scanmem
is a program that is able to find the memory location of a certain value in a program (e.g. the "money" value) and change its value. scanmem
does not work when a game applies obfuscating techniques, e.g., moving pointers. But it works surpisingly often.
On Linux: scanmem
can be be installed from the package repositories and needs superuser privileges. Use htop
or a similar tool to find the main pid
of the game. A scanmem session usually looks like this:
[user@pc ~]$ sudo scanmem
[sudo] password for user:
scanmem version 0.17