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Unable to find pointers to 2byte value

 
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TonioCartonio
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 09, 2018 12:14 pm    Post subject: Unable to find pointers to 2byte value Reply with quote

Hi! I'm experimenting on the game Metin2 (private servers).
I passed with succes the tutorial about pointers etc. and tried it on other games, but when trying it on this one (the classic speed/atkspeed hack) I can't manage to find any pointer to the address that I found.

I tryied the old method:
1)find what access the address
2)get the predicted pointer's value
3)scan for it and add the pointer
Doing this way I get something that I think could be called a warning (the game opens a window with "debugger detected on the machine" but keep working fine)
but then I don't find any address scanning for the value at point 2

and the recent(?) method:
1)pointer scan (i get something like 200k paths in a 3kb file)
2)rescan with a new value
3)repeat point 2 with the new list
Doing this (I never tried it before so I'm probably missing something) i get the following
1)the first list contains only pointers to addreses slighty differents from the one searced (like 20B194E0 instead of 20B194E2)
2)rescanning with the new address ends without any pointer
3)rescanning with an address similar to the new address (like 20B194E0 instead of 20B194E2) ends with a smaller list that stops shrinking after the 5th iteration (with something like 84 pointers left)

sorry if I explained really bad the problem but I'm late for work, thanks in advances
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 09, 2018 1:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

do not use compressed pointers with 2 byte values(advanced scan options), or align the address on a 4 byte address first, including rescans


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3)rescanning with an address similar to the new address (like 20B194E0 instead of 20B194E2) ends with a smaller list that stops shrinking after the 5th iteration (with something like 84 pointers left)

What is the problem ? It's not like there's ever going to be just 1 result

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TonioCartonio
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2018 10:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

@Dark Byte
thanks for the reply, I followed your advice and ended up with 346 pointers each of which seem to work fine, ther's a guide with some steps to follow to make sure that the choosen pointer work's fine?
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