TL;DR - if you are not interested in a short rant of mine and came here to get the cheat codes, head to the Sony PlayStation page for a list of games and cheat codes.
Recently I’ve been using DuckStation, a relatively new, modern PS1 emulator, quite a lot. Not only it’s fast and accurate, but also includes modern features like PGXP, cheats, post-processing shaders, and is aimed to include overclocking soon. Of course, me being me I could not only play those games – so I started experimenting with cheats enhancing the games.
While cheats making some games widescreen and/or 60 FPS exist, I was not satisfied with how incomplete some of them are and how the information is spread around numerous websites and random Excel spreadsheets; this has affected Gran Turismo 2 the most, which has 10 versions and the versions I have did not have proper cheats anywhere!
Combining these issues with the fact that I figured out how to work with PS1 games by using no$psx, another debugging-oriented PS1 emulator, I decided to do something about it – so I’ll be hosting my cheat codes on the blog, just like mods for PC games; starting with cheat codes for PS1 games, but it may or may not expand to more consoles and emulators.
Current and planned codes
I have created a Sony PlayStation page, listing PS1 games I currently have codes for. At the moment of writing this post, it includes the following codes:
- Gran Turismo
- 60 FPS cheat – improved the existing cheat by re-enabling tire smoke, which was originally removed at 60 FPS for performance reasons1.
- Gran Turismo 2
- 16:9 Widescreen hack – a better widescreen hack that does not cut off the objects on screen edges; originally made by HugoStanced, I contributed with additional research and ported it to different game versions.
- 60 FPS cheat – improved the existing cheat by re-enabling tire smoke, which was originally removed at 60 FPS for performance reasons1.
- Metric units code – a cheat changing imperial units to metric units in the NTSC-U version of the game.
Later on, I plan to add more codes – such as the metric system for NTSC-U versions of Gran Turismo, No UI patches, etc.
Since every emulator has its way of supporting cheats, for setup instructions please refer to the documentation of your emulator of choice.