Help With code

[the_dave]

Hi,
I just got my usb gecko and I have read the tut and done mario galaxy but I need help finding health in other games like in mario your health is a number what about a game where you have a health bar I have tried searching then getting hit then searching again for lesser than value in 8, 16, 32 bit till I narrow it down then I poke the rest and get nothing.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.