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Not quite a GameShark, but a nice addition to your X-Box.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: July 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Okay first off,

WARNING: THIS DEVICE IS NOTHING MORE THAN A MERE ADVANCED DEX DRIVE FOR THE X-BOX.

I've heard a lot of false statements about this product. The reasoning behind Action Replay being forced (yes, forced) to make this a Dex-Drive like dongle component is because of X-Box core itself. It would make an immense amount of sense that the X-Box does not have the ability to load codes into the buffer ram, because the X-Box resets or turns off when either the disc or power button are pressed. X-Box has no ability for supporting disc swapping like PS2 and disc swapping is required for in game codes. The only other logical option would be to MOD the X-Box, but whoever is stupid enough to open up that 100 pound beast and tinker with it's complex circuitry is well... stupid.

The product does exactly what it states on the box, and it does all that very well. Do not be fooled by other reviewers stating that the box gives false impression. I see no false advertising here.

Unlimited Cash, All Weapons, Extra Time, Unlimited Energy, Battle Codes, Access All Areas, All Vehicles, Extra Ammo, Extra Characters and Extra Health are the abilities featured on the outside of the box on a tiny strip of cardboard that wrapped completely around the box in a decorative fashion. With this device I have been even many opportunities to do all those things and more. Powersaves are very nice and the community of user made saves is an exciting bonus. I love the idea of playing someone elses Ghost Recon, MGS or Halo games.

Of course you do need ability to go online and retrieve saves. And the registering process for me was a bit tedious, but all and all I think it's well worth the money... now and long-term.

Action Replay for X Box

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I think action replay is misleading the customer in the promotion of this product.
There are no cheats to use so you can play the game your self to get different items or unlock difference things for your self.
As for some game cheat systems of having infinite life, ammo, boost, or kill with one hit, this soft ware does not do that.
All this product does is allow you to down load game saves "someone else's game" to a memory card to load into your game systems memory so it is not your game you are playing you cannot change the name of the file or put your personal name on the game data so how can you label it as your game.
This product takes the fun out of cheating.
I am sorry I bought this product I feel it was a waste of money.

YOU DONT KNOW THE POWER!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: May 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

As i read in other reveiws, everybody here thinks this is a cheating program like gameshark. But if you knew the true understand and wasn't an idiot who doesn't understand what PC stands for! Action Replay lets you modify games and replay them on your xbox which now has come to be know as "Soft Modding"! By downloading a special program just made for this xbox you are able to harness the power of modifying saves and even then create weapons, maps, and games into your xbox! Which has come very handy in halo for me since I can now create maps into what i want allowing veihcles into maps where they cant be! This is not a hundered percent chance of it working though if you have to many games saved on the xbox since its a large file when downloaded on! for more information just type in Soft Modding and a ton of sites will come up!

BAD purchace

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: April 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

My son bought this game expecting it's operation to be the same as the PS2 version in that it is the "ultimate cheat" system. Well, surprise, no actual cheat codes, just access to already-played games as a download from the internet. The packaging was most misleading, and frankly, I believe it was intended to deceive customers. Too bad there is little one can do to software companies who promise much and deliver very little.
(My son's words: It sucked and was a waste of money). Used to be a time when honesty was considered a virtue. I guess one has to have faith in karma.

Xbox? Forget about the brick...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 16
Date: May 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I could care less what it does for the original Xbox--what I'm into is the memory card reader that allows you to transfer Xbox save files over to Xbox 360. Now I won't have to start Halo all over!

Not sure what all the problems are!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: July 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Out of the box, this unit has worked flawlessly for me. I have not had one corrupt file. I was able to transport many saved games from the XBox onto my PC where I can now back them up onto CD if necessary.

The only thing I can say about corrupt files is possibly people are downloading the wrong files or maybe, Intec has fixed the problems?

For me, this was something I needed. For one, Madden 2k4 doesn't have Live support, yet people had updated rosters that I wanted to import. This allows that to happen.

As for XBox Live, I don't play enough on-line to justify the annual price Microsoft charges, so this again allows me to obtain rosters and such.

