Question / Help Program that updates notepads (Through analizing game data)

[MidiGuyDP]

Hi there. Name's MidiGuyDP. Just registered because I had a question that I wanted to ask, that was rather complicated.

You know all the programs that exist that analize different ever changing data, and then make a notepad out of that that updates all the time, which you can load into OBS so you have a way to track things, like the time, or how many people watching, or make counters, etc.

I want to do the same kind of thing, but instead track data from a game that I'm playing (On the PC), and update a notepad the same way.

For example:
-I'm playing the old PC game "Re-Volt" and I want to create a way to keep track of who is in first, second, third, forth, etc

So I was wondering if there was any software that can analize a certain part of data within a game, that you point to, and keep updating a notepad file wih the information so that it can be displayed on OBS.

Does anyone know if there's software that can do this?

(And as a bonus, if there's a way to display images in place of text, that would be awesome too)

 

[koala]

Reading data from game memory is an advanced topic for programmers that hack themselves into running processes. It's like debugging a process you didn't write in the first place, and where you don't know where the desired data resides.
You might get going with the use of Cheatengine: https://www.cheatengine.org/

Be careful with programs like that. It was reported in the past that some cheat protection software for online games scans your PC, and if libraries like Cheatengine are found (there exist more of that kind), they block or even ban the corresponding online game account - even if the library was not used while playing the game.

 

[MidiGuyDP]

Thanks for the info. ^^

Looks like a lot of these programs remind me of well, gameshark in a way, where you search for adressess to mod things in certain ways (eg. Infinite Money ^^)

Though I wonder if I can use any of these to find not number/hex values, but name's, like keep writing the different name of the car that's in 1st place as it changes (The search for/ equal to/ value kind of function)

(Still for the game called Re-Volt, also there's no worries for any banning since I don't play that game online ^^)