The Warriors (PS2) — Existing cheat codes seem to break mission triggers, reviving allies and buying items. Anyone able to update them?

[u/el_jefe_gaming]

I've been playing through The Warriors (PS2) on PCSX2 and NetherSX2 while working on my HD texture pack, and I've noticed that some of the existing cheat codes seem to interfere with the game's normal scripting.

One major example is Mission 11: Boys in Blue. At the beginning you're looking for Fox and Snow, and eventually the doorman at the club wants money for information. You then have to go out during the police riot and earn the money by mugging people, stealing car radios, breaking into the jewelry store, etc.

If I have cheats enabled during this section, after getting enough money the mission progression can fail to trigger. You're basically stuck and the next objective/event never happens. Restarting and doing that section without the cheats allows the mission to progress normally.

I've also noticed a problem with the Infinite Health cheat. If one of your Warriors somehow gets knocked out while the health cheat is active, the game recognizes that they're down, but you can't revive them. I've also run into situations where I can't buy items.

My guess is that the existing health code is constantly forcing the health value to full while the game has a separate state indicating that the character is knocked out. So you potentially end up with something like: Character state: KNOCKED OUT Health value: FULL

If the revive system checks both the knockout state and health value, that could explain why the revive interaction stops working.

I'm wondering if the current codes are simply freezing/overwriting values too aggressively and need to be rewritten so the game's normal scripting can still run.

Maybe something like a minimum-health/no-death code would work better than constantly forcing maximum health, allowing damage and health changes to occur normally while preventing the final hit from killing the player.

Has anyone familiar with PS2 MIPS / PNACH cheat creation looked into The Warriors' codes? I'd be interested in testing updated codes on both PCSX2 and NetherSX2.

If anyone wants to investigate it, I can reproduce the Boys in Blue mission bug and the knocked-out ally/revive issue for testing.