CwCheat Support

[LunaMoo]

Simple cheats are easily made with any external program like cheat engine(need to turn on "mem_mapped" in scan settings for it to actually find anything in ppsspp through), once you find the address you have to also look for an offset to actual game memory, I usually do it by aob scan for default load address start.

Ah what the hell... I'll make a simple "example code" right now:
- I found lives in Ikki Tousen Eloquent Fist using cheat engine in 0x0BF80754 simply by searching for value, dying, searching for change etc. - a tip for finding cheat easily - limit search range, althrough it's not static memory It can never be below 0x08800000 and I never find it above 0x1FFFFFFF either so set start and end memory to those values.
- now I have to find what's this address actually is in the game, so I open debugger enter an address 0x08804000 select first few lines, then right click and copy as hex, this is what I get:

Code:

27BDFFE0
AFBF0014
0E201031

now I invert bytes to get an array of bytes to search for

Code:

E0 FF BD 27 14 00 BF AF 31 10 20 0E

after searching for this "array of bytes" in Cheat engine I got a result at 0x0AD34000, if you have more results, it'll be always lower address than actual code and also it'll always end with 4000. Now we found default load address, which means actual user memory starts 0x4000 bytes earlier so at 0x0AD30000. I just make a simple math 0x0BF80754-0x0AD30000=0x01250754 and that's pretty much our code address.

I want to change only 1 byte value hence it'll be just that, but if I wanted to change 2 bytes I would have to change first letter to 1 so 0x11250754 or if I wanted to patch full 32 bit value(4 bytes) it would have to be changed to 2 so 0x21250754.
Now just repeat for other codes we might want and add some formatting and here we have our own cheats;p

Code:

_S ULJS-00152
_G Ikki Tousen Eloquent Fist
_C0 Infinite lives
_L 0x01250754 0x00000003
_C0 Infinite HP
_L 0x112506E0 0x00000156
_C0 Infinite Magatama Energy
_L 0x012506E8 0x00000064

^ the second number in the code is ofc value we change to if that's not clear, in this example I simply set 1 byte in 0x01250754 address to 3, basically setting lives to always be 3 doesn't matter how many times I die. For second cheat it patches 2 bytes stored in 0x012506E0 to 342 and in third it patches 1 byte stored in 0x012506E8 to 100.

Ofc that's just simple cheat, there are many cw cheat code types to be used you can read about them for example here. In many cases the address will change and you have to find pointers for it and use pointer code type, often you will also have to use conditional codes to avoid crashes by applying the code in wrong place etc. also that short example of mine shouldn't be threated as any guide nor anything like that:], there's never one way to do it and you can always find a better one for yourself;p.
Also many more advanced cheats require mips assembly knowledge and general idea how it works;p, debugger in PPSSPP is also very usefull to do create such codes, through other dissassemblers are also ok, guess "PS2dis" and/or "AIDA pro" are commonly used for that;p, but that's really for skilled people since you basically have to reprogram how the game, and in some games that's actually the only way to create working codes.

In the end it doesn't really differ soo much from creating cheats to pc games except that most cheat dedicated tools for pc will have limited use, through it's still better to use them than comparing memory dumps as with actual CW cheat on psp lol because that took ages;p.
Generally if you can't create cheats for some game, leave it for some other time when you get more experienced and try other possibly easier to cheat games, looking at other people's codes is also good way to learn a bit, creating cheats isn't really always soo easy as in my example and if you never even tried to do anything alike in the past even that could be hard.;]

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Edit: in case someone actually want to use those codes, I added two other ones;p