Cheat Engine

mitosu7410 · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 31 Oct 2022 Posts: 7

I am creating cheats for Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate with Cemu Emulator.

I want to set a value to a certain address where the value is loaded only once at the beginning of launching the game.
(I can't enable cheats when I change the values after game launched since the game does not read the value any more.)
I need to change the value before some functions read it so that I can enable cheats.

How can I do that?

cooleko · Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2022 9:45 am Post subject:

Do you already know the address or the functions? Then you can write a script to open the game, pause it, make your changes, and unfreeze the process once verified or permanently edit the executable to do it for you.

Ultimately, even if the game only reads from a source once, it must reference its internal copy many times, its not like it is magic, so you dont have to edit it early if you find the backup copy it references and edit it at any time.

What I expect from you since you asked the question is you dont kmow any of the above and need advice on how to find the address and/or instruction, for which there are 100s of potential solutions.

Personally, I'd find a function that inherently must rely on the value you want to edit and trace it back to the internal, backup copy of the value you want to change. Then just edit it live during gameplay.

Once you have found it there, you can dig into the structure of the game to find where that is first set, and edit the exe to implement your cheat as a default. There are a number of good software for performing that analysis (ghidra, ida, cerbero, etc).

Good luck!