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Sohail__Saha

Hey, I am a beginner to CE and I need some help. While hacking the amount of money in Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, the money address has a 3 level pointer. I know how to find pointers, but I don't know the exact way to identify the offsets from complex calculations like --->
[eax*2+edi+esi]
What should I do??

Uh..Also, is there a shortcut method to find the base pointer of an address??

justa_dude · Posted: Wed May 21, 2014 4:45 pm Post subject:

If we are to assume that you found that bit of code by asking CE what accesses some memory address, then it stands to reason that you should be able to look at the target address you have and the value of the registers to determine how said address being accessed.

Sohail__Saha · Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 4:20 am Post subject:

Can you please elaborate please?? I am completely new to CE... Confused

justa_dude · Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 5:29 am Post subject:

Sohail__Saha · Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 11:43 am Post subject:

Uh, currently, I am holding the Apple of Eden in Assassin's Creed Brotherhood and thus cannot change the amount of money I have to find the money address. But I remember what I did. I found out what accessed a pointer and then I double-clicked on one of the many codes that appeared. The name of the dialog box was 'The following opcodes accessed xxxxxxx'. Then, I searched for the value that the extra-info told me in hex/4 bytes. I found only one and then I clicked on 'Add address manually' option, clicked on the 'Pointer' checkbox and input the address that I had just found. But I cannot fill in the correct offset, because the calculation in the extra info box was too complex. Please, can you teach me how to derive offset from complex calculations??

And thanks for trying to solve my problem. Smile

++METHOS · Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 1:19 pm Post subject:

Save yourself the trouble on this game and all future games by learning how to use the pointer scanner. Better yet, learn injection.

Nonetheless, you can set a breakpoint on the instruction to see what the values of each register are. Any complex calculations can be written similarly in your script, so no worries there.

Sohail__Saha · Posted: Fri May 23, 2014 2:56 am Post subject:

Can you teach what is injection?? Or, give me a link to injection tutorial?? I know how to inject codes, but I want to make a permanent code injection type stuff.

++METHOS · Posted: Fri May 23, 2014 9:58 am Post subject:

Complete the CE tutorial. Study guides and videos that give you step-by-step instructions for completing each stage until you understand it.

Sohail__Saha · Posted: Fri May 23, 2014 11:39 am Post subject:

Thanks for replying. Can you give me a link to such a guide for CE??

++METHOS · Posted: Fri May 23, 2014 3:33 pm Post subject:

Really?

Chris12 · Posted: Sat May 24, 2014 12:31 am Post subject:

Sohail__Saha · Posted: Mon May 26, 2014 3:52 am Post subject:

Thanks everyone for replying. Now I can make a permanent cheat table. I am working for a trainer of Max Payne 3.