Cheat Engine

[Outlivinglife]

In short, I was to use code injection with assembly code to compare two addresses. As it is right now, my assembly code idea goes something like this:

push ebx -- Just storing this so I can free up ebx
move ebx, 027EC7E4 -- loading this address into ebx
cmp [eax+ecx],ebx -- eax+ecx (0000601C,027E67C8 respectively) cmp ebx
je 02940024 -- jumps to "pop ebx" if equal
mov [eax+ecx],dl -- otherwise runs this line
pop ebx -- restores ebx to original value
ret

For some reason, the 3rd line returns false (ZF = 0) as shown in the attached picture. But 0000601C + 027E67C8 does in fact equal 027EC7E4, so idk why it's returning false. I assume it's because it's comparing the value stored at 027EC7E4 rather than the address, but if that's the case, then how do I get it to compare the actual address rather than the value at the address?

What I'm trying to do:
I'm trying to prevent gold from changing in Final Fantasy 1 (FF1). I've located gold's value to be stored at 027EC7E4 (4 bytes). I searched for which piece of code writes to this address and Cheat Engine (CE) returned "fceux.exe+84C76" which states "mov [eax+ecx],dl".

When I checked what addresses that piece of code writes to, it returned several other addresses as well. This means that I need to make sure to only change the code if it's writing to 027EC7E4. So I wrote the aforementioned code (slightly modified to keep things simple) to check if the code is being written to 027EC7E4 prior to skipping "move [eax+eac],dl".

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