How To Use Cheat Engine Like a Pro - Game Hacking #3

Exact, unknown-initial-value and changed-value scans to find an address, then narrowing it down. Recorded with Cheat Engine in 2018; Pointer Lab does the same today.

Handbook chapter for this topic: 7.

Updated 2026: this is the 2018 technique and it still teaches the fundamentals. The modern, fully explained version is in The Game Hacker's Handbook (6 parts, 44 chapters, over 1,100 pages, coming soon). Release and pricing news goes to the newsletter first:
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Pointer Lab, the free open-source memory tool I built for the book: gamereversal.club/tools/pointer-lab/
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Discord: discord.gg/NwRFmp3J2J

Everything I publish now is practised on software you own or open-source games. Please do the same.

Heath Howren, known online as Cyborg Elf. Independent project, not affiliated with any employer or institution.