Cheat Engine

jd1378 · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 26 Jun 2013 Posts: 6

Hi
I've been using cheat engine for many years and It's a great tool
recently I was doing some machine learning stuff, and getting feedback directly from the game memory seems like a good idea to me
but the easiest way that came to my mind was to serve the table and It's current values as a simple json response

for sending the changes we can maybe use server sent events, or a simple websocket that broadcasts changes globally

I need this feature, I would write it myself If I knew where to start, but I believe it will be a lot faster if a maintainer do this, and I believe it will be a feature that only needs a few hours to deliver.

atom0s · Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2021 11:23 am Post subject:

CE has a share feature already with its CEShare community system. You can setup a share server for tables etc. to handle something like this. You can find more info on how this works in the autorun folder that comes with CE.

Here's the readme for the CEShare system:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cheat-engine/cheat-engine/master/Cheat%20Engine/docs/ceshare.txt

ceshare.lua and the sub-folder ceshare in there will have other info you need.

Otherwise, you can create your own trainer framework that loads parts of itself from a website each time it loads. There's a ton of topics already that cover this exact thing in the Lua sections.

jd1378 · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 26 Jun 2013 Posts: 6

From what I understood, ceshare is for sharing tables, but not serving live values of a table

I think maybe I was not clear enough, What I want is Not to share the table or to activate/inactivate using web requests, but what I want is to be able to observe the current values and changes of a table that is currently opened in cheatengine

atom0s · Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2021 10:21 pm Post subject:

Ah sorry, misread what you were asking for.

CE's tables are made in XML format, while you are requesting JSON, the format being used by CE itself is XML but you could write your own formatting setup in Lua to parse the current table information and rebuild it as a JSON blob instead.

Serving it elsewhere would be a means of setting up CE to listen for requests which you can do with LuaSocket.

Your need/request for this is a tad specific to be something to directly add to CE since it can be done in Lua as well as a plugin. So it's unlikely DarkByte would see a point to adding something this specific into CE directly.

jd1378 · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 26 Jun 2013 Posts: 6

Thanks for the reply

It is still fine to get the data in xml format, I can probably handle it as it is

but I don't know where to look for on how to create and load plugins, is there any guide on this ? I would really appreciate it if you could provide a super simple sample code for the start, Or even a simple list of the functions and the tools (and maybe guides) that I need to use to get the functionality I need

also as another request, it would be nice to have this feature in a cheatengine standalone trainer, if this feature makes it's way to cheatengine that is.

Doraneko · Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2021 5:07 am Post subject:

Read the memory with a dynamic analysis tool such as frida, which can be written in python, and implement an api server such as flask.
This is very easy if you have already realized the analysis of the target application.

atom0s · Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2021 12:04 pm Post subject:

jd1378 · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 26 Jun 2013 Posts: 6

Thanks a lot for the info! I'll definitely look into it, hopefully will be able to get it working

jd1378 · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 26 Jun 2013 Posts: 6

Thanks to the help you provided I managed to create a plugin in c# that has the basic functionality I need for now

for those who are interested I hosted the source on github (can't paste full url, sry):
jd1378/CEWebServePlugin