Cheat Engine:Help File

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Overview

About

• About
  • About Cheat Engine
  • FAQ's

Main Interface

• 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 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

• 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

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

Tutorials

• 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
  • 3D pinball for windows
  • Basic packet editing
  • Percentage scans and compare to saved results

Misc Topics

• Misc Topics
  • About the debugger
  • Network versions
  • Contact and feedback