Pointer Scanning & Scripting - Beginner's Guide To Advanced Cheat Engine

Learn how to save your cheats in Cheat Engine. After watching this video, you'll be able to store all your cheats in a cheat table (.CT file). Then, you can use those cheats the next time you play that game. As you keep playing and cheating, your list of cheats will grow.
#howto #cheatengine #pointers
How To Use Cheat Engine - Tutorial With Examples
• How To Use Cheat Engin...
00:00 What I Used To Do
00:13 In This Video: Save Your Cheats
00:26 Built Cheat Table Example
01:07 Method 1: Pointer Scanning
01:28 Why You Lose Addresses
01:50 Pointer Map Explained
02:09 Step 1: Find Address
02:25 Step 2: Generate Pointermap 1
02:46 Step 3 & 4: Close and Re-open The Game
02:56 Step 5: Attach Cheat Engine Again
03:08 Step 6: Find Address Again
03:20 Step 7: Generate Pointermap 2
03:46 Step 8 : Pointerscanning
04:46 Step 8a: Find Offset
05:38 Step 8b: Pointerscanning with Offset
07:20 Step 9 : Selecting Pointers
09:24 Save Your Cheat Table
10:33 Method 2: Scripting
10:53 Trace Game Code
11:38 Hijack Game Code
12:12 Undo NOP, Replace with original code
12:49 Saving It As A Script
13:46 Making The Script
14:46 Testing Our Script/Cheat
15:28 Money Loot Cheat
16:06 Save Cheat Table

[@SoLao]

Hands down the simplest tutorial to grasp that I've come across, thank you so much!

[@arglebargle42]

Great video, put it all together really well. Been editing memory locations since the 90s but this tutorial helped me make my first script that loaded across games. 10/10.

[@user-lk2ob6fp9k]

This is so easy to follow and helped me out!

[@Swashed_]

Thanks man I’m glad you liked it

[@vutienduong9592]

A truly effective cheat tutorial video doesn't need flashy visuals, effects, or an enthusiastic voiceover. The simplest approach is often the most effective. your video so great.

[@user-cs6ye7zv1g]

After watching your tutorial, I was able to successfully create and save my cheats. Your second method was also very straightforward and the quickest way with the least amount of stress. Please consider creating another tutorial similar to this one to cover all the formulas, such as max health, money, XP, damage multiplier, etc. I look forward to your response.

[@MeHaveDonuts]

Thanks for this. Now to find out how to find more advanced pointers. Like infinite jumps or invisible to enemies or infinite holding breath for sniper games...those are super hard.

[@valorwarrior7628]

This video is indeed a blessing and an answered prayer for me, I badly need new scripts for newer TW Attila versions, to optimize our gaming sensations.

[@kuybal]

OMG, I've been looking for this tutorial for a long time

[@Swashed_]

You’re in the right place, friend

[@spartanboosts]

Thanks a lot! The people who make tables gate keep and don’t explain the process and then when people ask them to update it they start whining. Hope I don’t have to use others tables again!

[@KidKrazz81]

Thank you so much for this tutorial! Still works 2024 version 7.5 🤘

[@arena4656]

best cheat engine tutorial without any doubt u deserve a sub.

[@haideralikhan5947]

Absolutely not interested in cheating in games, I kept watching because you made the process sound very interesting

[@Swashed_]

Everyone has their own reasons. Could be a lost save file or just wanting to cheat. Its fun to do regardless :)

[@haiang5200]

great and easily to understand guide, tks so much!

[@killer9457]

Awesome tutorial, thanks!

[@user-mv8mk6oy8b]

underated asf thanks man❤

[@Swashed_]

❤️

[@isaleon66]

Very helpful, thank you!

[@lilsos6892]

Thank you. Great explanation, although I still thought it's easier to make stable cheat given I have green static addresses already.

[@AntiWest-sq3de]

Be blessed mehnnn🤙🏽

[@duckwings6245]

Thank you very much.🤩

[@viva7642]

SUPERB!! TY!

[@TewbBelrog]

I'm trying to change a max hp value in the game, and I'm having trouble finding the offset, instead showing mov [ecx], edx when I gain a max health upgrade. It seems to be drawing from an preset value instead of adding anything to it. Comparing pointer values spits out an error stating an invalid integer "$" and freezing this address with nops causes the game to go completely haywire as well. Are there any tips that can help here?

