Cheat finders

[tttony747]

I just realized how cheats come from everywhere!
"Bugfinder" you're from Brazil,
"Steph" you're from France,
"KelvSYC" you're from Canada like "myself",
"Pugsy" and "Touniquet" you're both from the UK,
"Mike Haggar" you're from Norway,
"Taucher0815" you're from Germany,
"pon" you're from Japan,
"abogard" you're from Costa Rica,
"sum" you're from Hong Kong,
"Kitsune Sniper" you're from Mexico,
"ianpatt" I have no idea where you're from....LOL,
and the list goes on. I didn't mean to reveal everyones' whereabouts, but I think it's awesome how almost every good cheatfinder(excluding myself of course....LOL) lives in a different country!

[Bugfinder]

I just realized how cheats come from everywhere!

Yeah, there are talents everywhere. People from my country become specially happy when others praise their achievements, observing this person came from Brazil. In my country, people tend to think americans and europeans think of brazilians as not much capable

Seeing as how Ian uploads his cheat engine updated in a japanese domain, I could guess he's from Japan But I know he's not.

[stephh]

I just realized how cheats come from everywhere!

[SNIP]

"ianpatt" I have no idea where you're from....LOL,

FYI, Pugsy is from Wales, and IIRC Ianpatt comes from "Kangaroo-land" ...

and the list goes on. I didn't mean to reveal everyones' whereabouts, but I think it's awesome how almost every good cheatfinder(excluding myself of course....LOL) lives in a different country!

Can the above cheat finders post a small summary of their kind of games they can find cheats for and which CPU(s) they are "specialised" in (for ROM cheats) ?

Here are 2 examples :

1) myself

I can post the "basic" cheats (with detailed infos) for almost all games, the only missing ones being some puzzle games (I leave that to my girlfriend JCK when she's there) and the HUGE NEOGEO ones (buy me at least a Pentium 2 GHz if you want me to do so ) ... Note that, if you except the mahjong games, I'm still using the old cheat line format for the cheats I post ...

Main CPUs knowledge : Z80 (99.99%) and M68000 (80% ?) ...

2) "kelvSYC" (please correct me if I'm wrong)

He might be the guy who adopted and mastered first the new cheat engine from Ian, especially the new cheat line format and the "list cheat" type ..

He's mainly posting "move" cheats for the ?#! fighting games and can help with some puzzle games ... His posts are most of the time LONG and would increase cheat databases A LOT, but there are also some useful infos (that could be added to the history.dat IMO)

Now it's your turn ... Thanks by advance for the little time you'll spend on this ... I'll collect the infos and I'll try to upload them somewhere ...

Steph from The Ultimate Patchers

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[Mike_Haggar]

I'm doing CPS-1 & 2 for now...

Hmm... Prolly got 0% knowledge of any CPU :p

Only doing old format since I use a converter proggie from Final Burn Alpha format

I'll see if I can make Toaplan2, Sega Sys-16 & 18 & NeoGeo cheats when the time comes... maybe others too...


Oh... and I've made CPS-1 & 2 cheats with MAME, WinKawaks, Nebula & a cheat maker program for Windows for Windows programs in general...

[ianpatt]

IIRC Ianpatt comes from "Kangaroo-land" ...

Where did you get that idea? Anyway, I'm from a country not listed above.

Can the above cheat finders post a small summary of their kind of games they can find cheats for and which CPU(s) they are "specialised" in (for ROM cheats)?

I suppose I could find cheats for most types of games. Realisticly, based on the types of games I play, most cheats I find are for puzzle or shooter games.

Supported CPUs: PPC (100%), SH-2 (80%), 68k (60%), 6502+derivatives (40% - was the first chip I did asm with), anything RISC (80%)
Unsupported CPUs: TMSxxxxx (bit-based addressing? wtf? + weird opcodes + crappy games from williams), Z80 (not enough registers), many other older CPUs (again, usually not enough registers)

[tttony747]

FYI, Pugsy is from Wales, and IIRC Ianpatt comes from "Kangaroo-land" ...

