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		reactordev 1 day ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ghidra by NSA No. Cheat engine scans memory as a program is running, for values of interest to pin (or modify). Allowing you to change behavior. Ghidra takes a program and unravels the machine code back into assembly and thus, something resembling C code. Allowing you to change behavior. Cheat Engine doesn’t modify the binary. Ghidra can.

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kaibee 1 day ago [–]

> Cheat Engine doesn’t modify the binary. Ghidra can.

To clarify for other people who may not be familiar, (though I'm far from an expert on it myself) you can inject/modify asm of a running binary with CE. I'm not sure if there's a way to bake the changes to the exe permanently.

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