Thought I would start learning CoSMOS and Spore was on sale, seemed like a good game to practice on. Creature Health, Ship Health, no problem. Currency in space phase, making me want to drive my head through a wall. Also, whomever all was involved in making CoSMOS, fantastic job, it is extremely user friendly.
So, scan for currency, 8 addresses come back every time on second scan. 6 of the 8 are identical in pairs, 2 bytes and 4 bytes, then there are 2 different floats. I have tried every combo imaginable, freezing then editing, editing then freezing, changing just float, etc. The 2 byte addresses always go negative, 4 bytes all match to the float I edit, but the currency in game changes from a green text to red and won't update. After the currency changes back green, all 8 addresses are useless and I have to rescan for a new set of 8 and try again.
Am I in over my head here, something I am missing, or a trick I don't know about? Health/Food/DNA was just 1 address, change it, freeze it, GG.
P.S. why are there 2 and 4 byte versions of the same address on something like currency where 2 bytes caps out at 32,767? (presumably that's why it goes negative?) 🤔