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root670 / CheatDevicePS2

Game enhancer for PlayStation 2 similar to Action Replay, GameShark, and CodeBreaker. (No longer in development)
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[Suggestion] Read only and Read Write databases. #11

Closed Lion4K closed 5 years ago

Lion4K commented 5 years ago

Like, add an option so that you can have a compressed database (zip or cdb) and an empty txt to write only changes to it.

Lets say you add, or change a game from the UI it instead of copying all cheats from the compressed database and changing the ini to use that, it will just write to the secondary database, keeping a compressed copy and just the few bytes from the new information on the alternative database, keeping that too small.

This occurred to me when I tried adding a game to my list over the UI and when it saved, it actually dumped the whole CDB making a 7MB file inside the MC0, and also left the now outdated cdb behind.

So yeah, to sum up it would simply save to a cheats.txt and load from cheat.cdb and cheats.txt

Sorry if this is a bad place for adding suggestions.

Lion4K commented 5 years ago

Just to add, it would be pretty much like commercial cheats does, they don't dump all their databases to the memory card, only the newest additions, and references of the ones to be hidden (when you delete).

I just remembered that.

root670 commented 5 years ago

This is a great idea. I've begun implementing support for a read-only and read/write database and should have it completed soon.

root670 commented 5 years ago

I've completed the implementation supporting a read-only and read-write database with PR #14

Note that I've dropped support for CDB databases going forward, opting to use zipped .txt files instead. You can use cdb-util to convert existing CDB databases to .txt then add them to a .zip file to be loaded by Cheat Device.