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Pointers are wonderful. They posses great power. They are very useful. Like I said, VERY useful. Pointer is like arrow/line/finger that points specific address’s value. It will point it always, even if value will change its location. Most games now uses values changing addresses, so pointers are really important.
First, scan for value shown on the bottom of tutorial window. If you will find it, find out what writes to it, go to tutorial and change value. Now return to window that appeared after clicking “find out what writes to this address”. There should be some code. Click on it and select “More information” or just double click it. See code with red arrows on its left? If it points to code that’s between [ and ], look what is written under “The value of the pointer needed to find this address is probably” and Remember it. Now go to CE main window, and tick “Hex” box near window where you write value that you want to scan for. If you ticked it, in window next to this box should appear 00000000. Change it with remembered value and click First Scan. It should find one/few addresses. Now, look at left and down. You will see “Add address manually” button. Press it. New window should pop up. In it, tick “Pointer” box. After this, window should get longer. In Address of pointer write address(Address, no value! Address is this one on left, under “Address” label)which you found when you were scanning for hex value. In Offset (hex) write 0(yea, just zero). Click OK. In bottom window you should see new address, like P->xxxxxxxx, and next to it its value. If value is ??, you made something wrong.

Look a Books manually

In the previous step I explained how to use the Code finder to handle changing locations. But that method alone
makes it difficult to find the address to set the values you want.
Thats why there are pointers:

At the bottom you'll find 2 buttons. One will change the value, and the other changes the value AND the location of
the value.
For this step you dont really need to know assembler, but it helps a lot if you do.

First find the address of the value. When you've found it use the function to find out what writes to that address.
Change the value again, and a item will show in the list. Double click that item. (or select and click on more info) and
a new window will open with detailed information on what happened when the instruction ran.
If the assembler instruction doesnt have anything between a '[' and ']' then use another item in the list.
If it does it will say what it think will be the value of the pointer you need.
Go back to the main cheat engine window (you can keep this extra info window open if you want, but if you close it,
remember what is between the [ and ] ) and do a 4 byte scan in hexadecimal for the value the extra info told you.
When done scanning it may return 1 or a few hundred addresses. Most of the time the address you need will be the
smallest one. Now click on manually add and select the pointer checkbox.

The window will change and allows you to type in the address of a pointer and a offset.
Fill in as address the address you just found.
If the assembler instruction has a calculation (e.g: [esi+12]) at the end then type the value in thats at the end. else
leave it 0. If it was a more complicated instruction look at the calculation.

example of a more complicated instruction:
[EAX*2+EDX+00000310] eax=4C and edx=00801234.
In this case EDX would be the value the pointer has, and EAX*2+00000310 the offset, so the offset you'd fill in
would be 2*4C+00000310=3A8. (this is all in hex, use cal.exe from windows in scientific mode to calculate)

Back to the tutorial, click OK and the address will be added, If all went right the address will show P->xxxxxxx, with
xxxxxxx being the address of the value you found. If thats not right, you've done something wrong.
Now, change the value using the pointer you added in 5000 and freeze it. Then click Change pointer, and if all went
right the next button will become visible.

extra:
In this tutorial the value is actually pointed to by a pointer to a pointer, but to finish this tutorial only 1 pointer will be
needed. To find the pointer to this pointer, just search for what changes the value of the pointer.
If you know assembler, you may see something like
mov eax,[ebp-4]
mov eax,[eax+310]
Dont be confused by this. just use the value the extra info window tells you. ebp-4 points to the stack which
contained the pointer to this pointer, but the stack location does change all the time, so dont search for ebp, search
for the value of eax

if you failed:

1. Find value(this one in tutorial window)
2. Find out what writes to it
3. Change value and double click on just shown code in “Find out what…” window
4. Remember what is written under ” The value of the pointer needed to find this address is probably”
5. In Cheat engine tick “Hex” box(it’s under New Scan/First Scan)
6. Write remembered code and scan for it
7. If it found 1 address, remember it. If it found few, correct one is probably this one at the top. NOTE. Remember Address, no value! This is important!
8. Click “Add address manually” button
9. Tick “Pointer” box
10. In Address of pointer write remembered address
11. In Offset(Hex) leave 0
12. Click Ok
13. in bottom window look on new address

Ok scan for value that is in tutorial. If you got this far by yourself, you have to be able to find it. Once you found correct one, add it to Cheat List. Now right click on it and choose “Find out what writes to this address”. Confirmation window will pop up, click YES. Now you can see empty window with some unclickable buttons.
Looks this manual book:
Sometimes the location something is stored at changes when you restart the game, or even while you're playing.. In
that case you can use 2 things to still make a table that
works.
In this step I'll try to descibe how to use the Code Finder function.

The value down here will be at a different location each time you start the tutorial, so a normal entry in the address
list wouldn't work.
First try to find the address. (you've got to this point so I assume you know how to)
When you've found the address, right-click the address in Cheat Engine and choose "Find out what writes to this
address". A window will pop up with an empty list.
Then click on the Change value button in this tutorial, and go back to Cheat Engine. If evrything went right there
should be an address with assembler code there now.
Click it and choose the replace option to replace it with code that does nothing. That will also add the code address
to the code list in the advanced options window. (Wich gets saved if you save your table)

Click on stop, so the game will start running normal again, and close to close the window.
Now, click on Change value, and if everything went right the Next button should become clickable.

