Description:
This game i'm playing is fun! They have these cubes where you walk into them and take damage, how awesome! One of them instant kills you though, that kinda sucks. Can you solve that?
This challenge says that we will get the flag if we manage to survive the instant death box on the right.
The way you survive this is simple, just say "no" to death, literally. We can do that with the help of Cheat Engine. This program allows us to inspect our memory and mess with the values.
Start up Cheat Engine and attach the game process (top left search icon). Now let's scan for the health address by putting our health amount in, which is 100. Then press the First Scan button to begin scanning.
In the table on the left you will see a bunch of addresses that have a value of 100. We ultimately want to bring that down to one address, our health. Now enter the box in the game that hits you for 5 damage to bring our health down to 95. Then we enter 95 in Cheat Engine and hit Next Scan.
Now we are left with only one address! Double click on it to bring it to the bottom so we can mess with it. We can then double click on the value 95 to change it to whatever we want.
If we change the value to a crazy amount, we won't directly see a change until we take some damage. But doing that won't make us invincible.
Right click the address and then click on Find out what writes to this address so we can observe the instructions that make us lose health.
Now enter a box that will damage you. Go back to Cheat Engine and notice that something appeared in our table.
Do a simple Right click > Replace with code that does nothing.
Finally, enter the instant death box to reveal the flag.
You've successfully said "no" to death!
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