Cheat Engine, also known as CE, is an open and free software made by DarkByte, and most commonly used for cheating in games using a hex memory searcher and editor to allow people to modify memory addresses. It is currently the most popular cheating software used today. CE has influenced a lot of online games (although it does not work on most any more), as it is open source and can be modified to their needs.
It searches for values input by the user with a wide variety of options such as 'Unknown Initial Value' and 'Decreased Value' scans. Cheat Engine can also create standalone trainers which function on their own without Cheat Engine. Cheat Engine can also view the disassembled memory of a process and make alterations to give the user advantages such as infinite health, time or ammunition. It also has some Direct3D manipulation tools, allowing you to see through walls, zoom in/out and with some advanced configuration allows Cheat Engine to move the mouse for you to get a certain texture into the center of the screen.
This is commonly used to create Aimbots. Cheat Engine is an open source program (written mostly in Delphi) intended to be used for modifying games that run under Windows.
As its name suggest, it is mainly used to cheat on games and this lead to it becoming the most popular tool for game modifications/hacking/cheating. Cheat engine can be used in theory for single player installable Windows games, but its popularity grew based on the fact that it also works in cheating at online flash games. This happened because browser-based flash games such as Farmville, Restaurant City, Cityville (and many others from developers such as Zynga) are immensely popular, so tools like Cheat Engine that help cheat on these games became popular too. Even if it is used mainly for the purpose of cheating, there are cases where it can be used to increase the difficulty of a particular game. For instance, you can use it to reduce the amount of health a character in the game has (or any other type of resource that is important), thus making it more difficult to complete tasks. Cheat Engine uses a memory scanner to detect which variables can be changed in a game in order to create advantages for the user such as infinite resources (money, gold.), increased time or weaponry. Because of the fact that it monitors memory assemblies of a process and that it is able to inject code, it might be detected by some antiviruses as a threat - there are some versions that eliminate the code injection feature thus no virus alert is shown.
The program comes with other features too, such as tools for game debugging, disassembler, assembler, speedhacks, trainer generation, Direct 3D manipulation, system inspection, etc. The Direct 3D manipulation tool is particularly interesting, given the fact that applying it to a game you can see through walls, zoom in or out at astonishing levels or other visual hacks (such as object placements). Cheat engine is used by game hackers too that create and release game trainers (independent of the program itself) and aimbots (game bots that allow a character to auto-aim in first-person shooter games).
The official Cheat Engine website has a forum and a wiki, which has among others information related to cheating on particular games (i.e. 3D Pinball: Space Cadet, Ashes 2 Ashes: Zombie Cricket, Club Penguin, Commando 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Doom 1, F.E.A.R. 2, FarmVillez, Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas, Learn to Fly, Mafia Wars, Painkiller:Resurrection, Robotrage, Sim Tower, Starcraft 2 ). The irony is that the author posted a notice regarding the fact that the tool might not be useful for online games and not to contact him about this, however gamecheats posted on the wiki also refer to online flash games. Publisher’s Description of Cheat engine 5.5 Cheat Engine, also known as CE, is an open and free software made by DarkByte, and most commonly used for cheating in games using a hex memory searcher and editor to allow people to modify memory addresses. It is currently the most popular cheating software used today. CE has influenced a lot of online games (although it does not work on most any more), as it is open source and can be modified to their needs.
Red Alert 2 Cheat Engine 5.5 Mediafire
It searches for values input by the user with a wide variety of options such as 'Unknown Initial Value' and 'Decreased Value' scans. Cheat Engine can also create standalone trainers which function on their own without Cheat Engine. Cheat Engine can also view the disassembled memory of a process and make alterations to give the user advantages such as infinite health, time or ammunition. It also has some Direct3D manipulation tools, allowing you to see through walls, zoom in/out and with some advanced configuration allows Cheat Engine to move the mouse for you to get a certain texture into the center of the screen. This is commonly used to create Aimbots.