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SLOT 1 Player CODES ( 8-28-2009 addendum: It appears saving the game to any one of the three
slots will work as well so far.) Also, some codes will require you to save your game for them to be permanent and will only need to be used once, while others like picarats and coins that change will require you to keep the code on all the time.



or to allow only what the game actually has....




WARNING!!!! If you use the next two codes that follow do so knowing you can ruin your story line and possibly your save. It is highly recommended you try them in a different player spot before trying them in your main game save spot. These codes will unlock these items. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!





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NOTE:(use once and save game,
the exercise hamster for 30 steps to unlock Animal Lovers House).



Now I am just getting started here....I don't know how many actual items the game allows or has.

Maybe Kenobi will jump in and get those unlocks for all the puzzles like he did last with the Curious Village.

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A "Picarats reward for a puzzle never decreases" code would be immensely useful; that's the code I used the most on the first game.

That type of code will require an ASM hack to do a nop operation on whatever value is set for each puzzle...that is why I just hacked the picarats above. I am still looking into that.

In the meantime....




added alternate version of code 8-26-2009. You will need to assemble camera.

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Thanks, I'm looking forward to it.

I've noticed that the maxed picarats code doesn't save onto the file permanently, when I turned the code off when using my AR, the picarat count went back to 0.

Make sure you save the game status in the Prof's trunk. That goes for anything else you turn on from the above codes. I try to test each code a few times before I release it...please try my suggestion and let me know if you still are not saving the value. Also, codes like have camera, hamster, tea set, diary...etc...only need to be used once since again, when you save the game you should save item status as well.

mac

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Ah, I see.

I did however get the other 'item' codes to work during an already saved game by attaching an activator to it. That way I was able to get all the hamster toys without the data being rewritten.

What if someone could get codes for getting into the 'Secret of the Elysian Box' page or the 'Ticket to Time Travel' page by using the code 'password'... There's one for the prequel game to get throught the secret door...

The most useful code would be one to unlock Ticket to Time Travel (in the hidden door) using any password (someone did this for the first game) ... which is the one thing that can't be done through normal play (at least until the third game comes out)

thats exactly what I just said...

I have unlocked the hidden doors items without cracking the password....I simply unlocked them both. Sadly I did not write the code down from the mem ed. I am reworking it now and hope to have it soon. As proof I unlocked them....

UPDATE! 9-6-2009

I found the code (again) to unlock the Hidden Door










Download save: http://macrox.gshi.org/Professor%20Layton%20And%20The%20Diabolical%20Box.sav

Just make sure your game file has the same name as the save or adjust it to make it the same...aka rename it. This save is for no$gba. Convert it as you like for whatever system you want using http://www.shunyweb.info/convert.php

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This is great, I can't wait to get the codes for this...

P.S: Is your save file completed? I.e: 100% (laytons challenges, teas, and story)

No....I think I had 115 puzzles solved. Which, btw, most of those I did on my own...hey, I did not want to ruin the game for me that much. LOL.

There is still much work to do:

Max Picarats - Get the max picarats per puzzle.

Solve it enabled for all puzzles.

Weekly puzzles unlocked - Remember, the puzzles are actually there already...you really don't download anything new, BUT you need to have a WiFi connection sensed or better trick it into thinking there is OR...just brute force hack it open like Kenobi did last time....

Layton Challenges Unlocked.

And I am sure there are more folks want.

Ciao

mac

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Hmm, sounds good, my save has completed everything except the ticket to time travel door...

ITS THE LAST THING I NEED!!!

230 is the max number of hint coins you can get in the game. You get a special picture of Luke with a blue crown next to the hint coin total once that is achieved.

Well, I loaded the save file, and I confirmed that it works fine in no$gba, but the doors aren't too terribly interesting compared to the overall gameplay. I think the codes related to making gameplay easier are a bit more high priority.

Great job so far, macrox!

I think the codes related to making gameplay easier are a bit more high priority

Unlocking things that can't yet be unlocked normally is useful, but is this type of game really that difficult that you need codes to do everything for you - as it is, you can't die, you can't fail missions, you can't miss important items (besides some hint coins), etc and there's already a detailed walkthrough if players get stuck

Thanks to macrox for doing the work though, particularly with the hidden doors (which is also useful for players who no longer have the first game)

Thank you all for the comments and praises....

It is all relative regarding what is useful, needed, wanted etc....

Gamers have the freedom to not use cheat codes whether they be in game or cheat device founded.

In this game I believe the programmers made it so that you can always get the minimum number of picarats to unlock bonus puzzles. They made the game play to allow for that since they did not want to shut out puzzles for the game owner. There are some minor things that only certain other achievements will unlock...such as number of hint coins, and in that it may be useful to use the 230 of 255 hint coin code.

