Bit Slicer vs DOSBox Cheat Engine

Bit Slicer is a free, open-source game trainer for macOS that searches for and changes values such as scores, lives and ammunition. Its scanner handles integers, floating-point values, strings, byte arrays and pointers, and can narrow search results. Users can inspect and edit live memory in a hex-editor-style window, dump memory to disk and alter memory-protection attributes. Debugging tools include instruction-access watches, live disassembly, breakpoints, backtraces, register manipulation and stepping, as well as byte or assembled-instruction changes. The app can inject assembly code into a running process, and scripts can automate virtual-memory and debugger methods. Saved Slice documents can be shared. The project says it can run as a normal user rather than root. Version 1.9.2 is listed as the latest release. The current release requires macOS 11.5 or newer, although the freeware plan lists macOS 10.8 or later. Support is directed to the wiki and Discord, and is not available 24/7.

DOSBox Cheat Engine is a single-page web application for scanning, editing, and freezing emulated memory in DOSBox Staging. Search for values, narrow the results, and add memory addresses to a Cheat Table; values in the table can be changed by double-clicking or frozen so they do not decrease. Live memory polling can be paused during CPU-heavy game segments. Cheat tables can be exported and loaded as JSON files, and Shift-click or Ctrl-click supports range selection. The application connects to DOSBox Staging through its Web Server API, which must be enabled in the emulator configuration. It requires DOSBox Staging 0.83 or newer; the API web server's default local address is http://127.0.0.1:8086. Precompiled executables are offered for Windows and Linux, and the Python source can be run directly using only the standard library, without a pip installation. The project is MIT licensed and free. Closing the browser tab sends a signal for the Python server to shut down gracefully.