Cheat Engine

[wicked357]

I am following these steps to find the base value (green address) this is what I do.

1. Scan for value
2. Change value and scan for new value
3. Now that I found it I d-click it
4. Right click from the list that it is added to and find what writes to it
5. Change the value in the game to speed this process up
6. In the opcodes window I click the only one I see and click more info...
7. I get the address given there and the offset
8. I search for this address clicking it to hex in the search and typing in address.
9. I choose the first in the list and click "Add address manually" and choose pointer.
10. I type in the address I clicked on where the value is the address I searched for and now I type in the offset I got from opcodes->more info...
11. Now I have a pointer to the initial value and it is showing the same value that the original address shows and if I change it is works.
12. Now I find the base address by right clicking that pointer address in the list and choosing find what accesses it.
13. There are several in the opcodes window so I choose the first one and click more info...
14. I now take the address given in there and hex search again noting the offset as well.
15. I now see a green address which values is that of what I searched

This is where I am lost, I am trying to program my own trainer in C++ but can't seem to get this to work out for me. Anyone know what I am doing wrong, I have a feeling this "base address" isn't actual pointing to it or maybe in my program I am not doing something right. Although if I use the inital address I found first when searching for the changed value it will work, but just for this game session since if I restart game it changes. Any suggestion or tips is much appreciated, btw I have been coding C++ for 3 1/2 years and I am pretty fluent in it considering the time invested. I am fairly confident that my code is fine since it works with the initial address found, but I am not sure what to do with this "base address" since there is an offset and all.

EDIT*****

I noticed that I have this and my base ends up pointing to my original pointer since it accesses it, but the value isn't the same.

original variable, 11FA772C, 4 Bytes, 88041
original pointer , P->11FA772C, 4 Bytes, 88041 //address is 07E28EBC
base pointer, P->07E28EBC, 4 Bytes, 301626216 //not showing the same value

I don't know what is wrong here... The base pointer is pointing to the original pointer, but it isn't showing the same value as I would have expected it to. Please someone point me in the right direction.

[Geri]

Try to use the pointer scanner to see if it can find some pointers.