dev_guide.md
If you're interested in reverse engineering EQOA Frontiers or creating mods using FrontiersForge, this is the place to look!
Eventually there will be a more elaborate guide here likely explaining everything from the basic render loop to code styling.
What I've got for now are the primary tools I use for reverse engineering:
- Cheat Engine – For memory scanning and data type dissection (useful for struct layouts, offsets, etc.).
- PCSX2 Debugger – Used for memory scanning within the emulator's memory space and interfacing with the underlying MIPS processor.
- Ghidra – A powerful decompiler for analyzing binaries.
- Wireshark – Used for packet sniffing and network analysis.
Perhaps I'll split RE material into its own page eventually.
PCSX2, since version 1.7 (I believe), exposes a variable called EEmem. This variable is a pointer to a pointer to emulated PCSX2 memory. When working with memory addresses in code, all addresses should be relative to *EEmem (the value located at EEmem) to ensure consistency across different sessions and memory layouts.
An example of using EEmem in CheatEngine to retrieve a value is shown below:
