Game cheats

Patching system is one of the most splendid features of PCSX2. Some patches will help you make the broken game playable by messing with its code skipping some of its parts. You'll have to discover and download these patches from the Internet. Still there are other patches helps you cheat on games while playing. So even if your skill is not enough to beat the game fairly you won't be frustrated like on the real PS2. All you have to do is to find or better yet create your own cheat for the game. Here goes a small tutorial that can help you understand a bit how does these cheats work and how to create your own cheat.

PCSX2 uses so-called CRC for each game. This CRC is a special control sum of all bytes in the main game executable. It help to distinguish not only different games but even different regions and different editions of one game. This is a precaution not to apply the patch created for one game version on another making the game unplayable/crashing. All the pathces are stored in the patches folder by default. Your installation of PCSX2 may already have many patches in it. These are the dafault ones to improve some games behavior (they skip videos or some sections in otherwise hangning games).