I think the main problem with many people's reaction to the AR unit is that they felt it was a "cheating" device, giving you tons of cheat codes and such. Reading the description should not be giving them that feeling. This unit is a save game/save files transporter. It allows you to move your saved games/files from your Xbox to your PC. At that point, you can then share your files with friends. It also allows you to share and/or obtain saved files that open up levels to games where you are stuck.

The price of the package is mainly for the 8 meg memory unit in my opinion. That would be only one of two issues I have with the Action Reply. I already have a memory unit, so it would have been nice to buy this without a memory card. However, unlike other people, I have had no problems with the memory card that came with AR nor with my official Microsoft XBox memory card. Both work just fine with the Xbox Action Replay unit.

My only other gripe is for some games, 8 megs is not enough to move data. This is especially true with Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic. Each save file is 1600 blocks, which is bigger than 8 megs. So, you will be limited to files that are smaller than 8 megs. But, that's not all bad as most save game files are relatively small.

I say buy this from a store that would allow you to return it and try it out. I have not had any problems with this unit and I think it's actually an excellent buy for those that don't have XBox Live! I know it won't be going back to the store for me!

Action replay IS A WASTE

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 11
Date: February 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I bought the action replay at gamestop and went to the web site [...]and printed the installing instructions then install the action replay for xbox then let me tell you after you do that and sign in their web site your suppose to get these Powersaves ...so it took me 2 hours to get 5 power saves then I hooked it up to the controller then trying it out and the codes do not work. Also when I went back to their web site it just saying error. Let me tell you it IS NOT WORTH IT...29.99 plus tax for a HEADACHE so I warning you DO NOT BUY THIS !!!!It is a waste of money and time...[...]

Cheat System? Where are the Cheats?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: April 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

As the box states; "Unleash the power - Beat the Game!" "The World's Most powerful Game Enhancer!".... sounds pretty good, and the past ones have been pretty good. As good as the Gameshark (even though they are the same, Gameshark = USA, Action Replay = Euro) in the past. Well, this one fell very short on my expectations. The only thing this offers at this time is 'PowerSaves'... Game saves for the games... Ok, sure, we've seen this on the Dexdrive, but Action Replay?.?.? It's not what I expected, and I think alot of other people are going to be disappointed in it, as I was. Where are the Cheats? Where are the Codes? Not in this package. Hopefully this will change... Save your money at this time... wait to see if they put the cheats/codes feature into it....

It really doesn't work

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: January 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Very disappointing. Apparently it works for some people, but it has not worked for me. I am an experienced computer user, and video gamer, so noobism isn't the problem.

The system allows you to take an Xbox-compatible memory chip that is part of the AR package, and to download saved games on to it from its web site. It comes with a little card reader that is attached to your PC via USB. The download is quite simple. There are two types - official downloads provided by the company, and community downloads. These are unsupported saved games provided by anyone out there. The whole thing runs in a neat little client application that allows simple drag-and-drop of files from their list either directly on to your memory chip, or into a folder on your PC for later use. Once you have the file of your choice on your chip, you insert it into your game controller, and copy the file on to your Xbox's hard drive.

I am currently only interested in the official downloads. I have no problem getting them on to the chip, but once loaded on to the Xbox, they are shown as corrupted, and can only be deleted. Unfortunately, this appears to be a very common problem.

The company (Intec/Datel/Codejunkies) provides a "Support" forum, but no support is actually offered. The only posts are from users telling each other that they are having the same problem, with no answers from the manufacturer. The company itself reminds you that they don't support the community saves... even when you make it clear that you are trying to use an official file, NOT a community save.

The system is seriously flawed. I recommend against buying it, unless you know someone who has it working, and can provide you with a work-around, or some kind of solution. Make sure to check their web site first, and run a search in the forum using your particular game name as a keyword. If there's a lot of problems, beware!

Action Replay

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: January 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I think that the action replay is great because it really enhances your game play when you are stuck on something. It's also really cool because there are so many games listed on it for you to download..

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