Could someone tell me the process you need to go through to make a cheat work with emulators.

I found this site:-
http://www.ozkan.co.uk/oldsite/c64/pokes.htm

But have no idea how to use the cheats.

thanks a lot.

Okay, say for the first one, Action Biker, where it has this:

Code:

ACTION BIKER (MASTERTRONIC) (UL) P 19287,47: SYS 13312

You would:
Load the game as normal.
Once it's loaded, in the emulator, select 'soft reset'. In VICE and CCS64, this is under File, Reset, Soft (or Alt + R).
Put in POKE 19287,47
Put in SYS 13312 on a separate line to the POKE

That thould be all there is to it.

Keep in mind many (but not all) games have been cracked and trained over the years, so it may be easier to go to CSDb and look up the game/s you want. In fact, the trained versions may have more cheats.

An even easier way is to load the game and then use the built-in monitor in vice via ALT-M (no reset needed).

Then you can enter the poke via:

Code:

radix d fill 19287 19287 47 x

This sets the entry mode to decimal (d) and then says fill the address range from 19287 with one byte, the value 47. Finally, 'x' exits the monitor to allow the emulator to resume.

You don't have to SYS anything since you never really left the game.

> +19287 +47
easier
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Many thanks to nlem and iAN CooG. I couldn't figure out how to do this in Vice's ML monitor. I've always preferred CCS over Vice because its built-in monitor works more like 90% of the C64 monitors I've used. Modifying a memory location only required you disassembling it to screen and just typing over the current value. I've used lots of ML monitors during my C64 days, especially Super Snapshot's.

My guess is Vice authors have never used a C64 ML monitor.
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Thanks everyone.

Does anyone know if there is a Unlimited lives cheat for finders keepers.

thanks a lot.

[edited by TNT: massive overquoting removed]

Good Info.. Mods should make this a sticky post...

Vice's monitor works perfectly with any poke commands you get from any cheat code site. Commodore Cheetah has a site full of poke commands to enable cheats in many games along CRT images of Action Reply to apply these pokes. You don't need Action Reply in Vice since these codes can be entered into Vice's monitor.

Let's take a game like Bruce Lee for example. To enable unlimited lives the poke command is:

POKE 6182,165

In Vice press ALT-M to bring up the monitor (game will pause). Type in:

> +6182 +165
x

Game will resume with unlimited lives! If you know of any other cheats sites with poke commands you can enter them in Vice this way.
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There is a utility called Cheat O' Matic which is pretty handy and works on a high number of games. You just enter the number of lives you start with, lose one, then search again (kinda like the Action Replay carts)

It runs in a separate window to your emulator and is easy to use and understand - especially for someone like me who does not understand monitor commands

You can find it here
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I've always favored Cheat Engine, which can hunt for several values simultaneously and can save cheats you find to a standalone executable. You then run it before your game loads and activate individual cheats (unlimited lives, etc.) by pressing user-defined hotkeys.

Sort of like a Trainer Construction Kit.

Be forewarned - steep learning curve.
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