How Do I Bind A Cheat Code To An Activation Key?

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How Do I Bind A Cheat Code To An Activation Key?

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How Do I Bind A Cheat Code To An Activation Key?

I read how to do this using the old cheat.dat file. And it was confusing. But most of all, it explains how to do it using the old cheat.dat file instead of the new/current XML file.

Is the same method that was used for the cheat.dat file used for the current XML cheat file?

Do I have to unzip the cheat.zip file before editing an XML file? I would assume so, which kind of stinks because that's a process doing that every time you want to bind a cheat code to an activation key.
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Re: How Do I Bind A Cheat Code To An Activation Key?

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You can't bind activation keys to cheats in the XML cheat engine, it is also unlikely ever to be re-added unfortunately.
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