This is for all those those die-hard gaming fans who may not own Windows platform (it's not their fault), as I had promised in my previous blog, I found out some alternatives to Cheat Engine (CE) that work on Mac. I shall firstly give you a short introduction to CE and what it does (not everyone would have read my previous post). All those who had indeed read my previous post - feel free to scroll down and skip this part.
Cheat Engine, commonly abbreviated as CE, is an open source memory scanner/hex editor/debugger created by Eric Heijnen ("Dark Byte") for the Windows operating system.Cheat Engine is mostly used for cheating in computer games, and is sometimes modified and recompiled to evade detection. This program resembles L. Spiro's Memory Hacking Software, TSearch, and ArtMoney. It searches for values input by the user with a wide variety of options that allow the user to find and sort through the computer's memory. Cheat Engine can also create standalone trainers that can operate independently of Cheat Engine.
- Sourced form WikiPedia
Cheat Engine is an opensource tool designed to help you modify (mostly) single player games so that the player can make them harder or easier depending on their preference. For example, if you find that 100 HP is too easy in a particular game, you can try playing the game with a maximum of 10 HP.
Cheat Engine (CE) also contains several other useful tools to help debugging (in reality-just messing around) with games or pretty much any application. For example, as a prank, one may alter the download speed shown in a torrent client/download manager to perhaps 100 gbps or something like that). Other features included in this package are:- debugger, disassembler, assembler, speed hack, trainer maker, direct 3D manipulation tools, system inspection tools, etc. CE is the ultimate tool for a mischievous programmer.
What CE does is to try and find out what variables the application is using, the addresses at which they are stored in the RAM and possibly tamper with them according to the requirements. For hardcore gamers, this tool is god sent. You can easily increase your speed in 'Need For Speed', get infinite ammo in 'Call Of Duty' and avoid killing a thousand people or typing cheat codes for 'Grand Theft Auto'.
This was a brief introduction to Cheat Engine. You can view a detailed guide to CE here.
And now coming to the part many of you had eagerly awaited; Below is a list of few CE alternatives for Mac and their description in brief:-
iHaxGamez- iHaxGamez is one the best Mac alternative for CE till date. The current version runs on OS X 10.4 and above. You can visit their official website here to know more about how their app works.
API's. This one is comparatively new in the market but allows you to cheat in games similar to CE. This is because except for the platform it is a copy of CE, only for MAC. You can visit it's official website
TheCheat- Even this is a new website but has shot to success in the past few weeks. It enables you to search he memory address space of the running process and even do a little covert tweaking. You can visit it's official website here.
HereIn, I would like to add that I have not yet been able to try any of these websites so I myself am clueless as the other Window's users. But nevertheless I strongly recommend Mac users to go ahead and try them.