Posted: 6/28/2014 9:51 PM
Post subject: Question - how to find RAM addresses
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martandelus
Player (69)
Joined: 4/17/2014
Posts: 69
This is probably among the most unusal questions, but then, if you don't ask, how would you know? Well. i've noticed that some very helpful people have figured out RAM addresses for things like boss health, which is top notch for analyzing a run, much thanks here. Question is literally, is there a common region to monitor for viewing the stats? I mean personally, i'm not having much luck with it, although tinkering with a few things via hex editing is quite fun, manipulating values is invalid as far as us guys do things, yeah?....so how do I go about zeroing in on "boss health"? Is it a case of gunning for 255, or 65535 (might be wrong) ---- I mean max health stuff, please excuse the generic terms. [MOD EDIT]: A more informative title
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Posted: 6/28/2014 9:54 PM
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DeHackEd
Emulator Coder, Site Developer, Former player
Joined: 11/6/2004
Posts: 833
Typically you use memory search. At the start of the fight initialize the search. Don't hurt the boss and do a "same value" or "equal" search. Hit the boss and do a "value has lowered" search. Repeat freely. When you're down to a reasonable number of options (eg: 5 or less) put a live watch on them all and fight the boss. You'll figure it out quickly enough. In some cases you may need to flip between 8, 16 or 32 bit values depending on the game and console.
Posted: 6/28/2014 10:20 PM
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martandelus
Player (69)
Joined: 4/17/2014
Posts: 69
So like in genesis were looking at 2-4 byte? based on the facts...gonna experiment with that, or monitor the values as i play, using savestates....interesting stuff
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