Cheat Engine

[Erez Zrihen]

I went to step 6 in CE Tutorial.
I scanned until I found the address of the value.
Then I new scan for a value that holds the address, (i.e. I tried to find the pointer to the value I found previously). Then in the CE Tutorial I clicked the "Change Pointer" button, and the address of the value changed. I deleted the old record and then I clicked the "add address manually" button. I inputted the value of the record that was left, which holded the new address of the value of the tutorial step 6. and got access to the same value I found firstly without any more scans.
I tried the same thing in PCSX2. I found the address of the value I was interested, but when I tried to find the pointer to it, I got "0 Found". Why!? This is impossible! I tried many times, but same lame result.

[Dark Byte]

emulators work very different from actual programs.
the code you found belonged to the emulator, not the game. The address it accessed was build up from multiple calculations instead of a single address with an offset (emulated base, byteswapping, adding that to the base, another read, byteswap again, add as offset, final result)

[Erez Zrihen]

So what is your suggestion then? I.E. What now should I do exactly to achieve this goal?

[ParkourPenguin]

If it uses JIT compilation like flash/java/.net, then you can usually expect it to compile the bytecode to the same machine instructions each time. So hooking some instruction that accesses the address you're concerned about is usually enough to get a reference to the address.

If it's a strict interpreter, then you aren't going to (feasibly) get a reliable reference to the address. You might be able to find a stack address as a base pointer, but I doubt that'll persist if you restart the process. IMO you should just give up- it takes less effort to find an address each time than it does to find a reliable reference to it.

[Erez Zrihen]

Thanks you very much for your reply ParkourPenguin! I will check and try this!