CHT file help

Dirtie · Post by **Dirtie** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 9:32 pm

The interface for entering cheats in ZSNES is too clunky and annoying, not to mention it doesn't support pasting.
What I want is an editor outside of ZSNES that can edit the cheat files quickly and easily (I've looked for such a utility, but all I found is a couple that convert to ASCII, and not back again) - or if not, at least some basic paste functionality within ZSNES.

Cheers.

Post by **Agozer** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 9:48 pm

There is no such thing. At least I'm not aware of such. As it stands now, the ZSNES GUI is a bitch to modify, even if it seems like a small feat at first.

Dirtie · Post by **Dirtie** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 10:03 pm

Even if there is no such thing now, it'd be great to have such a utility in the future. If a couple of people can write programs to read the CHT files, surely someone can write one that edits them.

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 10:39 pm

That person could be you then.

Bobbias2.0 · Post by **Bobbias2.0** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 10:56 pm

if anyone knows where some documentation on the CHT file format is, I might see if I can make a proggie to help edit it...

Dirtie · Post by **Dirtie** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 11:58 pm

Due to my insufficient programming knowledge, I am unable to do so. What I've just been doing though is hex editing it, and I can figure out the new value and old value bits, but that's about it. Since I'm using the same code with just a whole lot of different values that I want to toggle on and off, I enter it a few times into ZSNES, save, then copy that line in the hex editor a whole bunch of times, just editing the value bit.

Post by **grinvader** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 12:05 am

Dirtie wrote:just editing the value bit.

You can already do that.
Select the code, click in the code entry area but just enter the new value.

Poof.

It's in the docs, reading them would've prevented all this.

Dirtie · Post by **Dirtie** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 2:46 am

Doh ><
Thanks for that, unfortunately I have already done all the codes my way

I will have to remember that for the future though.

Borris · Post by **Borris** » Sat May 03, 2008 9:43 pm

I was trying to find a similar topic as this before going and making a new post. I was gonna ask how (if at all possible) I could open the cheat file and have it show plain text (as if opening it with notepad), and hopefully with simple formatting (left column is the codes, right column is the code descriptions). Although anything other than manually typing codes would be a godsend. My aim is to have a FF4 cheat file that would have the codes for all of the Classes, Charactors, Spells in all spell slots for all magic types-- for all charactor slots... Each charactor slot needs a seperate code for every charactor, class, white magic spell, black magic spell, etc etc... So basically I need to enter roughly 88 codes per slot, for a total of roughly 440 codes in all.

Before anyone asks the most obvious question (WHY the hell would you do that??), this is for creating custom charactors (which i dont need that many codes for) that actually have the spells they should have/I want them to have (which i DO need that many codes for...eventually)

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Sat May 03, 2008 10:14 pm

vSNES might help you there (see sig). You'll need some runtime files too (link).