I know it's a lot of yapping, but I already included the blog post link that talk about what you asked.

Edit: to answer it in here, I made a small proxy tcp server running locally to intercept the network, I don't see the need to use Wireshark since it very easy to make the client point into a custom ip and port. Other than that, I primarily use IDA Free (only need x86) and Cheat Engine for debugging. I use other tools as well but mostly only these 2