Cheat Engine for Idiots
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- čas přidán 16. 05. 2024
- Learn about the basics behind how to use Cheat Engine as I demonstrate practical concepts which are easy to understand for beginners.
All contents of this video are for purely educational purposes only, do not use cheat engine to cheat at multiplayer games.
Be careful during Cheat Engine's installation as it might install bloatware if you "next" through it too fast without declining the "special offers".
Here are the timestamps for this video:
0:00 - Introduction
0:27 - Setup
1:04 - Method 1
2:40 - Method 2
5:03 - Method 3
8:16 - Practical case
Thank you for watching, a like would be appreciated if you enjoyed the content.
- Kian
Here are some mistakes I made this video (Thanks to ParkourPenguin from CE Forums for pointing it out, shortened responses from forum reply):
- The . at 0:10 is a typo
- 0:07 - "Coins will typically be stored as an int value" - Doubles are used plenty often too, including for values that will only ever be presented as integers.
- "Whereas a timer, for example, would probably be either a double or a float type" - same grievance as the previous point but to a far greater extent. I've seen literally dozens of representations for time in games.
- 1:09 - forgot about "byte"
- 1:12 - "I'm going to select 'all' for type" - That's going to slow down your scans significantly in a game with a lot of memory (tutorial process has very little). The overwhelming majority of integer values are 4 bytes- start with that.
- 1:43 - "This is probably the address I'm looking for" - there's a significant number of cases where multiple values correspond to the same semantics you're searching for, only one of which will actually change what you want. You should've scanned for 83 anyway even if you know it's going to be the only result in this case. Not too important given the information that follows.
- 2:55 - (text on screen) - The initial unknown value scan isn't time consuming at all- it's just a memory dump. It's the next scans that follow which could be.
- 4:01 - "I can notice that there are five values which may be interesting" - I'd do a "value between" scan with the values 0.01 and 999999. That's generally faster for me compared to manually going through the list and adding potentially interesting values to the cheat table. This isn't really noticeable in the tutorial since it has very few values.
Bro pin this
I think you should pin this
@@kathras yes
@@blankblank1273 yes
@@salaamdev i have one lmao
I needed tis video 8 years ago,not now when I literally have a family
damn
congrats i hope you have a beautiful life
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mersii frate@@vladutzul1474
your family stopping you? all you have to do is lock yourself in a dark room for 10 days and come out as a cheat dev. ez. she'll understand
I used to cheat in facebook games (wild ones) when i was 11, now I am 21 and pursuing my study in science computer for my degree. Cheating isnt always bad hahaha
Yep xD
Computer science....
Plz fix
Or not do what you want 👍
I just had a Facebook ad I when started the video
Science computer
I only cheat on offline games, I don't wanna ruin other people fun, but as you said, cheating isn't always bad.
1:08
as a novice game dev, health values aren't stored as floats/doubles in order to confuse you, they're stored like that so that enemies can do more precise damage
Fair point, tho sometimes they are done like that for obfuscation
yea@@KianBrose
Also i sometimes store health as 0 by default and then add damage till it exceeds max health
true but idk if people will use cheat engine more like mod menus
what if you store health as an string so its ppls is gonna search it as an integer or float and not gonna found it
Important to say is that you cant manipulate numbers in most multiplayer games, because most of them run on a server and are not stored in a file on your computer.
That's actually partially untrue, you CAN manipulate the numbers on your multiplayer game, whether the server cares about what you modified locally is a different issue which leads to the concept of validation. Anything that is on your pc locally can and will be modifiable by cheat engine
@@KianBrose how do you change numbers in a multiplayer? Lets say it's an emulated multiplayer game (ex bluestacks), would that be possible?
