Cheat Engine

[toiletcleaner1913k]

Hello, first of all thanks for the free software, what a gre-great program.

I have a question. There is a bot that uses Bluestacks to read game resources "gold/elixir" and then performs an operation depending on whether the conditions are met e.g. > 100,000 gold AND 100,000 elixir.

This all makes sense, but can anyone guess how this bot knows which address to access from Bluestacks in order to read the data (gold etc)? Because I can find the values within the physical memory via cheat engine, but it wouldn't be possible to find the pointers -- so my question is, how would they have done it (no opcodes obviously)? Is there an alternative method that isn't reading an address, such as image recognition? It seems unlikely because the bot is quite fast, I would assume it is reading the memory?

Thank you.

[Dark Byte]

They probably just read the files on the disk (e.g savestate)
Or a memory signature scan (e.g based on static values around there like the 2 least significant bytes of a vtable pointer)

[toiletcleaner1913k]

Thanks, I'm going to take a look into signature scanning. It's new to me, but looks manageable, I've found quite a few tutorials online. Nice you could point me in the right direction. Sometimes it's hard to know where to begin with a Google search, haha.