Hero of Legend
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Chances are high that you grew up say in the 90's you owned a cheat device, hell I'd even guess the vast majority if folks in the 90's used one for one thing and one thing only; Pokemon.
Everything from catching any Pokemon, having custom movesets, hell even unearthing special content never seen during normal gameplay. The GS Ball in Crystal is one such thing, where it was only available via a mobile link-up in the Japanese version, yet IIRC, it was fully translated in the English versions but was forever locked away.
Of course you also have your walk-through-walls codes to see where the hell you could go (finally revealing what the hell would be found in the grass in Pallet Town. I'll tell you what you'd find; an instant crash!
).
And in other games you'd use them for the usual infinite lives, invincibility, infinite ammo (insert other usual quotes on boxes here). But regardless what you used for, you'd usually have a BLAST using them!
Most in the 90's would remember the GameShark. This was actually indeed by Datel, who makes Action Replay, because they're the same thing. What happened was that InterAct would localize the Action Replay devices as GameShark in NA from EU.
Eventually InterAct went bankrupt, which resulted in the GS brand being sold to MadCatz, and Datel would themselves release Action Replay in NA starting with the GC, GBA. PS2, and Xbox.
One device that was lost in that bankruptcy, was the GameCube GameShark. :'(
Only this pic remains:
Eventually it seemed like traditional cheat devices sort of died out, leaving Datel mostly releasing Game Saves/Power Saves which are from what I understand, are just preset saves with codes/cheats already in them, not as much fun sounding huh?
Cheat devices always felt like they were limitless in what you could use with them.
Among my favs was actually Pelican (now PDP)'s Monster Brain for Pokemon Gold & Silver. That was purely a Pokemon editor, where with ease you can customize movesets, personality values, stats, shiny status, etc.
As for today, Datel is releasing this:
Yeah... the future of Action Replay is a Power Saves device... merged with their amiibo device from earlier.
I wonder if they'll make a Switch device. IIRC, the 3DS is the ONLY 8th Gen device to get an Action Replay product.
Hyperkin seemingly tried to bring back the Game Genie (did they buy the name/brand from Codemasters?) but only ever released one for DS and PS3 (there's a 3DS-branded one, but that's just the DS one still):
That's pretty much it for now. What are your memories of cheat devices, and thoughts on their future?
Everything from catching any Pokemon, having custom movesets, hell even unearthing special content never seen during normal gameplay. The GS Ball in Crystal is one such thing, where it was only available via a mobile link-up in the Japanese version, yet IIRC, it was fully translated in the English versions but was forever locked away.
Of course you also have your walk-through-walls codes to see where the hell you could go (finally revealing what the hell would be found in the grass in Pallet Town. I'll tell you what you'd find; an instant crash!
).And in other games you'd use them for the usual infinite lives, invincibility, infinite ammo (insert other usual quotes on boxes here). But regardless what you used for, you'd usually have a BLAST using them!
Most in the 90's would remember the GameShark. This was actually indeed by Datel, who makes Action Replay, because they're the same thing. What happened was that InterAct would localize the Action Replay devices as GameShark in NA from EU.
Eventually InterAct went bankrupt, which resulted in the GS brand being sold to MadCatz, and Datel would themselves release Action Replay in NA starting with the GC, GBA. PS2, and Xbox.
One device that was lost in that bankruptcy, was the GameCube GameShark. :'(
Only this pic remains:
Eventually it seemed like traditional cheat devices sort of died out, leaving Datel mostly releasing Game Saves/Power Saves which are from what I understand, are just preset saves with codes/cheats already in them, not as much fun sounding huh?
Cheat devices always felt like they were limitless in what you could use with them.
Among my favs was actually Pelican (now PDP)'s Monster Brain for Pokemon Gold & Silver. That was purely a Pokemon editor, where with ease you can customize movesets, personality values, stats, shiny status, etc.
As for today, Datel is releasing this:
Yeah... the future of Action Replay is a Power Saves device... merged with their amiibo device from earlier.
I wonder if they'll make a Switch device. IIRC, the 3DS is the ONLY 8th Gen device to get an Action Replay product.
Hyperkin seemingly tried to bring back the Game Genie (did they buy the name/brand from Codemasters?) but only ever released one for DS and PS3 (there's a 3DS-branded one, but that's just the DS one still):
That's pretty much it for now. What are your memories of cheat devices, and thoughts on their future?
