TiagoVal97--cheatspecter/learn/index.json

{
  "format": "cheatspecter-lessons",
  "version": 1,
  "edition": "2026-10",
  "courses": [
    {
      "id": "values",
      "title": "Finding and changing values",
      "summary": "What a game keeps in memory, how to find one number among millions, and how to change it or hold it still.",
      "lessons": [
        {
          "id": "how-games-remember",
          "title": "How games remember things",
          "summary": "Memory, values and addresses, and why a value is somewhere else every time you start the game.",
          "minutes": 6,
          "practice": true
        },
        {
          "id": "find-a-number",
          "title": "Find a number you can see",
          "summary": "Search for your ammo, change it in the game, search again, and edit what is left.",
          "minutes": 8,
          "practice": true
        },
        {
          "id": "hold-it",
          "title": "Change it and hold it",
          "summary": "Freeze a value so the game cannot lower it, and see why that stops working after a restart.",
          "minutes": 8,
          "practice": true
        },
        {
          "id": "no-number",
          "title": "Values you cannot see as a number",
          "summary": "A health bar has no number to type. Find it by what it did: went down, went up, stayed the same.",
          "minutes": 8,
          "practice": true
        },
        {
          "id": "decimals",
          "title": "Decimals and other types",
          "summary": "Why a search for the right number can find nothing, what a float is, and when to let Auto decide.",
          "minutes": 8,
          "practice": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "lasting",
      "title": "Cheats that last",
      "summary": "From a number you hold by hand to a cheat you can switch on tomorrow, share, and keep through a game update.",
      "lessons": [
        {
          "id": "find-the-code",
          "title": "Find the code that changes it, and switch it off",
          "summary": "Ask the debugger which instruction lowers your ammo, then replace it with instructions that do nothing.",
          "minutes": 10,
          "practice": true
        },
        {
          "id": "save-and-share",
          "title": "Save, name, group and share",
          "summary": "Keep your cheats in order, and learn what is inside a .cspector file.",
          "minutes": 9,
          "practice": true
        },
        {
          "id": "game-updates",
          "title": "Surviving game updates: patterns",
          "summary": "An update moves the game's code. A pattern finds your instruction again wherever it went.",
          "minutes": 8,
          "practice": true
        },
        {
          "id": "pointers",
          "title": "Pointers: the way back to a value that moves",
          "summary": "The value moves on every start, but the game always knows where it is. Follow the same trail.",
          "minutes": 10,
          "practice": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "deeper",
      "title": "Going deeper",
      "summary": "What sits next to your value, how to read a little of the game's code, and the habits that keep your saves and your console safe.",
      "lessons": [
        {
          "id": "structures",
          "title": "Structures: the things next to your value",
          "summary": "Health, ammo and position live side by side, and enemies are laid out the same way as you.",
          "minutes": 10,
          "practice": true
        },
        {
          "id": "decisions",
          "title": "Code with decisions: only for the player",
          "summary": "Reading a little assembly: compare, jump, and how a cheat can tell you from an enemy.",
          "minutes": 10,
          "practice": false
        },
        {
          "id": "good-habits",
          "title": "Good habits",
          "summary": "Using it at your own risk, backing up saves, undoing everything at once, and what to do when the game crashes.",
          "minutes": 6,
          "practice": true
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}