@@KianBrose okay i finished the video sorry about the emulator question😭, but im stoll curious about the multiplayer thing
@@quet9335 You need to spoof packets in such a way the server believes the data you send it
but you can change the price of chests for example in a lot of multiplayer games idk why but it almost always works when I change the prices
We had Internet Cafe's in the Philippines in the past with a program that contains the Timer for the PC Lease. Needless to say, cheat engine helped me extend my time a bit more when I needed it most to finish my school research. 😂
Ayy nice
chadest usage i can possibly imagine
nice lmao
I had already been using Cheat Engine for years before this tutorial but I still watched, great to see another upload! Next you should do a video on using instructions to find the same value again without doing the entire scanning process. (aka finding the Hex value of the instructions that actually write the value to said address, kind of like reverse engineering it)
Yeah I was planning on doing a slightly more advanced tutorial about finding pointers and making a c++ "Mod menu" / Trainer to just modify the values without having to open cheat engine every time. Although it seems according to the replies I got on a post I made in the cheat engine forum that I made quite a lot of mistakes in this video and I'll have to start doing a lot more research in these sorts of videos to make sure nothing or very little of what I'm saying is incorrect
@@KianBrose All good. You are very good at what you do and I think everyone appreciates that you are trying to be very accurate, keep up the good content bro!
It ended up with 1.3 million strings found in the scan and it need to process it! It’s going to take forever to process it, there is no emergency button to shut down this thing as it’s doing the processing forever! It only has a message box telling me it’s busy! This is another one of those 1995 to today’s softwares that failed to has any emergency shut down codes!
It should has an option to discard and ignore all strings found that does not start with number 7 , or any number or letters! I have no idea how many digits it was in the past experience of the string zones I had found the needed the string to work on. So I have no idea how to limit the scanning zone to cut down on the results easily!
I believe force shutting down games and software under these circumstances could damage the hardwares?!
cani get a link to get it?
Can ı get setup file link ?
Just started trying cheat engine and this video helped,it was straight to the point.I already knew some things but this made it more clear for me,thanks!
No problem!
thank you for making video
if only it was 15 years early
This is one of the best tuts I have seen for cheat engine!
I would love if you could create a video about assembly inside Cheat Engine since that is the hard part for me at the moment
Actually the next video was voted to be the part 2 of this tutorial, so assembly and pointers
@@KianBrose Gonna be awesome to watch!
Thank you for doing the tutorials :)
Would love to see a full run-through of the tutorial, im having a rough time figuring out pointers using it
oof
Really informative and straight to the point. Nice job man 👍
Ty!
Ur name 💀
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@@shrek5629 I just want to semen I just want to listen
I'd love to see a video on pointers with CE, I've personally really struggled with a) picturing how they work and b) actually using them in practice when I was really interested in CE and hacking and stuff
ah that might be a good idea, its a part of how to make mod menus as well
please@@KianBrose
Been using this to cheat in singleplayer games for over 8 years. But still a great tutorial, you showed me things I didn’t even knew existed. Thanks man.
No problem!
The best tutorial in the entire youtube! thank you so much! it was simple but all the other videos skip the most important step!.
Glad you liked it!
Did you change your channel name? or was it only de profile pic?
The "how to make bots using python" video has been poping in my recomendations for like 4 days and I though It was other channel, but I watched that video like 3 months ago.
Amazing videos man, keep going! and remember me once you're big (bigger) :D
Yes, I changed the profile picture of the channel (I like dark theme lol)
Ty!
Great video man, I really hope your channel grows bigger.
Thanks! I hope so too
bruh thank you so much for the 1 - 500 health part. I was stuck on that for a while
Np
wow man it is like a memory hit from the past 😅
very thankful btw 💛
yapp such a nostalgic video you have here, i used it often in an early middle school and now im 26 love it bruv
Ty!
I really appreciate this video! You’re a great man for this
Glad it was helpful!
That was amazing! Will sure be checking it out. Kian...my friend.... You've taught me more then my college professors & for that, Thank you soo much!❤️
Np, a teacher that doesn't make their classes easily understandable and fun is not a good teacher
a teacher doesn't teach about cheat engine lol
@@Bixittrue "ok whats up gamerbros it's your favorite teacher ms gamer, today i will show you how to hack into the pentagon using cheat engine"
@@tutorialtest5601 next we will learn about hacking NASA so we can know about the hidden gay aliens in area 51
thanks alot i love when people actully make a usefull tutorial
Glad it helped
You are such a good programmer, this work is amazing, I have wanted to know how to make my own Roblox executor and you explain this so well, I'm also watching your Mod Menu video, thank you.
