Adding cheats Manually

[bswin821]

I had a question about adding cheats and creating cheat files manually. There is not a lot of clear cut data on it that i was able to find. I found a few write ups but there seemed to be outdated information or unnecessary steps included. I was able to pull the important information and thought it may worth someone documenting somewhere to help anyone else.

1. open the terminal with F4 on a keyboard (I used putty for this you will need your IP address if you wish to do so)

2. You need to enter the cheats folder. Enter into the terminal cd /home/pi/RetroPie/cheats./ and hit enter. The cd command routes you to that directory

3. Then hit ls which will list everything within that directory

4. an important note is that if something is capitalized in order to locate and open that directory it needs to be done right. if something is left lowercase when it should be capital you wont be able to locate it

5. Locate the system you wish to access. For me is was Playstation the file name Sony - PlayStation.

6. At this point I am trying to create a file for my cheats. I need to create a file showing the game i want and the system name and my file need to be in quotes for example my file was Xenogears.cht

7. From the terminal I type nano /home/pi/RetroPie/cheats./"Sony - PlayStation"/"Xenogears.cht" and hit enter then i can type my code the format is as follows

8. cheats = 2
   cheat0_desc = "(0) description"
   cheat0_code = "(0) code "
   cheat0_enable = "false"

   cheat1_desc = "(1) description"
   cheat1_code = "(1) description"
   cheat1_enable = "false"

9. Save with cntrl +x hit then enter

10. Leave, start your game

11. Open the Retroarch menu-Quick Links- Online Updater-Cheats- Load file-Sony Playstation-Xenogears (which will be there now) and turn my cheats on then select apply changes back out to resume and play

12. Its important to note when you enter the code into the file that your cheat code will have a space and the plus sign is used there . Its also important to note that a code that has multiple lines needs to be entered as multiple codes and all of them enabled enter one line of code for each. The code should also be Capitalized.

13. Example: AD5678 0009 would be AD5678+0009. If the code has more than one it needs to be entered on multiple codes, code 1 and 2 and 3 etc etc.

Thought something like that may help for those of us who are new to this and not as familiar with Linux.