Cheers, for sharing.

 

Thank you HCR, it took me a lot of time to edit the text and the pictures.

 

The codes on the website are in RAW format and need to be converted to make them work with pcsx2. For this you will require CBcrypt.

The codes are in Codebreaker format, you want then in RAW format so you are using CBcrypt to Decrypt them

If the decrypted code starts with 1 or 2, then change them to 0 {zero}

This is wrong, for example

Decrypted code
203FE82C 02020202
203FE830 02020202
103FE834 00000202

you translated it to:

Fixed code
003FE82C 02020202
003FE830 02020202
003FE834 00000202 

and then

patch=1,EE,003FE82C,word,02020202
patch=1,EE,003FE830,word,02020202
patch=1,EE,003FE834,word,00000202

the translation of the last code is wrong it should be
patch=1,EE,003FE834,short,00000202

codes should be translated this way:

003FE82C 00000002    patch=1,EE,003FE82C,[B]byte[/B],00000002
103FE830 00000202    patch=1,EE,003FE82C,[B]short[/B],00000202
203FE834 02020202    patch=1,EE,003FE82C,[B]word[/B],02020202

The first numer indicates the data's length.

Try searching for a code different from

0XXXXXX 000000YY
1XXXXXX 0000YYYY
2XXXXXX YYYYYYYY

The true intention of the lines

203FE82C 02020202
203FE830 02020202
103FE834 00000202

is to write 10 "02".
if you write the cheats like

patch=1,EE,003FE82C,word,02020202
patch=1,EE,003FE830,word,02020202
patch=1,EE,003FE834,word,00000202

PCSX2 is writing 10 "02" and 2 "00"

If the decrypted code already starts from 0 or some other letter other then 1 and 2 then no need to change anything

Any cheat that doesn't start by 0,1,2 is not working with this method

for example code "Unlock All Weapons for soul calibur 2"

403FE778 002F0001
02020202 00000000
103FE834 00000202

it means

 4aaaaaaa xxxxyyyy
 dddddddd 00000000  

Starting with the address specified by aaaaaaa, 
this code will write to xxxx addresses. 
The next address is determined by incrementing 
the current address by (yyyy * 4). 
The value specified by dddddddd is written 
to each calculated address. Also known as a "Patch Code."

So it writes 44 (2f) times "02020202" starting from adress 03FE778 and then writes another two "02" in adress 3FE834 (with the line 103FE834 00000202)

If you translate this code your way it will be wrong.

Anyway in pcsx2 are implemented almost any code if you use it with

code 
XXXXXXXX YYYYYYYY

translated to

patch=1,EE,XXXXXXXX,extended,YYYYYYYY

 

@Pontifice
Thanks for the advice, I'll fix the RAW code misconception. If there is something you know post it in a simpler way.
and one thing
I have tested all these codes, I would not post them if they were wrong

 

I will try to explain it better

patch=1,EE,xxxxxxxx,size,yyyyyyyy

work writing "size" of "yyyyyyyy" starting in address "xxxxxxxx"

for example

patch=1,EE,00000100,byte,00000001

writes 01 in address 00000100

patch=1,EE,00000101,byte,00000002

writes 02 in adresss 00000101

and these two lines do the same that this line

patch=1,EE,00000100,short,00000201

It writes 0101 starting in address 00000100 so it first writes 01 in address 100 and then 02 in address 101


For example with these codes that you posted

//unlock cassandra weapons
patch=1,EE,003fe796,word,00000202
patch=1,EE,003fe798,word,02020202
patch=1,EE,003fe79c,word,02020202

First patch writes 00000202 starting in address 3fe796 until adress 3fe799
you get something like

address      data
3fe795       ..
3fe796       02
3fe797       02
3fe798       00
3fe799       00
3fe79A       ..

Second patch writes 02020202 starting in address 3fe798 until adress 3fe79B
you get something like

address      data
3fe795       ..
3fe796       02
3fe797       02
3fe798       02
3fe799       02
3fe79A       02
3fe79B       02
3fe79C       ..

Third patch writes 02020202 starting in address 3fe79C until adress 3fe79F
you get something like

address      data
3fe795       ..
3fe796       02
3fe797       02
3fe798       02
3fe799       02
3fe79A       02
3fe79B       02
3fe79C       02
3fe79D       02
3fe79E       02
3fe79F       02
3fe7A0       ..

With this i can see that the first patch was translated wrong because it gets overwrited by the second one.

With theses cheats you are unable to know what data is in 3fe798 and 3fe799because it's written with two different values. Probably it will be "02" because the way pcsx2 works.

But hey with the last patch of this code

//yungsung Weapon Codes
patch=1,EE,003FE78C,word,02020202
patch=1,EE,003FE790,word,02020202
patch=1,EE,003FE794,word,00000202

It writes

address      data
3fe793       ..
3fe794       02
3fe795       02
3fe796       00
3fe797       00
3fe798       ..

