Cheat Device for PS2

The official CheatDevice repository has been marked as archive (the project is abandoned) since Mar 18, 2023.

this fork is a maintained mirror by El_isra (aka: Matías Israelson) with exfat support and some tweaks.

Cheat Device is a game enhancer for PlayStation 2 games similar to Action Replay, GameShark, and CodeBreaker. It supports booting retail, disc based games as well as ELF files such as OpenPS2Loader or ESR.

See the wiki to get started using Cheat Device.

Features

• Easy to navigate menu system similar to CodeBreaker
• Supports booting retail discs and loader ELFs
• Fast loading of large cheat lists
• Save manager for backing up and restoring game saves to/from a flash drive
• Powered by ps2rd's powerful cheat engine

Compiling

If you have Docker installed, it's easiest to compile Cheat Device using my docker image:

Unix

./docker-make [args...]

Windows Command Prompt

docker-make.bat [args...]

Windows PowerShell

.\docker-make.bat [args...]

See the compile page in the wiki for instructions to build without Docker.

License

Cheat Device is not licensed, sponsored, or endorsed by Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. Cheat Device is licensed under GNU GPL-3. See LICENSE for details. The cheat engine is from ps2rd by Mathias Lafedlt. The bootstrap is based on EE_CORE from OpenPS2Loader.