[@moneyboy503]

This was one of the easiest videos to understand but i came here more with a specific issue and when you got to what i'm needing help with, you didn't have issues on your end. I'm emulating a Ps2 game and I already have pointers to where my addresses are but i've written 4 scripts, an old and a new for 2 seperate cheats but on both reloads, i get the pointers themselves to populate with the information im looking for but the scripts spit out "..Error when scanning for AOB ... Inject error ... not all results found" and the only difference between the new script template and the old one would be 2 bytes off in the aobscan declaration

[@jesuschrist1501]

you will have to re-adjust the script to begin at the 2 byte offset aobscan declaration, in the script it should start at newmem, but look for the name of the aobscan declaration you gave it in the script, then add +2 to it, ex: 'name+2' and then the script will look for the aobscan address and then go up 2 bytes into from the starting byte of the start of the aobscan address and then it will do its magic from there.

[@moneyboy503]

@@jesuschrist1501 100% appreciate your explanation. I haven't touched it in a few months but now I wanna go back and run into the issue again so I can come here and apply it while it's fresh so I can appreciate it more, thanks!

[@cryptosamet3536]

very good video thanks for sharing . can you also make a video about updating cheats after gameupdates ?

[@ceadeusx]

AOB scans usully dont need to be updated with every update unless the code of that specific function is changed. If you use pointers, you need to redo the process for finding pointers nearly every patch. I recommend AOB scans.

[@seany6395]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[@greenfang1215]

Would it be possible to use cheat engine to automatically parry attacks in games by modifying the blocking value when being attacked? Not sure if this would work given that i’m assuming blocking values aren’t usually listed in numbers but ‘true’ and ‘false’. I’m thinking that if the blocking value uses boolean where the value is set to 0 (false ) when not blocking, and changed to 1 (True) when blocking then maybe it could be done ? But i’m also not too sure if cheat engine lets you modify values at preset times . As you can see I’m not very familiar with the software and have lots of questions. Would be great if you could help 🙏🏽

[@user-pm3dx4te4f]

Thank you so much

[@baderssr1645]

Much love to you

[@SuatGoku]

Thanks for this great video! but I kinda have an issue. I did the complete pointerscan and found it "0C". I applied the pointerscan on my HP Bar in an RPG game for the Main character, and it worked perfectly. However, for every other character, I don't get any result after doing a pointerscan. I tried a higher offset value in a different game, and it worked there, but on the RPG, it won't. It worked perfectly fine on the Main character, just how you showed in your video. I did the same for every other character, but it's not working. Do you have any idea? Probably the offset value just sucks, but I don't understand why it worked the first time.

[@dononeill1256]

Hi, I'm getting pointer path 0. Any idea what I'm missing here, thanks?

[@jackysbin3860]

I got to step 8a (offset) and it said something like add + 04 so I think my filter was 4? I don’t know but then when I did the scan there were no pointer paths

[@ATomRileyA]

Thanks for this

[@abuzaydan-qd4od]

Next video about how to make bypass for game online i will wating 👍👍😁

[@boomeral77]

what i want to know is: does generating more pointermaps generate better results i.e. less adress pointers that you have to go through?

[@luckyalani7296]

so awesome 😁😁😎😎

[@DARamosYT]

Stuck on step 6. I restarted the game. Kept the data list in CE. Searched for the variable again with scans. When I get to the 2nd save, CE saves a scandata.addresslist file rather than just a .scandata file. So I'm unable to do the comparison thing in the step following.

[@FedericoTrentonGame]

thank you so much

[@Swashed_]

No problem 😊

[@programasjc3678]

como puedo hacer funcionar un script de Cheat Engine en un checkBox de C# ?????

[@SepehrKiller]

Hey, thank you for this video Can you make a video for finding pointers or scripting in Balatro? i know that we can edit the Balatro source code directly because its written in lua, but i'm interested in learning why i can't find any pointers for Money & Score in balatro also replacing the code with nop will cause the game to break i'm using the latest version which is 1.0.1f thank you in advance

[@strixer5822]

So i have question how if i choose script method, but i want to change its value like pointer method? I cant see how to change value with script

[@EdyZeng]

everytime when try to enable the Script table the game crash and auto close. any advice ?

[@G85195]

Ok ok, but when it comes to the cheat engine 7.5 version, this is no longer possible, during the first scan it detects the amount, when I reduce it and take the next scan it disappears

[@MiscX420]

Make sure to use the application, i had the same issue running the processes.

[@samratroy8064]

When i press the first scan it shows the addresses, but when i change the value and press the next scan it doesn't show anything, always showing 0 results after pressing the next scan.

