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While the game is loading, I press F1 to bring up the menu. Back in the Quick Menu, I choose cheats. In the Cheats menu, I select Load Cheat File. This is after I have downloaded the cheats from the online updater. Back in the Cheats Menu, I choose a cheat, specifically Have All Characters. With Cheat Engine, you can save your cheats in tables to use them later and you can assign Hot Keys to change or to Enable/Disable cheats since some games require the cheats to be turn off to proceed sometimes for example the unlimited hearts cheat for Dracula X: Rondo of Blood, it needs to be turned off at the end of each level.
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| Retroarch - Mednafen PS1 GameShark game saves not found [message #4775] | Sat, 21 January 2017 20:37 | |
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| Couldn't come up with a good topic title so, that's the best I could do. So anyway, hey everyone. I'm pretty new to retroarch/mednafen so maybe I'm missing something but essentially all I'm trying to do is use cheats for Final Fantasy 9 on the PS1. I'm using Mednafen core with Retroarch on a Windows 10 computer. I loaded up the gameshark (version 4) disc and appended the FF9 Disc 1 when the GS prompts me to insert the disc and press X. When I go to load a save in FF9 once I'm in the loading screen, it says there is no save data. If I start a new save with the codes enabled everything is fine. I'll save, quit, completely back out of retroarch and go back. When I load FF9 again, it finds that previous save that had GS cheats. If I load GS before hand and go to load the save after the GS disc, it can't find the save again. I'm a little confused as to what's going on. It's like the system is treating FF9 as its own thing (which is should) but when FF9 is loaded after the GS disc, it acts like this also is its own thing, rather than recognizing that it's FF9 and just finding the previous save. Originally I was trying just to use cheats without GameShark's disc, as in the cheat list built into retroarch. FF9 though didn't have codes in English so I didn't know what did what, furthermore I couldn't get them to work anyway so I tried the method of doing the GameShark disc. It works but only one time like I mentioned. If I'm trying to continue a game with GameShark, I have to start the game all over again due to no saved data. Is there anything I can do here? Sorry if I worded things in a confusing way/not clear enough what happened. I can provide more details if that's needed here. | ||
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| Re: Retroarch - Mednafen PS1 GameShark game saves not found [message #4776 is a reply to message #4775 ] | Sat, 21 January 2017 23:50 | |
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| libretro/RetroArch uses an unofficial fork of Mednafen, and for obvious reasons isn't supported here. Instructions that follow are for Mednafen itself, and not a fork: If you want to use the GameShark CD with FF9 in Mednafen, you should create an M3U file that lists the GameShark CD(e.g. CUE sheet), then the 4 FF9 CDs, load the M3U file, and switch between discs with F8 and F6 when necessary. If you want to use absolute or directory-traversing relative paths in the M3U file, you'll probably need to change the filesys.untrusted_fip_check setting. If you have an existing save file, you will have to rename it. The memory card files are stored in the 'sav' directory under the Mednafen base directory. So if you have a 'Final Fantasy IX (USA) (Disc 1) (v1.1).614fe52271c87a683c7eef65125349d2.0.mcr' file, and you named the M3U file 'ff9gs.m3u', you'd need to rename(or copy) the memory card file to something like 'ff9gs.0.mcr'(the string of hex representing a hash as calculated by Mednafen is optional). [Updated on: Sun, 22 January 2017 00:09] | ||
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If you're like me, there are some games I could just never win as a kid. This guide will finally allow you to win! (albeit with a much lesser sense of satisfaction)
Download Cheats
As a preface cheats only work through libretro/retroarch so take note of the emulators you are using.
You first need to open the RGUI. There are two ways of accessing the RGUI:
- In the RetroPie menu of EmulationStation select Retroarchor
- Hotkey combinationHotkey+X to open the RGUI from within a game
If you haven't done so already, you'll need to enable the advanced settings by navigating to Settings >> User Interface >> Show Advanced Settings, then enabling the Online Updater in View >> Show Online Updater
Next, navigate to Online Updater >> Update Cheats
this will download a set of preconfigured cheat files for many games into /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/cheats
Enable Cheats
Now you can launch the game you want to finally win:
Open the RGUI with Hotkey combinationHotkey+X
Choose Quick Menu >> Cheats >> Load Cheat File
How To Use Cheats Retroarch
Navigate to your game title and select it
Then navigate to the cheat you want to enable and press left or right to toggle it on/off
Select Apply Cheat Changes
Then press B to go out of the cheat menu and resume your game.
Your cheats should now be enabled
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Create Cheat Files
You can create .cht files in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/cheats/<system>/<rom_name>.cht
The following is a reference chart for the types of cheat codes for each system:
| Console | Cheat type | Example code |
|---|---|---|
| Famicom / NES | Action Replay | 02A2:01 |
| Famicom / NES | Game Genie | APEETPEY |
| Game Boy | Game Genie | FA1-B9C-4C1 |
| Game Boy (Color) | GameShark | 0101CEC1 |
| Game Boy Advance | GameShark v3 | CD93194F 089CE0B4 |
| Game Boy Advance | GameShark v1/v2 | A62B1D67 EB2D |
| Game Gear | Action Replay | 00D3-C280 |
| Mega Drive / Genesis | Action Replay | FFFE21:0032 |
| Mega Drive / Genesis | Game Genie | NN8A-AADN |
| N64 | GameShark | 8033B177 0015 |
| NDS | Action Replay | 22085A50 00000001 |
| Sega Master System | Action Replay | 00C0-2502 |
| Super Famicom / SNES | Action Replay | 7E1490:FF |
| Super Famicom / SNES | Game Genie | 14B4-6F07 |
Retroarch Download Cheats
Cheat Code Example
Filename: Addams Family, The - Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt (USA, Europe) (Game Genie).cht
Retroarch Cheat Files
Multiline Cheat Codes
The following is an example for a PSX game
Filename: Resident Evil 2.cht
Mame Cheats
Retroarch Cheat Database
Mame has its own configurations for cheats. You can see a guide HERE