Cheat Engine

[Evlesoa]

Hi,

I'd like to ask how you use pointers instead of addresses in auto assembly, and why certain things used here.

For example, I see this in one of the tuts here:

01002FF5: <--- this is an addy, but where's the offset?
MineSweeper
jmp WhatNowMinesweeper
nop <--- why do you need to use this here?
ReturnHere: <--- why not put this below the "mov [0100579c],eax" line, right above [disable] (is the next line that I excluded from here)

WhatNowMinesweeper:
push eax
mov eax,[ChiliDog
mov [0100579C],eax <--- no offset either?

[disable]
blablabla

My last question is "ret." What exactly is it and how is it used? I understand it means to return, but I'm still confused. Thanks.

[Evlesoa]

Bump. Can anyone help, please?

[Pingo]

01002FF5: <--- this is an addy, but where's the offset?
The address is static. It doesn't need an offset unless the game codeshifts.

nop <--- why do you need to use this here?
Because the original instruction at 01002FF5 is 6 bytes long.
Jumping to a codecave only requires 5 bytes, so we nop that last byte.
All the extra bytes will be nopped.

ReturnHere: <--- why not put this below the "mov [0100579c],eax"
ReturnHere takes of the value of your next instruction address.
So ReturnHere = 01002FFB. It just makes it easier for some people, DB is nice that way.

Heres a small example

[Evlesoa]

That works. Helps a lot. Thank you!!