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Wendys · Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 18

I'm looking for a homebrew cheat device I've heard about one in paticular that was made in chinese or some other form of langauge besides english that lets you input codes on your computer and put it on your memory card with no modd's on ps2 using ar max evo pen drive... anyone with tips where to find this program or very similar please post back!

Or a possible website with some related material.
TYVM

Guest · Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 1:42 pm Post subject: Re: Home Brew Cheat Device

Wendys · Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 18

making my own.. alright probally got alot to learn.. and im not finding nuthin so where do i start..?

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Wendys · Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 18

so this is going to take a very long long time...? lol back to searching :p

Drakonite · Site Admin Joined: 17 Jan 2004 Posts: 989

You could also pay someone that already has all of the expertise required to write one, but somehow I doubt that'll happen... ;)
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Wendys · Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 18

Hell no its a free world :p i'll just search till my arms fall off

misfire · Joined: 06 Sep 2004 Posts: 120 Location: Germany

A homebrew cheat device has already been made. It's called Cosmic Cheat:
http://www.ps2-scene.org/forums/showthread.php?t=27295
Never tested it though...

Wendys · Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 18

thnx alot!

Derek8588 · Joined: 22 Oct 2004 Posts: 62

Has anyone ever tried using Cosmic Cheat? It comes with a testdb.cff file. When I run the ELF, the interface comes up with a blue bar that i can move up and down as if i could select something. But theres nothing to select... So im assuming i have to rename the testdb file to something...(i dont know what) and the put it back on the memory card in the same directory. If anyone knows how to get this thing working, please inform me. That would be great. Thanks

Wendys · Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 18

how did you get the cosmic cheat on? thats what im trying to figure out... im dumb :P

to open the .cff open it in notepad then look how its all done you can see how your suppost to enter the codes

misfire · Joined: 06 Sep 2004 Posts: 120 Location: Germany

Wendys · Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 18

i got it to load the way im talking aboutbut i think i have to rename the .cff to something so it boots up with cosmic cheat cause there's no list of the codes... hmm any ideas anyone?

cory1492 · Joined: 10 Dec 2004 Posts: 216

doesnt it use unencoded hex keys? IE couldnt you go to, say, the ARMax site, get some of their codes and know what they are for, and use one of the max converters (or other code converters) out there to get an "unencrypted" code that is basically hex "mod this address" type codes?

Im just going by some info from one of the many codemaking sites out there, and havent had a look at the ccf file, but it seems kinda logical - doesnt it?

Wendys · Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 18

no, your just explaining how to convert codes I already have a program that can convert codes to raw format which is how the codes run in cosmic cheat.

If you open testdb.cff with notepad you can get a list of codes and there all like,
<game>"Name Of Game Here</game>
then tab<code>Name of code here</code>
then tab - tab <cheat>then cheat goes here</cheat>
and you repeat the last 2 steps to add more codes.. then you gotta save it as something else but i don't know to make cosmic cheat load..

cory1492 · Joined: 10 Dec 2004 Posts: 216

after hex editing the elf I found the only reference to a .cff file in it is:
stdb.cff - give this one a shot....(see the mentioned hex code below)
Apparently this will only run over a naplink client, as it is, (not directly off the MC) so inlink or xlink or ps2client should be giving the name of the file that is not available for reading. If I had my ps2 wired right now I would check for sure, maybe later tonight I will double check.

hex editor:

Wendys · Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 18

maybe if i rename the program to that... then put it on the ps2savebuilder along with cosmic cheat save it as a .max putting them in the same directory on memory card then trying to load the cosmic cheat with the exploit nice find, i don't have a usb cord to do the naplink so its out of the question plus i was reading it and couldnt figure out how to even do it :p so im going to try this..

EDIT: tryed it out code list still didnt load :(

Derek8588 · Joined: 22 Oct 2004 Posts: 62

Im assuming cosmic automatically looks back to the host over the USB cable for the file even if you have it in the same directory if booting any other way. I remember something someone else posted ( i think oopo), they said the same thing about another ELF. How even though you may have a necessary file in the same directory as the ELF, its not looking there for it. It's looking where it was programmed to look. Which in this case, would be through naplink.

cory1492 · Joined: 10 Dec 2004 Posts: 216

IIRC it is looking for HOST: which I think isnt available until you load the naplink rpc.

Darren · Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Posts: 23

cory1492 · Joined: 10 Dec 2004 Posts: 216

hrrrrm, your probably right, although I have no way of telling what packed it.. :(

it doesnt want to run on my V9, not sure why though. case may be an issue with the file testdb.cff being named TESTDB.cff from the rar.

ho..:...stdb.cff (from the hex)
could very well be host:\testdb.cff

edit:
it unpacked OK with ps2-unpacker and here is the result:

Darren · Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Posts: 23

EugeneE3RD · Joined: 03 Apr 2004 Posts: 51

hypersonic · Joined: 13 Nov 2004 Posts: 9

i'm pretty sure i've got it working (some time ago) via the HDD using fakehost. i never tested a game however, but i did get the code list on the screen.

Wendys · Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 18

cory1492 · Joined: 10 Dec 2004 Posts: 216

fakehost is an IRX from the ps2sdk, check in CVS, the README or fakehost docs for more info

Wendys · Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 18

cory1492 · Joined: 10 Dec 2004 Posts: 216

It would be much simpler to just get CodeBreaker or ARmax, wouldnt it?

Wendys · Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 18

there's a reason im tryin to get this to work i already have a AR Max

Wendys · Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 18

I know i'm a newb to all this but isnt there a way a to change where to look for the code list?

Or maybe adding another one so that hwne you bundle it all up and send it to mem card and boot it up it will look in the directory with it intead.. to what its looking for now?