alt Hacker NewsNo. Cheat engine scans memory as a program is running, for values of interest to pin (or modify). Allowing you to change behavior.
Ghidra takes a program and unravels the machine code back into assembly and thus, something resembling C code. Allowing you to change behavior.
Cheat Engine doesn’t modify the binary. Ghidra can.
> Cheat Engine doesn’t modify the binary. Ghidra can.
To clarify for other people who may not be familiar, (though I'm far from an expert on it myself) you can inject/modify asm of a running binary with CE. I'm not sure if there's a way to bake the changes to the exe permanently.