Floating point on Flash/.swf

Rashidi · Post by **Rashidi** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 3:15 pm

how exactly macromedia flash handles that stuff? (mantissa, exponent, sign, endians, etc...)

i wanna cheat certain flash program, but unfortunately, my cheating program can only search values that were native to the processor only (i.e 8-bit byte, 16/32/64-bit word, 32/64/80-bit floating point).

So i intend to make numeric converter that will convert numeric value and represent it into series of bytes that can be used for searching.

consequently, i need to know the what form of floating point, that flash uses.

diminish · Post by **diminish** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 4:00 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActionScript It seems that it uses double-precision IEEE-754 floating point, but I don't think you can twiddle bits easily.

Rashidi · Post by **Rashidi** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 6:00 pm

sorry, for very late post
i have test various flash player, it seems intel' floating point were used as-is up to version 7,

i can find for 8-byte float value addresses in RAM while the swf was played using adobe flash player version 7 or older.

however, on adobe flash player version 8 or newer, i can not even find the for the address of the values...

kode54 · Post by **kode54** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 7:10 pm

With some newer Flash players and games, I've seen integer values in use. You may want to try relative value searching, as what you are looking for could be the exact value multiplied by two, four, or ten, or something.

PHoNyMiKe · Post by **PHoNyMiKe** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 8:54 am

you're trying to cheat a flash game? now that's low.