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SharkVault
The strategy guides you wish GameFAQs had written. Cheat codes, controller exploits, glitches, easter eggs, and schoolyard lore — the full spectrum of player ingenuity, organized as one ranked canon of classic and retro games, Atari through PS2.
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Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
Founding Member · Road to GTA VI
Vice City is coming back. Prep for GTA VI with the team that wrote the book on cheat codes.
Grand Theft Auto VI · launching
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Become a Founding Member →Every GTA guide in full, plus the founding rate for life: your price holds for as long as your membership stays active. Join before GTA VI launches on 19 November.
Original art for every game
Every game in the canon gets an original atmospheric backdrop in the spirit of a ’90s strategy-guide cover, not a box shot scraped off a wiki.
A look inside · Spotlight
Random pick · Top 100
Era DefinerTop 100Why This Game Matters
Tomb Raider(1996)
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Sourced, not scraped
Every code, glitch, and easter egg is checked against a sourced facts file before it can publish, and every claim carries its citation.
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Era-faithful voice
Reads like a coffee-table book by someone who ran the cheat-code BBS, because it is one: the same canon is headed to print as The Compendium, by GameShark Labs. Knowledgeable, irreverent, deeply versed in cheat-device culture.
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The full canon
154 games are open to read as of 15 September 2026, the GTA flagships among them, with hundreds more in editorial and the canon building toward 500. Searchable, mobile, ad-free.
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You steer what's next
Canon rounds open to members: you see what's shortlisted, and where the vote stands, before a title is written.
See what's shortlisted →EcosystemRetroShark, our bring-your-own-games device, is in development. Vault integration is planned.
Featured guides
- Road to GTA VIPrep the trilogy (GTA III, Vice City & San Andreas) before Vice City returns.
- Metal Gear Solid, decodedCodec secrets, stealth exploits, and boss tactics across the PlayStation-era trilogy.
- Final Fantasy VII, masteredMateria builds, chocobo breeding, and the real secrets of the 1997 original.
- A free chapter is comingThe Compendium is in production. This is where the free chapter lands the day it ships. No account, no email.
1,126 Kickstarter backers hold a numbered Founder seat.
Everyone who backed the campaign holds a permanent Founder number, carried on their profile across the vault. SharkVault is now open to everyone, and a free account is the way in.
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Hall of Fame is the top ~100, ranked by cultural impact and innovation; Era Definers, Canon Completers, and Deep Cuts expand the canon toward 500 over time.
