cheat-engine/cheat-engine

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Cheat Engine is a desktop development environment for modding games and applications, centered on a memory scanner that finds and edits process variables, plus a debugger, disassembler, assembler, speedhack, and trainer maker. It includes Lua scripting, Direct3D manipulation, system inspection tools, and an optional DBVM hypervisor for kernel-level debugging.

Use cases

• scan and edit game memory values like health or money
• make a trainer for a single-player game
• speed up or slow down a game with a speedhack
• disassemble and debug a game or application
• inspect how a program stores data in memory
• create cheat tables with Lua scripts to share
• reverse engineer how a game works offline

When to choose

• you want to modify single-player offline games or applications
• you need a memory scanner plus debugger and disassembler in one tool
• you want to script custom game modifications with Lua
• you are learning reverse engineering on Windows

When to avoid

• you want to cheat in online or server-authoritative games - it generally will not work and may violate terms of service
• you need a general-purpose production debugger for your own software
• you need a tool with a formal open-source license - the repo has no license file
• you need a lightweight headless tool - it is a full GUI application

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reverse-engineering security developer-tools gui cli gaming-tools reverse-engineering security developer-tools windows windows memory-scanner game-modding disassembler trainer-maker speedhack lua-scripting cheat-tables dbvm debugging debugger linux macos desktop

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