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lekythos

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Hi.


I was wondering about a hypothetical situation. If I were to input a 3rd party GS cheat code into my PJ64 emulator's cheat database, is there the chance that it could corrupt my emulator?


I ask because years ago someone put a 3rd party GS code into my GameShark 3.0; it corrupted my GS and it was unable to function at all, thus ruining it.


Could this happen to the cheat feature in PJ64? Should I only input codes used by or found from a reputable site?


Thanks!
 
Quvack

Quvack

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It really shouldnt be able to corrupt the emulator, at the very worst a code can freeze windows, and thats easily fixed with a reset, so no it shouldnt be able to do anything which will cause corruption of the emulator.

I've had codes which 'killed' my GS aswell but it was easily fixed when I reflashed the GS :)
 
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lekythos

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Quvack said:
It really shouldnt be able to corrupt the emulator, at the very worst a code can freeze windows, and thats easily fixed with a reset, so no it shouldnt be able to do anything which will cause corruption of the emulator.

I've had codes which 'killed' my GS aswell but it was easily fixed when I reflashed the GS :)
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Thanks for the reply. And maybe I'm too new to the emu crowd, but could you tell me what "reflashing" is?
 
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Chris_W

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lekythos said:
Hi.


I was wondering about a hypothetical situation. If I were to input a 3rd party GS cheat code into my PJ64 emulator's cheat database, is there the chance that it could corrupt my emulator?


I ask because years ago someone put a 3rd party GS code into my GameShark 3.0; it corrupted my GS and it was unable to function at all, thus ruining it.


Could this happen to the cheat feature in PJ64? Should I only input codes used by or found from a reputable site?


Thanks!
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The Only reason the Gameshark or Action Replay's get corrupted is because nearly all games use a Keycode and (M) Codes to allow cheating to be performed on the real Console and the most corruption is caused by modified Keycodes or wrong (M) codes that result in killing the GS/AR.

On PJ64/1964 etc you are lucky as they dont use (M) Codes or Keycodes.

As Quvack said a simple reset will sort out any locking that may have been caused by the use of a wrong Region Code or an invalid Code.
 
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