Cheat Engine How To Find Debug Stuff In Games
Most of you are having a problem when trying to cheat Windows 8 Store or Metro games with Cheat Engine. And the problem is Cheat Engine can't list the Window. DO NOT WATCH THIS VIDEO!!! DO THE NEW ONE: this tutorial is going to show you the basics of how to mod any game using chea. Debug menu - when activated, press Tab to open the debug menu. check 17684's post for debug mode for the original script. How to use this cheat table? Install Cheat Engine; Double-click the.CT file in order to open it. Click the PC icon in Cheat Engine in order to select the game process. Shortcut key to enable the debug HUD. My next plan was to use Cheat Engine to make cheats and enable debug HUD. But it's already done. In the next part, I will write my thoughts about some questions that I was asked about such cheating. Maybe after that, I will return and do the Cheat Engine part but I will need to re-learn the tool again.
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In this part, I am going to use dnSpy to enable the Debug HUD. We will analyze how it's enabled and how it can be accessed.
Looking at StatsModificator.intelligence
, I went down this rabbit hole to see how items are created.
And I saw these two methods in a class named HUDDebug
. They have curious names GiveItemToWill
and GiveWeaponToWill
. If my guess is correct, there's a debug UI somewhere in the game that allows spawning items.
It has a Start()
method, we can analyze it to see what calls it.
Seems like nothing calls it, same with Awake()
.
These are unity methods. According to this video https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/topics/scripting/awake-and-start:
Awake()
: Called first even if the script is not enabled. Used for initialization.Start()
: Called only once after awake and before update if the script is enabled.Update()
: Called after the script is enabled and can be called multiple times.
These are called by the engine, so the Analyze
tab will not have the chain.
Inside Update()
we can see:
Pay attention to line 76. There's an if
condition that enables everything. We can analyze IsDebugEnabled
:
Woot. It seems like we found it. Now we need to modify this to only return true
.
To return true, we need to return 1. We can delete lines 0 to 6 and only keep lines 7 and 8:
Highlight lines 0 to 6 and press delete (or use the context menu) to remove them. Press Ok
to get the modified C# code.
This enables debug mode for every run. But what else is out there?
Debug Shortcuts
Let's go back to the analysis results for GameManager.IsDebugEnabled
We have already looked at HUDDebug.Update
, now we look at the other two.
HeroMerchant.Update()
has some shortcuts.
KeyCodes
Input.GetKeyDown detects when a key is pressed and released. The parameter to the method is an enum of type KeyCode or a string. It took me a while to find out the associated numbers.
I found it in the decompiled code at:
Here's a local copy, in case the repository is taken down.
It's based on ASCII-Hex decimal values with extra keys (e.g. gamepad) in the end.
Now we can decipher some debug shortcuts:
Potion Shortcut104
:H
304
:LeftShift
Note we can also change the item granted with anything we want.
We can teleport to the last room of any dungeon floor:
98
:B
304
:LeftShift
And so on.
Controller Shortcuts
Cheat Engine How To Find Debug Stuff In Games Fortnite
HeroMerchantController.Update()
defines controller shortcuts.
Save/Reset Shortcuts
There are a couple of more shortcuts inside HUDDebug.Update()
:
- Save:
LeftShift
+S
- Reset:
LeftShift
+R
Enabling Debug HUD
We still need to enable the HUD. It must have a shortcut key. Searching the internet tells us it's Tab
.
See this page about a CheatEngine trainer:
Cheat Engine How To Find Debug Stuff In Games Online
How can we find it ourselves? Back inside HUDDebug.Update()
we can see a block that enables and disables consoleDebugPanel
:
Inside the if
we can see that GameManager.Instance.consoleDebug
is referenced. Let's analyze that.
Double-click on GameManager.Update()
:
We can see it's triggered by holding the ButtonRightStick
for a second (I think). A bit further up we can see the equivalent keyboard shortcut.
It's the Tab
key which confirms what we found online. We can press Tab
in the game to enable debug HUD.
And it's quite extensive.
We learned:
- How to use dnSpy's Analyze feature to track variables/methods/etc.
- How to enable debug mode.
- Shortcut keys for various things such as potions.
- Shortcut key to enable the debug HUD.
My next plan was to use Cheat Engine to make cheats and enable debug HUD. But it's already done. In the next part, I will write my thoughts about some questions that I was asked about such cheating. Maybe after that, I will return and do the Cheat Engine part but I will need to re-learn the tool again.