PSX cheat folder changes? And is RetroArch git safe?

90sNostalgia

Had a difficult time so thought I would share for others that had trouble finding the PSX cheats

Pi4b 8GB
Argon1 18W 3.5A
RetroPie 4.6.7
SD Image from RetroPie website installed via Raspberry Pi Imager onto SD for first install
usbromservice installed
512GB flash drive for RetroPie and files
keyboard,mouse,512GB flash drive
8bitdo SN30 Pro
lr-pcsx-rearmed
RetroArch git version 9552f87

RertroArch online updater enabled
a little unintuitive, after launch game press hotkey+x, press b to go from RetroArch quick menu to main menu, go to settings>user interface
Cheat updater downloads zip and extracts successfully

Retropie Playstation PCSX-ReARMed cheats folder empty
/HOME/PI/.CONFIG/RETROARCH/CHEATS/PCSX-ReARMed/

Snes9x folder also empty

Cheats for PSX are in /Sony - Playstation/ folder
Cheats for SNES are in /Nintendo - Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Was this cheats folder location from some emulators changed recently?
And considering the RetroArch security breach in August 2020, is this git safe again?

Thanks for being awesome!

ReadyPlayaWon

@90sNostalgia

i'm not an expert .. but the paths in the Retropie Wiki look different to yours ?

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Cheats/#enable-cheats

90sNostalgia

@ReadyPlayaWon maybe because I am using the usbromservice package to use a USB to host files (roms and themes) after the initial install which uses a SD card. A lot of benefits, larger capacity, faster file transfer speeds, easier to maintain and more sturdy storage medium, also newest RetroPie supports NTFS this way as well.

It may be my folder structures are different due to this. I do not know. But I have not change anything from standard install procedures for everything, other than just enabling that optional package usbromservice and sticking in a USB drive with my roms in the relevant folders.

mitu

I'm not sure the download location has changed, I don't see the doc page reference a precise location for each system. The cheats are downloaded from the Libretro buildbot AFAIK, not directly via git, the archive is generated from https://github.com/libretro/libretro-database. Both have been restored after the hack incident a while ago, so it shouldn't be an issue.