Need help using the WinUAE Debugger

[Steve]

I'm trying to get loads of cash in sensible world of soccer using the debugger. I know its possible cos I've done it before. I just can't remember how. I know Shift+F12 enters the debugger. I have converted the value I want to search for into hexidecimal.

I search for it using 8 digits so I had £2,160,000 in the bank which equates to $0020F580. Then I assume the next step is to search for this in memory by typing 's 0020F580'. This seems to bring up 3 different memory addresses. Is the value in one of these??

What now? How do I repace the value in memory with the new value of $08F0D180. This is £150,000,000. I think I have to use the capital W which is write to memory and not w which is add watchpoints. I've tried writing the value in different ways but nothing seems to work. Anyone got any tips?

[Toni Wilen]

Use 'C' command, much easier..

C !<value in decimal> (or without ! = hexadecimal), change the value inside game, C again until it always list same address (or addresses)

then W <address> <value>

[Steve]

Ah, thanks. That has helped a lot.

I seem to be getting somewhere now. I tried this:

C! 585937

This brought up one address: 001E49E3

I guess this is the area in memory where the cash variable is always stored??

I tried this: W 001E49E3 08F0D180

This gave a result of £500k in the bank so it did change something. However it didn't give the value I was looking for. So I then tried this:

W 001E49E3 150000000

This worked better and gave me a cash value of £5,242,880

Still not got the £150,000,000 that I'm looking for. Any ideas on the strange values??

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by Steve

This brought up one address: 001E49E3

C-command has "special" feature, it autoselects data type size and because your value was less than 16777216, it uses only 3 bytes when searching.

Real address is 1E49E2 (in 99.9% cases word and long values are always aligned to even addresses)

btw, '!' is value prefix, it is C !value, not C! value, all numbers can be prefixed with ! to force decimal (usually hexadecimal is the default, but some default to decimal, $ or 0x can be used to force hexadecimal)

W 1e49e2 !150000000 should work.

[Steve]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

W 1e49e2 !150000000 should work.

Aha! You are right! It does work!! Thanks for the explanation.

[amiga]

Originally Posted by Steve

I'm trying to get loads of cash in sensible world of soccer using the debugger. I know its possible cos I've done it before. I just can't remember how. I know Shift+F12 enters the debugger. I have converted the value I want to search for into hexidecimal.

I search for it using 8 digits so I had £2,160,000 in the bank which equates to $0020F580. Then I assume the next step is to search for this in memory by typing 's 0020F580'. This seems to bring up 3 different memory addresses. Is the value in one of these??

What now? How do I repace the value in memory with the new value of $08F0D180. This is £150,000,000. I think I have to use the capital W which is write to memory and not w which is add watchpoints. I've tried writing the value in different ways but nothing seems to work. Anyone got any tips?

This is called cheating!

[Steve]

Originally Posted by amiga

This is called cheating!

LOL! No, its a special feature of the game. Its called 'Roman Abramovich Mode'.

I have a problem with debugger too.
I start a game, then press shift+f12, type C !3 then press enter
it shows many adresses, so i type g to go back to game and change value to any different. Then i switch windows (alt+tab) from winuae to debugger.
When i try to type a new value to search into debugger window there is no way to type anything. Debugger window is not active anymore after typing g.
Do You know what i am doing wrong?

[Toni Wilen]

Press SHIFT+F12 again. It works as a log window when it is open but not active.

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

Press SHIFT+F12 again. It works as a log window when it is open but not active.

Thank You, It works now