No if you have an AR put it in and let it load to the game you have in.Then click the games codes it will have a list of codes and on the top it will have New Codes you click that,then you have to put a name for your new code that you want to enter lets say you want Manaphy so you enter it's name and then on the bottom screen there will be a keyboard with letters and numbers depending on the code you want to enter you would have to enter those letters and numbers.There are lines for the codes codes are usually 4-5 lines long.Moving on....After you finish entering it you will have to know which buttons to press I would write it down some where.There will be a button on the touch screen that says something like"Done"the code is entered and you are finished.