[@danielbro1905]

I believe in some games there is a display value and an true internal value for say a currency in a game. Do you have a video on finding out the internal value vs the display value? For example, say currency on Mortal Kombat 1 there is a mode called "Invasion", where each character gains XP based on certain conditions, you can gain additional XP. How would you go about finding how to increase the XP gained or the characters XP that's not just the display value? I'm able to find the value but it only changes it on the display and doesn't stick. Any videos you have relating to situations like this?

[@Swashed_]

This can be done with a little reverse engineering, which involves seeing what code writes to that value and then backtracing to find exactly how those values are being written in, then you change the code to increase the exp gain

[@goggle_chrome]

i got a issue that it doesnt show me the code that changes the variable for the address. Ive tried it on the tutorial and it still doesnt work. pls help

[@Fabio.-.]

TY!

[@ot6065]

I have scanned the address and i want create the script that just will chage the value for the address i searched how to do it please help. becasue your tutorial only how to lock the address

[@foolshavewings]

you're a genius!

[@Swashed_]

🧐

[@MotivationsChannel79]

sir can u make easy tutorial for basic how to find those codes like stamina or damage or even 1 hit damage. . can u please make tutorial for this stuff ..thank you

[@tvdforever5147]

There are multiple addresses for Elden Ring game (your previous video for RUNES & God mode). After saving these files some of the addresses' values becomes '??' and the value doesn't change even after changing manually.

[@Swashed_]

The addresses are assigned when you load the game. When you close it and reload it, the addresses change. You can find the permanent address for them by finding what’s called “pointers” for that address

[@menacinghaven]

that scripting part of cheat engine looks juicy because it's just assembly which is easy to manipulate >:)

[@Swashed_]

It’s very juicy indeed. There’s so many possibilities

[@statikquote9265]

Does this work on ps4 and online games?

[@irobot-kh9db]

how do we find the address again if the game doesnt change it on restart?

[@SaulitoNGaming]

what to do when the game crashes when we enter on "find out what writes to this address" ???

[@Spinnablockmiller]

Tried to give my self god mode by following you… and now my character won’t load in anymore and stick at a black screen😂

[@lesphirou]

6:44 I'm stuck here, I get no results every time on the Pointer Scan. Maybe I'm using the wrong offset? The offset I get (5:10) for the address is "####### - mov [rdi+08],rax", so the offset should be "8" or "08"? Either way when I try to filter using one of them, no results.

[@ceadeusx]

u dont need to filter it. try it without the filter and see if it even gets u a pointer. If u get 0 pointer there is another biger problem

[@lesphirou]

@@ceadeusx Oddly enough when I tried without filters I got some error. But I figured out, I was making a mistake when selecting the scan files. But then again, it's impossible to find the correct pointers without filtering; thousands of results. Maybe I'll try to find the pointer I'm looking for manually, without this pointer scan method.

[@ceadeusx]

@@lesphirou i mainly use this method and sort it so that i see the pointers with the least offsets first. Then i kepp the list open and restart the game, test some things, play a little and after that i filter out inaccurate pointers and use the one that is accurate and has the least offsets

[@ArtGenerator]

Looking for another address makes no sense at "12 Labours of Hercules". For example, the address that is responsible for food remains the same every time. Since the address is the same, should I skip that step? Anyway the step where we making our own script doesn't work in "12 Labours of Hercules". Can you make another video to show how to make cheats for this game, please?

[@rubensdmr]

After a few days, closing and opening the game all the pointers became invalid, do you know why this could happen. I did all steps and got 100.000 possible pointers result, but they start to crash one by one until there is no one left

[@thatotaunyane415]

Playing a poltical and economic roleplay game,can not do an infinite money cheat as that would increase inflation and just ruin my economy,someone suggested i should have a modifer for inflation from 1 mintue to mintue using a lua script to create a timer tick so as to rub a float overwrite command to float adress for inflation and growth.instead of freezing values.idk how to this or what any of it means help?? the name of the game GPS4

[@VictorRaposo]

I know its prob not gonna get me anywhere but the game is free no money its called Double u casino could you do anything with that slot game/?

[@DatoXaindrava]

bro help pls i didnot saw where is how to make godmode in any game pls help i mean hmm i am now playing prime tank and speedhack doesnot work it will crash, auto farm i need

[@julitopliegoable]

NEW ISSUE!!! When i choose the new unit of first item this appears. But i cant move this item. And if i chaged this item by other this resturns at the old unit. I play in a private server.

[@arminlinzbauer]

How do I find addresses of values that aren't shown in game? In your example, you don't really know the number of stamina points, let alone the value after using up some percentages of stamina... How do I scan for those?

