"What do you want to patch today?" *0 ŪŪŪßßßßŪŪŪŪŪŪŪŪŪŪŪŪŪŪŪŪŪŪŪŪ [NłUłKłE] Ū ÜÜŪŪÜÜÜÜ ßŪßßßßßŪŪŪŪŪŪŪŪŪ NAPALM ULTIMATE ŪÜÜ ŪŪßßŪŪŪ ÜÜŪŪÜÜÜÜÜ ßŪŪŪ KILLING ŪŪŪ ŪŪ ŪŪ ßßŪŪŪ ŪŪŪ EXPERIENCE! Ūßß ŪŪ ŪŪŪ ßßŪŪßß ÜÜ ßŪ presents Ū ßßŪŪßßßßß ŪŪ ÜÜŪŪŪ Ū CHEAT ENGiNE v2.xX ŪŪÜÜÜÜÜŪŪŪŪŪ ßßßßßßßßßßß ÜŪ Registered to yoU ßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßß "The standard in patch-making" *1 ÉĶ--łśś ś śśł--ÄÄ-ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ-ÄÄ--łśś ś śśł--ÄĶ» ³ś Comments from users ³ ČĶ--łśś ś śśł--ÄÄ-ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ-ÄÄ--łśś ś śśł--ÄĶ¼ "...I want to say you have a great CE! It's totally cool! Well anyway I just want to say keep up the good work..." Zone Master -Good work??? Ahem...Oh, yes, good, very, would you send me $1 for it? Ok, ok, just a tought... :) "Hey dude. I like it! NKCE200.zip is really hot." an215169@anon.penet.fi -Sure, maybe I should dedicate it to some girl... :) "GREAT job on Cheat Engine...I like it a lot." The Blind Beggar -Maybe datz because you're BLIND! :) "I must say i waz REAL impressed with the concept you use for registration" "This util of yours saves me lots of time, and I use it a lot..." SPuTNIK/HAI -We aim to please. We usually miss, however... Ok, these were some comments I picked RANDOMLY. ;) ÉĶ--łśś ś śśł--ÄÄ-ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ-ÄÄ--łśś ś śśł--ÄĶ» ³ś Files included in this version ³ ČĶ--łśś ś śśł--ÄÄ-ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ-ÄÄ--łśś ś śśł--ÄĶ¼ CExx.EXE Cheat Engine CE.DOC Doc in english CE.CFG Current strings CE_TXT1.CFG Other strings, copy to CE.CFG to change look. CE_TXT2.CFG Other strings, copy to CE.CFG to change look. EXAMPLE1.EXE Patch made with CE. SCRIPT.CE Script (optional use) Plus all the extra 500KB of bbs adds... ÉĶ--łśś ś śśł--ÄÄ-ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ-ÄÄ--łśś ś śśł--ÄĶ» ³ś Contents of this almost-looks-serious DOC ³ ČĶ--łśś ś śśł--ÄÄ-ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ-ÄÄ--łśś ś śśł--ÄĶ¼ 0 ž Start Info 1 ž Patches registered to you! 2 ž Creditz 3 ž Greetings 4 ž What is this crap? 5 ž How to use the data you know to make a patch 6 ž Examples on how to find how to cheat 7 ž History ÉĶ--łśś ś śśł--ÄÄ-ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ-ÄÄ--łśś ś śśł--ÄĶ» ³ś0 Starting Info ³ ČĶ--łśś ś śśł--ÄÄ-ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ-ÄÄ--łśś ś śśł--ÄĶ¼ Ok, this is just like in the supermarket, the shit that no one cares about always comes first, and the important stuff is at the end. ž This program is provided "as it is". The author will not be responsible for any damaged caused by this program, directly or indirectly, to software or hardware. This is 100% safe, however, you never know, someone might disassemble this and make a nice trojan to trash your HD. :) This is YELLWARE. You might spread it, this time with your conscience clear. You can do anything, change it if you like, I don't care, just be elegant. I think that there's no real problem in ripping stuff, if you give the author the some creditz.. ÉĶ--łśś ś śśł--ÄÄ-ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ-ÄÄ--łśś ś śśł--ÄĶ» ³ś1 Please Register Yeah, do it once for a change... ³ ČĶ--łśś ś śśł--ÄÄ-ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ-ÄÄ--łśś ś śśł--ÄĶ¼ Hey, hey, don't ignore this, I won't kneel and beg for money, CE is totally free! Hey! Don't dare to press PGDN!! :) ž If you use this program to release at least 1 patch to the public, you must register. To register, simply send me a message saying what you think about the proggy, where u got it, ideas, comments, flames, whatever! If you don't send the message, your copy will be considered pirated software, the Feds will break into your house, get your hardware, and you'll have to pay a huge amount of money, and will get a criminal record, attacked by fagg prisioners,... ahem, I think you got the idea... ž If you want your patches to display "Registered to " mention the exact string of your group's name or your name. If I like yer messie, I'll send you a registration key. :) That's the only difference, it will look more professional (yea,yea), the unregistered is not crippled in any way. ž Mail me for any other comments. Messages of users will make me improve CE, so, staying quiet is the perfect way to insure I won't do this again! [NOW] Send your messages to me (Asskicker): an201088@anon.penet.fi