Ok go to tutorial and click Change Value. Return to blank window. Some strange line of letters will appear in it. Click on it once and then press Replace(button to the right). Choose any name you want, you won’t need it now and click OK. Click Stop and then Close to return to Cheat Engine main window. Ok I’m explaining what you just did:
You replaced code that was responsible for changing value with nothing, so now Change Value button in tutorial window will NOT work. Want to see? Go ahead to tutorial and click Change value. See? Once you did it, Next button should be available. Click it to proceed to the last step

Here we have to find value for HP and ammo and change them to 5000 or higher. Do it same as previous, but instead of 4 bytes Value Type look for Float(if you scan for HP) or Double(if you scan for ammo). If you need explanation, here it is:
Change Value Type to Float,
Scan Type to Exact Value and look for [amount of HP]. Use exact value with floats and doubles ONLY if value you look for do not have numbers behind dot(91.56). If it has, use some other options like Value Between… and write here… you know what. If somehow you don’t know, here is example(I have 56.81321384321964 HP, so I will write in Value Between… 56 and 57, or 56.8 and 56.9 for more precise scanning). Of course you can use others if you want.
Once you found HP value, double click on it to add it to bottom list(let’s call this list Cheat List). Now do the same but change scan type to Double and look for ammo(you can use Values Between too if you want).
If you will find both addresses, change their values to 5000 or higher

as a tutorial in that program cheat engine if you read the manual program like this:

In the previous tutorial we used bytes to scan, but some games store information in so called 'floating point' notations.
(propably to prevent simple memory scanners from finding it the easy way)
a floating point is a value with some digits behind the point. (like 5.12 or 11321.1)

Below you see your health and ammo. Both are stored as Floating point notations, but health is stored as a float and
ammo is stored as a double.
Click on hit me to lose some health, and on shoot to decrease your ammo with 0.5

You have to set BOTH values to 5000 or higher to proceed.

Exact value scan will work fine here, but you may want to experiment with other types too.

Hint: It is recommended to disable "Fast Scan" for type float.

In this step you have to find health value and change it to 1000.You will learn here how use Exact Value Scanning and for what is it. Let’s say that you play some game, and with each hit we lose some HP(health). Now force enemy to hit you(click “Hit me” button below your health). As you can see, your health decreased. Now go to Cheat Engine, in Scan Type choose Exact Value, in Value Type choose 4 Bytes

type number of your health in window above Scan Type and click First Scan(If you already have scanned before, cause you were curious or you wanted to click this button, you will have New Scan instead of First Scan. Click it and then do what I just said). Below computer icon(this one in top left corner) you can see “Found:”. It shows you how many addresses with value matching to one you wrote were found. If there are too many(“too many” are when addresses are not displayed in window below “found:”, in CE v5.3 there is probably no limit for displayed addresses...), click New Scan and get hurt once again(by clicking on “Hit me” in tutorial window). Type in CE new HP value and click First Scan. Do it until some addresses will be displayed in window below “found:”. Of course there are more ways to find correct value, but this tutorial heading is “Exact Value Scanning”, so we will use only this option.
Ok when you have displayed few addresses, go to tutorial (Leave CE as it is, with these addresses in the list) and click “Hit me”. Go to CE, look on found addresses list and find decreased value(previously every address was equal to number of health before this hit. So when previously your health were 96, look for value smaller than this one, but at once it have to be equal to new health number). Example: I had 96HP, and after that hit I lost 5, so now I have 91. So I have to look for 91 value, while almost every other will be 96. So our will differ from others, which makes it easy to find.
Once we found it, click on it and press red arrow pointing to left/down, or just double click on it. It will show in window on bottom of CE. There you can see 5 labels: Freeze(If it’s ticked, value of address in same line will be froze/stopped, it will not be able to change), Description(as it says, you can add it by yourself), Address(shows address), Value Type(Shows type of value stored in address in same line), Value(shows value stored in address in same line). Our objective is to change HP value to 1000, so double click on value. New window will open with current amount of value. Change it to 1000 and click OK. If everything went ok, you should be able to click Next in tutorial window to go to next step. If you can’t that means that you changed value to wrong one, or you changed wrong value(you have wrong address).

you can see a tutorial on the cheat engine in the program that you have to install it notes are as follows:

You see at the bottom of this window the text Health: xxx
Each time you click 'Hit me' your health gets decreased.

To get to the next step you have to find this value and change it to 1000

To find the value there are different ways, but I'll tell you about the easiest, 'Exact Value':
First make sure value type is set to at least 2 bytes or 4 bytes, 1 byte will also work, but you'll run into a
(easy to fix) problem when you've found the address and want to change it. The 8-byte may perhaps works if the
bytes
after the address are 0, but I wouldn't take the bet.
Single, double, and the other scans just dont work, because they store the value in a different way.

When the value type is set correctly, make sure the scantype is set to 'Exact Value'
Then fill in the number your health is in the value box. And click 'First Scan'
After a while (if you have a extremly slow pc) the scan is done and the results are shown in the list on the
left(if
the number of addresses it found are less than the number below that list)

If you find more than 1 address and you dont know for sure wich address it is, click 'Hit me', fill in the new
health
value into the value box, and click 'Next Scan'
repeat this untill you're sure you've found it. (that includes that there's only 1 address in the list.....)

Now double click the address in the list on the left. This makes the address pop-up in the list at the bottom,
showing you the current value.
Double click the value, (or select it and press enter), and change the value to 1000.

If everything went ok the next button should become enabled, and you're ready for the next step.

Note:
If you did anything wrong while scanning, click "New Scan" and repeat the scanning again.
Also, try playing arround with the value and click 'hit me'

do not assume easily remember all this please read these steps carefully