I've never cheated on a ps game before, looking for advice

[Ghaleon]

Sometimes I hear about devices like gameshark or whatever, but I don't know much about them, and I never EVER see them for sale anywhere. I assume they're legal though. But anyway, I'm interested in the possibilities in cheating in a game like this simply to start a new game with level 1 goddesses, does anybody think that's remotely possible, I assume a gameshark would be ideal for this? Do they exist for ps3? Are there better alternatives? If anybody has any advice about the possibilities of "cheating" like this I'd appreciate any input.

[pjca]

Well:
-You can only do that with CFW
-Gamesharks for PS3 game dont exist yet
-Cheating is 4 n00bs

[Justin iZ Here]

neptunia is already easy enough as is. and yeah no gamesharks for the PS3 as of yet (right?)

[Ghaleon]

I thought it was obvious that my intention of "cheating" wasn't ot make the game easier, I simply was hoping to start a new game with a different party setup is all =\.

But uhh. what's CFW

[Overlord - Laharl]

CFW = Custom Firmware which is like hacking I think.

[Ghaleon]

Oh yeah, that doesn't sound very legal, boo.
Thanks anyway ='(

[Dark Hope]

yea, the roots of cheat codes were for the game designers to 'test things out." Rather than having to go through the whole game to test out level 9, they would enter in a code to jump to level 9 and test it. after the game was made the codes were often never removed. Keep in mind this is around nintendo/sega genesis days. Game genie came out for super nintendo and allowed you to re-write certain codes in games, turning on switches that gave you items and such. Next gen hits and Playstation comes out, technology gets smarter and they take out the ability to attach hardware by using a compact disk. Gameshark comes out with a memory card hardware attachment to get around the issue. using the disk beforehand, and saving the code hacks to the memory card, which stays in the system while the game is running. Next gen hits, ps2/x-box/gamecube. all 3 consoles use memory cards, gameshark makes a killing. next gen, ps3/x-360, wii. well I think there MIGHT be a gameshark for the wii (not sure) the other systems have strong enough code to resist simple data entry from a gameshark, so now you have to pop open your system to make a "hard mod" (inserting a hack chip" in order to get around it, thus voiding your warranty...smart choice on sony and microsofts part.

[Emm]

Yes, CFW is against Sony's TOS. If you use it, you will most likely get banned.

[Seventh]

Just keep your hopes up for a spinoff or something. That's what I'm doing, ridiculously naive as it might be.