If you really liked this and want to be a nice guy (what?!?) then make a ANSi for ma board or a ASCii for NUKE. :) ÉĶ--łśś ś śśł--ÄÄ-ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ-ÄÄ--łśś ś śśł--ÄĶ» ³ś2 Creditz Run time error is our middle name... ³ ČĶ--łśś ś śśł--ÄÄ-ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ-ÄÄ--łśś ś śśł--ÄĶ¼ Design,Code & Docs: Asskicker/[NłUłKłE] Additional Code: Mad Zombie,Rad Raver (incompetent) Guinea Pigs: Rad Raver,Guardian, Mad Zombie Thx to Phantom Lord for agreeing in giving me his font editor routines without my needing to use violence. ÉĶ--łśś ś śśł--ÄÄ-ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ-ÄÄ--łśś ś śśł--ÄĶ» ³ś3 Greetings We can't live without them... ³ ČĶ--łśś ś śśł--ÄÄ-ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ-ÄÄ--łśś ś śśł--ÄĶ¼ Since individual greetings are too long and give too much work... :) Greetings to all my friends and all the users ofś-[Rä›KLäS$ LiFä]-ś!!! Greetings from NUKE to all the cool groups around, and greetings to you if you use this program. :) And the traditional "FUCK YOU!!!"'s go to Portugal Telecom, techno music, trojan makers, and all the guys who like me as little as I like them. :) ÉĶ--łśś ś śśł--ÄÄ-ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ-ÄÄ--łśś ś śśł--ÄĶ» ³ś4 Geese! Ok! Ok! I buy 5 of them!! But wass that crap anyway?!?! ³ ČĶ--łśś ś śśł--ÄÄ-ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ-ÄÄ--łśś ś śśł--ÄĶ¼ ž Fast info: For crackers and cheaters, you supply offsets/bytes/info and this makes a cute, well-organized, 7-10KB executable patch. Simple like hell, but damn useful for cheat/crack makers. ž Why is it called Cheat Engine? I don't know yet, but it sounds good. :) ž Complete info: This is simply a patch engine. It will not find stuff for you, and it won't crack stuff for you, but nothing does that. It's just a tool to help you to make crack patches, savegame editors, or anything similar. Once you know what to change, where to change, and what to change to, then all you have to do is use CE, and spread your patch so that everbody can use it. CE simply gets the data you enter, and creates a nice EXEcutable patch. Your patch can be a cheat do give you money on savegames of game X, can be a crack to kick protection out of commercial program X, anything. If you get info on magazines, the usual "change offset X to FF", now you can make your own patches to use whenever you want. No need for PCTools or other hex eds. ž If you don't have a clue on how to cheat games, you can read the quick tutor in this doc. Cracking is much more complex, if you know enough to make decent cracks, than you also know enough to build your own personalized patcher, and won't need CE (I know however some crackers that like to use CE kohz it's cute (hehe) and really fast to use). ÉĶ--łśś ś śśł--ÄÄ-ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ-ÄÄ--łśś ś śśł--ÄĶ» ³ś5 Details Blood type, shoe size, etc... ³ ČĶ--łśś ś śśł--ÄÄ-ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ-ÄÄ--łśś ś śśł--ÄĶ¼ ž CE will allow you to change a maximum of 250 bytes. This seems ok because CE was made to create savegame editors and crack patches, which usually require 1-20 bytes. When you run it, you'll be prompted for some info. Name of the program you're patching, it's filename, number of topics to change, etc. Suppose you had 2 topics, Money and Ammo, money required the change of 3 bytes, and Ammo required the change of 1 byte... Topic 1ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄĀÄÄÄ1 Byte in offset 1003d changes to 240d (Money) ĆÄÄÄ2 Byte in offset 0Fh changes to 255d ĄÄÄÄ3 Byte in offset 07FFh changes to 0Fh Topic 1ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ1 Byte in offset 10d changes to 240d (Ammo) [NOTE] The above scheme is totally useless, but I tought it would look nice in the doc, so enjoy. :) You can have up to 5 topics, and up to 50 bytes in each topic. CE has a small help, that should be enough, so you should easily understand it. There's no need for me to explain all steps here unless you're really braindamaged. If it's registered, you'll see an extra question. (Registered to who?) ž After all the info was entered, CE will create the executable patch and encrypt/compress everything except the patch info, so you can spot it on a quick look and it's easier, much easier to access. The size of the patch will ways be=generic code+record with data, so