
Cheat Engine is an open source tool designed to help you
with modifying single player games running under window so you can make
them harder or easier depending on your preference(e.g: Find that 100hp
is too easy, try playing a game with a max of 1 HP), but also contains
other usefull tools to help debugging games and even normal
applications.
Features
Cheat Engine can view the disassembled memory of a process and make
alterations to give the user advantages such as infinite health, time or
ammunition. It also has some
Direct3D
manipulation tools, allowing you to see through walls, zoom in/out and
with some advanced configuration allows Cheat Engine to move the
mouse for you to get a certain texture into the center of the screen. This is commonly used to create
aimbots.
Cheat Engine can inject code into other processes, but doing so can
cause anti virus software to mistake it for a virus. There are versions
that avoid this false identification at the cost of many features (those
which rely upon code injection). The most common reason for these false
identifications is that Cheat Engine makes use of some techniques also
used in trojan rootkits to gain access to parts of the system, and
because some executable files are too small (16KB or less), and
therefore get flagged as suspicious. Newer versions of Cheat Engine are
less likely to be blocked by anti virus programs so features like
code injection can be used without problems.
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