How to Pointer Scan Tutorial - Plants vs Zombies
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Cheat Engine is a free and open source memory scanner with an integrated debugger for the Windows operating system. Cheat Engine is used for cheating in computer games and has many tools such as ultimap, dissect windows PE headers, struct dissector, static address finder, and more. In this pointer tutorial we will be using cheat engine pointer scan tools on the game "plants vs zombies" as well as the game "assault cube". Pointer scanning is used to find static pointers to dynamic values such as a player's health, a player's ammo, or a player's current weapon.
In this pointer scan tutorial we will reverse engineer plants vs zombies. This is the 4th video in the series. We will start by reverse engineering sunlight (repeatedly search for the sunlight value to narrow possible addresses) and then use the cheat engine pointer scan tool to search for the static pointer chain. Select a folder to save the pointer scan and begin scanning--given that pointer scans take up a large amount of memory, it may be helpful to use the same temporary folder for all pointer scans for a given game. With the cheat engine pointer scan tool we will find one address in base.dll and we quickly find our static pointer.
After a simple pointer scan example tutorial, we will complete a slightly more difficult pointer scan in assault cube. To reverse engineer Assault cube pointers, start by creating an assault cube bot match and memory scan for enemy health. Use the enemies health to find the enemy base address. The cheat engine value is a dynamic address and we need to find the base, so search for 100 then search for decreased value after every hit. Once we find the correct enemy health address, we will use cheat engine pointer scan tool to quickly narrow possible offsets. Alternatively, we could do a manual pointer scan by searching for hex addresses, however the cheat engine pointer scan tool will quickly narrow result sets.
To better narrow search results, try
restarting computer
It also helps to restart the game
run the game on a separate machine
Some games will change the pointers themselves, for example when a match is started or a character respawns. Refreshing the pointer with this method may be quicker than restarting the game for every pointer scan. Make sure to only scan static pointers (pointers with the base module address plus offset). We narrow the pointer scan by restarting assault cube and rescanning memory until we find a static pointer for assault cube health.
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