Cheat Engine:Help File

Note:

This is a WIP. Help is welcome ... to edit the help file. :P ( The helpfile in HTML format can be found at http://cheatengine.org/help/index.html Feel free to copy the contents from there to these wiki entries)

Overview:

• About

 * About Cheat Engine
 * FAQ's

• Main Interface

 * Standard Menu
 * Select Process
 * Memory scan settings
 * Scan types
 * Value types
 * Custom type examples
   * Money type - divided by 100 
   * old flash (div 8)
   * Big endian 2 byte
   * Big endian 4 byte
 * (Un)signed values
 * Found address list
 * Address/Cheat list
 * Table Extras
 * Speedhack
 * Advanced options
   * Pause
   * Code list

• Memory Viewer

 * Memory view
 * Menus and Features	
 * Auto Assembler help
 * Script engine
 * Debugging
   * Find out what addresses this instruction accesses
   * Find out what writes/accesses this address
 * Dissect code
 * Dissect data/structures
 * Pointer scan
 * Break and trace
 * Structure spider

• Plugin system

 * GetVersion
 * DisablePlugin
 * InitializePlugin
 * PluginVersion
   * ExportedFunctions
   * sizeofExportedFunctions
   * ShowMessage
   * RegisterFunction
   * UnregisterFunction
   * OpenedProcessID
   * OpenedProcessHandle
   * GetMainWindowHandle
   * AutoAssemble
   * Assembler
   * Disassembler
   * ChangeRegistersAtAddress
   * InjectDLL
   * FreezeMem
   * UnfreezeMem
   * FixMem
   * ProcessList
   * ReloadSettings
   * GetAddressFromPointer
   * sym_nameToAddress
   * sym_addressToName
   * sym_generateAPIHookScript
   * loadDBK32
   * loaddbvmifneeded
   * previousOpcode
   * nextOpcode
   * disassembleEx
   * loadModule
   * aa_AddExtraCommand
   * aa_RemoveExtraCommand
 * PluginType
   * 0: ptAddressList
   * 1: ptMemoryView
   * 2: ptOnDebugEvent
   * 3: ptProcesswatcherEvent
   * 4: ptFunctionPointerschange
   * 5: ptMainMenu
   * 6: ptDisassemblerContext
   * 7: ptDisassemblerRenderLine
   * 8: ptAutoAssembler
   * REGISTERMODIFICATIONINFO

• Settings

 * General settings
 * Hotkeys
 * Unrandomizer
 * Scan settings
 * Plugins
 * Debugger options
 * Extra (Advanced)

• Tutorials

 * ASM and Hexing Theory
 * Basic assembler
 * What is the difference in bytetype
 * ASM Basics 1
 * ASM Basics 2
 * ASM Basics 3
 * Cheat Engine specific
 * Remote desktop instead of network version
 * Searching Tip
 * Code Injection and the auto assembler
 * Find out what addresses are accessed by a piece of code
 * Plugins
 * Basic packet editing
 * Percentage scans and compare to saved results

• Misc Topics

 * About the debugger
 * Network versions
 * Contact and feedback