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[ExiMaster]

Hey all, I currently playing a game that uses a graphical bar for health. 0 is the minimum and 1116471296 is full health / full bar. When you get hit 3 times when the value is 0 you die. Let's just say combat can get pretty rough since it's a bullet hell / AoE spam game and setting the refresh rate to 10ms for freezing the value does not help in certain situations failing the whole level.

I did a scan of 1116471296 (4 Bytes) and found 1 static address and a whole bunch of other dynamic addresses you could inherit based on the level you are playing. Is there a way I could lock the value permanetly from even being written to so when I get hit the value does not change at all such as for example God Mode plugins in games where health is not affected and stays at the max value?

I have attached a screen shot of my scan for an example. I placed 2 addresses in the list. Active Health is the current address the level is using for my health bar. Static Address is the only green result on the top.

Thanks for any help!

[BanCheese]

That's not a 4 byte -- it's a float. 1116471296 == 0x428C000 == 70.0.

Most of those values are probably used for other things. Try to narrow them down a bit more. Freezing all of them right now would probably result in a crash.

The static address may already be what you're looking for. To do a "weak" freeze, just click on that box in the lower left of the screenshot -- a red X should appear inside it. I say "weak" in that this will simply reset the value to its current state several times a second. However, if you happen to take three hits faster than it can refresh, you may need to nop out the code that's writing to it. If that's the case, reply in this thread and I can walk you through it.

If you haven't already done it, I'd highly recommend the Cheat Engine tutorial, found in the same directory where you installed Cheat Engine.

[ExiMaster]

Ah, you are correct, I have located the float value and froze that giving similar results to freezing the 1116471296 value too.

I have done the tutorial enough to fully understand finding any value I want scanning and whatnot. Just not advanced manipulation like the hex editing and code injection. I keep crashing the game.

But yeah if you could walk me through of a simple string that could nop out the code as you say that would be perfect. Maybe even finding the pointer for the float since I was on the wrong thing. I've tried many tutorial videos on how to get the pointer but just end up with thousands of results containing the same value in hex.

I don't know if this helps but the health bar has 4 different 'tickers' you could say on it. The first line constantly ticks forever throughout the level. The second line is just like the first (ticks slightly slower per second than first) but stops ticking when you get hit, then continues ticking after 3 seconds when you start regenerating health (assuming you don't get hit again). The third line indicates how many times you were hit throughout the whole level. The fourth line indicates how many times the enemy has brought your health (in the game it's called the shield) to 0. If you get hit 3 times at 0 health/shield in this mode you die or start regenerating again in 3 seconds if not hit.

Thanks again for your time!

[Lithium.]

The 4th address being accessed is what you want most likely. Highlight it, and click "Show disassembler". Show us the area where the code breaks.

[BanCheese]

Ah, yes, a simple nop won't work here -- the x87 FPU maintains an internal "stack" of registers (it's really bad; nobody really likes it). For the FPU instructions that "pop" the stack, you need to preserve that poping operation. The simplest way of doing that is to use

[Betcha]

First with most count, reads your health constantly, it would be the best place to do injection.
Cause if make any changes it will change your health instantly without getting any damage.
Can do inection and change in something like this:

[ExiMaster]

I have all the code for each ticker in respective order from my last post. Ill trying tweaking with them based off the replies. Thanks for so many replies! These are the 4 codes I will be variously adjusting then injecting.

EDIT:I have injected the codes Betcha has posted. The code mod for the constant health ticker worked aside from one side effect. Enemies get the invulnerability too. So it works, but doesn't, but really freaking close.

The code mod the Hit Counter just makes you die instantly upon being hit by anything but the health bar does not budge.

The code mod for the Shield Down causes the game to crash as soon as you kill an enemy.

Constant Health Ticker - First Ticker

[Betcha]