Cheat Engine

[jordonSalami]

So I've been trying to find some pointer values in a game called Nuclear Throne. I've looked at several pointer scanning tutorials, and everything seems to work -- I appear to find the pointer I'm looking for, but when I restart the game and attach Cheat Engine, the value of the pointer shows up as '??'. I know for a fact that the variables I'm trying to hack are Doubles, because this game was made in Game Maker Studio which automatically makes all variables you initialize in the code a double. I usually have to do one rescan to find the "correct" pointers, but they don't actually point to where the should after restarting the game (I'm specifically trying to hack the player's health at the moment -- I also tried pointer scanning for the player's ammo).

I'm not sure if this has something to do with how Game Maker Studio allocates its memory, or if maybe I'm just doing something stupid. According to tutorials, I find the dynamic address of the player's health (that part works fine), then pointer scan it, and if there's too many results, restart the game and rescan the initial scan results with the new address that I find after finding the dynamic health address again.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.