A popular tool on Windows - Cheat Engine recently gained a Linux version, so you can mess with your games under Linux now too. Just how popular is it? Well, you need only look at their Patreon to see they're pulling in (at time of writing) $17,610 a month which is pretty staggering.
What is it? From the official page:
"Cheat Engine is a tool designed to help you with modifying single player games without internet connection 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, and helps you protect your system by letting you inspect memory modifications by backdoors and even contains some ways to unhide them from conventional means.
It comes with a memory scanner to quickly scan for variables used within a game and allow you to change them, but it also comes with a debugger, disassembler, assembler, speedhack, trainer maker, direct 3D manipulation tools, system inspection tools and more which are also useful for normal programmers and software analysts."
Cheat Engine 7.7 was released at the end of May, and this is the first official version to come with Linux support.
For some, tools like this are the difference between sticking with Windows and using Linux - so it's nice to see it arrive, even if I won't personally use it.
Looks like the current Linux download requires you to support the Patreon too. Which according to the FAQ is the same on macOS.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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fenglengshun 8 hours ago
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ROllerozxa 7 hours ago
I want to be happy given that I've waited this news for a while, but I may just wait another more transparent program that does that, I'm not sure where to place myself, I want to have good security practices and not download anything that could have like naughty surprises inside. Anyway I'm not planning on paying a Patreon so I need to wait regardless so that's a non question atm for me.
Quoting: TriciaPearsona bit unsettled by the Reddit posts.Stay away from Reddit; be happy.
I want to be happy
Quoting: TriciaPearsonI used to use it on Windows in the past. I've seen the news on the Linux_Gaming reddit a few days ago, but I've also seen negative comments regarding the lack of open source code visibility (code is dated 2023 on their Github) but most specifically other malwares / bad surprises / bloatware contained in some Windows versions, so I'm really concerned now that I'm switching to Linux, about my security and a bit unsettled by the Reddit posts.In a simple case you might get away with.
I want to be happy given that I've waited this news for a while, but I may just wait another more transparent program that does that, I'm not sure where to place myself, I want to have good security practices and not download anything that could have like naughty surprises inside. Anyway I'm not planning on paying a Patreon so I need to wait regardless so that's a non question atm for me.
gdb
set hp 47
running programIf I'm not mistaken
@syylk might have some deeper and better insight.
Quoting: ROllerozxaFeels weird to see this because I've always thought of Cheat Engine as something that's so deeply married to Win32 that it wouldn't even make sense to port it to Linux. In the past I've used Game Conqueror on Linux.actually cheat engine and similar programs are exactly the opposite of what you thought. they directly read and write raw data in ram, and technically they should be able to peek into anything as long as they can access memory. i guess there might be some tools inside such programs with specific API, like faking a system call or something like that, but their basic functionality is to read X bytes at memory address Y, and overwrite it if user tells them to.
Quoting: CatKillerYup, speaking from experience. Life is so much smoother once cut out all that fear mongering, Reddit, out of my life.Quoting: TriciaPearsona bit unsettled by the Reddit posts.Stay away from Reddit; be happy.
I want to be happy
Quoting: CatKillerStay away from Reddit; be happy.Oh I'm well aware that Reddit can be a very toxic place don't worry about that 😆 I don't even have an account.
It's just sometimes I browse it and read a few things which can lead me to discover interesting pieces of information or software, or at least to prompt a research onto other more reliable sources and stuff like that. And I missed the issues with some previous Windows versions so I'm more cautious now regarding that software.
Quoting: LoudTechieIn a simple case you might get away with :I'll also check that gdb thingy, sounds interesting too, thanks ! I've seen PINCE which may seem interesting and they seem to have implemented " speedhack " recently, sadly no CE Table but I feel like no program will really have CE table support except for CE 😅 But if at least I can find one that supports at least basic features like godmode / health / ammo, that'd be good already.
gdb
set hp 47
running program
I miss the days when all you had to do on your games was open the game console, I still remember tinkering with it to change my saber style or color in the Star Wars Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy games for example. And of course you had the noclip to move around, the godmode, etc. 😅
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