Originally developed by the Fire International Group and distributed by Pelican Accessories as the NTSC/UC (North American) counterpart to the PAL (European) Xploder cheat device, the CodeBreaker first appeared on the Dreamcast relatively late in the console's lifecycle.
After version six hit the market, Fire International abruptly broke off their partnership with Pelican to develop the newly Mad Catz-acquired GameShark.
Pelican Accessories put together an internal development team and proceeded with future versions of CodeBreaker.
As of May 2012, www.codetwink.com uses a vBulletin type site format, but still had the Codebreaker Day1 files available for download to people who register for an account.
As of April 2017, a mirror of the old Codetwink site was hosted by Wes Castro, developer of the Cheat Device project.