Cheat Engine

[Ganshin]

This might be a basic problem but I'm trying to change my codename in God Eater: Resurrection on steam and it's not working in the way I would assume it should be.

My original name was (let's say) 'The Dead' and is listed as a String[8] in CE. I'm trying to change it to just 'Dead' but it is then listed as 'DeadDead' in-game. I thought maybe I just need to change it to a String[4] and that's where I get confused. When I save and restart, my in-game name is still 'DeadDead' but if I pull it back up in CE, it's listed only as 'Dead' and a String[4]. If I then change it to something completely different, say 'Wren' it's copied over as 'WrenWren' in the game.

Am I doing something incorrectly, or is the game itself at fault?

[Zanzer]

Well, there could be two things (or both).

In memory viewer, go to the byte after the final 'd' and change it to hex 00.
That is a string null terminator and lets the code know when to end the string.

It's also possibly that the game stores the string length someplace as an integer.
You may also need to change that value from an 8 to a 4.

[Ganshin]