Vanara VS cheat-engine

I have a lot of C# P/Invoke / interop experience. Almost everything is possible in C#, I swear. Just keep in mind that C/C++ users have Windows.h include (meta-include which references thousands of another useful includes) that contain every single public fuction, structure or enum definition, i. e. you just go ahead and use it (while having to link against necessary libs correctly ofc). When you do the same thing in C# you have to P/Invoke through all this stuff by yourself. Consider taking a look at Vanara.PInvoke (https://github.com/dahall/Vanara), these packages might help you a lot in case you do not want to dive that deep.

Interesting that it was built in .Net and appears to be using WPF with a few improvements[1].

It also refers to Vanara[2] which looks interesting as a safe utility wrapper to the Windows API.

[1]:https://github.com/Kinnara/ModernWpf

[2]:https://github.com/dahall/Vanara

Download and install "Cheat Engine" (cheatengine.org)

So I installed this one https://github.com/cheat-engine/cheat-engine/releases/tag/7.4/

Firstly you'll need to get CheatEngine, which you can find here: https://cheatengine.org/ . It will likely be flagged by your antivirus but it should be perfectly fine to use.

However, what is this custom install you speak of? And I also found this on the github page; https://github.com/cheat-engine/cheat-engine/issues/2405

I found a cool cheat table for the witcher 1 enhanced edition that supposedly allows for me to enable console commands. I'm just not so sure if it's safe or not. Is there any way I can know for sure? Also, what version of Cheat Engine do I download, is patreon worth it? I tried installing it from the cheatengine.org website but of course it got flagged as a virus and upon some research I found out it's bundled with a bunch of adware. So did that adware get installed on my PC when I ran the installer, even if it got interrupted by windows defender? I ran a full scan and offline scan and found nothing. Sorry for a lot of questions but this PC is brand new, got it 3 days ago.

Then you need some other way of modifying the game's memory / a way to call game functions. I'd recommend sticking with existing modding tools if the game / engine provides any, because otherwise you'd basically need to reverse engineer the game yourself. Depending on what game / engine you're looking at the game's file structure and executable will obviously look different, but if you wanted to get into reversing game code, I recommend you have a look at something like CheatEngine and learning about reversing binaries in general. Regarding GTA you might want to have a look at this interesting write-up in which someone has looked at why GTA's loading times were so long using standard reverse engineering tools. Generally, knowing what to look for in reverse engineering takes practise and it's no different with games. Although something like CheatEngine is a neat tool for exploring an application's memory, a lot of games use some sort of obfuscation hence why building a modding SDK for a game isn't a straightforward task in most cases. Also keep in mind that modifying pretty much any online game is almost always considered cheating and gets you banned in the best of cases, so make sure the game you're trying to reverse doesn't use anticheat and that you're actually allowed to reverse-engineer it. In case you're still interested in learning more about reversing games, be sure to check out this great playlist of videos by lifeoverflow.