Tutorial How to use Cheat Engine

[mswasticsc]

Dedicated to people who seem to be clueless about Cheat Engine and/or cheating overall.
NB: I don't usually answer in threads and use DM instead, I advise you do the same if you need my attention​

*CE means Cheat Engine

- What's Cheat Engine

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- How do I get a copy of Cheat Engine

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- What's a Cheat Engine table

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- How does Cheat Engine work

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- Where do I put a cheat table / .CT file

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- How to use Cheat Engine

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- How to FREEZE, FREEZE AND ALLOW INC/DEC

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- The value I've frozen is being updated faster than CE does that, what do I do?

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- Why does the attach script fails when I activate it?

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- OK, I'm attached to the game correctly, but next scripts fail to run OR crash the game. What's wrong?

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- Why some of my lua code is encrypted

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- I want to request a table, could you create a cheat table for X?

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- Can you teach me?

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[Visya]

Hey. I've tried cheat engine on many games but struggled to make it work on RPGM MV/MZ. in wolf rpg it's easy I can just scan the value and look up the pointers very easily. on VX Ace I also found that scanning for the value 2*X+1 is how to find the values. but in MV/MZ I just can't seem to find it. any clues?

 

[mswasticsc]

Hey. I've tried cheat engine on many games but struggled to make it work on RPGM MV/MZ. in wolf rpg it's easy I can just scan the value and look up the pointers very easily. on VX Ace I also found that scanning for the value 2*X+1 is how to find the values. but in MV/MZ I just can't seem to find it. any clues?

I never cared about RPGM games, as far as I know the RPGM engine is JS-based and JS is a scripting language - as with most scripting languages, you can't build consistent cheats with CE (except for pointer-based cheats maybe). On top of that, as you mentioned, values are usually encrypted which complicates value hunting (but it should be easier than on Python where types are immutable).

Cheat Engine allows searching for unknown/increased/decreased values + define the region/alignment/access, that may help, but again - I haven't tested that. The easiest way to cheat in RPGM seems to be save-editing and/or cheat plugins.

 

[bazzina]

What programs do you use for hacking (besides CE)? x64dbg, IDA, Ghidra? Or something else?

 

[mswasticsc]

What programs do you use for hacking (besides CE)? x64dbg, IDA, Ghidra? Or something else?

for Unity/UE/Godot: CE, my scripts + ReClass (when needed)
IDA when I need to investigate something.

 

[Laxard]

I never cared about RPGM games, as far as I know the RPGM engine is JS-based and JS is a scripting language - as with most scripting languages, you can't build consistent cheats with CE

Well, RPG Maker used Ruby on Rails for a long time before switching to JS (or rather HTML5 that heavily use it) from MV, so older games quite easy to hack, you just need to remember to use value*2+1 as a formula.
Thought even then save editing or cheat plugins approach were more popular for convenience sake and some people just played games from editor.

You are right about changing values in Python games being absolute hell in most cases, Cheat Engine can still do it throught Debugging, but Python games basically impossible to obfuscate, so it's often easier to just change script of the game itself somewhere.