GameShark for Windows 95: The PC Game Enhancer
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Datel released the PC Action Replay cheat device in 1998, complete with VHS tape and parallel port dongle. It was awful. Didn't stop them from bringing it to the USA in the form of the PC Game Shark!
● Here's the LGR Oddware episode about the Action Replay:
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Receiving many of the same questions like "Does the UK version work, what's inside the dongle, what does the add code button do?" etc
Keep in mind that _this is a follow-up_ to the Oddware episode where I talked about the device more in-depth. Many of your questions are answered there :)
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As for the "add code" button, that's for adding code patch files from the long-dead PC GameShark web server. It is not for activating existing codes.
nice 1 mil you chunky boy
LGR, I dare you to install Windows Neptune on your PC and try it!
Does the UK version work?
@@pixiepandaplush and Allan postet the right one
LGR 4ffgy
I can imagine the disappointment buying this piece of crap back in the 90s, then see the tiny games list, THEN none of the cheats actually work because wrong version and you don't have internet access.
You actually made my cry again remembering my past...
So, the big thing was, like the Game Genie on NES, you could add your own codes. You could go out and buy books full of codes to enter for other games.
Not only you bought something that won't work maybe unless with the other codes another poster talked about, you paid actual money you could have spent on a game. Idk really how much this costed back in the day but any value is a lot when it's for nothing
@@kainhighwind2 Yeah, I might still have some cheat books, even.
Especially if a relative or family member got it for you because your friend brought over his game genie and you loved it.... That's how they sold this, hoping returns would be minimal!
Damn dude, Green Giant does not appreciate you cheating
It couldn't swim with the sharks I guess
told us its fixed but not what happened if he knew what caused it..i mean not many survive a shark attack.
Still too lazy to do anything about it.
@@theabhominal8131 maybe its an upcoming video
@@shukterhousejive Those waters are really dangerous...
The tape could be in a museum for people who haven't experienced late '90s EXTREME-ness.
"Please refrain from sending unnecessary advice." - I can't do that Clint. did you check the wires? probably the wires.
The woman in the video is Luisa Bradshaw-White - she's an actress who's a regular on the BBC soap "Eastenders" :)
I remember her in Bad Girls
Kira from This Life!
Wow how you remember and recognize all this?
@@warpspeeddontrainbowreadme9179 It's not that hard
Oh hey Alan, I see you're a man of knowledge as well 👋
TRY TO STOP ME NOW VAC!
[SHARK BANNED]
You get stopped by VAC?
GABEN! *Gabe hits you with the ban hammer*
@@coffee115 O O F
VAC works?
Must be the computer game equivalent of the Mandela Effect .. the cheat utility is looking for different code from a different timeline..
I'm glad you got the Green Giant fixed. I was prepared to levy several paragraphs of unwanted and mostly useless tips and things to try.
Crashie-J I would if I had one laying around.
"Have you tried turning it off then on again?"
@@GuardianTam "The button? Is it glowing? ... You do know what a button looks like, don't you?"
I don’t know if I’d still be alive had it not been for your channel. The amount of games I’ve gotten from your seal of approval is massive
I guess the Lazy Green Giant was just living up to it's name.
It was planning on getting around to turning on, just not right now
Its*
Oh wow, that introductory VHS tape with that very 90s video editing…
Also, I just noticed this video feels like a classic LGR video! Kinda like when Linus Tech Tips does his "classic" unpacking videos!
Your pfp is
:awesome: , lmao
Clint, why don't you call support?
good joke
I actually called the number to register software once, the guy said hes never heard that phone ring before.
@@im160bpmplus Hahah, he sat there for 15 years straight waiting for it to ring
as usual with these things probably now it is just a phone sex line
@@im160bpmplus Did you call WinRAR headquarters?
The only cheat disc I remember using was the Codebreaker and Action Replay of some sorts for PS2. Using these cheat devices/discs on PC just feels wierd to me.
