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[FiSk2005]

Hi to every one and thks for the attention.

This is my first post here, and in order to begin I would want to do my compliments to this wonderfull site, to CE and all it's creators.

Now i'll explain my point.
I noticed that a lot of games are simple to hack, but there's also a lot that are really complicated.

For example, some weeks ago i tried to hack Dark Messiah, but there was something of really weird!

When I tried to make the scansion of the health value with the"Exact value method", CE didn't found anything.

I tried every kind of value from Byte to Doubles and Floats, but CE didn't show any usefull results.

Some time later i tried with other games, and sometimes this kind of problem happened again, especially with the new ones.

Now the question is:
There's something that can i do to solve this problem?
Maybe should i change something on the scan options?

PS(sorry about my english, i'm working on it )

Thks again.
FiSk

[Hans Henrik]

well some programs use... decoy? of the values in memory, for example u see in game 80 HP, but in memory, 90=80, or 70=80 (just an example)
its very confusing trying to find values like that, try for example "has increased (by)" "has changed" "has decreased (by)" ~

[Traps]

I am having the same problem with diablo 2.

[Labyrnth]

decoy? <----- LMFAO , never seen it called that before.... My spirit has been lifted ten fold now!


But what he is saying is close to what could be one of the problems.
How about an array for the health display is being used?
or just simply doing it like this in code.

Display / Real HP value
100 / 200
90 / 190

I was discussing this with a friend and he told mis this happens on a GTA game as well. So this could very well be happening.
If you do the scans Hans said you should find them.