How to Enable Cheats on DuckStation?
DuckStation, a popular PlayStation emulator for PC, offers a lot of exciting features, and one of them is the cheats system. With cheats activated, you can unlock some amazing abilities, such as infinite health, invulnerability, or even God mode. But, finding the right way to activate cheats on DuckStation might be a bit tricky.
Step-by-Step Guide to Enable Cheats on DuckStation
Let’s dive into the comprehensive guide on how to activate cheats on DuckStation in a step-by-step fashion.
1. Initial Setup
Before you jump into the world of hacking, ensure you have launched DuckStation successfully and played a game with it.
Make sure DuckStation is configured correctly beforehand.
Step 2: Access Cheats Menu
To bring up the cheat menu:
- Load the game by selecting it from the disk list or directory.
- Press Shift + Q on your keyboard at the same time.
A new menu should appear under the main game window menu.
3. Disable Cheats by Default?
DuckStation seems to disable cheats by default. So, you can’t simply input cheats code without this step. For now, disable cheats or set it to Ungrouped; you’ll know why further down the article.
- Open the Preferences menu (usually found in the top-right corner).
- Click the Cheat drop-down menu.
- Ensure the Allowed toggle button is currently OFF.
- *Allow Cheats
- Save changes.
Proceed to Step 4 while keeping this preference in the back of your mind – we’ll be using cheats soon.
4: Enable Cheats
Alright, we’ve set aside the cheat mode for temporary use.
1. Open the cheat menu or press Shift + F1 while playing while in-game, you need to
- Choose Impose… from sub-menu, you will go to
- Path:
<directory>StationCheatsAll*.cueby default.
- Path:
Find the binary file and replace it accordingly. It might be time-consuming depending on your installation.
Now we have, and to find the other files as we go up the menu:
…/All/*.cue’ by default).
Loading the Cheats
Press F2, then, at the Game window.
Press Cheats, go to (or open Cheat Manager, for the ones who can be found.)
The Last Step
- Open the cheat in the Game Window.
A new option has been installed. You can click on a file to play it now, or do it when a game does not want the cheat! You’ve done; you should know how
Some Common Cheats
Example: To enable cheats:
Add the cheats from the specified directory: (or another directory of the same. You might see the cheat directory in this manner: )
You must have "Cheat enabled" which is
Shift + Q to open.
In order to stop the cheats.