How to Cheat Using Gameshark / AR codes on PS2 Emulator

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Perhaps you want to use gameshark for Playstation 2 games on emulator but too lazy to download the gameshark ISO or its not working, here i'll try to explain how to use .pnach file to use gameshark/action replay or codebreaker codes on emulator.
In this case, I'm using PCSX2 0.9.8 which i've shared in my other post.
open PCSX2 folder on your computer and open Cheat folder, there you will find file with numbers and letters combination that ends with .pnach (example ; eb3ac800.pnach) you need the crc code of your game for the name of the .pnach you going to use

 Check "Enable Cheat" on the system menu and run the game,and you should see the error message on the console like the one in the picture, that is the name you need to make the .pnach file for your game.

Now after you know what file name to use, copy the file .pnach thats already in your PCSX2 0.9.8\Cheats folder,then paste anywhere you like for now, and rename using the crc code that showed on the console, for example,in my case, i'm playing Front Mission 4, and the code for .pnach for this game is eb3ac800.pnach,so i rename the copied file into this, then open it (you can use notepad or notepad++ if you like)
the file should have this kind of format (the codes below are just example)

comment=Front Mission 4 Cheats

// Must Be On
patch=1,EE,F0100008,word,00143887

// All parts elsa
patch=1,EE,403B6204,word,00280001
patch=1,EE,63636363,word,00000000


- Change the game title with your game title (red)
- Change the cheat name (green)
- Change the code with any Raw codes you want (blue) if the codes you want to use are longer you can just add the same format below it


Now we need the cheat codes, you can use google to find the codes, but wait a sec, if you just copy paste the cheat codes directly there, it wont work, because what you need is the "Raw" version of the codes
here is the tool to convert gameshark/AR into "Raw" format you need, you can download it here
 Max Convert V.0.71

Extract into any folder you like,and run Max Convert, and just copy paste the gameshark/AR codes you want to use into the Max Convert like shown in the picture.

Now you get the codes you need,,lets copy paste the Raw codes into the file .pnach we have in the same format,dont forget to rename your .pnach file with the name from the crc (incase you haven't done so), and save, then cut/copy it into the PCSX2 0.9.8\Cheats folder and the game ready to play with cheat!

Hope its useful, Happy playing ^.^

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