It's what the people wanted. You are a legend.
Nice video, I didn't know I was subscribed but I had a look on your channel and I'm interested in almost every video.
Thank you, this tutorial helped me out a ton.
Dude i saw this video and dint see the channel name and was like “ok cool” and now i saw your bot videos and im watching all your vids, youre so cool!
ty!
@@KianBrosehey so I’m trying to do what you’re doing in subway surfers and for me it pops up with 3 values and when i change them they change back after i collect some coins. Do you know why? Also, no problem!
Old memories, I use to use that cheat engine in GTA 5 for increasing the number of stocks own in game.
Good old program thats almost forgotten
Great tutorial, I already knew how to use it but this was very helpfull. Currently I'm trying to modify the character's position in a 2d rpg game to access areas where you are not supossed to be at that point, since I mostly use cheat engine for that, so I did a new scan with an unknow initial value and moved my character to the right and left to increase and decrease the value. When I found where the position is stored in the code, I saw that when I move right once, the value increases by 2, so I tried to change it exactly in the place I wanted to be by counting the steps it would took me by adding 2 for each step counting from where I began, but when I change the value, for some reason the game crashses. Is there any other way to do this? or it is because the game?
(sorry if something is written poorly, english is not my first language)
Hmm a bit advanced but if you right click the position that changes you can use the "View what Writes/Accesses this address" feature, there are multiple options from there, like disabling the code from all things that access it which could be "checks" to see the value is within allowed ranges, or modify the function that modifies the position itself
Thanks man
i like how you like and reply almost every comment and ty for the tutorial
np
What a brilliant video. this was the video i was looking for which would explain the core of the Cheat Engine
Glad you liked it!
You are such a good teacher, if you would upload more videos constantly I think you would go easily over 1 million subscribers. Thank you!
Trying but it's difficult xD
@@KianBrose I understand,...You are doing excelent until now, thanks again!
Lol very good quality tutorial for beginners. The Internet needs more people like you! :)
Ikr, especially editing out useless bits
This actually has opened my eyes a little wider to some cool stuff
Glad to hear that!
Very informative and easy to understand! Nice job!
Ty!
This is an old video but this has helped me change values on a game without using a cheat engine table. Thanks for the lesson and I appreciate the video
You're welcome!
This is something I played around when I was a child but didn't know what I was doing. Now, I'm studying CS and understand what I'm doing. I was wondering, whether you have the right skills to make a future video where you would go over C++ and CE? I'd really like to be able find static addresses, and then writing my own code, making my own GUI for changing values - hacking. I haven't found any good C++ + CE guides, so I think it would be really beneficial for your channel and for us!
actually, the language I prefer is c# when it comes to making mod menus due to the reason i dont actually use pointers anymore, i use something called "array of byte" AoB for scanning which had some nice libraries available for it on github
@@KianBrose Do you know yourself any good tutorials / guides on either of those? Like, I'm good at both C++ and C#, but it there's more source for C#, I'd still like to know where can I start learning making my own hack menus.
remember playing around with this back in the days
I have no practical use for it that I can think of but I kinda feel like learning this, it seems fun
The modern day version of hex editors in the 1980's. The difference is you had to go line by line... Programs were not that big then so it wasn't horrible. It certainly was entertaining.
Indeed, the simple days before I was born
Bro your videos are rarer then eclipses.
thank you so much i have been wanting to learn this
Glad I could help!
I just loved the title of the video. Nice work!
Ty! Glad you liked it
whenever there is no cheat mod for the game
"fine, i'll do it myself" *opens cheat engine*
yep
This really helped me. Thanks!
Glad to hear it!
Thanks for a detailed tutorial.
Glad it was helpful!
