Cheat Engine for Idiots

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

[KianBrose]

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 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.

[HeistGS]

I needed tis video 8 years ago, not now when I literally have a family

[cewla]

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

[haikalt.]

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

[keksfresser]

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.

[zyllee]

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. 😂

[daredrew]

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)

[sirdan]

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!

[lyricsms]

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

[realcartoongirl]

thank you for making video

if only it was 15 years early

[CreamyVibes]

Really informative and straight to the point. Nice job man 👍

[bingusbongus]

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.

[SwankiestPants]

Would love to see a full run-through of the tutorial, im having a rough time figuring out pointers using it

[slovakthrowback]

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

[NeoKurow]

The best tutorial in the entire youtube! thank you so much! it was simple but all the other videos skip the most important step!.

[eslixdn]

Great video man, I really hope your channel grows bigger.

[nijoeli]

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

[kevinsawyer]

I really appreciate this video! You’re a great man for this

[levianlp]

yapp such a nostalgic video you have here, i used it often in an early middle school and now im 26 love it bruv

[naoutsumi]

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)