Attribution

Game metadata + cover art

Game titles, release years, platforms, genres, cover art, and summary descriptions are sourced from IGDB, accessed via the Twitch Developer API under their terms of service. Cover art retains its original copyright; IGDB is the authoritative source for licensing questions on game imagery.

Editorial content

Every guide section on SharkVault is original prose, produced by our editorial AI pipeline grounded in cross-referenced public sources (community wikis, archived FAQs, contemporaneous publications) and reviewed by a human editor before publication. We do not reproduce copyrighted strategy guides, FAQs, or walkthroughs. Where a specific fact is sourced, the per-game "verified by" card and inline citation chips name the source.

Cheat codes

Cheat codes, controller input sequences, and Game Genie / GameShark codes are factual data, not copyrightable expression, and are sourced from community archives including the GameShark-Labs-published Code Vault. They are reproduced verbatim where verified across multiple sources.

External links

When SharkVault links to community resources (planned for a future release), every link description is written by a GameShark editor — never extracted from the linked page. We do not scrape third-party sites for excerpts.

Trademarks

GAMESHARK is a registered trademark of Fast Track Global Limited (UK), USPTO Reg. No. 2782351. GameShark Labs LLC operates under a distinct-product-marks posture: customer-visible products use their own marks — SharkVault (web), RetroShark (hardware), and The GameShark Cheat Code Compendium by GameShark Labs (print). The "GameShark Labs" entity name appears only as corporate attribution.

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Corrections

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