Replay action

The Action Replay is an apparatus created by Datel making it possible to enter of the codes of cheating some video games. There is more than one dozen of different models. Some are done for only one play like the Action Replay Ultimate Cheats: Large Theft Car: San Andreas or the Action Replay Ultimate Cheats: Metal GEAR Solid 3: Snake Eater . However, following its use, the plays can be victims of bug mainly with regard to the files safeguards. In 2005, the Replay Action is available on the consoles GameCube, Game Boy Advance, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo DS and the PlayStation Portable (PSP).

History

The Replay Action made its beginnings on the Commodore 64, one of the first personal computers. With its red cartridge of registered trademark, the Replay Action was one of the most popular cartridges turbos . Indeed, because these cartridges authorized a computing speed and of faster execution, allowing, for example, to increase up to 10 times the speed with which the hard drive treated the data. Another important function of this cartridge was its capacity of " geler" the program in progress, to safeguard the contents of the memory on a cassette or a diskette before the file is again charged. As an indication, with Commodore 64, the cartridge did not need to be installed. Once charged, the program took again its normal course at the exact point where it had been stopped.

Thus, only one loading of the play was necessary in order to record it and to copy it. The cartridge also included other possibilities such as the management of the files of diskette and the diskette copy.

For this time, many versions have been produced for various systems, but have all, without exception, the same characteristic that the version of Commodore 64, that is to say the capacity to still examine the sites of memory, and more important, to modify them.

The only exception to this rule are the Replay Action of the Xbox and the PlayStation Portable since they are devices of transfer of file of safeguard.

Characteristics

General with all the versions

  • You can obtain objects which cannot be obtained normally when the screen of the play is followed. For example, to use the Replay Action in order to reach certain plays BORN in Animal Crossing .

  • the Replay Action makes it possible to have an infinite quantity of resources such as life, time, Munition S, etc

  • the Replay Action gives you access to levels which are generally inalienable (majority being levels used for the beta-tests or because they were removed play before his marketing).

Specific to certain versions

  • the version for the Game Boy of the Replay Action allows to the players Pokémon Rouge and Blue to capture " Mew" , even if it is possible to have it with another easy way without the Replay Action.

  • the version for GameCube is offered with the FreeLoader which enables you to play plays of a country on a console of another country (ex: to play plays in Japanese version on GameCube European).

  • the Action Replay MAX (version updated of original the Replay Action for PlayStation 2) which includes the capacity of reading DVD coming from any area of the world, to manage the safeguards of a memory card, to download backup files and codes by the means of an adapter network and also clavarder on line on the network of Datel (by using the adapter network). This updated version contains also a PC software which makes it possible to create readable discs on PlayStation 2 not modified containing documents such as films compressed in DivX, MP3, software " Homebrew s" or an emulator of Megadrive/Sega Genesis. The support of key USB is also included.

  • the Replay Action for the Xbox is provided with a exploit which makes it possible to use homebrews.

Criticisms

Datel, the creator of the Replay Action, received several critics coming from the world videoludic at the place of its products. One of the most current complaints is supposedly the " programmed Obsolescence " where the codes for a play which has just been put on sale requires the most recent version of the software of cheating. Datel is also known for its weak support with regard to the codes; many are the players who must wait weeks before Datel publishes codes for a play in particular and very often, they are incomplete. For example, in the play Gran Turismo 4, Datel published the codes more than one month after the exit of the play. Even with such a delay, the codes are useful, for the majority, only to modify the car in the Arcade mode. The codes more requires some such as those reducing the number of solo circuits (with an aim of decreasing the number of hours necessary in order to supplement a race of endurance) were not revealed only after many requests and mainly in order to reduce the anger of the users. Datel also offered a cédérom containing codes of cheating specifically for Gran Turismo 4, but the players see there more one lucrative means. A true criticism is the support after sale relatively lamentable, which was still not improved.

Versions for the computers

  • Commodore 64
    • Action Replay
    • Action Replay II
    • Action Replay III
    • Action Replay IV (1988)
    • Action Replay VI (1989)

  • Commodore Amiga

    • Action Replay (A500 chart/chart UCT A2000)
    • Action Replay (A1200 chart)
    • Action Replay Mk II (A500 chart/chart UCT A2000)
    • Action Replay Mk III (A500 chart/chart UCT A2000) (1991)

  • PC

    • Action Replay PC (chart ISA) (1994)

Versions for the game consoles

The era of the systems 8 bits

  • Sega Master System

    • Pro Action Replay

The era of the systems 16 bits

  • Sega Genesis/Megadrive
    • Pro Replay Action (sold under the name of GameShark in the United States)
    • Pro Action Replay 2

  • Super Nintendo

    • Pro Action Replay
    • Pro Action Replay 2
    • Pro Action Replay MK3

The era of the systems 32/64 bits

  • Sega Saturn
    • Pro Replay Action (also available with the expansion 4M RAM)

  • Sony PlayStation

    • Action Replay (1995)
    • Pro Action Replay (1996)
    • Action Replay CDX (1997)
    • Action Replay Extreme Equalizer (2000) - Version almost identical to the CDX but compatible with PSOne and managing the new codes on PlayStation memory card.

The era of the 6th generation

  • Sega Dreamcast

    • Action Replay CDX

  • Sony PlayStation 2

    • Action Replay 2 (2000)
    • Action Replay 2 V2 (2001)
    • Action Replay MAX (2003, updated significant in 2004)

  • Microsoft Xbox

    • Action Replay (2002)

  • Nintendo GameCube

    • Action Replay (2003)


Versions for the portable consoles

  • Nintendo Game Boy
    • Pro Action Replay
    • Action Replay Online
    • Extreme Replay Action

  • Sega Range GEAR

    • Pro Action Replay

  • Nintendo Game Boy Color

    • Action Replay Pro

  • Nintendo Game Boy Advance

    • Action Replay (2001)
    • Action Replay Duet (2005)

  • Nintendo DS

    • Action Replay Duet (2005)
    • Action Replay DS (2006)
  • Portable Sony PlayStation (PSP)
    • Action Replay MAX (2005)

See too

External bonds

  • CodeJunkies.com - official Web site of the Action Replay
  • Central Replay Action - This site has several codes for Gamecube, particularly for Super Bros Smash. Fray.
  • CFCCAR - French Forum of mutual aid on the codes Replay Action. Some utilities and tutorials to convert foreign codes.

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