Cheat Engine

[7aniki]

Hi guys!
I want to ask how to split a 4byte value into multiple input like this?
i.ibb.co/W306rm3/time.jpg
the formula is kinda like this (from game Story of season a wonderful life)
i.ibb.co/RSr7jJv/sosawl.png

I read here and there that I should make a custom value (right click in value type dropdown)

[ParkourPenguin]

I guess you could make custom value types that only access part of the 4-byte value. The general algorithm would look something like this:

[7aniki]

Wow, ParkourPenguin!
It surprised me to see you are the first one to reply, because every thread I read I encountered your name.

About month, thankfully the game time format is very simple, 1 month consist of 10 days (no week), which I already included in my previous excel formula. And 1 year consist of 4 month.
Please bear with me because I only have the knowledge of basic Pascal,
i.ibb.co/2S1K2vW/time3.jpg
1. The previous table already located time as 4 byte in that address and it is always updating every second
2. As of now if I want to do a time jump, I could just input the year/month/day to excel, and it convert to the 4byte total value for me to be put into CE's Time Editor Value
3. If I split Time Editor value into 5 input variable A B C D E, and change only the value of variable C, will CE look at all those 5 variable's value first before convert them back to 4 byte value?

[ParkourPenguin]

Honestly the way you're doing it now is probably fine.

You could make 5 different custom types that each modify the respective part of that 4-byte integer, but is that worth the effort if your excel solution is working fine?

I thought it was interesting (haven't used {$c} much) and got this Lua script working:

[7aniki]

Wow, it works flawlessly!
And to think you made the script works from scratch without playing the game, it's mindblowing!!
i.ibb.co/74zKKqd/timemachine.jpg
Thank you very much!

Can you give me some tips how to search the address for journal entries?
It goes like this:
1.the journal entry is empty at the beginning
2. cook 1 herbal soup
3. Journal entry got 1 new entry: herbal soup. First made: Year 1, Spring 1.

I tried to new search-first search 0 (4 byte) it gives hundred of million address, my potato PC crashed.
Oh and I already have all the Item ID list (herbal soup ID 1365), if that can help narrow down the search.

I thought if I can get the address for 2-3 item and found the offset, maybe I can do something like,"from address range A to B, insert Year1,Spring 1" to unlock all the journal entries

[ParkourPenguin]

That would be quite difficult. You'd have to be able to figure out what kind of container stores those journal entries. By your description, there's at least 2 points of information: whether or not an item is unlocked, and when it was unlocked. Maybe it's something as simple as an array of non-zero time points (encoded as a 4-byte integer; 0 means locked), or maybe it's something more complicated like a hash map from item IDs to time points.

Randomly scanning for values probably won't get you very far. Maybe you could look at the set difference between the results of two scans for some value: one made before the journal entry related to the item is made, and the other made after. Of course, there's no guarantee this works either, as you have no idea what values a journal entry is comprised of.

If you're pretty familiar with assembly and know some basic reverse engineering knowledge (e.g. calling conventions, data structures), you might be able to trace an access from some related information and get what you want. e.g. look at what accesses the current time, cook something, hopefully a new instruction accesses it when the journal entry is made, trace it from there. Even for people who know what they're doing, this is typically easier said than done.

[7aniki]

yep, that is way beyond my knowledge I think I will pass on those journal entry cheat request. Thanks again Parkourpenguin for all of your help, you ended up doing my howework.
*insert keanureeve's you're breathtaking meme.