Cheat Engine

[Menoetius]

Heyyo, revisiting CE again and I'm attempting to make a cheat table trainer for the steam dosbox game Doom 2: Hell on Earth.

I've found a pretty helpful vid that explains how to discover a relative address when using dosbox using IDA, locating the DST file and copying that address.

The main issue I'm having is that while this method does work on the initial run, it does not work on consecutive runs of the game. It might have something to do with not being able to load in the previous region for whatever reason, but I wouldn't know how to solve this.

Secondly, there's an interesting health value for doom that seems to elude me. The display health value is right next to a wealth of info like ammo and current weapon unlocks, but the actual health value is not synced with it, and resets to a new region on death.

TL;DR:
Base pointer is not always valid on game dosbox .74-3 with the novert "mod" on restart.
Health value is divergent from display health, and health value address changes on death

Solutions and insight to the above are most appreciated.