To me...as a code hacker....I separate out the my code hobby from my game play. Another thing, not that code hackers are martyrs but truth be told....hacking codes can and will most likely deduct from the fun our own gaming pleasure.

Personally, games that monitor your health status are a double edge sword. Personally to me...infinite health allows me to play the game through where without it, I would not get very far. Castlevania games for GBA and DS are ones that come to my mind right away. Many of the older SNES games are also a real pain to get through without infinite health.

My suggestion is always to try the game on your own and finish what you can (heh...for me...that is not very far at all in some games). Everyone will do that at his or her own pace and whatever they cannot do, then it is a free world, and if they want to use the codes, then that is their personal decision. Further comment beyond that is beyond the scope of this post's intent...which is to post game codes.

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My suggestion is always to try the game on your own and finish what you can

Yes, indeed

Just to clarify, my comments were solely in relation to this game

Infinite health, etc for action games can certainly be useful - not everyone has the same arcade skills and you still get to experience the entire game while using the cheats

I just found it interesting how many cheats some players are asking for - if someone used most of the cheats for this type of game, one would think there'd hardly be any game left to play (which, of course, is obviously their choice to do)

I'm sure many here will find the hint coin cheat useful

Anyway, keep up the fine work macrox and thanks again for your work on getting past the hidden doors

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I have done more testing on the codes that possibly erased data. I have edited those codes above to now be activator types to make them more robust. Heh, who said cheating was easy?


Also, look up to the hidden door section....I did re-hack that code to unlock both sections behind the Hidden door.

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Ok.

Kenobi has joined me on hacking this game.....




He gave me a test code to unlock all puzzles BUT it is not stable and ruins game saves and progress....so I was asked by him not to release it yet....

Back later with more info...

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Woohoo! I'll have to give it a try soon. Even if I did already beat the game.

* : works only when the code is turned on (it won't save the secrets unlocked by this

code).


P.S. Kenobi and I tested this codes in games that had this locked. The code works exactly the way Kenobi notes above.

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After a very long painstaking hack by Kenobi and a lot of testing between a few of us at KW....




(Tested on R4 v1.18, YS Menu, M3Rea and CycloDS to work. Still issues with R4 clones of the SDHC family. Should work with Action Replay DS. Issues with DSTT expected as R4SDHC based on it. Quoting Kenobi, " Almost impossible to have this code work with every type of flash card due to various difference in code handlers and hooks."

NOTES:
* : You'll see only one puzzle on the weekly puzzle screen (even if you never downloaded them), no worry, it's an effect of the code (it'll be gone once the code is turned off).

The date of the puzzle will be changed to the puzzle internal number.

When you'll press left/right, the name of the puzzle will be written over the old name.

Press down/up to refresh the name. Sometime, some puzzle have no names, so be careful (they might be beta, or removed puzzle, and could lead to a crash).

Saving puzzle has been disable with this code, so you won't screw up your game in case you finish a puzzle you didn't get in-game.

If you wanna resume your normal game, turn off the NDS and switch off the code to re-enable saving.

With this code you'll get access to every puzzle in the game (and not only the weekly puzzles).

You shouldn't try to download weekly puzzles while the code is active.


Anyone with further info using this code on their flash card should feel free to add their observations. Please state what type of flash card you are using, firmware version etc....and what you observe.



(Credit : Kenobi)

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The Max Picarats per puzzle code works great!
The Weekly Puzzles also works fine, though the titles of the puzzles get mushed together when using the left and right buttons. The game isn't clearing the text before drawing the new puzzle title. Minor hitch really, but it does make it difficult to figure out which puzzle is going to pop up. this is on the M3 Real with firmware 4.4a_E52.

Ah yes....the work around for the mushed up text .....press the down button and then up....the screen will clear the garbled text. Then just press left or right and walk your way thru....still working great on the cyclods...but sadly not on the R4 clone at all right now.

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action replay codes for CURIOUS VILLAGE weekly puzzles doesn't work for No$gba.
Only a single weekly puzzle works
I tried holding R or L then pressing left or right, puzzle doesn't change.
Though codes for weekly puzzle for dibolical box works very well in No$gba.
I CLEARED all of them!!!Only weekly puzzles for curious village are left.

Might want to post that in the thread for the original game? Try Desmume though, it's an emulator that actually gets developed more frequently. no$gba kinda died.

Very Important update on the code for All 26 teas served....read up to the code and my remedy should you have used it and get stuck not getting puzzles to finish story line.

My apologies to anyone who used this code and is having this issue....

"A gentlemen leave no puzzle unsolved" - Professor Layton

mac

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