Cheat Engine

[Guru]

hi! I'm willing to prepare my own trainer for AOE 3. I am successful in hacking population and I have made a trainer for population limit alone.

Now I'm stuck with other things.

1. How to hack unknown values? Example: training speed, build speed etc

2. How to remove build limit? Example: villagers limit, monitor limit, warship limits etc

3. How to know the encryption of AOE 3?

These are the problem which I face. As a beginner I find it difficult to crack this nuts. Could anyone provide the game specific detailed tutorials? Please!

Thanks in advance!!!

[MrAlphyn]

There's a tut somewhere lingering off in the abyss of CEF about building speed hack (building).

I'm not sure about UKIV, but just search for it, build something or do whatever and do next scan till you find your adress.. I guess. I've only hacked a browser game thus far. D:

P.S. how did you do the villager limit? I have my guesses but 'am not sure, leech please!

[Guru]

even in villager limit I used the same trick for the population. But it won't work. Game show you abandoned your colony. Even though I got the address, it's no use.

[justa_dude]

Your best bet is to edit the xml/config files.

In order to train this game, you're going to need a debugger with conditional breakpoints, a remote debugger or some other way to debug without having direct x lockups, familiarity with mapping out data structures, and a whole lot of patience. I believe that, unlike the previous games, the AI resources are stored in the same data structure that the player resources are stored in and you're not going to be able to search for simple values because the game is constantly iterating through the players - the numbers won't be strictly increasing, nor will they ever be stable (assuming at least one other human/ai team exists). Oh, yeah, the same routine updates gold/wood/food/etc. You've gotta' basically determine the player's class ID and reverse engineer the whole darn thing to get anything done. Not a trivial project.

Deviance released a nice, fully-featured, trainer some years ago. You could take a look at it and see how it works.

Cheers,
adude

[MrAlphyn]

So that's what was going on behind the scenes, I'll have to learn some more hacking before I start with this it seems.

[XSV]

send me the .exe ill tell you what its encryp with.

[Guru]

Yesterday I disassembled the exe file. To my surprise, I found lot of addresses with mnemonic codes with a few comment lines in it. My problem is How to find a particular routine in that. To be too abstract, I don't understand what to do next after that dis assembly.