SyntaxBomb - Indie Coders

hi, 

i have reinstalled an old game that i have never managed to finish, and i have searched for some cheat codes ( infinite health would help )

no cheat codes by the developper of the original game , but a 'trainer' (executable) made by some 'hackers team', to run before running the game, in order to have infinite health and infinite ammo.

so, how could this work ?

my guess is that the 'hacker' has managed to identify the variables corresponding to 'health' and to 'ammo', in the sram, and created a program in order to always replace the values created by the original game, by maxed out values of the trainer.

am i right ?

any other idea ?

Use a trusted program like cheat engine. Well yeah they alter a programs memory using reflection I think but I don't know the exacts like if reflection does that but I think so. It is called reflection anyway. Halo 2 and 1 used to be hackable application runtime speed increase multiplayer but it became no fun, hacked or otherwise. Back in the day on single player there was an app that hacked Halo to pause but the player could still shoot energy blasts frozen in time & move around.

Yeah, that's the gist of it, it will ensure the relevant memory addresses revert to the "cheated" values, so require to remain "hooked into" the game's running process.

Whilst in my experience ( I used to use these trainers back in late 90's early 2000's for Tomb Raider and Legacy of Kain games because I wanted to see the story progress  ) they seemed to be generally 'clean', there is of course a huge risk that such software contains trojans and other malware because you don't know what else it may be doing and you are willingly executing it with possibly higher privileges too. Also, because they are often unsigned  or "unusual" programs, many AV security softwares may flag them as "PUPs" (Potentially Unwanted) regardless, so whislt you may believe it is safe to allow through, you still don't really know what might be happening alongside the wanted cheats.

That said, a numebr of these "hacking teams" pride themselves on the capabilities to successfully hack the games, so would not want their product to be assocaited with malware --- but that doesn't stop some other party adding their own malicious code into the original "clean" cheat.....

As always, use any "unofficial" software at your own risk

Quote from: William on April 28, 2024, 21:58:06a trusted program like cheat engine

ok i will take a look. thanks

Quote from: _PJ_ on April 29, 2024, 14:25:10there is of course a huge risk that such software contains trojans and other malware because you don't know what else it may be doing and you are willingly executing it with possibly higher privileges too.

yes i know, 'malware bytes' does not like it

Quote from: _PJ_ on April 29, 2024, 14:25:10so whislt you may believe it is safe to allow through, you still don't really know what might be happening alongside the wanted cheats.

indeed... i have not used the 'trainer', yet, for this reason...