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CheatDevicePS2

Game enhancer for PlayStation 2 similar to Action Replay, GameShark, and CodeBreaker. (No longer in development)

From root670·Updated June 23, 2026·View on GitHub·
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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. The project is written primarily in C, distributed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 license, first published in 2015. Key topics include: game-hacking, playstation-2, ps2.

Latest release: v1.7.5
June 16, 2020View Changelog →

Cheat Device for PS2

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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

bash
./docker-make [args...]

Windows Command Prompt

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

Windows PowerShell

ps
.\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.

Contributors

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