You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn't stop to think if you should
You're a genius
my respect
ty
Wow, this brings me back when flash games were all the rage. Something I figured out is that a lot of in games values was stored as 4 bytes, but the the value multiplied by 8, and often another 6 added to the product. So 100 health would be 806 in cheat engine. Im sure there's a reason but I dunno why. Also the 'enable speedhack' toggle was really useful sometimes; it made the game play faster and sped up particularly boring animations or wait times. Or you could set it to 0 speed so you can get an exact number if it's rapidly changing
good old days when it was simple
Very nicely condensed tutorial.
Glad you liked it
finally, a video made for me. thanks!
Np
why? Are you an idiot?
Thank you for this guide! Super helpful for single player games! Thank you!!!!!!!
Np, glad you liked it!
LoL u need 2 cheat in a single player game, how bad are u , maby painting minitures is more ur lane.
I dont know if you will be able to help, but i am playing a game and I maxed out a level on one of my skills. Yet through experimentation I found out that you can actually bypass the level cap by changing the level number. Since I maxed out the skill, the value is static/unchanging which makes it really hard to narrow down the value. The game uses doubled variables as well (i.e. 1 = 2, 2 = 4, 3 = 6, etc). Is there a simpler way of finding the value, rather than brute forcing it? (input 20 and keep clicking next scan to reduce the changing variables)
Hmm, unfortunately not really. Theoretically speaking you could do the process on a lower level / new account where you perform the scan. What you would then have to do is a VERY TIMECONSUMING PROCESS of:
- Browsing the memory region in hex
- Taking a perfect screenshot of the area both above and below the value you want
- Put it in a photoshop / image editing software
Then what you do is you repeat that process until you get some values NEAR the level that never change. Then you can perform something called an AoB / Array of Byte scan
Hope that helps
This was amazing i learn so much thank you!
Np!
IS IT JUST ME OR THE TUTORIAL IS LOOKING KINDA NOICEEEEEE.............
ikr xD
Nice! Will you teach about pointers as well?
Rn im working on a slightly complicated michael reeves style video, after that I'll make a vid explaining slightly more advanced cheat engine concepts (Data structure dissection, read/write), then a basic Assembly tutorial which is necessary to edit the machine code and after all that how to make mod menu's, find static addresses, figure out pointers and offsets, lots of things xD
Best tutorial I’ve found yet! Thanks so much and now i know how to use cheat engine :)
Glad you liked it!
Kian I love content of your channel, you are f***ng amazing!.
Do you know what is the fastest lib for image recognition in python?.
Cause i'm struggling with one game that i want to use a bot, and with RGB for loop its not working, maybe i need to use a multiple match image comparison, i dont know.
pyautogui and opencv are the only ones i know of
This video came 10 years too late for sure
Is there a way to run a game in slow motion with the sound in slow motion as well???
There's a "speedhack" option you can use in cheat engine that speeds up or slows down the game, it only works sometimes though, but there should be a variable that controls how fast things go, finding it will be difficult though
GREAT video i need to say one of the best tutorials
Thanks my man, haven't used CE in years and was pretty rusty, your video helped me remember some stuff about CE.
Great to hear that!
So I tried this with Subway Surfers on Bluestacks, but whenever I change a value (coins, hoverboards, headstarts, etc.) and then I update it, it just reverts back. I think that this could be an anti cheat feature (Another var holding an encrypted version of the other one, and changing both when the update happens legitimately?)
It's a server sided value
i just realised i've been using just like 10% of the features
You and i probably use less than 1% of cheat engines features, that program can do a lot more than you know
worlds best tutorial for learning game hacking
This helps me 10-12 yrs ago beating dead space. Unlimited ammo + no reload
there are some games that detect cheat engine , so you can copy and paste cheat engine and rename it to somthing like ¨Chat engine¨
Yup
How was this 3 days ago I thought these videos would be from 7 years ago
xD Cause it's new good content
@@KianBrose It is a good video though, helped me a lot
bro you are the best at explaining nice vids btw
Glad you like them!
