Action Replay
Brand of video game cheating devices
Action Replay is the brand name of a cheating device (such as cheat cartridges) created by Datel. The Action Replay is available for many computer and gaming systems including Commodore 64, Amiga, IBM PC, 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.
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