will do a compare on the y location of the ball and if it is < then the flippers Y it can be set to a higher value Y, say like center of the game or very top Wink

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It is going to be tough to get the cheat address, start with a scan of 0,
Enable the cheat and scan for 1.

Now you will have to go through the rest manually.