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Skull Kid
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Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 11:33 am Post subject: Edit text in games

Is it possible to edit text in games with Cheat Engine? _________________ Regards, Skull Kid Originally known as "saken".

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Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 11:54 am Post subject: Re: Edit text in games

VY Canis Majoris wrote:

Is it possible to edit text in games with Cheat Engine?

Yes. Verry possible. But to patch it up i'd go with a disassembler.

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Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 11:55 am Post subject: Re: Edit text in games

haxory' wrote:

VY Canis Majoris wrote:

Is it possible to edit text in games with Cheat Engine?

Yes. Verry possible. But to patch it up i'd go with a disassembler.

Could I use the "Text" Value Type?
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Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 12:02 pm Post subject: Re: Edit text in games

VY Canis Majoris wrote:

haxory' wrote:

VY Canis Majoris wrote:

Is it possible to edit text in games with Cheat Engine?

Yes. Verry possible. But to patch it up i'd go with a disassembler.

Could I use the "Text" Value Type?

That would probably work yes.

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Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 1:12 pm Post subject:

I get this while trying to edit some text in the game, and then only a part of the text shows up.

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Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 11:01 am Post subject:

The text seem to be changing address everytime it shows up again. Is there any way to still have a "Cheat Table" that works? _________________ Regards, Skull Kid Originally known as "saken".

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Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 1:07 pm Post subject:

VY Canis Majoris wrote:

The text seem to be changing address everytime it shows up again. Is there any way to still have a "Cheat Table" that works?

Find pointer.

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Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 1:09 pm Post subject:

konr wrote:

VY Canis Majoris wrote:

The text seem to be changing address everytime it shows up again. Is there any way to still have a "Cheat Table" that works?

Find pointer.

I successfully managed to make a pointer on the address I wanted BUT, now comes the next problem. I can only have 4 letters in the value for the text. 5 Makes the text in the game look weird. Help please?

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Pointers are wonderful. They posses great power. They are very useful. Like I said, VERY useful. Pointer is like arrow/line/finger that points specific address’s value. It will point it always, even if value will change its location. Most games now uses values changing addresses, so pointers are really important.
First, scan for value shown on the bottom of tutorial window. If you will find it, find out what writes to it, go to tutorial and change value. Now return to window that appeared after clicking “find out what writes to this address”. There should be some code. Click on it and select “More information” or just double click it. See code with red arrows on its left? If it points to code that’s between [ and ], look what is written under “The value of the pointer needed to find this address is probably” and Remember it. Now go to CE main window, and tick “Hex” box near window where you write value that you want to scan for. If you ticked it, in window next to this box should appear 00000000. Change it with remembered value and click First Scan. It should find one/few addresses. Now, look at left and down. You will see “Add address manually” button. Press it. New window should pop up. In it, tick “Pointer” box. After this, window should get longer. In Address of pointer write address(Address, no value! Address is this one on left, under “Address” label)which you found when you were scanning for hex value. In Offset (hex) write 0(yea, just zero). Click OK. In bottom window you should see new address, like P->xxxxxxxx, and next to it its value. If value is ??, you made something wrong. Here is shorter version for this, if you failed:

1. Find value(this one in tutorial window)
2. Find out what writes to it
3. Change value and double click on just shown code in “Find out what…” window
4. Remember what is written under ” The value of the pointer needed to find this address is probably”
5. In Cheat engine tick “Hex” box(it’s under New Scan/First Scan)
6. Write remembered code and scan for it
7. If it found 1 address, remember it. If it found few, correct one is probably this one at the top. NOTE. Remember Address, no value! This is important!
8. Click “Add address manually” button
9. Tick “Pointer” box
10. In Address of pointer write remembered address
11. In Offset(Hex) leave 0
12. Click Ok
13. in bottom window look on new address(it should be P->xxxxxxxx)
14. If its value is ??, repeat step from 1-14

Go to tutorial window and click Change Pointer. Now you have 3 seconds to change our pointer(address with P->xxxxxxxx) to 5000. Don’t worry if you missed. Just once more click Change Pointer and once more try to change it in time. If you will, click Next.

I tried out this tutorial, but I when I was going to do a hex search for the address in the Extra Info window, I got 0 results.
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Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2010 3:12 pm Post subject:

Is it possible to find a pointer to "Text" that keeps changing address everytime it disappears and shows up again?

EDIT: I have now tried both "Find out what writes to this address" and "Find out what accesses this address" and 0 found addresses with both!

VY Canis Majoris wrote:

I'm also having problems with this! I play a game called Robot Wars Extreme Destruction and in the game, when you're about to start fighting, the status/info screen pops up before every robot, telling info about them. It's the "Weight" info I want to change and freeze to 100KG but it seems every time the status/info screen jumps back to my own robot, the address to the "Weight" Value has changed! Is there any way to find a pointer to this "Text" and freeze it?

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Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 12:24 am Post subject:

VY Canis Majoris wrote:

err... you're gonna have to do a code cave... find out what writes to text, then make that code jump somewhere else... then you can change the length of the text... it's pretty complicated, but useful Smile

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Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 3:16 am Post subject:

itapa wrote:

VY Canis Majoris wrote:

err... you're gonna have to do a code cave... find out what writes to text, then make that code jump somewhere else... then you can change the
length of the text... it's pretty complicated, but useful Smile

Ok. So now I've found the address, and so far, it is still working. What do I do next?

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Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 1:10 pm Post subject:

find out what writes to it keep posting the screenshots, they're useful for me in helping you. _________________ Jesus loves you, Hitler! Playing/Embedding XM and MOD files in Visual Basic 6 .erutangis ruoy ni siht esu neht ,sdrawkcab siht daer ot hguone trams erew uoy fI I can spell your name backwards: ‮Hitler

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Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 1:15 pm Post subject:

itapa wrote:

find out what writes to it

keep posting the screenshots, they're useful for me in helping you. Very Happy

Ok. Here's the next one.

EDIT: As you can see, I found nothing. No address at all when I searched for 09F36260 ([edi+08]).

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Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 2:49 pm Post subject:

interesting... what does Dark Byte have to say about this? _________________ Jesus loves you, Hitler! Playing/Embedding XM and MOD files in Visual Basic 6 .erutangis ruoy ni siht esu neht ,sdrawkcab siht daer ot hguone trams erew uoy fI I can spell your name backwards: ‮Hitler

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Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 5:45 am Post subject:

The thing is that the value doesn't change, but the address does, every time the text disappears and reappears again, the address is different than the one I found first in Cheat Engine. _________________ Regards, Skull Kid Originally known as "saken".

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