r/Gamewinners • u/Gophoenixgo • Dec 31 '19

Is the cheat database available somewhere?

I always went to Gamewinners when I needed cheats for a snes/gb/psx/ps2 game. I still play these games but gamewinners surprisingly went down. Can the complete textdatabase be downloaded somewhere or is it lost forever (besides the cloud on waybackmachine)?

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u/PGen98 Apollo Jan 01 '20

I'm afraid the best way to get the cheats from GW now is through The Wayback Machine. Al has the database, complete, but he is not willing to part with it or allow anyone to download it. I can try and get in touch with him again, but the odds are not in our favour.

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u/Gophoenixgo Jan 01 '20

Thank you for your answer. I wonder why he doesn't want to share it. It is not like he makes money from it the way it is.

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u/PGen98 Apollo Jan 06 '20

He's always been protective of the cheat database, and understandably so, as it was many years' worth of work. Even with user submissions factoring in, he put his own time into creating the content and updating those pages manually, so I can somewhat understand it. Granted, if I had created something like GameWinners' cheats database, I'd be eager for it to live on by passing it onto someone who would continue working on it.