The tool for games mods (and a little more)Cheat Engine is a utility to modify and apply "touch-ups" to video games, along with some extra tool for debugging software and games.
Cheat your way to the topCheat Engine is an open source tool for editing the code of a game. The program opens the process of the game and allows you to change the data. It includes a scanner so that you can easily find the values you're looking for.
There are many modifiable parameters, as well as lots of changes you can apply, from the number of lives, to the money in a game, going through all the values of the game along the way. On the official website, you can find a ready-made list of changes.
Cheat Engine provides tools for Direct3D and OpenGL, and is also a useful program for developers, since it integrates debugging features for video games and software.
Usability could be improvedCheat Engine is not easy to use, but thanks to its excellent tutorials, you can quickly get up and running with the program.
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A must for every gamerCheat Engine is a great tool, especially useful for advanced users, but including a tutorial for those who might be less experienced. It doesn't work for online games, but the editing possibilities for single player games are almost endless.
Recent changesFixed the first plugin from not getting activated at restart
Custom types can now do an unknown initial value scan
Fixed the auto assembler highlighter from hiding some text while typing
Fixed the auto assembler highlighter from not showing hexadecimal values as hex starting with A to F
Fixed global debug from crashing in 64-bit (with dbvm)
Fixed dbvm from not working on several systems (freeze)
Fixed notification when closing and you had some changes
Fixed the rescan of the structure spider not working at all
Fixed several disassembler and assembler instructions
Fixed several plugin-system related bugs
Fixed aobscan for 64-bit
Fixed displaying the registers in 64-bit when using quot;find what xxx this addressquot;
Fixed the stackview when single stepping through the code
Fixed several lua function, including createhotkey
Fixed the assembler not dealing well with names with a - in it. (like the tutorial)
Cheat Engine supports the following formatsCET, CT2, CT3, CT, XML, GH, AMT
(source: en.softonic.com)