Overwriting the previous code.

That's why it's important the byte,short,word thing.


And any other code that start for anything but 0,1 or 2 should not work because they are not writing directly in memory.

For example

// FFXII  P1 Press R3+L1 For Super Fast Speed
D056BADC 0000FBFB
1025C7E8 000041F7

This code means checks if the data in adress 056BADC is FBFB and if it is it writes 41F7 in adress 25C7E8

If i translate it your way

it will be

patch=1,EE,0056BADC,word,0000FBFB
patch=1,EE,0025C7E8,word,000041F7

it will write 0000FBFB in 56BADC (by the way 56BADC it's the adress with pad "registers") and then it will write 000041F7 in 25C7E8

But if you used what i said

patch=1,EE,D056BADC,extended,0000FBFB
patch=1,EE,1025C7E8,extended,000041F7

It will work


i know all of this because i write the "extended" thing in pcsx2 and for that i have to study how codebreaker/armax codes works

 

I respect your opinion, you seem to know a lot, but the last code did not work (both your way and mine). Its like you are reading my mind.oO

didn't work(but didn't crash the emulator)
patch=1,EE,D056BADC,extended,0000FBFB
patch=1,EE,1025C7E8,extended,000041F7

 

I respect your opinion, you seem to know a lot, but the last code did not work (both your way and mine). Its like you are reading my mind.oO

it's for FFXII NTSC version, i tried it today to check if the 0.9.6 version has my last code ( i modied it little before 0.9.6 comes out) and it works.

i attached my ffxii pnach if you want to try it

 

I don't have FFXII, I have tekken5 pal, naruto ultimate ninja2 pal, soul calibur2 NTSC.

 

Well done redlof fantastic guide

you've taught me a thing or 2.

 

Try this in tekken 5

P1 Press L1+L2 For Death Blow On P2
D015D402 0000FAFF
203A9A3C 00000000

like

patch=1,EE,D015D402,extended,0000FAFF
patch=1,EE,203A9A3C,extended,00000000

or

Hit Anywhere P2 & P1 Cant Hit P2
D01F55CC 0000282D
201F55D8 16140017

patch=1,EE,D01F55CC,extended,0000282D
patch=1,EE,201F55D8,extended,16140017

 

Well done redlof fantastic guide

you've taught me a thing or 2.

Thank you pcxl

Try this in tekken 5

P1 Press L1+L2 For Death Blow On P2
D015D402 0000FAFF
203A9A3C 00000000

like

patch=1,EE,D015D402,extended,0000FAFF
patch=1,EE,203A9A3C,extended,00000000

or

Hit Anywhere P2 & P1 Cant Hit P2
D01F55CC 0000282D
201F55D8 16140017

patch=1,EE,D01F55CC,extended,0000282D
patch=1,EE,201F55D8,extended,16140017

tekken5 does not have any controls set for L1 and L2, are you sure?
Are these codes from code twink, my disc does not match the one at codetwink. Let me try these.

 

ummm things are getting hard

try this for soul calibur 2 from codetwink

1-Hit Death P2
D03E531E 00004370
203E531C 3F800000

patch=1,EE,D03E531E,extended,00004370
patch=1,EE,203E531C,extended,3F800000

 

@Pontifice
the first code crashes the emulator and the second one does not work.

ummm things are getting hard

try this for soul calibur 2 from codetwink

1-Hit Death P2
D03E531E 00004370
203E531C 3F800000

patch=1,EE,D03E531E,extended,00004370
patch=1,EE,203E531C,extended,3F800000

this code give an error/crash

vtlb miss: addr 0xD, mode 1

The code works only if I make it like this

patch=1,EE,003E531E,word,00004370
patch=1,EE,203E531C,word,3F800000

Using extended does not work.

 

Strange ....

extended never tries to write or read memory using all first "number" it always makes the first number 0 ... strange.

Are you sure you saved the file between tries? it seems it is the error it will throu if you used

patch=1,EE,D03E531E,word,00004370
patch=1,EE,203E531C,word,3F800000

 

yes yes, I saved the file, I've been making pnaches for a long time now.

