Cheat Searching
In this window you can find new cheat data. To start a search, click
new search, then choose a search mode. When you are ready to continue
the search, click continue search. There are four search modes:
Absolute search:
- Searches for absolute byte values.
- Most useful for lives and other data.
Relative search:
- Searches for the difference between byte values.
- Useful when absolute search fails, like if the game stores lives starting
with ascii 0x30 or stores lives +/- 1 from the value shown ingame.
Remember that if the difference is positive you should enter something
like 0x01 (+1), if it is negative, then you should be searching for
0xFF (-1).
Single Bit search:
- Searches for single bit values.
- Useful for status flags, and stuff like 'extend' in bubble symphony,
which is stored in 6 bits of one byte.
Slow deep search:
- Searches for the following changes in byte values:
new byte == old byte, new byte != old byte,
new byte > old byte, new byte >= old byte,
new byte < old byte, new byte <= old byte
- Useful for timers and anything not found with the other modes. A nice
cheat to have is invulnerability, use this mode to find the invulnerability
timer.
The search results are shown in a listbox, when there are more than
512 results, only the first 512 will be in the listbox. You can double
click on the search results to open a scrollable hex/ascii view of
the memory area where the result lies. Any bytes that are in the search
results will have *..* around them, so you can easily spot them.
Raine Team 16/02/2002