Well, that’s your prerogative. It might be cheating in the sense that you’re essentially inputting a code to get something in a game, but it’s not cheating in the sense of obtaining infinite lives, or unlimited ammo. I only edited the code to produce one Zodiac Spear. Sure, I could have gotten a Zodiac Spear easily had I known about the 4 “do not open” chests before I was already 40 hours into the game, but I didn’t. At that point I felt “cheated” by Square. How was I to know that 4 random treasure chests are linked to the spear? They don’t have any markings, and nothing in the game really warns you not to open them.
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I was prepared to go about it the INSANE way… by reloading a thousand times and hopefully getting a chest to produce the Zodiac Spear, but it takes about 3 minutes per run (including reload time), totaling 3000 potential minutes, or 50 hours. So when I found out about this other method, I decided it would be a better use of my time to learn a bit about how save states are coded, and hack myself a spear. Sure, you can use this method to alter other things and thereby cheat in the sense of infinite lives and unlimited ammo, but I’m not condoning or dismissing this option. It’s just a fact about the method. Personally, it would take all the fun out of the game to get a million gil, etc. So I didn’t.
Originally Posted by ZodiarkTheTadpole
Well, that’s your prerogative. It might be cheating in the sense that you’re essentially inputting a code to get something in a game, but it’s not cheating in the sense of obtaining infinite lives, or unlimited ammo. I only edited the code to produce one Zodiac Spear. Sure, I could have gotten a Zodiac Spear easily had I known about the 4 “do not open” chests before I was already 40 hours into the game, but I didn’t. At that point I felt “cheated” by Square. How was I to know that 4 random treasure chests are linked to the spear? They don’t have any markings, and nothing in the game really warns you not to open them.
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