Cheat Device is a game enhancer for PlayStation 2 games, similar to Action Replay or CodeBreaker. It supports booting retail, disc based games as well as ELF files (such as OpenPS2Loader, ESR, etc.) stored on a flashdrive or memory card. Cheat databases are stored in files created with makecdb, which will convert cheat lists using this simple format:

"Game Name"
Cheat 1
27654321 12345678
Cheat 2
12345678 98765432
Cheat Section
Cheat 3
11111111 00000000
// Comment line

Currently only 9-type enable codes are supported, so games that use an F-type enable code will not work. The first cheat for every game must be it's enable code (9xxxxxxx yyyyyyyy). Also, all cheats must be in "RAW" format; Cheat Device can't decrypt or read any other formats (ARMAX, CB1-6, CB7+, AR2, GS, etc.). However, you can use a tool such as OmniConvert to convert any of these formats to RAW.

Settings are stored in an ini file named "CheatDevicePS2.ini", which needs to be located in the directory Cheat Device is run from. The cheat database path and additional boot paths are set here. See the included settings file for an example.

• Easy to navigate menu system similar to CodeBreaker
• Supports retail discs and loader ELFs
• Fast loading of large cheat lists
• Save manager for backing up and restoring game saves to/from a flash drive
• Powered by ps2rd's powerful cheat engine

• Loading of plain-text cheat lists
• Saving/opening additional game save formats (*.CBS, *.MAX, etc.)
• Console-side cheat manipulation
• Save list of enabled cheats before starting a game. Re-enable cheats next time Cheat Device runs.

Compile Cheat Device

    cd cheatdeviceps2
	make all

Cheat Device is not licensed, sponsored, endorsed by Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. Cheat Device is licensed under GNU GPL-3. See LICENSE for details. The cheat engine is from ps2rd by Mathias Lafedlt. The bootstrap is based on EE_CORE from OpenPS2Loader.