Questions about C#, writing to memory

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So I just started learning C# and my goal is to make a cheat for pinball. So I wonder how advanced it is to write to memory of the pinball process? Since I just started I don't know if I am light years away from learning this or not. I've been looking for tutorials that teach me just this but I can't find anything related to what I want. They are all just explaining how it works but I need to see it in practice to fully grasp how to use it myself.

Also if I get it correctly I could either just write to the memory directly or inject into it? Which way should I go for? Forgive me for being a newbie but I want to know whats up.

I already know how to get the pointers of all the addresses I will need. So I feel like I got that thing down already, now I just need to learn the programming part. I don't expect to learn it in one day but I would like to ask you professionals about it. :)

You could say I want to make a trainer for pinball.

Posted 20-Jan-13 17:03pm

Inzann

Updated 20-Jan-13 17:20pm

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Christian Graus · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-20T17:11:00

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C# is the wrong language to do this, really. And yes, it's complicated, arcane and not terribly useful from the point of view of learning to program.

Posted 20-Jan-13 17:11pm

Christian Graus

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Inzann 20-Jan-13 23:19pm

So it would be easier to do this in another language?

Garth J Lancaster 20-Jan-13 23:30pm

It would be more appropriate to use a lot of other languages, for example, c++ ...but that still wont teach you how to program

Im not sure 'hacking another processes memory' is a suitable start point for learning

Inzann 20-Jan-13 23:34pm

Oh I didn't mean to jump right in and start doing this. It was more of a long term goal but I wanted an estimate on how long it would take me to reach that level of programming and how advanced it was. C++ seems way to hard to start learning with so I went with C# and Python instead.

Christian Graus 20-Jan-13 23:39pm

It would be more possible in a harder language, but still not a great idea IMO