Game Cheating

Understanding process memory, virtual address space, and basic memory layout.

• 1Process Memory Layout Overview
• 2Virtual Address Space and Pages
• 3Heap vs Stack Memory
• 4Finding Process ID (PID)
• 5OpenProcess and Handles
• 6Memory Regions and Permissions
• 7Practical: Attach to a Game Process
• 8Summary and Next Steps

First steps with Cheat Engine: scanning values, freezing, and pointer chains.

• 9Installing and Configuring Cheat Engine
• 10First Scan: Finding a Value
• 11Next Scan: Narrowing Results
• 12Freezing Values
• 13Adding to Address List

Scanning for integers, floats, strings, doubles, and unknown value types.

• 174 Bytes and 8 Bytes (Integer)
• 18Float and Double Scanning
• 19String and Unicode
• 20Array of Bytes (AOB) Scan
• 21Unknown Value Type

Modifying game save files, hex editing, and JSON/XML save formats.

• 25Locating Save File Paths
• 26Hex Editor Basics
• 27Finding Values in Save Files
• 28JSON and XML Save Formats
• 29Checksums and Validation

Freezing values, hotkey scripts, and basic automation in Cheat Engine.

• 33Freeze vs Unfreeze
• 34Hotkey Scripts in Cheat Engine
• 35Auto-Assemble Basics
• 36Simple Scripts: Infinite Health
• 37Conditional Freezing

Finding static addresses, pointer chains, and multi-level pointers.

• 41Static vs Dynamic Addresses
• 42Pointer Scan Fundamentals
• 43Creating Pointer Maps
• 44Multi-Level Pointer Chains
• 45Resolving Pointers

LoadLibrary injection, manual mapping, CreateRemoteThread, and hooking.

• 49LoadLibrary Injection
• 50CreateRemoteThread Method

Building game trainers with GUI, address lists, and script injection.

Wireshark, packet sniffing, proxy injection, and network-level cheats.

ReadProcessMemory, WriteProcessMemory, VirtualAllocEx, and debug APIs.

Aim assistance, angle calculation, smoothing, and FPS game memory structures.

Drawing through walls, entity ESP, DirectX/OpenGL hooks, and overlay rendering.

Game speed modification, tick manipulation, and timer bypass techniques.

Understanding anti-cheat systems, detection vectors, and bypass concepts.

Analyzing player structures, entity lists, offsets, and dynamic allocation.

Finding code caves, assembly patches, inline hooks, and trampolines.

Kernel-level concepts, driver communication, and anti-detection methods.

End-to-end cheat design, menu systems, config management, and updates.

x64dbg, IDA, Ghidra, decompilation, and game function analysis.