Cheat Engine

[Ozzy25]

Hello guys


So I have this game and I started using cheat engine. I managed to modify some small things, nothing too serious.

Now I'd like to change some "bigger" things.

Alright so I have some cars for example. Some are not directly obtainable.

Let's say I have unblocked one vehicle. Only one, out of 20. Is there a possibility that I would find the number of the car I'm in, and change the value with a number from 1-20 and where each number stands for a different car? That would mean I'd be able to drive them without unlocking.

I've searched also for the names of the cars. I'm not sure how exactly this works with text. Let's say the first and only car that I can drive (as said before) is a Chevrolet Caprice. Now I'd like to drive the Mercedes SLS which I haven't unlocked for example. I searched through the text option for "Chevrolet" and for "Caprice" and also for "Mercedes" and "SLS" (those are the values). I tried swapping the values, and also swapping the addresses but it didn't work. I think I'm going totally wrong there, right?

Ideally I should find something that defines which car it is, with a number from 1-20 like I said before, for example. But I doubt I will ever find this haha.


So could anyone perhaps point me in the right direction?


Thanks very much guys I really appreciate it

[Gniarf]

[Ozzy25]

Hello and thanks!

Actually I'm also doing this because there is some cars you can't obtain. Well, or at least not yet…

Searching for a value here is basically impossible I think, I get tons of results for pretty much every number.

Is it not possible to make changes by searching text and doing something with the address? This would be so much easier.

[Gniarf]

[Ozzy25]

Alright thanks, will do it that way!

[Ozzy25]

Hello again

Sadly the search for unknown value method did not work. There's a zillion values that change. I even tried changing all of them that seemed to be realistic, but nothing changed.

I guess for this game too, this method applies:

[Gniarf]

[Ozzy25]

Alright this helped me a lot, thanks

I managed to find two long values, but they seem to be changing (like, when I started the game next time, they weren't there anymore) and also nothing happened when I froze them or anything.

So what exactly do I do with it now? I guess it's part of this whole pointer story.

Sorry, and thanks for all the help. You definitely DO give me the way of hope haha!

[Gniarf]

Excuse me but, if freezing those addresses has no effect on changing cars, what's the point?

[Ozzy25]

Huh? Well I didn't know nothing would happen when I freeze them

[Gniarf]

[Ozzy25]

Oh I get your point, you mean they had nothing to do with the cars.

Well my point was that I figured out those two values are the two cars that I've been selecting because I could clearly see them changing when I selected the first car and the second.

So I thought I was kinda sure that this would be the cars.

And the values for both cars were very long, but between 65536 and 2147483647 like you said. Are that the big weird values you were talking about?

[Gniarf]

[Ozzy25]

Alright you know what I will try to go it again and then post the values here as I don't have them anymore anyway.

Another thing before I start — is it better if I have the game set to fullscreen and I switch between the game and cheat engine (it automatically pauses the game), or is it better if I play the game in a smaller window, which means that it won't be pausing it while going to cheat engine?

I'm not sure if this is of any importance but I thought I'd mention it anyway.

[Gniarf]

Usually, I like using window mode when I hack because I don't like waiting until the game reinitializes the 3d adapter.
In cheat engine's settings you can set a hotkey to pause/resume the process, which will totally freeze/unfreeze the game, whether it is in fullscreen of windowed mode.