by CoMPMStR » Sun Oct 04, 2009 4:15 am
Sometimes the values are stored differently than you expect. There can be cases where the value will change unpredictably if the devs choose to make it harder for us (not saying they do, just saying it's possible).
Take Dawn of Magic 2 for example. I tried hacking this game (it's an offline singleplayer, should be easy; right?) but some things didn't seem possible no matter what I tried. I hacked the gold and potions with no problems, but when I tried to hack exp or stat points it was no use. I tried the exact value and even range values at first, using all the different data types, but that didn't work. Then I moved onto unknown then increase/decrease but that didn't work either. So I tried unknown then different as/same as but that didn't work either. The only thing I didn't try was a string search. To make a long story short (trust me, it took way longer to do all this searching than it took to read this) I could not find how the exp is stored in this game, but then again, the others were quite easy.
My point? Try to utilize all aspects of searching to try and find the hacks. If searching for an exact value or range doesn't work, try to think of something different. The next best thing is an unknown then increase/decrease, but always remember that the value might not be stored the way it's displayed.