This must be the year of the Linux desktop.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Nice

Neat. Does it require root?

Fucking finally!

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

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.

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

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