[@rhejnl]

Use unknown initial value scan. Usually for stuff like stamina its a float value. Then you just do increased or decreased value scans. This way you never have to know any specific values.

[@breacher7252]

5:14 The Cheat Engine only shows the mov instruction, with the register, i.e. ...mov [rax]... in the game I am trying to hack health. I did end up with the pointer list, randomly selected 10, but all of them points to ?? when I attach the saved file to a new game (they work fine when I reload the game to the same save file, but If I use a different save file, some of the, or all of them points to ??).

[@maskenhandler1648]

i got the same thing!!!! mov rax. did you find a solution?

[@breacher7252]

@@maskenhandler1648 I just continued with the procedure (with the offset) and after generating pointer maps for two save files (and comparing), I got some pointers that were pretty good at pointing to the health on multiple save files.

[@eightchickens]

I tried this on "Dwarves: Glory, Death and Loot" and on 6:46 it didn't find any. Then I tried method 2 and it does not work either. Replaced with NOP and game still consumes gold.

[@Swashed_]

It sounds like you don’t have the right address for your gold value. The methods in this video show you how to save your cheats once you found them already

[@jordanlow2874]

What does it mean the when the value turns to ?? When going back into the game to get the 2ed pointer

[@Swashed_]

The address was lost. Assuming you kept the address from your last session. It’s not relevant anymore. Just focus on finding it again and getting a second pointer map

[@jordanlow2874]

@@Swashed_every time I leave the game the first time the value just turns into ??

[@mangekyourinnegan6537]

@@Swashed_ Hey, what to do if when you "find out what writes to this pointer" and then pick up cash, and get messages in the console, but they have no RBX? mov rdi eax

[@izaacortiz3866]

how do i hight the stuff

[@DatoXaindrava]

bro why i cant make infinite stamina? and i cant find code the following opcodes write why? help pls i want it

[@vikmons6104]

What if you dont get an offset from finding what writes to the address? Mine is a mov command, and only lists the names of memory locations (RAX, EAC), and doing a pointer scan finds NO results without a filter..

[@Swashed_]

If you don’t have an offset, then you don’t need to include an offset. If you’re getting 0 pointers in your pointer scan then try making new pointer maps to use for your scans

[@tvdforever5147]

Can you do the same for Elden Ring please!?

[@Serito_]

ok, but what about float, every time I try to compare or whatever, I just don't have results, I can just find the result and change it every time, but make a pointer - no

[@izaacortiz3866]

how do u highlight'

[@猿Monkey]

What to do if the pointer scan displays no results?

[@Swashed_]

Start over :[

[@SasNolan]

It partially worked for me in old game Blade of Darkness. Got the HP to godmode. Didnt help with Stamina, as couldnt put a pointer on it and couldnt get the function properly.

[@Amoneysauce]

Hey swashed I have a question. I mod games as well as try to hack them. I wanted to know how would scan to find a character value to change the player character. In asura wrath you change characters throughout the story and I wanted to play as one in a part you shouldn't be able to.

[@Swashed_]

If there’s a piece of code that’s responsible for loading in which character you use, then I can see that being possible. If the character comes with a bunch of other data, then it might be trickier. Like it might just change the name only or the player model/skin/sprite.

[@Amoneysauce]

Well that was fast. I didn't expect that. They're two completely different characters. I wanted to know do I search float or something when I scan or what. I seen your other video so that's where I got it from. Do start i playing as one than go play as the other than do New Scan. Look at these videos.

[@Amoneysauce]

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[@Bytrl]

Code filter or ultimap to find the call to switch characters. Then call it yourself in a script.

[@wessss9877]

When would you prefer pointer scanning over scripting?

[@damocles5047]

I had a question, how can i increase my character's walk or run speed? I saw lots of Tables for Stalker but that was missing. What is the way of determining walk or run speed. Thx in advance.

[@Swashed_]

Honestly it comes down to how much time a person is willing to spend towards finding how the game is coded and where all the addresses are stored. If you dig deep enough and for long enough, you can find so many things. Walk speed, teleport, unlock all skills, etc. You gotta just sit there and tinker with it until you figure it out. Is there a stat or skill that increases walk speed?

[@damocles5047]

@@Swashed_ Someone already did it 10 days ago, thx anyways.

[@vibezys4808]

When I was debugging, there wasn't any numbers in anything in the brackets similar to yours. I got [rbx] and that was it. What do I do then?

[@Lord_common_sense]

5:25 i dont even have this sh!t, nice one i cant do anything

[@RCE]

Help! can i not attach a debugger to re4 remake or is my cheat engine broken?

