Cheat Engine

[Outlivinglife]

I'm so confused on 16-bit addresses in Cheat Engine. I'm using Duckstation (a PS1 emulator) and running Final Fantasy VIII on there. Duckstation states its RAM (on this itteration) is mapped at 0x1d5635b0000. Ok... so I search for that as an 8-Byte value, and somehow it shows it (even though it's a 16-byte value truncated as an 11-byte). When I add this "8-Byte" type, it's somehow holding a 16-byte value: 0000 01D5 635B 0000. Ok, fine, somehow it's doing it, I'm just happy things are working.

In searching for addresses for Squall's HP, it too is shown as another 16-byte address: 1D6 0A6A 8A62 (11 shown). At least this one is showing a value that can be contained in it's 2-Byte type.

The problem begins when I try to make a new address using the Duckstation RAM Pointer and the offset to Squall's HP (1D6 0A6A 8A62 - 1D5 635B 0000 = A70F 8A62) like so...

1D5 635B 0000 + A70F 8A62 = 1D6 0A6A 8A62

But instead, it's unable to change the 9th digit, so I just get...

1D5 635B 0000 + A70F 8A62 = 1D5 0A6A 8A62

How do I work with 16-Byte addresses in Cheat Engine?

PS: Sorry in advance if this doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Just know that it probably makes even less sense to me >.>

[Dark Byte]

you're mixing up bits, bytes and nibbles and also mix up values and addresses


a byte 1 is 8 bits
a nibble is 4 bits

not sure what you are doing besides that

[Outlivinglife]

Ah, yes... I see what mistake I was making with regards to bits and bytes. I forgot that two digits (i.e., 6B) corresponds to one byte. However, I'm still having an issue (see image).

When I use the pointer, ["duckstation-qt-x64-ReleaseLTCG.exe"+78 FFD0] and add the offset, [870F 7EBD], I should get [268 A60D 7EBD], but instead I'm getting [267 A60D 7EBD] (exactly [1 0000 0000] less than the value). Is there anyway get the right value?

[grolo12]