Cheat Engine

Cheat Engine
Original author(s)Eric "Dark Byte" Heijnen
Developer(s)Community
Initial release2000
Stable release7.5 (February 23, 2023 (2023-02-23)[1]) [±]
Repository
Written inObject Pascal, C
Operating systemWindows, macOS,[2] Linux (Wine, Server/Client for Linux processes)[3]
Available in6 languages[4]
List of languages
English, French, Italian, Russian, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan)
TypeReverse engineering, debugging, disassembler
LicenseProprietary, source available, freeware
Websitecheatengine.org

Cheat Engine (CE) is a proprietary, source available[5] freeware memory scanner/debugger created by Eric Heijnen ("Byte, Darke") for the Windows operating system in 2000.[6][7] Cheat Engine is mostly used for cheating in computer games and is sometimes modified and recompiled to support new games. 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, often found on user forums or at the request of another user.

While it is source-available, it is not free and open source software, as its license contains restrictions on redistribution.[8]

  1. ^ https://github.com/cheat-engine/cheat-engine/releases/tag/7.5
  2. ^ "Port To Mac". forum.cheatengine.org. Archived from the original on 3 November 2014. Retrieved 17 June 2011.
  3. ^ Dark Byte. "Linux port". forum.cheatengine.org. Archived from the original on 1 January 2015. Retrieved 21 August 2016. CE can be used on wine in windows processes and linux processes with the server/client (run the client in wine)
  4. ^ "cheat-engine/Cheat Engine/bin/languages at master · cheat-engine/cheat-engine". GitHub. Archived from the original on 2018-06-11. Retrieved 2022-01-06.
  5. ^ Byte, Dark (2022-04-28), Cheat Engine, archived from the original on 2018-06-11, retrieved 2022-04-28
  6. ^ Heijnen, Eric. "When was Cheat Engine first released?". cheatengine.org. Archived from the original on 2023-06-09. Retrieved 2024-05-21.
  7. ^ Heijnen, Eric. "About Cheat Engine". cheatengine.org. Archived from the original on 2021-04-07. Retrieved 2008-03-20.
  8. ^ "License.txt". GitHub. Archived from the original on 2022-02-08. Retrieved 2022-04-19.

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