Cheat Engine

Game Hacking Dojo · Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 5:51 pm Post subject: Disable Referenced Calls Info

A great feature in Cheat Engine called "Referenced Strings" also shows referencing information above every call. Showing which other calls or jumps lead to the call. However, this BLOODY feature is a hell of a bug. Once it's turned on there's no way that I know of that could disable it unless I restart Cheat Engine. It is so annoying that this same feature that is supposed to make your work easier makes it even harder. Because of the sheer amount of calls that could be calling a certain function you have to scroll for ages to reach the beginning of the call. You might tell me well you could use arrows to go down one line so it solves the problem but NO it doesn't work. It works everywhere else but not here. You can select the underneath instruction but the frame wouldn't drop to show you the next line. I tried everything. I'm done.

ParkourPenguin · Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:39 pm Post subject:

Yeah that's both a bad way to present information and an unfortunate bug.

You can use the right / left arrow keys to align the disassembler one byte forward / backward respectively. The first few instructions may be off from what the computer is executing, but those are probably just doing busy work anyway. (establish stack frame, allocate / align stack space, back up nonvolatile registers...)

Also that's "dissect code". Execute this Lua code to clear everything:

Game Hacking Dojo · Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2023 5:05 am Post subject:

Thank you. But why is it a bad way?
Do you think I don't appreciate the work put into developing CE?
I love CE. I use it 90% of the time to get my work done.
Or is it because I could not explain it in words perfectly?
Thank you again for your patience.

ParkourPenguin · Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2023 9:40 am Post subject:

What? No, I wasn't talking about you. I meant CE displaying every single reference to an address in its own line in the disassembler is a bad idea.

IMO a good way would be to have one line dedicated for it, and spread the information out across that one line. If there's more references than can be displayed, allow double clicking on that line to bring up all referenced addresses.