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[elsword]

hello cheat engine buddies, i am sorry for making this thread, i dont know if my question is stupid or not but i tried google for a while and could not find any answer so i decided to make a thread here

there is a game, simple PC game i am playing, i tried to scan for the score, from byte-2bytes-4bytes-8bytes , none can find anything so i tried unknown value

after searching for a while i can get the address but what strange is its value

my ingame score is 82 but the 4bytes value on CE says 1079285657

i tried to change 1079285657 to 1080285657 my score became 158

1081841252 = 441

so i want to ask what is wrong with these values ? how can i convert them to decimal ?

[zm0d]

This looks like your ingame score is "decrypted" with a simple XOR statement Find out what writes to your ingame score and then dig around in the code with the disassembler =) You may find a XOR statement close the operation that sets your ingame score.

Good luck =)


edit:
or it's simply a double *facepalm kitty* :>

[Dark Byte]

it's a double

[elsword]

[Dark Byte]

Decrease the address by 4, as you found the last 4 bytes of the 8 byte double

[elsword]

[Xathan]

Floating point numbers have an other bit presentation that usual integers.
Float has single precision and double has double precision because a computer cannot present floating point numbers exactly but rounded or truncated.

If you want to read more of this topic see wiki:
en(dot)wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_point

[STN]

Not magic, data types are stored a certain way in memory.

You were accessing only 4 bytes of a double data type, a double is 8 bytes and you had the later 4 bytes added. Moving ahead to the first 4 bytes showed the correct value.

The 2/4/8/float etc bytes in CE means how much size of the address you want to see, selecting 2 bytes for a 4 bytes value will obviously show a big number or zero depending on which bytes you select out of the 4 bytes (first 2 or last 2), same with other data types.

Not sure if it makes sense to you, read up on data types in assembly and you will understand this clearly.

[elsword]

im currently study on making multilevel pointers, i have watched videos on youtube but my case is different this time, most i can find are fld,fsubr and fstp which isnt the same as in tutorial videos, and im stuck at the second offset, nothing found

if anyone interests in this can you can guide me thru teamviewer ?
my yahoo id is sol_trigger

[zm0d]

At best, use the CE Pointer Scanner... worth 10/10.
It saves you soooo much time.

Also, if you really want to go through pointerchains manually, you might look for MOV or LEA statements. Use the CE function "Find out what writes/accesses" to a certain value and then go on...

[elsword]

[Dark Byte]

try finding out what accesses 1d9ccfe8, or 1d9cd204, or 1daf3528, or...

generally speaking, pick the lowest possible address


As for pointerscan: seeing for the last entry it already gave an offset of 718 it's likely the default structsize is too small. (instead of 2048, try 3072, or 4096) and if you feel like it, try a level 6 or 7
You can increase the speed by telling it the last offset is 718

[elsword]

yeah i actually tried almost all address from 1xxxxxxxx > 7xxxxxxx but most of them was false count, 0xxxxxxxx and some addresses crashed the game

i did a 4096 Lv6 700 seconds yesterday still couldnt find it, i will try doing a Lv7 today ...

[elsword]

im desperate for help... scanned with 4096 / at 1200+ seconds but still could not find the correct pointer... why is is so hard ? it's just a simple MP value from a simple PC game


can anyone help me remotely through teamviewer or i can do a broadcast

pointer or script or code injection... anything is fine

please pm me how i contact you if you are willing to help ...