GameShark Codes and how do they work?

[boombexus]

Unlike the other thread in here with a similar name, I'm interested in finding out how the "codes" work.

• How do they work within the games program?
• How did someone find out all these codes?
• What do the actual sequence of numbers and letters mean?
• How does the Gameshark manipulate the program so that it can add these codes and make them flow in gameplay?

Where is Mr. Chaos or Heydu when ya need em?

 

[GT-40/787b]

Originally posted by boombexus
Unlike the other thread in here with a similar name, I'm interested in finding out how the "codes" work.

• How do they work within the games program?
• How did someone find out all these codes?
• What do the actual sequence of numbers and letters mean?
• How does the Gameshark manipulate the program so that it can add these codes and make them flow in gameplay?

Where is Mr. Chaos or Heydu when ya need em?

Booker T "5 times 5 times 5 times 5 times 5 times.." anyways. Hexidecimal is the base of video games. hex is alot easier to program and understand than binary, like whats on your computer. good people in companys like Madkatz hack into the games to give is the simple hex codes. from there millions of people hack, crack and develop there on codes. now a group of people that understand this stuff really well came up and did the MK program witch basicly simplifys this even more.

 

[boombexus]

Sorry I switched up on ya like that. hehe. GT-40

So "hexidecimal" is a code like binary is? A sort of computer language.
How does someone develop their own codes? What programs would an individual use to "hack" into a game?

 

[GT-40/787b]

hexidecimal is a code that uses the numbers 1-9 and the letters a-g if i remember correctly. im not sure what the current hacking device madkatz is using right now, but the commercial version as everybody knows is the gameshark. the (M) must be one codes allow the gameshark to access the games. from that point you enter in the codes to do something else exthe front tires of the cobra are 10a2g8f12-33fa1cb8 and i want to replace the front tires with the tires for the minis so the codes might be 10a2g8f12-15gf9adb. what i have found, is that the first 8 hex numbers-letters represent what codes it is changing.

 

[Jpec07]

Hexadecimal is the most basic form of programming you have in a binary system. My dad explained the whole thing to me once, but it's that bytes are 8 bits organized into 2 groups of 4; and hexidecimal is an interpretation of the 1s and 0s presented by the bits. The hex editor translates the 1s and 0s into 1-8 and A-G in a 2-digit code (so the translation of 0010 0001 would be 21 and the translation of 1111 1111 would be GG I think). It's an interesting thing once you actually know it...

 

[GT-40/787b]

long story short, anything you want to change in a video game, you basicly can do by changing the hex codes.

 

[Drifty]

Hi guys,

Just to clear things up... Hexadecimal is just a representation of some number. Binary is another representation. Hex is base 16, binary is base 2. Hexadecimal numbers are represented by the numbers 0 - 9, and A - F (not G), where A = 10, and F = 15. So an 8 bit number (0 - 255) is represented in hexadecimal with 2 characters, and an 8 bit number is represented in binary with 8 characters.