Well I thought Wales already was in the U.K. unless I'm dreaming or something....LOL I won't bother Ian anymore with the rest......haha!
One more thing.....when I use someone's quote, how do I use their name like you guys do?

[ianpatt]

Type [quote=username] as the quote opening tag.

[Pugsy]

Aye, Wales is part of the UK. I personally always presumed Ian was from the 'land of the free'.

To get the quote with the original poster's name use

Code: Select all

[quote="tttony747"]
instead of
[quote]

And as for supported CPUs, my favs are 68000(&6809) and the good old 6502. For cheat finding purposes though I can turn my hand to any of them....the only one I really dislike is the TMS34010 due to the stupid addressing.

[kelvSYC]

Here's a little information about myself:

I don't have any real experience with any processor, being that I am still in school.

Favorite genre is, the fighter, although a puzzle game comes a close second. I'm an on-again, off-again fan of KOF and SF.

I got into the cheat finding scene with a Game Shark and a copy of Pok?mon (can't remember which version, but it was an American release). I found maybe one or two cheats for a few Pok?mon games (getting Pok?mon to get the Pok?RUS was one of them).

With MAME, I got into it during the late .37 beta cycles, and the first game I played in MAME was SFA3. Admittedly, MAME was what got me hooked onto KOF.

I can't really remember the first cheat I posted, but I've posted many since then. I distinctly remember asking for the list type cheat as a way to reduce screen clutter.

At that time, I was using a P2/450 for cheat finding, until I got my own Power Mac, which I use for MAMEing now.

As for actual coding, I'm learning a little C and Perl right now, but most of my programming work is done in REALbasic.

Surprisingly, I never update my own cheat file with the cheats that I post. It shows my reliance on a published cheat.dat (which I fear will never come).

My MAMEing (and cheat finding) specs:
Power Mac G4 (867MHz, SuperDrive, 60GB, 100MB Zip Drive)
Mac OS X 10.2
MacMAME v.60a (custom build with cheat engine bug fixes as well as adding some CPS and Neo games), run with software rendering (hardware-assisted rendering stopped working in Mac OS X 10.2) at double size in a window (often times while four or five other apps are running).

Other proggies that I find useful
BBEdit. Good plain text editor with a seemingly bottomless pit in terms of how big you can open these files. Helps me compile cheats before I post them. Also good for editing some of my XHTML, CSS, and XSLT that I do when not cheat finding. (Admittedly, I've yet to find a good web host with my demands, and my ISP forbids me from hosting it off my own computer unless I pay double the price for the internet that I'm paying)
Mozilla. I switched from IE for websurfing just because IE 5.2 for Mac is a complete POS. However, I can't delete it since it's the only program that can change my file mappings.

Short list of cheats I've found
Lots of move list cheats (I didn't do the ones for sf1 or sf2/sf2ce/ssf2)
Puzzle game grid cheats (I'm working on magdrop3 and plotting right now, but I've found how to control the grid in drmario and spf2t)
Board game grid cheats (just ataxx and its clones)

My current cheat backlog
Move list cheats:
These should all be trivial, but I haven't taken a serious look at them (as you can see I'm getting sick of them):
dstlk, nwarr, mshvsf
These I will probably attempt later on:
kof95, kof96, kof97, kof98, kof99, kof2000, kof2001, aof3, cybots, maybe a few other fighting games.
Minor cheat patchups:
sfa3 - Gen's fighting style is apparently stored in the character value itself

My current to-dos:
I'm trying to compile MESS (it's more difficult than MAME) and hopefully I can do some cheat finding from there. My first MESS cheat finding project will be a Pok?mon cheat file (seriously, if you think I post a lot of MAME cheats, wait until you see how many cheats I can pull out from Pok?mon).