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[–] 42 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

Nice, but no longer open source as of like two years ago, and the creator apparently likes to put surprises in the installer that lead to deliberate memory leaks and random evil laughter being played over your speakers. This is supposedly to punish users for interfering with the installer (which normally tries to make you install shitware), but apparently this behavior has also been triggered by normal users accidentally. I'm not running that shit on my machine, it's about a half step away from being malware now. A real shame as I remember CE 6.3 back in the day being really nice to use.

Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4

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  • [–] 28 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    Since the CheatEngine dev is an asshole, there's an alternative I use instead:

    https://github.com/korcankaraokcu/PINCE

    Probably not exactly matching in feature parity but tbh I only use it to edit RAM values to get around MTX currencies or bad game design choices like Wreckfest locking all vehicles/parts behind a boring as sin uninspired single player grind when I only cared about multiplayer shenanigans.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago*

    pawalled, also its been scummy for a long time regardless of platform, and all the cheat makers are moving to their own private platforms that don't even seem to work in wine

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Nice! It worked fine under wine when I tried it, but having a native version is neat

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  • 16 comments in c/linux@programming.dev view that post
    [–] 58 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    This must be the year of the Linux desktop.

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  • [–] 26 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I think it's going to be the century of the Linux desktop the way things are going with the big tech companies right now. Age verification can fuck right off and only open source is going to give you any possibility of choice in the matter, laws be damned.

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  • [–] 28 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Pretty cool, got me wondering how cheat engine actually works with memory translation and process isolation. I read through this article which was a good overview. https://www.guardingpearsoftware.com/blog/ever-wondered-how-cheat-engine-works-extended-41008

    Hopefully someone does a similar one for linux

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    The fact it requires supporting the patreon to obtain kinda sucks for people who aren't able to afford it, like me right now.

    I personally would love to have it specifically for the speedup feature since I don't know if any of the other alternatives have anything like it.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I think, they tend to publish a version that doesn't require patreon after some time, but I may be wrong

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    I kinda hope so, even if that means waiting for the next major release. I legitimately have no other use for it besides the speedhack thing, so I'd be down to either wait or support it to get a copy when I can.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    This is awesome I was just looking for something like this for Linux. PINCE did the job and came close but the community support around Cheat Engine is where is shines.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    That’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time…

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Absolutely would have moved the needle towards Linux for 12-year-old me. (Already on Linux now.)

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Wouldn’t something like this piss off distros with SElinux?

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    [–] 46 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Turns out that it's only available for Patreon supporters now and that the dev stopped updating the code on the public GH repo And in addition to that, when you use the official installer it plays a creepy laughter every 10 mins

    Kinda weird, virus-like behaviour

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    Cheat engine has a fantastic history of being literal malware and ran by one of the biggest pieces of shit I’ve ever fucking seen.

    Got some reading for us on those things? I'm really curious. I never let CE connect to the internet (blocked by firewall, but I don't recall it ever attempting to), but it's too useful for when I want to fuck around with a game.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Ye i just gave it a go and promptly removed it again after looking at github, seeing the version there ( with no binaries ) and having the patreon popup. CE can bugger right off if what you said is true..

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    [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    I mean it used to "work on Linux" before but on Wine apps only.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Been using GameConqueror in the lack thereof, since it was the best replacement I could find. Let's see how the Cheat Engine fares in this version now.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Last I used GameConqueror, some 3 years ago, it sucked major ass. Speedhack didn't work and, half the time, it wouldn't find the addresses I wanted to edit.

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    [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Neat. Does it require root?

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Fucking finally!

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