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<hr><div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#010100" class="Arial3"><br></font><font class="Arial1"><b>First scan</b><br><br />
The &quot;First Scan&quot; is the first thing you do when you are scanning the memory. &quot;First Scan&quot; initializes the data <br />
structures inside cheat engine and reads the complete memory of the selected game. If you already know <br />
the value it will scan the memory while it's reading, and take less memory.<br><br><b>Next scan</b><br><br />
The next scan processes the results of the previous scan. If you did a first scan before with a &quot;Advanced&quot; <br />
scantype, it wont have any results, but cheat engine does contain the memory of the game as it was when <br />
you did the scan the previous time. That way you can do a scan for a changed,unchanged value etc...<br><br />
If you did get results from a previous scan the next scan will look at those results, and compare them to the <br />
scantype you selected, and remove those addresses that don't pass the test, making the list smaller and <br />
smaller till there are only a few or even 1 address left.<br><br><b>Undo scan</b><br><br />
If you made a error while scanning, like searching for a increased value, while you had to search for a <br />
decreased value, you can click &quot;Undo Scan&quot; and Cheat Engine will restore the results back to the previous <br />
scan, allowing you to try again, instead of completely starting over.<br><br><b>New scan</b><br><br />
The new scan wipes out all your results, and frees the memory, allowing you to start a new scan.<br><br><b>Scan types</b><br><br />
In the scantype combobox you can select what type of scanning will be done.<br><br><b>Value types</b><br><br />
In the value types combobox you can select what type of address you are looking for.<br><br />
Normally (meaning in most cases) a given value is 4-bytes in windows. Sometimes it is different, or you are <br />
looking for something else, so in that case choose another value type. Usually when you draw a blank with a <br />
4-byte scan choose another (such as 2-byte or even 1-byte for example).<br><br><b>Range to scan</b><br><br />
Programs reside in memory, and store their addresses in various locations within this space. With the two <br />
value boxes you can increase/decrease the number of locations that Cheat Engine will look at for the <br />
address you need. This can dramatically increase your scanning speed, and improve the results, when used <br />
wisely.<br><i><br></i></font></div><div align="left"><font class="Arial1"><br />
If you've changed the scanning range and wish to reset it to it's default value, right-click on the range value <br />
and choose the &quot;Reset range&quot; option. <br><br><b>Read-Only</b><br><br />
The readonly checkbox tells Cheat Engine, if you want to scan read-only memory or not. Normally games do <br />
not store important game information in read-only memory, but sometimes you may feel a need to scan that <br />
memory anyhow. (e.g. If you want to change some text in the game etc...)<br><br><b>Fast scan</b><br><br />
The Fast Scan (aligned scan) checkbox tells CE to skip addresses that aren't located on a 32-bit aligned <br />
boundary. (Addresses divisible by 4 basically). In other words, addresses ending with 0, 4, 8 and C)</font></div><div align="left"><font class="Arial1"><br />
Most times you can get away with using this option ticked, as most variables in games get assigned to</font></div><div align="left"><font class="Arial1"><br />
these aligned locations. This will dramatically cut down on your scanning time!</font></div><div align="left"><font class="Arial1"><br></font></div><div align="left"><font class="Arial1"><br />
Do not underestimate the use of this option. In many/most cases you can set this to on by default (see CE <br />
options) to speed up your work! For most users, under most situations, I recommend you set this to on.</font></div><div align="left"><font class="Arial1"><br></font></div><div align="left"><font class="Arial1"><br />
The default alignment is 4 bytes but you are able to change it to a custom value (e.g: 8, which will cause ce <br />
to search for addresses dividable by 8 only)</font></div><div align="left"><font class="Arial1"><br></font></div><div align="left"><font class="Arial1"><br />
If you use the &quot;Last digits&quot; option, CE will scan only for addresses where the last digit(s) match the given <br />
digit.</font></div><div align="left"><font class="Arial1"><br />
Note: To use a high digit value you must have a buffersize in settings to a value that is higher than the digits <br />
you're looking for</font></div><div align="left"><font class="Arial1"><br></font><font face="Arial" color="#010100" class="Arial3"><br></font></div><div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#010100" class="Arial1"><b>Enable Speedhack</b></font></div><div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#010100" class="Arial1"><br />
Enables the </font><font class="Arial1"><br />
Sp</font><font face="Arial" color="#010100" class="Arial1"><br />
eedhack function. See here for more detailed information: </font><a href="Speedhack.htm"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" class="Arial1"><u>Speedhack Info</u></font></a></div><div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#010101" class="Arial1"><br></font></div><div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#010101" class="Arial1"><b>Unrandomizer</b></font></div><div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#010101" class="Arial1"><br />
This feature scans for and changes certain routines that are commonly used to generate random values, <br />
making them always return the same. You should be cautious though with this option, as there is a chance <br />
that CE will overwrite the wrong routines and potentially cause a crash. If the program uses an unknown <br />
random generator (IE. CE doesn't know about it) then this option will fail. For most users, during general <br />
use, don't touch this option.</font></div><br />
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