Customer reviews:

Customer Rating:
Summary: GC Action Replay - Cheat How Tey'll Let You
Comment: I bought this version of the Action Replay, and I am disappointed. I am disappointed because, like the Wii version, I am finding it to be very limited, though, in the GC's case, even more so. The version of GC Action Replay I acquired comes preloaded with codes, but it lacks any form of means to add more.

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For example:

I bought the AR to play with Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. Initially, I got Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn for my Wii, and found that game to be ridiculously hard, when you combine weak starting characters, equipment that uses itself up, both when you attack, and are attacked, and characters who come and go as they wish. Now, I understand that this is the point of the game; that's its style, but I found it frustrating, and said "hey, I'll give my AR a try." Well, the Wii Action Replay isn't really an Action Replay; it's a save folder for tweaked games. None of the few on it for Radiant Dawn would really help, and the Internet won't let me download others to the unit, if there even was one I wanted to use (this, I confess, might be a problem with MY AR). So, I said "hell, I'll just play through PoR, and get good character transfers that way. So, that game is equally hard, but I got the AR for GameCube, again ,to play with that game, and figured it's still a real Action Replay, not a Power Saves. I was mostly wrong. The AR had codes for a whopping two characters of PoR out of 50+, and only one of them was truly important. Having a mighty Ike is nice, but if the other characters are still weak, they still fall, and if they fall, they're gone. Ike also can't protect everyone. I got an AR for my DSi, and I have absolutely no complaints about it. It let me input codes to max all my characters health (and drop enemies Health, too), with a button push, and also not use up weapons and items. I found Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon to be great fun, whith the DSi's AR, but PoR isn't playing as nice, because the AR for Game Cube is immutable; you cannot add anything to it, even though I have found AR codes for PoR on GC, and it was a GameCube exclusive, as I remember.
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So, in summation, while it does work, and I suppose works fine, it may not have what you want, and it won't let you add it, even if you later do find it. It doesn't come out and tell you that, so you might not know it, especially with the DS/DSi version, and the PSP version, both being perfectly easy to add new games, and new codes, too. Go ahead and buy it, but you might want to do some research, and see if any site will tell you what games are on it, and the codes it carries for them.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Waste of money
Comment: My 10 year old son purchased this with his own money and was VERY disappointed. He bought it for use on the WII but didn't realize that it can only be used with a few "preset" codes. No new codes can NOT be added and the games he wanted to use it with were not even listed on the device. It was a total waste of his hard earned money. Don't bother with it!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: This product is a piece of crap
Comment: This action replay is a piece of crap unlike the older editions for this version you cannot input your own codes. BEWARE!!! of action replay version 1.2

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Customer Rating:
Summary: GameCube Action Replay
Comment: My sons ages 10 and 12 play the game. The 10 year old rated it a 5 while the 12 year old rated it a 4.5. It helps you to beat games if you are struggling.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Preset kills product
Comment: The only thing that disappointed me about this was that you can't enter in your own codes. It's stuck with preset ones.

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