Action Replay cartridge for the Amiga 500Action Replay cartridge for Commodore 64Action Replay ISA card for PC 1994
Action Replay is the brand name of a cheating device (such as cheat cartridges) created by Datel. The Action Replay is available for many gaming systems including the Nintendo DS, Nintendo DSi, Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, and the Xbox. The name is derived from the first devices’ signature ability to pause the execution of the software and save the computer's state (the complete contents of the memory) to disk or tape for future “replay”. The ability to manipulate the contents of memory in this paused state permitted the cheat functions for which the brand is now better known.
Typical features
Typical cheating options include:
Making the player character stronger, such as with infinite lives, invulnerability, permanent power-ups, no collision detection, walk through walls, one-hit kills, super-high jumps, infinite money, etc.
Warping directly to specific levels.
The ability to download, upload, import and export saved games from and to the Internet or a storage device.
Allowing the player to save the game state to disk, so that the game can be restarted from that point even if it does not support saving.
Region-free operation.
Loading of third-party or homebrew applications/games.
Display of internal game data which are not normally seen by the player.
Action Replay DS and DSi
Also known as Action Replay for the Nintendo DS system, this device is a part of the main series created by Datel. The device usually comes with a cartridge, a software disc, and a cable to connect the device to a computer. Unlike future iterations, these versions communicate directly with the game's memory in real time. Because of this, the desired game needs to be inserted within the cartridge and then inserted into the system. Codes are created using the hexadecimal numbering system, and while Datel supplies a rich base of codes, users are given the ability to create their own codes.
Power-Saves
Power-Saves by Action Replay are a related series of video-game cheat devices. Unlike the main Action Replay series, which cheats by modifying the game code itself, Power-Saves store the game saves created by Datel, allowing users to cheat without modifying the game code being executed.
Power-Saves are available for game systems such as the Wii on an SD card and the Nintendo 3DS.
The ISA-based Action Replay needs memory-resident drivers for both the real and protected mode. The card has a grabber, a trainer, and a slowdown feature. It can also interrupt the current game or save it to disk (freezer).
Models running firmware 4.0 and beyond use EEPROM instead of ROM and thus are upgradeable.
In December 1998, Datel released a version for Windows 95/98.[1]
Action Replay DSi (October 2009); Later system software updates to the DSi and 3DS include a 'white list' which prevents unlicensed games from booting,[3] this stops older Action Replays from loading on updated DSi and 3DS handhelds, however older Action Replays will continue to work on original DS and DS Lite handhelds.
