Cheat Engine

[Dark Byte]

Because this question comes back almost every week I'll try to explain how to work with pointers

I'm not going to tell you how to code it, but I will tell you what you have to do

Let's start with something easy, a level-1 pointer

you have a pointer where people say : 0048123C+10C , first off, this notation is wrong, the actual notation should be [0048123C]+10C, anyhow,
to get to the real address you have to READ the "4 BYTES" at 0048123C as a value, and add the value 10C to it. (Don't forget that the notation I use is in hexadecimal, even for offsets)
Now interpret this new value as an address, and you have the address that actually contains the address you need. Using this address you can now Write or Read from the specific item the pointer points to.


Now a little bit more complicated, a level-8 pointer:

Let's say you now have a pointer as noted down in ce: