How pnach files work

[Try Again]

All right. I'll take a few screens of my console tonight, to understand where it has these infos.
For the original codes, they are :

Spirit
NU51-3EXG-Q7JPP
40HQ-VF33-4WKPW
PFFU-VPGC-Z249Z
N6UE-DQG1-PGPKM

Health
6RKH-GRRQ-E6RRD
40HQ-VF33-4WKPW
F7YQ-3GVU-ZYABB
HFZT-7U85-FQ53K

[miseru99]

Code:

//Health
patch=1,EE,2015C2FC,extended,AC8300A4

//Spirit
patch=1,EE,2015C34C,extended,8C8301F8

[Try Again]

Hell yeah !
I understood why the console didn't show the CRC and such : I was trying the "Boot CDVD (Full)" option. Instead, I chose "Boot CDVD (Fast)" this time. It hasn't load the BIOS and my game was recognized.
And your cheats worked very well. Thanks for all !

By the way, I will read about omniconvert and PCSX2ce for the possible next time.

[Grimdeath]

The pnach file's structure is something like

Code:

gametitle= Game name  [SLXS XXXX] (R)
comment=
// comment line
zerog=00000400
patch=1,EE,003E531E,word,00004370
.....

please tell me what a zerog is and how do i find it out, currently all my attempts at making a pnach file has failed so far ive gotten this:

Code:

gametitle=Monster Hunter [SLUS_208.96;1] (U)
comment= Monster Hunter Cheats
//Infinite Money
patch=1,EE,003E99E0,word,005F0000
//Infinite Health
patch=1,EE,0407EB0,word,03E703E7

and idk for sure if thats entirely correct, its not working at all and idk if its correct but i need to do something to the emulator or if i just was guessing what i was doing just wasnt good enough. btw im new so hi
my first attempt was a total fail, i used neoseeker's action replay codes and then use CB2crypt to decrypt them and so this is what it looked like

Code:

comment=Monster Hunter USA [SLUS] (U)
//Infinite Money
//patch=1,EE,B513D7F8,extended,B6549736

//Infinite Health
//patch=1,EE,016C6DE8,word,7DB6C384

//Infinite Staminia
//patch=1,EE,C478448C,extended,F8ACCDB8

//Max Attack
//patch=1,EE,0F566E7E,word,8A6A0DE5

//Infinite Quest Time
//patch=1,EE,B1CF2B11,extended,913A4896

heres the codes from neoseeker before i decrpted them and then changed the 1s and 2s to 0

Code:

Infinite Money
BF5A8BB0 0F78A7B6

Max Money
BE61B639 A862A62B

Infinite Health
2BD368B2 7DB6C384

Infinite Stamina
CEAA2E03 8A7B8290

Max Attack
254D76B3 8A6A0DE5

Infinite Quest Time
BB644F1C 3063927A

[miseru99]

Don't worry about zerog line or any other, only "patch=" lines matters, some others are just there to describe the codes and other stuff.;3 Also the pnach file formatting got changed slightly, that guide is based off old version and use old programs as well;3. To make it really easy we use "omniconvert"(google for it) and PCSX2CE(at tools section in this forum;3) to easily convert/format cheats into pnach files.

Here you have converted properly off those neoseeker codes:

Code:

comment=Monster Hunter NTSC-U cheats taken of Neoseeker

//Infinite Money
patch=1,EE,103E99E0,extended,0000FFFF

//Max Money
patch=1,EE,203E99E0,extended,05F5E0FF

//Infinite Health
patch=1,EE,10407A22,extended,00000096

//Infinite Stamina
patch=1,EE,10407E68,extended,0000270F

//Max Health
patch=1,EE,004168B5,extended,00000032

//Max Stamina
patch=1,EE,104168B6,extended,0000012C

//Max Attack
patch=1,EE,004168B3,extended,0000007F

//Max Defense
patch=1,EE,004168B4,extended,0000007F

//Max Fire Res
patch=1,EE,0059EB79,extended,00000064

//Max Water Res
patch=1,EE,0059EB7A,extended,00000064

//Max Thunder Res
patch=1,EE,0059EB7B,extended,00000064

//Max Dragon Res
patch=1,EE,0059EB7C,extended,00000064

//Always Low Game Time
patch=1,EE,203E9F9C,extended,00000000

//Infinite Quest Time
patch=1,EE,203EA0C0,extended,0001A5DF

//activation codes probably doesn't work,
//soo disabled those codes completely;3
//There's other one for infinite q time anyway.
//P1 Press L1+Select To Stop Quest Timer
//patch=1,EE,D047829C,extended,0000FBFE
//patch=1,EE,201F3FE4,extended,00000000

//P1 Press L2+Select To Restart Quest Timer
//patch=1,EE,D047829C,extended,0000FEFE
//patch=1,EE,201F3FE4,extended,AC23A0C0

You can deactivate any code by commenting it out with //, or just copy those you want.

Also when you create your pnach file, make sure it has correct name(same as your game crc, without 0x ofc) and no hidden extenshion added(pretty common "problem";3, windows hides known types, and people often have there .txt added after saving in notepad as text file).

[Grimdeath]

Don't worry about zerog line or any other, only "patch=" lines matters, some others are just there to describe the codes and other stuff.;3 Also the pnach file formatting got changed slightly, that guide is based off old version and use old programs as well;3. To make it really easy we use "omniconvert"(google for it) and PCSX2CE(at tools section in this forum;3) to easily convert/format cheats into pnach files.

Here you have converted properly off those neoseeker codes:


You can deactivate any code by commenting it out with //, or just copy those you want.

Also when you create your pnach file, make sure it has correct name(same as your game crc, without 0x ofc) and no hidden extenshion added(pretty common "problem";3, windows hides known types, and people often have there .txt added after saving in notepad as text file).

i've managed to make them pnach files by adding .pnach then changing it from txt to all files in the thing below, i do have the name as the crc then .panach, ive never done anything like creating a file for anything before so this is all very new to me. thankyou for telling what i was doing wrong cause i really want these cheats, ive spent around 5 hours just trying to create a working pnach file and finally broke down and decided to join the forum and ask what i was doing wrong.

[Grimdeath]

Plugins loaded successfully.

HLE Notice: ELF does not have a path.

i assume thats what is screwing me up, idk what it is so... gonna look it up and figure it out

[miseru99]

;3 It cannot find the file, soo make sure it's named "0ef16a99.pnach" and it's inside your "...PCSX2\cheats" directory, some people have to put it inside "C:\Users\username\Documents\PCSX2\cheats\" , but generally it should be in your installation directory. (IE C:\PCSX2\cheats\)

Edit:
Just name it as it wants, but you're probably looking at something else not CRC. To find your game crc, when you run the game, in the pcsx2 log seek for:

Code:

Game CRC = 0x0EF16A99

and make sure 0x isn't in the filename, it's just a prefix to recognize hexadecimal number by humans, it's not the number itself.

[Grimdeath]

still didnt work, idk whats wrong and after playing the game for a little bit ive discovered i dont have a powerful enough processor to run games through the emu, idk if i messed up when making the iso or what but even so i still cant play it anyways at least properly, it has a huge fps dip when i go to certain areas which for the most part are the places that the wyrvens/dragons are on those stages. guess im gonna have to save up for a new pc cause i have this laptop which is 5 years old and then a desktop that is 9 years old.

[k9terror]

what if there isnt a cheat folder under your pcsx directory?