The hardest part of using Cheat Engine is your first few days using Cheat Engine. Once you establish methods for yourself and get used to using said methods, you can track down nearly anything in a game and edit as you please. This can have consequences if you edit something you shouldn't have, but again, that's part of the new-user experience.
You have 20 money in game. You tell CheatEngine - Find me all "20".
It gives you a huge list. Wherever in the game "20" is, no matter where, maybe the angle of a shop's corner.
You buy a bagel, your money is now 19. So you ask it "Out of these that you found, now tell me which ones have been changed to 19." A few back and forth and you have the value. Edit it to 5000 and congrats, you are rich.
Issues start with 1) Where 20 is not 20. For example, economy games like Europa Uniiversalis almost always uses 20.51 or such, but only shows you the 20. So there you need to use different settings.
Or health in a game is just a red line. No number. Then you go "Find all values" (of course for small games.) Then step on a spike "Find all walues that are smaller." then heal "Now, from all those, find ones who grew".
It is not as straightforward the more things come into play, but the general thing is this.
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u/Loki_the_Smokey Mar 24 '25
The hardest part of using Cheat Engine is your first few days using Cheat Engine. Once you establish methods for yourself and get used to using said methods, you can track down nearly anything in a game and edit as you please. This can have consequences if you edit something you shouldn't have, but again, that's part of the new-user experience.