[@Swashed_]

What does it say

[@DatoXaindrava]

i cant use that hack for google games?

[@shahramtabas5164]

How about online games and steam???? Is there a workaround?

[@Swashed_]

Won’t really work for online games but I always try anyway

[@razvancraciunescu1936]

where is the link to the Discord?

[@smileguy3488]

if it's just [rdi] in the memory, then i use "0" as filter for pointers?

[@Swashed_]

If there’s no offset, then don’t bother filtering

[@Owenrandom]

​@@Swashed_what do i do after when there is no filter

[@stings7]

can you tell me where i can learn those codes like nop and whatever that was in there

[@Swashed_]

It’s called assembly en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_instruction_listings

[@stings7]

@@Swashed_ thx

[@andresfelipemolinatascon8365]

Hola puedes hacer un cheat engine en el tour de france 2023 pc

[@davidrobloxgamer2015]

can u do a frozen money cheat for clicker heroes

[@legendaryc917]

Bro question here, an you change static value?

[@Swashed_]

The answer is: it depends

[@legendaryc917]

@@Swashed_ i tried to change stats in Atelier Ryza 3 and it did nothing, tried your method that's 'replace the bla3 with nothing' and its working lol. But when i closed the game and open it up again its just revert back to original stats, but hey man, its working and its easy to do that again so thank you.

[@steveshotu3597]

Can you do one for Generation Zero?

[@ceadeusx]

the principe is the same for 99% of all games

[@retrogamermonkey3815]

For someone reason I get 0 results when I try to scan pointer map and I done everything I made 2 pointer maps I went to compare nothing what do I need to do?

[@Swashed_]

Either check that you’re comparing the 2 correctly or your pointer maps might just suck which could happen, in which case make another pointer map and try using that to scan against the first 2

[@retrogamermonkey3815]

@@Swashed_ Okay I will try it out thanks

[@retrogamermonkey3815]

@@Swashed_ Also does it matter which version to use because I am using 7.5 so wanted to make sure there isn't a bug in that version

[@Swashed_]

@retrogamermonkey3815 nah 7.5 is good

[@retrogamermonkey3815]

@@Swashed_ Yeah I'm still having trouble. I opened cheat engine, selected the game, found the code value, generated pointer map, started a new session, found the code value for the game again. generated another pointer map, did the whole access thing, went to compare by doing current session first then previous section second, did everything I was suppose to still 0 results even done multiple games not sure whats going on or if something could be blocking it from working.

[@louigietipsay4485]

how did you know the value of the stamina bar?

[@Swashed_]

I didn’t. I scanned for an unknown initial value for my first scan. Then scanned for increased/decreased value as the stamina changed

[@unknownspark7316]

Does this work on 7.5?

[@Swashed_]

Ye

[@HellFireNeko]

What do you do if the debugger doesnt show a offset?

[@CoderSemiColon]

then dont add an offset or keep it as 0

[@Shabard]

Can I share that cheat table online after make it?

[@Swashed_]

Yup!

[@Safiullah-0]

Can i do this with Android games on a emulator?

[@Swashed_]

You can use cheat engine yeah, but you might have a hard time messing with op codes and pointers

[@beastzr6965]

Yo idk what u did to my game but I can’t go into it now

[@abhijeetbeniwal5033]

Please make a tutorial for how to make a money cheat , i mean if i disable the script to nop , it does not either increase and decrease , how to do it properly , so that the value can increase but cannot decrease

[@Swashed_]

It’s different for every game. I have a beginners guide tutorial for cheat engine that does show a money cheat

[@abhijeetbeniwal5033]

@@Swashed_ i saw the beginners tutorial, i know now , how to manipulate values , but i was trying to make a script for creeper world 4 (i know a small game) and i did everything right , but i couldn’t figure out how to add to the value (my money was in movss which I manipulated to get alot of ammount but I couldn’t make it that it does not decrease but only increases , please help me and many others by making a tutorial video about it) 🙏❤️

[@bigpablo7869]

Could you do a cheaa engine tutorial on Warzone 2.0 please?

[@ceadeusx]

bruh. thats not gonna work.

[@TunaTheScripter]

What if there’s 2 or more values??

[@Swashed_]

Pick one and try it out

[@Burglar8399]

@@Swashed_ hey can ı ask somethıng? when ı change the value ın a game lıke war robots or dragon manıa when ı try to use the unlımıted cash the game suddenly resets/dısconnects do you have any solutıon for thıs

[@CmLegoat]

can u hack the gadgets of Splinter Cell The Blacklist?

[@Arhamfacebook]

Why it shows no value on android games