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[lolera222]

Title, the game in question is Anti Idle: The Game, I'm using Adobe Flash Player 29.

Basically I'd like to find the address for Green Coins, a secondary currency in the game, the image shows that the value is over 300m and the value in the 4b address is randomly jumping between various values.

Naturally I tried X*8, X*8+6 and X with "Value Between" and "All" in the scan type and value type and trying with "Increased Value" as it increases faster than I can think of lowering it.

I tried looking for the pointer but the way that the tutorial makes it doesn't work at all as I'm finding no addresses in the search and adding them manually doesn't give me an X, X*8 or X*8+6 value for the coins.

What am I missing here? Or is there a way to "transform" the 4 byte address to another? I try to chose a different type in the CE screen but it gives me random numbers that go up and down in 8 bytes and xE-30 or numbers like that in double and float values.

Thanks

EDIT: For clarity, the value when below 270 million is a typical 4 byte X*8

[Dark Byte]

try the float or double type

[lolera222]

Already did, it shows the value but it can't be modified, like it was just the displayed value instead of the "true" value

EDIT: and that's IF I get an address at all, most of the time I get nothing

[Dark Byte]

try a range. e.g. 317352000 to 317353000

followed by the next range scan

[lolera222]

[ParkourPenguin]

That's nostalgic.

I think that game came out before actionscript 3 was commonly used. actionscript 2 is annoying to approach from a low level since it's purely interpreted and not JIT-compiled.

I'd get the swf, decompile it (e.g. JPEXS), and change the bytecode as needed. If it's AS2, changing it at runtime is easy since it's interpreted; if it's AS3, you'll need to change the bytecode before it gets JIT compiled. You might be able to change it in the swf file itself, but I don't know if there are any checksums that might be invalidated. Maybe JPEXS has some features that can help with that.

A long time ago I messed around with an old AS2 or maybe even AS1 game, and I discovered the virtual machine was reallocating values on each mutation ("next scans" were practically useless). I had to abuse the pointer scanner to find the value I was looking for.

After the value surpasses 2^28 (~268M), does changing the 4-byte value have any effect on the value in-game? You might need to do something to update the display. If it does, then maybe you can figure out a correlation; if it just crashes, then maybe it's a pointer and you can look at the address it's pointing to.

[lolera222]

Yes it changes after the random numbers start appearing and again I can just do 260000000*8 to take it up to the limit and re-start earning them, what would the next step be after that?