Pixelguin

That's correct. The entire archive is only about 12GB; it couldn't possibly contain the full games.

Mashing is rarely a concern in fighting game cheats, it's either inhuman reactions (hard to distinguish from a lucky guess) or always guessing right on plus/oki situations.

More complex cheats don't activate every time; it's basically impossible to measure whether your opponent in Street Fighter has a "auto perfect parry 15% of the time" cheat running.

It's not too uncommon for journals to include op-eds critical of the journal itself. Usually the author is responding to a previously published article (hence the "op"), but they can also criticize the journal's practices or call for broader change in the industry.