Used to use this in GTA online as an RP multiplier. I dont remember the mulitplier I added but I remember i lost the cops and leveled up like 300 times lol
Having a discussion with friends, is cheat software detectable on a PC after removal even if it's booted from a USB drive, will it leave small traces on the host PC that it's been used on.
You seem like a good person to ask lol
Mmm it doesn't leave traces that I'm aware of as it doesn't save any files to your computer, but just "modifies" them like a text editor
I use cheat engine alot because I just love having unlimited money in games for no reason (especially rpg games)
Same
Very well made video. I finally understood how this works and am supprised how easy the proccess is after trying it a few times.
There is though something I wonder. You did say in your video that online games can't really be modified, since online games run on a server and that server has to validate the values of your account. (At least that is how I understood it, if I am wrong please correct me)
Hypothetically speaking, if I wanted to also modify the values of an online game, restricting it to the values of my account in that online game alone, how would that be possible?
I can only really think of two ways, the first being to modify the values of the actual server the online game is running on. The second would be, assuming it works the way that your device and the server exchange data, to modify the data your device sends to the server and make the server believe it's the actual data, since I am completely new to coding I have no idea if this would even be possible.
Actually I lied there, I say its not possible because it technically is, but actually succeeding is incredibly hard and i didnt want to deal with an army of children trying to hack robux and complaining, so id rather just lie there and not deal with that
I have a solid explanation in the "Multiplayer cheating, explained" video near the end that talks about validation, but essentially the game itself on your computer is just a way to display information that is sent from a server, and all your computer does is send back information, whether a cheat works or not depends on whether the server accepts the modified information that is being sent back
Thank you for answering so quickly. 🙏
So changing any value in this case has no actual result in game. Rather the Information send to the server would need to be changed in a way that it views the New results as the true value of whatever one is modifing.
Is something like that though even possible through cheat engine?
I can only think of the feature that lets you view the, I think it was, communication of the adress with other adresses or something the like.
Quick question is there a bot that can automatically find the correct values or would you prefer doin it manually?
yeah i made a video about this, check the mod menu tutorial video
Alternative title: how to get infinite in game currency in less than a minute
Youd be surprised at how many people think it's that simple to do it on online games xD
@@KianBrose you're right, i also tried getting a lot of in game currency but failed on all online games, only offline ones worked
@@maxifire32 I did it in GTA online XD
The king is back!
Yoooooo this is insane as always from you🔥🔥
I'm thinking if you can use these to make a game bot, is it possible in python? Or other language?
Actually making bots using cheat engine is the most stable and high performance thing you could ever do, for example if you can figure out which variables store positions you can get a static address and a pointer to the position and change it through python/c++
@@KianBrose that would be great thing to learn!!
Also i really appreciated your videos and its useful informations from it!
Can you please tell me what to search about in order to learn using cheat engine with bots?
@@mmd-wt5eq actually i do not feel like i have enough experience in that field to know how to guide you properly, but I would recommend looking up how memory addresses and pointers work, and how to make mod menus
@@KianBrose Thanks alot!🤏
yes, im writing it after 1 year but it sometimes really helpful and with it i did new discord tag
ok
he forgot about the sus amongus installer (witch u can just skip but downloading the missing components file)
wut
so basically theres the installer that has adware
but you can easily skip with downloading missing componant
the installer does that some times so go look up cheat engine sus installer theres actually alot of things on it but if you know how to use cheat engine and you have braincells: I N F I N T E MONEY EZ
@@somerandomcontentplayer606 ah yeah, I skipped over the installation since I just assume people have enough braincells to download the program itself without spamming "next" and installing adware
Is there another version for super dumb ppl?
Sadly not
@@KianBrose thank you anyways
awesome video, much appreciated. any pointers on how to change in-game models? what value am I even looking for?
