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tacofiend · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 08 Apr 2016 Posts: 18

Every guide is saying there should be offsets. I'm not getting any. If I search the "The value of the pointer needed to find this address is probably XXXXXXXX" value, it's not a green value. Clicking "Stop" also turns the values to "??"

ParkourPenguin · Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2016 8:28 am Post subject:

There is an offset in your case: 0. It's just not explicitly shown in the instruction since edx+0 is just edx.

Not finding a static pointer on the first level is pretty common. Multilevel pointers do exist. Try looking at step 8 of the CE Tutorial.

Alternatively, you may find the pointer scanner to be a better option.

BringChaos · Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2016 8:37 am Post subject:

Maybe if you are lucky the instruction setting the edx register can be easily found in the Show disassembler

tacofiend · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 08 Apr 2016 Posts: 18

ParkourPenguin · Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2016 10:12 am Post subject:

If the pointer you're talking about is 06E9EC48, that's not pointing to the address 004212C4 in that picture. That's pointing to itself.

Since "the value of the pointer needed to find this address is probably XXXXXXXX" isn't working out, you could either backtrace it to find out how it's getting that address (probably too advanced) or use the pointer scanner as I previously suggested.

realrbn · Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2016 10:13 am Post subject:

Just use the Pointer Scanner man. Way easier.

BringChaos · Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2016 10:13 am Post subject:

Since this game is old you could try "Find out what accesses this address" on 004212C4. The game probably pulls the address every frame.
You could use a pointerscan but it could be a very large offset given the age.

tacofiend · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 08 Apr 2016 Posts: 18

I tried pointer scanner too.

I ticked "Pointers must wend with specific offsets". Put in 0.

Max offset 512, Max level 4.

Got zero results.

Tried Max offset 1024 and Max offset 9999, Max level 5.

Also zero.

BringChaos · Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2016 10:31 am Post subject:

I don't want to give the final answer but I managed to find it two ways

Max 35000 offset max level 1 no specific offset (the offset turns out to be extremely large, and you would never try this on a modern game)

and by trying "Find out what accesses this address" on the 004212C4 address
and everything you needed was available to see in the More information tab

tacofiend · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 08 Apr 2016 Posts: 18

BringChaos · Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2016 11:16 am Post subject:

I'll try to explain the second part for future reference.

so CE give us that the address is found via

tacofiend · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 08 Apr 2016 Posts: 18

Thanks for the lesson Very Happy