Cheating with PEC

[seraph911]

Hello all, im new to PEC, been using epsxe for awhile now.

Im having trouble trying to figure out how some of the cheats work exactly. More specifically, the ones with 'modifier' in them, how do i find out what hex value to use? slightly confused around that part

for instance: when i go to weapon codes, and choose a character and one of their weapons, it has a bunch of stuff in the weapons submenu like 'name offset modifier' and 'description offset modifier'

What are they exactly? Are they to create your own sort of weapons? cos i tried adding it, then using $0 as the value if any popped up then using actual choices like abilities '$01 Cure' i set all that up used send cheats to plugin but it wasnt equipped, wasnt able to equip it, and wasnt in my inventory, so kinda confused as to what they are, and how do i find out what value means what?

Also, things like 'have 1024 jumps in jump rope on disc 1' says press L2+R2+Up, ive activated it, send cheat to plugin, in game i press it, press it while jump roping, nothing happens at any time..how does one use codes like that?

-Forgot to mention: Those are for Final Fantasy IX NTSC-U version.

PS - when using the code twinks website for PEC codes, Is it as simple as getting into the game you want, choosing the section and just alot of copy+paste work? like for instance if it says
1 Infinite HP 801DC180 03E7 I just copy Infinite HP press enter, and then paste in the number code below it, into the codeslist in PEC or is there a simpler way?

[Tekno-Kanix]

Very busy at the moment, I'll get with you real soon on all your questions with detailed information.

[seraph911]

Thank you for the reply mate, whenever you could would be awesome, dont rush, understandable if you're busy chief

[Tekno-Kanix]

Originally Posted by seraph911

Im having trouble trying to figure out how some of the cheats work exactly. More specifically, the ones with 'modifier' in them, how do i find out what hex value to use? slightly confused around that part

for instance: when i go to weapon codes, and choose a character and one of their weapons, it has a bunch of stuff in the weapons submenu like 'name offset modifier' and 'description offset modifier'

What are they exactly? Are they to create your own sort of weapons? cos i tried adding it, then using $0 as the value if any popped up then using actual choices like abilities '$01 Cure' i set all that up used send cheats to plugin but it wasnt equipped, wasnt able to equip it, and wasnt in my inventory, so kinda confused as to what they are, and how do i find out what value means what?

Generally using this cheat is unstable by nature. It can render a save useless. I never messed around with those cheats in this game but I did in FF10. One time I had Lulu using Vivi as a weapon. Yes Vivi the sprite was in her hand, she would drop him on the ground and he would march up and attack. Held a humor value for a short while but I did not invest any time to find values and tag them with names.

Originally Posted by seraph911

Also, things like 'have 1024 jumps in jump rope on disc 1' says press L2+R2+Up, ive activated it, send cheat to plugin, in game i press it, press it while jump roping, nothing happens at any time..how does one use codes like that?

those codes have never worked with me in ePSXe while using PEC they work fine on the console though.

Originally Posted by seraph911

PS - when using the code twinks website for PEC codes, Is it as simple as getting into the game you want, choosing the section and just alot of copy+paste work? like for instance if it says
1 Infinite HP 801DC180 03E7 I just copy Infinite HP press enter, and then paste in the number code below it, into the codeslist in PEC or is there a simpler way?

Correct format by modifying codelist.inf is:
# Final Fantasy IX#SLUS-00000
"Infinite HP
801DC180 03E7

[seraph911]

ahh, thank you, i been experimenting with it and just trying with some trial and error, thank you for the clarifying posts mate, helped a bunch