Action Replay DS Review

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Nintendo Action Reply is one Nintendo line products specially designed for Nintendo DS, manufactured by Datel. Action Replay DS is the product’s name, it’s used to abbreviated as AS, ARDS, AR. This product can enhance Nintendo DS games and give the player many advantages to obtain. The upgrade version of the software has more user satisfaction by allows players to enter cheat codes through PC application which are copied to the software from USB, compared with earlier versions that forced player to input codes manually directly on Nintendo DS itself.

Action Replay DS can be used as a NoPass device in addition to functioning as a cheat device, just by holding “select” when powering on the DS. The shape is looks like a handphone’s memory card, small and easy to take.

You can find Action Replay DS around the world with the suggested retail price about US$24.99. It’s compatible with Nintendo DS and DS Lite only. But you can try to find newer version of Action Replay DS and read the document of it, I think it should be compatible with Nintendo DSi as well.

To install Action Replay DS on your DS, you can simply take this few steps:

1. Install Action Replay Code manager. This software should be included on a small disc, 1 package with Action Replay DS system.
2. Insert the Action Replay game cartridge into your Nintendo DS and turn it on.
3. Plug the USB into your PC and the other end line into top of your Action Replay game cartridge.
4. Write or copy paste all codes you’d got into Notepad.
5. Save the file (type whatever the filename you want to recognize this code).
6. Before click the Save button, make sure that you save the file with “xml” extension, by type the filename ending with “.xml”. (exp: the filename is “pokemon diamond cheats”, change the filename into “pokemon diamond cheats.xml”)
7. After that, choose this file on Action Replay Code Manager. Open up the file you saved your code in and right-click it.
8. Choose “copy” and go over to your Action Replay Code Manager. On the left screen there should be a huge column with all the codes your Action Replay came preloaded with. Right-click that column and choose “paste”. Pasting this one code on here will have your whole library of preloaded games deleted off of your Action Replay system, don’t freak out! You can easily put the preloaded games back onto your system once you are done with this code by going online with your Code Manager and resubscribe with it.
9. Once your code is added onto your system you can disconnect the USB cable from your Action Replay cartridge, but don’t turn it off just yet. Click the little house logo on your Nintendo DS screen to go back to the main screen.
10. Now click the green button with the little star symbol on it and scroll down to choose your code. Click the green star button again and scroll down to your code. Once again, click the green star button to check-mark the code and then without shutting off your Nintendo DS system take out the Action Replay Cartridge and insert your game cartridge. Once it’s inserted, there should be a new button that says “Start”, click on that button to start up your game!

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