Cheat Engine

danrevella

Hi!
I have 2 request for future version of CE:

1) AutoAssembler.
I would like to be supported a template for AOB.

2) Save adresses of a search.
I would like CE does support a sort of "CE-save/restore session"
I'll try to explain better....
F.e. many time happens to me somethingh like this: "AAAAARGHHH!!
I am arrived at the 27^ "next search" and now I understand I was wrong, so I have to restart from the beginning..... If only was possible, I would like to return as I was in the search n. 12. Unfortunelly the actual "scan save result" only permect to me only to compare the actual game situation with the saved scan result..."

In other way, I would like that at any point I may restore a previous saved "search session", in special way when the search are so long and complicate.

In an old post (that at the moment I was unable to retrieve) I have found a "manual" version of what I would like.

The manual solution is pasted here:

Hatschi · Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2014 8:03 am Post subject:

About 2. What about File -> Save current scan results ?!

danrevella · Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2014 8:24 am Post subject:

Geri · Moderator Reputation: 111 Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 5636

I imagine #2 would take up a LOT of space on the HDD, this could be a reason of why it was not implemented.

danrevella · Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2014 1:34 pm Post subject:

Geri · Moderator Reputation: 111 Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 5636

Yes, but that save function is saving only one search, not every search that you make. So if you scan for unknown values in a game that is using let's say 2 GB memory, the size of the temporary files will be epic after a few scans.

danrevella · Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2014 2:30 pm Post subject:

Geri · Moderator Reputation: 111 Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 5636

Yes, I didn't say it's a bad idea, just that it sounds cool in theory, but it will probably eat your hardware. There is a button to "Undo scan" which will revert to the previous scan results and even that feature can be really slow. The same applies to saved scan results. It's not really designed to work with huge memory, more like when you have less than 1 million addresses.

STN · Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2014 2:49 pm Post subject:

I second it. Sometimes i forget what search type i did before (was it increased/decreased ?) until in the end finding out i messed up at the beginning or middle of search.

The only issue with this could be the values in addresses would have changed (a lot of them actually) and maybe it is hard to filter them. I think DB just couldn't be arsed because it will require a lot of coding and will not be used by many.

I do have a similar feature request though, it would be nice to have a text that says "Last search type: Increased value or X value" so it shows what was the last search that we did. I have a crappy PC and sometimes if the game is particularly heavy, i just tend to other things while the search runs in background and with longer searches, it is easy to forget what was the last search type.

Geri · Moderator Reputation: 111 Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 5636

STN · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 5:51 am Post subject:

Dark Byte · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 7:02 pm Post subject:

1: Something like that is in next version
2: I have uploaded an cheat engine extension that does this

download http://cheatengine.org/download/CEEXT-SaveScanSession.rar and extract it to the base of the cheat engine folder.

It will add two new menu items under the file menu:
Save scan session
Load scan session

Save should only be used when you have an actual address list (so not directly after unknown initial value scan)
Load only works when you have a process open.

it's not as neatly written as I had hoped, as I designed it on the svn build and forgot about a certain bug in 6.3, but it works this way

Geri · Moderator Reputation: 111 Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 5636

Will you include this save scan feature in 6.4, or this is a just a side project?

EDIT: I have made a quick test with CE 6.3 (32-bit) with the tutorial and it's working for me. I didn't try it with bigger processes yet.

EDIT 2: I have tried it with a game too, it has worked, but even though I have saved 3.5M addresses only, it has made a 300MB file and every next scan save has taken up the same amount of space, even when the amount of saved addresses decreased. Still, it works fine, just be prepared with HDD space if you want to save unknown value scans.

Dark Byte · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 5:22 am Post subject:

It's possible to filter out the .first extention when saving. But that means compare to first scan won't work

I may include it in next ce, or i could put it on the website as a separate download showing off what cheat engine extentions can do

danrevella · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 1:23 pm Post subject: