Hey guys! I just joined to tell you a funny (but true) story, which might make you laugh..
I guess with recent talk about the Curiosity rover, and a new "supermom" galaxy discovered in recent news (only 5.7 billion light years away), I got the urge to fly around space, with outdated-but-fun graphics, and blow stuff up.. So I've been running "Gradius III & IV" and "Gradius V," for nostalgia's sake, on PCSX2 1.0.0. But it was kinda difficult, and I wanted to cheat, and just glide through the games, just to SEE everything, without much challenge.. So I found a really nice guide by Reaper-X, located at:
http://www.reaper-x.com/2009/11/09/how-t...-emulator/
After I read it thoroughly, I found some Action Replay MAX codes, and converted them to raw, with OmniConvert, but THEN, just like tommy7358, I just could NOT get pnach files to work right.
-I stumbled upon THIS page in my quest for help..
-I made sure I had converted the right regions/versions of cheat codes for my roms.
-I checked to make sure I had the files in the correct cheats folder, in C:\Program files\PCSX2 1.0.0\Cheats
-I made sure cheats were enabled in PCSX2.
-I put extra copies of the pnach files into the Documents folder ANYWAY (even though I know that's wrong), just to be thorough.. I also put copies of them in the folder WITH their actual rom files (even though I know THAT'S wrong), just to be thorough.
-I opened and edited the pnach files to make sure the actual [gametitle=] field matched the EXACT filename of my roms (just in case THAT mattered (but it didn't, since .pnach files correspond with a game's CRC number, not filename))..
-I tried using the cheat files WITH and WITHOUT "master codes" in them (which are usually not necessary).
-I spent HOURS of my life troubleshooting this..
-No matter WHAT I did, the log would say that "no cheats were found" when running any of my games.
My first post here WAS going to be a desperate plea for help, when SUDDENLY, I realized what I was doing wrong!
When I created my .pnach files, I accidentally misspelled ".pnach"
I had them as ".pnatch" files (incorrectly throwing a "t" in there), because I was thinking they were something like "patch" files, but with an "N" inserted in there, as part of some technical, EMU-programming, acronym lingo -- I was: not knowing exactly WHY, nor WHAT the "N" stands for, but not necessarily NEEDING to know, for it was the "T" causing my problems..
I've since FIXED the problem (renaming .pnatch to .pnach), and PCSX2 now FINDS my cheat files when I run roms, and they work fine.
So there you have it, people: just ONE more thing to troubleshoot, if you're having problems getting your .pnach files to work.. Before you freak-out, make sure you can even SPELL .pnach
!!!
I'm LoL'ing @ myself now!
I guess with recent talk about the Curiosity rover, and a new "supermom" galaxy discovered in recent news (only 5.7 billion light years away), I got the urge to fly around space, with outdated-but-fun graphics, and blow stuff up.. So I've been running "Gradius III & IV" and "Gradius V," for nostalgia's sake, on PCSX2 1.0.0. But it was kinda difficult, and I wanted to cheat, and just glide through the games, just to SEE everything, without much challenge.. So I found a really nice guide by Reaper-X, located at:
http://www.reaper-x.com/2009/11/09/how-t...-emulator/
After I read it thoroughly, I found some Action Replay MAX codes, and converted them to raw, with OmniConvert, but THEN, just like tommy7358, I just could NOT get pnach files to work right.
-I stumbled upon THIS page in my quest for help..
-I made sure I had converted the right regions/versions of cheat codes for my roms.
-I checked to make sure I had the files in the correct cheats folder, in C:\Program files\PCSX2 1.0.0\Cheats
-I made sure cheats were enabled in PCSX2.
-I put extra copies of the pnach files into the Documents folder ANYWAY (even though I know that's wrong), just to be thorough.. I also put copies of them in the folder WITH their actual rom files (even though I know THAT'S wrong), just to be thorough.
-I opened and edited the pnach files to make sure the actual [gametitle=] field matched the EXACT filename of my roms (just in case THAT mattered (but it didn't, since .pnach files correspond with a game's CRC number, not filename))..
-I tried using the cheat files WITH and WITHOUT "master codes" in them (which are usually not necessary).
-I spent HOURS of my life troubleshooting this..
-No matter WHAT I did, the log would say that "no cheats were found" when running any of my games.
My first post here WAS going to be a desperate plea for help, when SUDDENLY, I realized what I was doing wrong!
When I created my .pnach files, I accidentally misspelled ".pnach"
I had them as ".pnatch" files (incorrectly throwing a "t" in there), because I was thinking they were something like "patch" files, but with an "N" inserted in there, as part of some technical, EMU-programming, acronym lingo -- I was: not knowing exactly WHY, nor WHAT the "N" stands for, but not necessarily NEEDING to know, for it was the "T" causing my problems..
I've since FIXED the problem (renaming .pnatch to .pnach), and PCSX2 now FINDS my cheat files when I run roms, and they work fine.
So there you have it, people: just ONE more thing to troubleshoot, if you're having problems getting your .pnach files to work.. Before you freak-out, make sure you can even SPELL .pnach
!!!
I'm LoL'ing @ myself now!