Cheat Engine

AngelPearl · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 08 Nov 2013 Posts: 20

A game named Tango Strike developed by Fallen Angel Industries bugged me very bad.. It's really hard to beat the game. Thanks to some nice guys, I was able to hack ammo and money cheats but even after trying hard many times could not hack health. This game was created with MMF engine. My question is whether this MMF is written in c++ ?

I will delete this thread if I get no replies withing 48 hours. Smile

Gniarf · Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2013 8:41 am Post subject:

The engine itself is most likely written in C++: open the .exe with an hex editor (or notepad) and you'll find several instances of the "Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library" string, so is was probably made with visual C++.
My hunch tells me the game however is made of some sort of scripts that are packed into the exe.

As for health, it's an unaligned (deactivate the "fast scan" option) 4 byte integer, where full health is about -16, and -1 means death.

Here's a little godmode script I cooked and tested for like 30s, so it's probably buggy:

AngelPearl · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 08 Nov 2013 Posts: 20

thank you so much, Grandmaster Smile

You mentioned "comparison" thing in your post.. I never used it before. would you please explain how to perform it ? how did you find those two addresses ?

Gniarf · Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2013 3:08 pm Post subject:

1-Obviously, start by finding health in memory.
2-Right click on it->"find out what accesses..."
3-Right click in the window that just popped up->enable "check if found opcodes also..."
4-Go play for a sec...
5-Cheat engine will have found several opcodes that accessed your health, the number between parenthesis is the number of different addresses that this opcode accessed. I picked one that had a "(3)" because it sounded like it accessed the health for all 3 characters (that theory will be proven wrong later on).
6-So I made a simple script that had only that in the NewMem region:

AngelPearl · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 08 Nov 2013 Posts: 20

Thanks for your excellent explanation and tutorial. Smile

Hacking this game was by bar different than the games I have ever hacked. BTW , your god mode script works great and I don't die. One last thing I wanted to ask you.. what if you want to alter the enemy's behavior and make them stupid so that they don't shoot you. Give me tips to search for enemy's addresses.

Gniarf · Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2013 11:42 pm Post subject:

1-(optional) I don't know if all missions have a timer, but try to freeze time so as to have more time to experiment.
2-There are 2 things you could try:
2A-Play hide and seek: search for unknown initial value, go see a baddie, he'll get into "Alerted" state, filter with "changed value", hide and wait until he gives up seeking you, filter with changed value, wait, do some "unchanged value" filters, go see the baddie again, filter with changed,... rinse and repeat you find the right address then apply the method I thaught you in my previous post.

OR

2B-Hack the chase timer: There seem to be a timer after which the guys give up chasing you, so you can try hacking it so that they instantly give up on running after you. So get chased, hide, and look for an unknown initial value that keeps increasing (or decreasing) as long as you're hidden. Obviously this timer resets the moment they lose sight of you, where you filter with decreased (or increased) value.

Since I'm a bit busy irl atm, I haven't had the time to do the hack myself.

EDIT: Oh and disable fast scan, health was unaligned so other variables might be aswell.

AngelPearl · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 08 Nov 2013 Posts: 20

I think you told me everything I need to know to hack this game as well as I learned new things( fast scan and unaligned variables). thanks Smile

Gniarf · Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2013 1:19 pm Post subject:

I didn't explain properly what (un)aligned variables are, so in a nutshell:
*32bit-aligned variables are on addresses that is a multiple of 4, so such addresses end with 0, 4, 8, or C. This is the most common alignment.
*64bit-aligned -> multiple of 8 -> end with 0 or 8.
*unaligned -> multiple of 1 -> end with anything.

For a more in-depth explanation you can read: http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/structure-member-alignment-padding-and-data-packing/

AngelPearl · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 08 Nov 2013 Posts: 20

thanks buddy Smile

kumbitz · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 29 Aug 2014 Posts: 1

hi angelpearl, i would like to know how you change the money and ammo for this game. i've been trying with no result.
thx. would be really appreciated if you could help me