 

I have borrowed soul calibur 2 from a friend and the code

patch=1,EE,D03E531E,extended,00004370
patch=1,EE,203E531C,extended,3F800000

works

patch=1,EE,003E531E,word,00004370
patch=1,EE,203E531C,word,3F800000

works also, but because the second line writes empty life for p2 and keeps writing it all the time the

patch=1,EE,D03E531E,extended,00004370

part works like a check to see if a battle is at the moment and only write empty life during battles.
----------------

Anyway try this other code
//P1 Needs 1 Win To Win
patch=1,EE,003D448C,word,00000000
patch=1,EE,003D448C,word,00000001

Start a Weapon Master game, and you will be unable to finish stage two because you will always have only one victory

and later this one
//P1 Needs 1 Win To Win
patch=1,EE,D03D448C,extended,00000000
patch=1,EE,003D448C,extended,00000001

Start a Weapon Master game, and you will be able to finish stage two because it checks that you have 0 victories to change it to 1, so in places of the game that the player needs 3 or more victories this code works

 

Bump?

So can anyone clarify what is the right way to do this? I can't get a code to work using anything, be it leaving it as is, decrypting it (with V7 support on and off), and using either word or extended phrases. Either the emulator crashes with a tlb miss (redlofredlof's way), or it runs, but with no effect (Pontifice's way).

I got one code to work using redlofredlof's way a while back. It's a simple single line one for Dragonball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3 (max zeni), but trying to add a multi-line second cheat (all items), nothing is working.

Here is the page with the codes (it's the last code).

CodeTwink Network - Dragonball Z-Budokai-Tenkaichi 3 (PS2 Cheats)

Here is the code decrypted with V7 encryption (since I had to use it for my previous one).

E0021821 003998F8
20399900 24020001
20399904 A0822EC8
E0022021 0039B5D4
2039B5E4 24020001
2039B5E8 A0622EC8

Here it is without V7 encryption.

CBC83D43 A6FAD178
CCCFFD2C AC86D56D
A15ED413 1141F579
C95ED2A3 E417EFFE
86169D96 226E6870
36646825 CDB988B0

I tried the code the following ways (these are using the result from with V7 encryption on).

//all items
patch=1,EE,E0021821,word,003998F8
patch=1,EE,00399900,word,24020001
patch=1,EE,00399904,word,A0822EC8
patch=1,EE,E0022021,word,0039B5D4
patch=1,EE,0039B5E4,word,24020001
patch=1,EE,0039B5E8,word,A0622EC8

//all items
patch=1,EE,E0021821,extended,003998F8
patch=1,EE,20399900,extended,24020001
patch=1,EE,20399904,extended,A0822EC8
patch=1,EE,E0022021,extended,0039B5D4
patch=1,EE,2039B5E4,extended,24020001
patch=1,EE,2039B5E8,extended,A0622EC8

//all items
patch=1,EE,E0021821,byte,003998F8
patch=1,EE,20399900,short,24020001
patch=1,EE,20399904,word,A0822EC8
patch=1,EE,E0022021,byte,0039B5D4
patch=1,EE,2039B5E4,short,24020001
patch=1,EE,2039B5E8,word,A0622EC8

(I had no idea to determine whether to use byte, short, word, etc., because that was never explained, so I basically guessed).

I've tried others (like the non-V7 encryptions of the same thing, etc.), but you get the point.

redlofredlof's guide, while it seems to work most of the time, apparently isn't the correct way to do it. Could someone perhaps explain the correct way for the codes that don't seem to work with redlofredlof's method?

 

byte - values between 0-255(0-FF)
short - values between 0-65535(0-FFFF)
word - values between 0-4294967295(0-FFFFFFFF)
extended - that the only thing I don't know.

The E0 type is if a condition is met(or in most of the cases they are called just jocker codes)then to enable the code below.

BTW pcsx2 have problems with those type of codes so problems like those that you encounter can be expected.

Try it like this:
patch=1,EE,00399900,word,24020001
patch=1,EE,00399904,word,A0822EC8
patch=1,EE,0039B5E4,word,24020001
patch=1,EE,0039B5E8,word,A0622EC8
but remove the code as soon as possible because in this way the code is always on(both conditions are removed)

 

Well, PCSX2 doesn't crash like any other time I tried using the word value in the patch (so I thought things were going somewhere), but like when I used the extended value, it has no effect.

 

thanks a lot for true thank a lots of lots jejejejejeje

 

thanks a lot for true thank a lots of lots jejejejejeje

You're welcome

 

Im not 100% sure, but i enter all my codes with extended on and never need to use byte / word / etc, so i think it just covers them all from what ive seen.

 

Im not 100% sure, but i enter all my codes with extended on and never need to use byte / word / etc, so i think it just covers them all from what ive seen.

It depends on what works for you.

 

can some tell me how to use pnach cause i did everything and tryed to get the Infinite Zenni on DBZ Budokai Tenkaichi 3 and when i tryed to run it it just crashed

gametitle=Dragonball Z-Budokai-Tenkaichi 3 [SLUS 21678] (U) [428113C2]
comment=Patch by Code Master
//Max Zenni
patch=1,EE,6F420470,word,6F420470

 

try changing word to extended ... also is your file called 428113C2.pnach in the patches folder?