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Cheat codes and copyright

Console Database believes that copyright protection cannot be applied to cheat codes. This means that when you submit cheats/codes to Console Database, we will only credit you as the contributor of the code, but we will not credit you as the copyright owner of that code. Cheat codes (including those on cheat devices such as Pro Action Replay, Game Shark, Game Genie, Action Replay, Gold Finger, Game Guru, Gamebuster, Equalizer, Dataflash, Xploder, Xplorer, X-Gear, Game Wizard or other such devices) are already part of a game or cheat device. By finding a code, you have not created it because it was already there to begin with. Many people misuse the term “created”, when they discover an existing code. Cheat devices such as Game Genies are already programmed to respond in a certain way when you enter certain codes and combine them with certain games. By following the correct procedures, anyone can find codes for these cheat devices, and each person who attempts to find the codes will come out with the exact same codes in the end. Therefore, this is proof that the final product is not your original work, it is simply a code that was already there and you discovered it. Copyright only covers original work that was created by you. Copyright does not cover discoveries or findings. If you find rock on the ground, you cannot claim copyright on it, simply because you found it. The rock was already there – anyone could have picked up that rock. Copyright does, however, cover compilations and designs. So if you made a website including the codes, like Console Database, you can claim copyright on the formatting, design and programming of the site’s appearance and content, but not the cheat codes themselves. This is similar in the rock example. While you cannot claim copyright on the rock itself, simply because you found it, if you were to take a photograph of this rock, then you could claim copyright on the photo of the rock because you took that photo – it is your work.

Use of cheats and cheating devices

Console Database will not be held responsible for any faults that may arise from using the cheats, both in-game or from using cheat devices (Pro Action Replay, Game Shark, Game Genie, Action Replay, Gold Finger, Game Guru, Gamebuster, Equalizer, Dataflash, Xploder, Xplorer, X-Gear, Game Wizard or other such devices), provided by this website. This information is provided on the basis that you use it at your own risk. The makers of the games and cheat devices also hold no responsibility for problems, should they occur.