a 250 byte patch will have the same size than a 1 byte patch. I don't care about this, since 8-10KB is nothing, but I might change the system if other features require space. [WARNING] The patch will have overlays, so if you compress it again ya'll probably trash the whole thing! ÉĶ--łśś ś śśł--ÄÄ-ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ-ÄÄ--łśś ś śśł--ÄĶ» ³ś6 Examples Yeah, two examples of cheated games. ³ ČĶ--łśś ś śśł--ÄÄ-ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ-ÄÄ--łśś ś śśł--ÄĶ¼ Ok, now you know how to make get the executable patch, but how do you know what to change and where? Remember that if the file you want to change doesen't always have the same size than you probably won't succeed in creating a CE patch for it. Also, I can define 2 basic type of patches, cheats for games, and protection cracks - This micro-tutor will give you a hint on how to cheat games, but if you're not a cracker, then buy a asm book and get a debugger, kohz that's a totally different field and produces totally different crashes. :) ž 1 Doom II Let's pick some game... Doom II. Let's suppose you want a patch that edits savegames and gives you 255 chaingun rounds. This is not a useful thing to do, but I'll use it as the first easy example: Start playing... shoot your chaingun. Write down the number of shots you have. Ex: 158. Save and exit. Convert 158 to HEX with a calculator, edit the savegame with a hex editor and search 9E (158d). You'll find it in offset 208. Use ce to make a patch of 1 topic, 1 byte, to change offset 208 to 255. This might not work, because Doom savegames have variable size. Check the next example, it's clear and applies to most games: ž 2 Warcraft - Humans and Orcs or orcs & humans, whatever. :) I had some HD crashes lately, so I lost all games, now I just have Doom 2 and Mortal Kombat II in the HD, and I'm too lazy to get shit from the tapes, so, I asked Guardian to write down all steps we used to cheat Warcraft, that's another fine example... He wrote some nice text, but I decided to cut it to a minimum, to be very clear to you lam..uh, beginners. ;) - Check the money you have and lumber - Save a game, Lumber / Gold are there, of course. - In this example, we'll have 1500 lumber and 1500 gold. - Change 1500 to hexadecimal, use a calculator, maths suck (Guardian is in maths, crazy sucker!) You'll know that 1500 decimal is 05DC hex or that you're a Pentium. - Reverse the numbers, 05 DC becomes DC 05 - Get a hex editor, PCTools 4.24, Hiew, any shit. (AK:I personally prefer CEDIT bexause it inclues a handy dec<>hex converter) - Search DC 05 in the savegame file - In those two offsets stick the values FF - Re-enter the game, you should have 65535 units of each Now you can use CE, tell it to stick 255 (FF in decimal) in those 2 offsets, and you just have to run the patch each time you want more gold & lumber in any savegame! ž 3 In general... - Try to use CEDIT always, or HIEW to search the values There are several editors, HIEW is great, but I prefer CEDIT to do this. - One way is to write down decimal values, convert to hex, save the game, exit and search it to find its offset. - The other way is to save one game, waste some money (or whatever), and do nothing else, save, and the compare the two games, with MSDOS's FC command, for instance. The only changes will be in the offset where the money (or whatever) value is stored [ BUGS? ] This is should work fine, designed to be moron-proof, but not 100% so, you know, you feed it garbage, you get garbage! I'm too lazy to test it decently. Worked ok here, but there might be some hidden bugs. Yell if you see anything wrong. Ok, this should be enough. Don't forget to register if you use this proggy. Don't complain if you wanted something but didn't suggest it. I'll also compile a list of guys who bothered to write and their comments, and include it the next release, so we can all laugh a bit. :) See you around... =ķ[ Asskicker, śRä›KLäS$ L­Fä $YZļAVś/ś[NłUłKłE] Prezś/śUNiON VGAś ]ķ=-ś =ķ[śBorn 2 Kick Ass & Chew C4!­ś iNeT: an201088@anon.penet.fi ]ķ=-ś ÉĶ--łśś ś śśł--ÄÄ-ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ-ÄÄ--łśś ś śśł--ÄĶ» ³ś7 History ³ ČĶ--łśś ś śśł--ÄÄ-ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ-ÄÄ--łśś ś śśł--ÄĶ¼ See file CE.HIS for history/bug reports. --- *0: Ok, ok, I was uninspired... *1: Well, not really, but I tought that would look cool in the first page of the doc :)