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This project aims to fully archive Edison Carter’s Cheat Device for Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories.

This is a Work in Progress.

What, why and how?

Cheat Device was one of the first homebrews ever made for the PlayStation: Portable (running on firmware 2.01, 2.5 and 2.6), developed between 2005 and 2007.

Cheat Device is, in a nutshell, a cheat menu for Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, created by the popular modder Edison Carter. It was very famous back in the day, even allowing you to create your own cheats (with Cheat Maker)! It was certainly one of the most influential PlayStation: Portable homebrews ever and part of my childhood!

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This project was started by me (@danssmnt), with the help of some OG CheatDevice members, as a way to preserve an almost 20 year old homebrew. Even with the popularity back then, Cheat Device has been slowly dying over time, with more and more content being removed and taken down from the internet, so, I decided it was best to try and preserve most of Cheat Device history before it was lost for good.

This archive was made by scouring old websites (with Wayback Machine) and GTA Forums from back in the day.

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Progress

LCS

Version	Archived?	Tested?	Notes
v0.1	❌	❌	First Version of Cheat Device
v0.1a	❌	❌
v0.1b	✅	❌
v0.1c	✅	❌
v0.1d	❌	❌
v0.2	❌	❌
v0.3	✅	❌
v0.3a	❌	❌
v0.3b	❌	❌
v0.3c	✅	❌
v0.4	✅	❌
v0.5	✅	❌
v0.5a	✅	❌
v0.5b	❌	❌
v0.5c	❌	❌
v0.5d	✅	❌
v0.5e	✅	❌
v0.6	✅	❌
v0.6a	✅	❌
v0.7	✅	❌
v0.7a	❌	❌
v0.7b	❌	❌
v0.7c	❌	❌
v0.7d	✅	❌
v0.8	❌	❌
v0.8a	✅	❌
v0.8b	✅	❌
v0.9	✅	❌
v1.0	✅	❌
v1.0a	❌	❌
v1.0b	✅	❌
v1.0c	✅	❌
v1.0d	✅	❌	First Cheat Device to be released as a PRX
v1.0e	❌	❌
v1.0f	✅	❌
v1.0g	✅	✅
v1.0h	❌	❌	Probably doesn't exist, see this.

VCS

Version	Archived?	Tested?	Notes
v2.0	✅	❌	First official release for VCS
v2.0 Alpha	✅	❌	First "unofficial" release for VCS
v2.0a	✅	❌
v2.1	✅	❌
v2.1a	✅	❌
v2.2	✅	❌
v2.2a	❌	❌
v2.3	✅	❌
v2.3a	✅	❌
v2.4	✅	✅	Final release

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UserCheats

We're trying to archive all UserCheats made for Cheat Device too! Most of them come from CheatSync backups made by the community!

Warning

All usercheats are UNTESTED and can crash your game. Also it is recommended to use them in the latest releases of Cheat Device.

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Installing

Refer to Cheat Device Installation Guide.

Contributing

Refer to How can I contribute?.

Miscellaneous Content

Refer to Misc. Content.

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Project Goals

• Archive all versions of Cheat Device.
• Archive all known UserCheats for Cheat Device.
• Make a website for this project.
• Archive old screenshots, images, photos, videos of Cheat Device.
• Decompile / Reverse Engineer Cheat Device (v1.0g LCS and 2.4 VCS).

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Acknowledgments

• Edison Carter and more - For making this awesome homebrew!
• Wayback Machine - Almost all CD versions were found preserved here.
• Kabuto_Kun - CheatSync Backups
• PSP GTA Cheat Device Community (03stevensmi) - PSP CHEAT DEVICE ARCHIVE & OTHERS ( VCS, LCS, CWCHEAT, OTHERS & LCS+VCS CHEATS FOR NEW FIRMWIRE)
• Freakler:
  • More VCS UserCheats
  • Noobz LCS Goofy Exploit
  • Hexed LCS v1.0g PRXs