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Companion Cube · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 09 Oct 2010 Posts: 2

Hello, I am new in these forums and this is my first post.

What brought me here is that I really wanna understand how do I make my pointers to work for Alien Swarm, I will show you what I exactly did and where I'm having trouble at...

1) The item I wanna make the pointer for: Blink Pack
2) Cooldown timer value (when you have the item equipped and not on cooldown): 1106247680
3) Plan: Find the pointer and freeze the value!

Here is what I did.

1) Found the correct address that freezes the cooldown of my item, there were 4 other addresses but this 1 was the only one that actually froze it.
2) I right clicked that address > 'Find out what accesses this address' > and it showed me 7 opcodes. There was only 1 opcode that had [eax] in it, so I viewed it's information and it said me the following 'The value of the pointer needed to find this address is probably 04458D00'
4) I tried to search for hex '04458D00' but I got no results...
5) Then I viewed the other opcodes in the list and all of them said 'The value of the pointer needed to find this address is probably 04458700'.
6) So I searched for hex '04458700' and found 12, one of them was green.

From this point I am completely confused and not sure what I am even doing now... I hope someone can help me to find the pointer

thanks in advance

justa_dude · Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 6:03 pm Post subject:

Add the 12 addresses to your address list. Restart the game, see if any are still valid. If not, for each one, repeat the initial process - find out what accesses/search for the pointer. Better yet, do a pointer-scan for the initial value or even better yet, grab the address via injection from one of the instructions you've already isolated.

Cheers,
adude

Companion Cube · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 09 Oct 2010 Posts: 2

I thank you for your reply... but I am new to CE and the points you mentioned doesn't really help me much :/ since I don't know how to exactly do all the different things you mentioned.

There are no good tutorials on pointers... and finding a pointer on actual game (Alien Swarm in this case) is so much different than the CE Tutorial 6 which was a cake, I basically had to copy the address and search it as hex to find that pointer... and neither, there is a tutorial on pointer scan. I have searched the forums / google / youtube but can't find anything that would help me, at all.

I just don't get it, once I find the correct value - and then..? The CE Tutorial 6 only teached me to copy the address and search it as hex >_> basically.

What useful can I get from viewing 'Find out what accesses this address' when it's not showing anything that would help me at all, I do wanna learn how do I find the pointer though... I just can't learn cause there is no guide that would explain me how to search for the pointer.

justa_dude · Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 11:19 pm Post subject:

There's a whole sub-section of this forum dedicated to tutorials on finding pointers. It includes videos that walk you through finding them the long and painful way (which is the path you're headed down) and using the pointer-scanner. Alternatively, when you "find what accesses this address", you can inject code into that location to intercept the address or manipulate the value directly - sparing you from trying to find the base pointer entirely.

Good luck,
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