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j.c · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 27 Aug 2022 Posts: 7

I am working on hacking a game and found a bunch of pointers for a value. I have moved on to finding pointers for another value, and when I look at the offset it is the same as the first value. Is this even possible? I tried to get pointers for it, thinking maybe because its a different address it may work. Nope. No pointers found because they have the same offset. How can I find pointers to memory location if they share the same offset?

ParkourPenguin · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2022 7:37 pm Post subject:

There's nothing special about offsets. e.g. two different instances of the same structure can have the same final offset(s).

Given two pointer paths, if all the offsets are the same and they share the same base address, then they are the same pointer path and they will point to the same address. This might happen if you find an "item under cursor" pointer for example.

j.c · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 27 Aug 2022 Posts: 7

I am working on finding pointers to ammo in Doom. I found pistol ammo pointers without issue. I am now working on shotgun ammo. The shotgun ammo is at a different address but has the same offset value as the pistol ammo.

ParkourPenguin · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:34 pm Post subject:

It's fine. I can't put it any more simply than that.

Maybe try the pointer scanner if you're confused:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dyIrcx8Z8g

If it can't find a pointer, you probably won't be able to either.