For the purposes of this guide, my Dragon Quest VIII file was named F4715852.pnach. Right click the Text Document you made and rename it to whatever CRC # your game is and change the file's extension to. Or you can go to Control Panel > Appearance and Personalization > Folder Options and uncheck 'Hide extensions for known file types'. Note: If you are on an older version of windows you can access this option by right clicking in the folder and selecting 'Properties'.

If you're using Windows 10 you can enable these by going to the upper right corner of the folder and selecting 'File Name Extensions' as you see in my second screen shot below. If you can't see this on your own computer and only see it in my screen shots then you'll need to enable them.

This actually helps me demonstrate the difference between these two files to you easier as you'll notice the files in this folder have suffixes such as. This will likely be the only file in the whole folder for you, but in the screen shot below you'll see that I have a Text Document as well as many. Open this folder and right click anywhere inside the folder to bring up a set of options, select 'New' and make a Text Document. Location of the cheats folder in My Documents. Here's the only two directories I have ever heard of it being: Mine is in Documents, which I think is where the program installs itself by default, but yours may be in Program Files. Write this number down or just keep the console open while you locate the PCSX2 Directory on your computer. You only need the last part of the CRC number, F4715852, the 0x should not be used when creating the. The game I am playing/using for the purposes of this guide is Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King the CRC number you see above is for that game.

Scroll through all of the text until you find the Game CRC = part that I have highlighted in my screen shot above. This will bring up the box that you see in the screen shot below. To do this boot up your game then on the PCSX2 Toolbar select 'Misc' and 'Show Console'. The first step is figuring out what the CRC code is for the game you're playing. Test your code to see if it works in game Use Omniconvert to convert your codes to a format the emulator can recognizeĦ. This guide breaks down how to setup codes in the simplest terms possible and it also points out the most common mistakes you may make while trying to get these codes to work.īefore I get started, here is a succinct list of all the steps for people who prefer information in this sort of format:ģ. Using codes on the PCSX2 Emulator is a royal pain in the butt and if you're inexperienced with computers or a naturally impatient person it is likely that it'll be too difficult to figure out.

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