Hmmm, well the issue with that is that models often don't change so they're a static number. Your best bet would be reverse engineering the app with Jadx if it's android or Ida Pro if it's windows
I can't believe I searched for a tutorial on this a couple of months ago and nothing popped up but I was searching for some cheats today for subway surfer and this tutorial popped up
lol
Thank u Kian..This is just perfect..I have tried it for "pro 11 football manager" to add cups to my account..The value has changed actually but it did not work..It stayed as a display value after reopening the game, the old amount of cups appeared unfortunately..They should have some kind of protection i guess..
Yep, it's a server sided value, I have a video planned in the future explaining those and why this method doesnt work
@@KianBrose Thanks for the quick answer mate..Will there be any solution for it?
@@TheNeps there is, but solutions that work on online games are outside of most people's skillset
ok quick question
lets say for example online game with currency like r6 siege "renown" that is used to unlock operators ( i know the game isnt simply bypassed with cheat engine)
if i change the value of renown will it be checked by the game servers first?
This is one of those questions that reminds me of Schrödinger's cat, you can never know for sure whether something is server sided until you try and check
Yo man I need help with a game Im trying to use cheat engine on, Its for a rhythm game where I want to increase my ingame currency to buy new stuff etc. I made sure that the value Im looking for is the correct one and not just a display value. The problem is, whenever I change the value it gets automatically changed back despite freezing and setting the memory region to write/read. The game is offline btw so it doesnt get changed by a server or anything, do you have any idea on what I should do?
I think you might have found a “display value” which is a value that is pretty much useless, i recommend looking a bit deeper into Cheat engine, especially the “view what writes to this address” feature so you can backtrack and find the source if the currency
Thanks for the great video! Just read in your comments that the cheats won't stay in online mode, is that only the case for games that can be played online only? Do the subway surfers cheats stay when you go back online?
Basically, cheat engine can change variables and values on your computer, this means that while you can change the variable to 9999 on your computer, when you try to make a purchase most online games don't check the value on the computer but the server, so changing the local value doesnt do anything, all depends on how the game was made
@@KianBrose thanks! What about Subway Surfers for example? I mean we can purchase stuff offline as well there, can't we?
@@WallstreetMemes The thing is, subway surfers is technically an offline shop system, it only checks the local values before accepting a purchase which is why it worked
@@KianBrose thanks!
Boy oh boy do I love this!
But, a bro needs a link bro.
wdym
if you could provide me with a link to download Cheat Engine
@@KianBrose
Nicely Explained!
Thank you! 🙂
you should make more bot and auto thing doing script videos.
they are very great and usefull :)
will do
@@KianBrose great!
I don't understand very well english but I understand enough to begin with cheat engine again
I used when I was a Kid with Facebook videogames
Nice
Amazing video!
Also I wonder if there is “cheat engine for BigBrains” in the future 🤔
Probably not, but I will use it in a future vid at some point
Thank you for the help good sir.
np
I really liked the way of Calling 'Beginners' 'Idiots' in Title
We all are idiots at the start xD
We all are idiots at the start xD
I have a small problem, afther changing the values 9:05 and playing, the value keeps changing to its original value could you help me with that?
If its an online multiplayer game it's most likely server side validated, you'll have to find another way
@@KianBrose i tried it on BTD battles ( online pvp) and it works awsome, thanks for givimg me the template haha, and the way i used cheat for BTD is, first l checked how many shots it shot and then i wrote them in the scan thingy, after i found the adres of that one specific thing i clicked on the binocular which sends me to some more code and there i searched for a 0 that changes to a 1 everytime it shoots ( that means it’s the cooldown code) so i added that adres and made it active at 0 and boom infinite projectiles
hands down the best cheat engine tutorial on youtube
Hands down the only cheat engine tutorial with actual editing on youtube
My mom and I used to cheat on Facebook games with this xd
Can't believe this program is still alive
Lol nice
You used Brawl Stars photos for the thumbnail, I play that game, have been waiting a long time for you to upload Kian.
Yeah I took the first result for "gems" xD
Thanks! Cheat engine tutorial sucks for me, but you explained it very well! 👍
Ty
Where should you download cheat engine from? Like where did you download it from
cheatengine.org