I have been around learning game hacking for the last few months off and on a bit, I've hit a large roadblock with what I want to be able to do. That being said I would love to get information on the following:

1) How do you find the bounds of the main game loop
2) Good tutorials that teach RE with IDA (I don't need to learn about the programming aspect)
3) How do you find offsets of Player classes, entities, objects, ect... (Different methods and such)


Also is it worth it in the long run to invest time in creating some generic code fingerprint scanners?

Thanks.