Re: An e-mail I received...

[Lazy Bastard]

Got this a while back, when I last checked my account, heh:

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it looks as though your link on the gshi site has one too many ".com"s. so i'll try this again.
without going into a novel, i'll try to keep it short. i tried registering on the ubb, but i was getting a message about my cookies. never had that with other sites...anyway, if you don't have an answer, could you direct me to someone who may? awhile back i decided that i would try to get rid of my old playstation console. in order to do so, i would need a way to use codes on the ps2 console. i have an old gs version 2.42, and it still works great, but for space reasons i'd like to get rid of as much as i can. i learned that an original codebreaker would still work in a ps2. however, i later learned that apparently not all codes will work with a cd based device, such as codebreaker. i've been informed that most likely the 50 codes and D0 codes won't work. unfortunately, that takes up about half the codes i like to use, especially the D0 codes, as that includes jokers, and battle checks, such as the ff9 in-battle spell editing codes. i have the latest version codebreaker for the ps1. so what codes will work, and what codes won't for certain? and if some don't work, is there another way to make them work? this was what 00kevin at the gsccc forums told me: "50 codes (serial repeaters, usually All Items or All Characters have x codes) probably won't work. D0 codes (like Joker codes) don't work either. I think the Code Breaker might have different ways of calling those code types but I have no information on what might go with what."

please say there's another way to at least make the D0 codes work. i'll live without the serial repeaters, or just input them all manually, but i need the D0 codes to be able to work, otherwise i don't think i'll be able to sell my old ps and gs if i can't go using infinite time in the chocobo hot cold game in ff9 (uses a joker,) and editing the spells so that i can use kuja's flare star, among other codes. i simply refuse to live without these awesome codes!

thanks for your time. just out of curiosity...if half the codes won't work on a cd based cheat device...what does the original codebreaker have going for it?

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It may very well be too late, but any chance anyone can help him?

[Amy]

ummm well, not much 'pure hacking minded help' I have here, but maybe abit of advice and help from my point of views and such. (From what all I have seen and withnessed with these type of subjects of codes for PSX/PSOne games on the PS2.)

My simple advice (may not be the exact answer this person is looking for, but is best advice I know of, and follow myself... that is and would be to simply keep their PSX and GS 2.42.

As is, their are ALOT of problems with most 'any' CD based cheat device. Codes cannot be 'turned off' other then with jokers, their effects in alot of PSX games are not 'savible' hardly any checksum bypasses work right within CD based devices. And plenty of other issues and bothers. Again my own opinion, but as is well said alot, and should be well known by all innocent gamers out there, PSX/PSOne codes on the PS2 with 'any' cheat device is not as pretty as you could hope.

So anyway that is my best advice, and what I follow myself, simply because what you (whomever the person is and was asking for help) you have one of the best cheat devices ever made for any system quite literly. A 2.42 can accept all code types, really is only missing the GSPro code generator really. Plus, the thing about space, you can always unhook the PSX by simply removing the wires from the back, and use the same wires same area for both PSX and PS2. If space is that bad. Otherwise, I'd get a little night stand, or other type of smae shelf/table and place the PSX on that off to the side. I must admit, I am abit good at the 'space' thing seeing as I have near all systems ever released in the US hooked all up to one TV, plus DVD players, VCRs, and all else cable and satilite systems...I have to use 4 of those 'super system selectors' to choose from all systems and all else. So I am abit good at 'space' or at least had to be.

Anyway, not real 'help' really, but just abit of advice as to what I would do in your shoes, as a rule of life, never get rid of anything, for one thing, you never will get much in return for it... you can sell your PSX and GS 2.42 for about well $12.00 for PSX and $2.00 for the GS...and that system and cheat device is still and always will be wonderful. And besides, I know of more then a few people who sold off all their PSXs and GS's and 'tried' the PS2to PSX/PSOne codes and now, they are crying and pretty desperate to go all around and 'buy back' all of what they sold.

I even buy each and every (non-CD device) GS and GSPro I ever lay my eyes on at the game stores, at only a few dollars, it's always good to reap the rewards from someone else's mistake. But as is topic, do NOT make that mistake...anyway that is just my opinion on it all.

~Amy

[Lazy Bastard]

Yeah, that's a good point. I wouldn't sell my old PSX for anything. Still, his question remains, and I lack the knowledge of current systems at the moment to give a good answer...

[SephiRon]

It's sad really. it seems that when i go into my local eb, there is always at least one gspro to buy in there. i buy one, and then the next time i go there's another one. why do ppl do this? it's not like the gshi ever had a big sign or was advertised on sites, all you do is google for gameshark codes and the site pops up. if more ppl did this, there wouldn't be as many scrapped gspros. i just came across it one day interested in codes for my newly acquired cdx 3.3 (shudders). but yeah, i really have no shortage of gspros now, if anyone needs one. i think i still even have my sharklink, if anyone wants it, as it's pretty much useles to me now

[LiquidManZero]

If I wasn't too lazy, I'd considering going over to gsccc and smacking a few people around over there, but, as you've guessed, I'm too lazy to do so...

It's entirely possible to convert d0 and 50 codes to work on a code breaker, as it's just a renamed xploder. Other things tend to be a bit harder to do, but those at least are possible. [Slight pause here while running off to find a handwritten section of a certain unfinished faq...] Okay, here's how it's done:
D0 codes are 70 codes in a CB
D1 codes are 90...
C0 are F0...
And 50 are B0, but some things have to be rearanged. The only way I can think of explaining this involves an example:

The coresponding parts have the same letters:

GS code ->
5000XXYY ZZZZ
?0AAAAAA BBBB

Xploder/Code Breaker code ->
B0XX00YY ZZZZ
10AAAAAA BBBB

So for example:
50006902 0001
8009CBE0 C600
...would end up as this:
B0690002 0001
1009CBE0 C600

There is a slight possibility that if either the 'XX' or 'YY' digits are higher than 0F that the code might not work, but I believe this to only be a problem on old models of xploder, not code breakers.

Normal 80 and 30 codes already work. Pretty much everything else won't though...

[Lazy Bastard]

*nudges Liquid violently to finish his section of a certain, potentially really awesome FAQ, and to perhaps attack KE for a similar response*

I think I'll write another section pretty soon. There's gotta be another topic worth covering.

[LiquidManZero]

I'm actually done, except for the physical version that has yet to be written. Meh, I'll probably get around to it this weekend, if I can find some paper.

[Lazy Bastard]

"...except for the physical version..."

You mean it's stored in your brain still...or you haven't typed it yet? Heheh. And cool. Now if only we can put some peer pressure on that Figaro monarch, we'd release this thing before the two year anniversary of its starting, which will be approaching in the next few months (bleh).

[LiquidManZero]

Both, actually.