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I started a PR with cheat code support (supports snes9x, it could be expanded to support other emulators)

https://github.com/Provenance-Emu/Provenance/pull/1464/files

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwZ7Prid1zE
there are videos on how to add Gameshark code to emulators for cheats Idk how much this could help but it is a possibility especially for emulators of cartridge based consoles.
http://www.wikiwand.com/en/GameShark
also open emu supports a form of cheat codes
https://github.com/OpenEmu/OpenEmu/wiki/User-guide:-Cheat-codes

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I started a little branch to add the support for Cheat codes:
rnaud@8f538b7

Right now I'm not able to disable the code, I need to figure that part out.

Will get back to it next week and make a PR.

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I'd just like to +1 this enhancement.

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+1 As well :)

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@jasarien If I understand https://github.com/jasarien/Provenance/blob/d543ef3db07f4bbf788f3847f4462e19c7b3cd7f/PVGBA/GBA/PVGBAEmulatorCore.mm#L354-L419 correctly, there's an implementation in various emulator cores for cheat codes, but the UI doesn't support them? Is there no way to insert codes at all at the moment?

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Correct. Most, if not all, the emulator cores support cheats, but there is currently no UI to set cheat codes right now.

Such a UI will need to be generalised enough to work with all cores and all supported cheat code types.

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I hope I can explain this well, but idea for cheat code menu:

Set up a tab in options for Cheats, and have a button on/off option to turn on cheats for seperate system emulators (one for NES, seperate one for SNES, ect) and only allow 1 to be turned on at a time, that way since the cheat options are different, it can implement the right method per user request. And I don't know if possible, but maybe it can have game genie/shark/pro action rom load first on top of the game by such a method? (and upload the cheat rom to a folder in the 192.168-ect).

I thought that if done separately this way, it might give time by working on just 1 system to cheat first, and make sure it works and check for bugs, instead of working for all cheats on all systems at once, less daunting.

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Definitely giving this a 'one up'.

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Related,

Database of cheats, though not easy to match roms other than by name string.

https://github.com/libretro/libretro-database/tree/master/cht

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What's the current state of this? The "Cheat codes" menu is there, but doesn't seem to do anything. At least for GBA, it rejects properly formatted entries.

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What's the current state of this? The "Cheat codes" menu is there, but doesn't seem to do anything. At least for GBA, it rejects properly formatted entries.

@alexchandel That's a great point, I noticed a bug in VisualBoyAdvance Cheat Code support, so the fix is included as part of an existing PR (72109af
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This is part of 'Provenance XL - Release' build in the Pull Request. Usually, when there is Cheat Code menu the cheat code should work =]

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