ROM Hack How to find value/adresse (Cheats) when you found NO RESULTS?

[Asia81]

Hi.
Trying to do some little cheats for Theatrhythm games (FFCC in EUR and Dragon Quest in JPN) for the in-game score (not rm, but the score when you're playing a song).
But in the gateway cheats menu, I found absolutely NO RESULTS (No hits left ! Resetting search...) for both of these games. I tried several times.

I also tried to search adresses/values for life, but same result (for TDQ, there is a ntr plugin with infinite life and it's working well, so it should be possible to find these values).

I tried with:
New 32 bits exact search
New 32 bits (Signed) search
New 32 bits (Unsigned) search

But no luck.
I tried to search using exact value and with Increment/Decrement, but no luck too.

Any help is appreciated.

 

[evandixon]

What's the highest possible score? If it's 65535 or less, try using a 16 bit search option.

 

[Asia81]

I'm sure the highest should be either 9'999'999 or 99'999'999 or 999'999'999

 

[cearp]

dump the ram, and then search on the computer.

 

[dsrules]

if exact search no result then try 32 bits (Unsigned) search> Greater Than when you gain more > Equal when it is the same, repeat Greater Than...Equal.... until few or one result

 

[Asia81]

dump the ram, and then search on the computer.

forgot to say, but also tried and same result.

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if exact search no result then try 32 bits (Unsigned) search> Greater Than when you gain more > Equal when it is the same, repeat Greater Than...Equal.... until few or one result

i will

 

[PabloMK7]

Try also searching for a float value, use this converter. (Float -> hex)

 

[Asia81]

if exact search no result then try 32 bits (Unsigned) search> Greater Than when you gain more > Equal when it is the same, repeat Greater Than...Equal.... until few or one result

Tried 3 times in 3 song, but no results too...

Why it's so hard for this game...

 

[Tomy Sakazaki]

Tried 3 times in 3 song, but no results too...

Why it's so hard for this game...

Wild guess, try searching for less than instead of greater than.
I'll explain my guess, maybe the game subtract the points that you get from a total instead of summing the points.

 

[dsrules]

Tried 3 times in 3 song, but no results too...

Why it's so hard for this game...

using that search method shouldn't be no results or do you mean too many hits, it can't display the results list??
you can replay the stage and search for 0 when score is 0

 

[Asia81]

Oh, I have to start from 0?
Could you do the code?
I want see if I can manage to find why, with your adress

 

[dsrules]

start search with 0 will be very slow
search with the above method then search for 0 whenever you replay the stage

 

[PabloMK7]

I guess, you didn't read my last post.
If the value can get bigger than 4000000, then it can only be held into a float variable. You won't find it if gateway doesn't have float support.

 

[dsrules]

it doesn't matter what kind , it can still be find with unknown search
in this case, it is DOUBLE not FLOAT

 

[Asia81]

Ok, it's exactly what I do:

01) Score 0170414 : Cheat Finder -> New 32 bits [unsigned] search -> Searching... -> Back to Menu.
02) Score 0375967 : Cheat Finder -> Next search -> Greather Than -> Searching... -> Back to Menu.
03) Score 1149680 : Cheat Finder -> Next search -> Greather Than -> Searching... -> Too many hits left! Keep hunting!
04) Score 1468572 : Cheat Finder -> Next search -> Greather Than -> Searching... -> Too many hits left! Keep hunting!
05) Score 2044352 : Cheat Finder -> Next search -> Greather Than -> Searching... -> Too many hits left! Keep hunting!
06) Score 2819381 : Cheat Finder -> Next search -> Greather Than -> Searching... -> Too many hits left! Keep hunting!
07) Score 3513983 : Cheat Finder -> Next search -> Greather Than -> Searching... -> Too many hits left! Keep hunting!
08) Score 4239713 : Cheat Finder -> Next search -> Greather Than -> Searching... -> You can now view the list! (01/57)
09) Score 4485889 : Cheat Finder -> Next search -> Greather Than -> Searching... -> You can now view the list! (01/4A)
10) Score 5001943 : Cheat Finder -> Next search -> Greather Than -> Searching... -> You can now view the list! (01/49)

Now I explore the list list if I see my score in hex, so 4C52D7 (5001943). Nothing in the list...
Start, Reload Song (Always using the same RAM search)

11) Score 000000 : Cheat Finder -> Next search -> Exact value (0) -> Searching... -> You can now view the list! (01/0C)
12) Score 759388 : Cheat Finder -> Next search -> Greather Than -> Searching... -> You can now view the list! (01/0C)

Now I explore the list list if I see my score in hex, so 0B965C (759388). Nothing in the list...

13) Score 759388 : Cheat Finder -> Next search -> Exact value (759388) -> Searching... -> No hits left! Resetting search..

I'm searching On TDQ, but it's exactly the same problem on TFFCC

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I tried with combo (Chain) and no problems...

 

[dsrules]

you could already see all the values in "You can now view the list! (01/0C)", only have 12 results
so, it can't be exact value and or any value less than you score value
try the address with value 4xxxxxxxx

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or convert dec value to DOUBLE then search the first 2 bytes on the left (16bit exact search)
Score 19453 (19453.0 - 19453.9)
0x40d2ff4000000000

Score 76451 (76451.0 - 76451.9)
0x40f2aa3000000000

 

[Asia81]

Oh.
I will retry after what I'm doing, thanks

 

[ken28]

a some what harder way would be doing it via equal or not equal.

 

[ken28]

a some what harder way would be doing it via equal or not equal.
you also could look around the combo adress since all values related to the stage should be close by.

 

[dsrules]

2 exact search should give you the address, 1st result

 

[Asia81]

you could already see all the values in "You can now view the list! (01/0C)", only have 12 results
so, it can't be exact value and or any value less than you score value
try the address with value 4xxxxxxxx

or convert dec value to DOUBLE then search the first 2 bytes on the left (16bit exact search)
Score 19453 (19453.0 - 19453.9)
0x40d2ff4000000000

Score 76451 (76451.0 - 76451.9)
0x40f2aa3000000000

I'm not sure to understand exactly what I have to do.
I have the score 326799, and these results:

0084CFC4 : 0000000E
08009500 : 0000000D
08009510 : 00000308
08009540 : 4113F23D
08009554 : 00000009
08009594 : 0000000A
08017384 : 0000000A
0801753C : 0000000D
08017598 : 000003BB
080292D8 : 4113F23D
08029D30 : 4113F23D
0802A534 : 00000009