[GBA BizHawk] Don't know how to input GameShark codes into code converter for GBA games

[Chris-091]

I googled game shark codes for various gba games; unfortunately I cannot figure out how to use them. Tried running them through the code converter which doesn't seem to do anything. I even tried to enter them through the cheat columns which are too complicated to use.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Chris-091]

I've been mostly trying to use codes for Yugioh Reshef of Destruction. Here's the site where I've found the encrypted codes https://gamehacking.org/game/6505

[zeromus]

Use another emulator. if you confirm they work there, then come back. Simplest explanation is you don't understand how cheats work, at all. If you enter them in the converter and they dont appear in the cheats column, it's probably because they're an unsupported cheat type. Again: use another emulator. You're using the wrong emulator if you want robust cheating.

Finally, don't ever bother writing a "cheat doesnt work" issue without writing the cheat that doesn't work.

[aesivir]

Interesting attitude, hope you have grown since this was almost 2 years ago. Though our jobs is to educate each other. Do that in a well mannered fashion.

[fawfulthegreat]

Wow the response to this was a huge yikes. I'm having the same issue right now and I am not an advanced coder. I need to use Bizhawk because it's the only emulator I know of that can freeze address values, something I need to do in this case. If someone doesn't know how to do something, shaming them for asking for help and then closing it off as completed without answering or giving any help beyond "use another emulator lmao" is incredibly rude and dismissive. It should be assumed if they are asking, that they have a good reason for using Bizhawk specifically.

The code I need to know the actual addresses and values of is this one:

83003F62 FFFF
82004338 FFFF

This grants all abilities in the Superstar Saga prototype. It is confirmed to work in Visual Boy Advance and mGBA. But I can't find any option to freeze memory addresses in those and I have found this in Bizhawk. I need both. Putting this into the converter throws me an error, even though supposedly it should be able to detect that it's a GameShark code and convert it. This is for the purposes of documenting the differences in the prototype, not cheating at speedruns or TAS. In case that assumption was part of why the response was so dismissive.

[YoshiRulz]

It fails because those aren't GameShark codes, they're Code Breaker codes, which haven't been implemented yet. (See also #897. The error message for this could stand to be improved.)
You can manually decode them by following Sappharad's guide here.

And no, we're not uppity about cheating unless you've jailbroken RA Hardcore mode. zeromus is just a grouch.

edit: Presuming OP's issue was the same as #2545, I'm calling this a duplicate of that.