Cheats not working on Game Boy Advance for Pokemon Fire Red

[afcalan2307]

Hello - This is my first post on the forum so apologies if any of the formatting is incorrect. I have read the rules and attempted to find a solution in other forum posts and the official guides but no luck.

I'm having some issues with getting the Gameshark cheat codes for Pokemon Fire Red on the Game Boy Advance to work. The file for Pokemon Red isn't available on the pre-loaded cheats so I have used the guide mentioned below to create a new cheat file and load it to my Pi. This appears to have been successful and I can load this created file through Retroarch and view the cheats I've added with the relevant codes.

However, when I turn them On and click apply they do not seem to work.

I'm not sure whether there is an issue with the formatting of my file, i've tried a few different ways as below but none seem to work.

Has anyone else been able to get these codes working on this specific game or, even better, is anyone able to share the format of their cheat file? Just don't know what I'm missing!

Thanks!

Pi Model or other hardware: 3 B+
RetroPie Version Used: RetroPie is v4.6
Built From: Pre made SD Image on RetroPie website
Guide used: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Cheats/
Emulator: Default Game Boy Advance (lr-gpsp)
How to replicate the problem:

• Create new cheat file (.cht)
• Upload file to configs/all/retroarch/cheats/Nintendo - Game Boy Advance/
• Load cheat file in Retroarch in Game
• Go to cheats and load the new file
• Toggle wanted cheat to On and press Apply

Examples of Cheat files:

1. Multiple code lines joined with a +, no spaces
   cheat0_desc = "Faster Levelling"
   cheat0_code = "72024A640001+82024BEC01F4"
   cheat0_enable = false

2. Multiple code lines joined with a +, + to replace spaces
   cheat0_desc = "Faster Levelling"
   cheat0_code = "72024A64+0001+82024BEC+01F4"
   cheat0_enable = false

3. Multiple code lines put on separate cheats
   cheat0_desc = "(1) Faster Levelling"
   cheat0_code = "72024A64+0001"
   cheat0_enable = false
   cheat1_desc = "(2)Faster Levelling"
   cheat1_code = "82024BEC+01F4"
   cheat1_enable = false

[notthesame]

Your codes for cheats have spaces look at this example
The code below also can be combined so 12345678+0000+12345678+0000

cheats = 2

cheat0_desc = "Infinite Ammo Claire (1/2)"
cheat0_code = "800D49F5+0063"
cheat0_enable = "true"

cheat1_desc = "Infinite Ammo Claire (2/2)"
cheat1_code = "800D4A01+0063"
cheat1_enable = "true"

[notthesame]

@afcalan2307
If this fails then it's the game, or change the emulator, I had this issue with gba Metroid fusion.

cheats = 1

cheat0_desc = "faster leveling"
cheat0_code = "12345678+0000"
cheat0_enable = "true"