Had a gameshark for gameboy/color myself
I had the PS2 version and the Gamecube version. I remember using the PS2 version to do crazy stuff like removing all the water in GTA San Andreas and then using it to flood the whole of map, good times :)
@Michael - I once got my name in one of those magazines. I sent in a cheat for The Sims on PS2 that they didn't know about and they printed it with a thank you to me and they sent me a free game!
@Michael O Callaghan Oh yes! PS magazines with demo discs too! God, I miss those...
Agreed. Most games have this thing called a console.
@Michael O Callaghan MediEvil&TR3 on demo disc with ocean themed menu and awsome song :D
Gameshark was a big part of my childhood and I only just now realized that the shark logo is in the shape of a stylized "G"
Ah yes, Recoton. They actually bought STD (yes, that was their name) holdings in 1995, and STD was the parent company of InterAct. The whole history of the Action Replay/Game Shark relationship and interact’s weird business dealings is really fascinating.
Dude, glad to see one of these made its way to you. It’s too bad none of the codes worked. I bet it needs specific versions of the games to work. If I remember correctly, you were able to download updated codes off their site back in the day. On a side note, the music they used in those GameShark and Action Replay VHS’ is the most late 90s music possible.
I recall Recoton for a lot of crappy A/V equipment.
@@thedutchgulcher4750 _AVGN intensifies_
@@ChristopherSobieniak Oh wow, yeah! I had a Recoton wireless 900Mhz wireless headphones back in the 90's! It wasn't very good, but it had better range than bluetooth does now. After I hacked the transmitter with an outdoor antenna it's great for mowing in the yard, still today. Only now its coupled with an Acoustic Research headphones receiver.
Didn't STD make video cards at the end of the 2D era? I want to say STD Nitro or something, but I could be confusing them with Diamond.
@@emprsnm9903 Damn!
Did you try turning your PC off and then on again? ;)
Gotta love the face-melting framerate on the software-rendered Forsaken gameplay. Wow, such speed.
PLS rip the VHS tape for everyone to see online
You do the best videos (beautiful radio voice) and your content is the most interesting.
Dongle is a funny word.
Fondle my dongle
@@coolguy-xd1bg Apple employees?
Expand dongle.
"Please insert the dongle into your port!" --LGR
Dongle Dongle
Whoa, whoa, whoa...hold the _phone_ ! There was a GameShark for PC, and I'm just _NOW_ finding out about it?
yep i never see this in pc magazine in the good old days lol
There were a bunch of different versions of Gameshark. You have a version 2.1 meaning some of the trainers are for patched versions of the games and not stock installations. Version 3.0 had a larger library as well, with about 43 games compared to the 17 or so of version 2.1
Loved getting a look at this, have been a collector of Game Shark 🦈 stuff an never seen this . Sorry to hear the lazy green giant was experiencing technical difficulties 🖖🏻 .. tho Iam sure you’ll get it up an running soon. Enjoyed
Even though I grew up watching VHS it still looks so weird and prehistoric now,
YOUR MOMMA LOOKS PREHISTORIC.
@@Weird.Dreams Aww how cute second grade insults
The weird thing is, gameshark was a perfectly functional product for consoles.
Which consoles? Not the Playstation, I had that one and it didn't do anything.
@@sheepboy32785 1st generation PlayStation, PlayStation 2. The model that had the memory card slot device. Always worked like a charm.
Yup, worked perfectly fine for PS1s, Saturns, and PS2s for me as well growing up
Probably because they were developed by two completely different companies. InterAct made the console GameSharks; when they wanted to cash in on the PC market, it was cheaper for them to buy the US distribution rights for the Action Replay from Datel. There's also the fact that console games tended to have fewer updates and patches, so memory addresses remained relatively constant - not the case for PC games.
Yeah, even though PC games are not region locked, they usually had US and UK/EU versions, with slight code changes, and the fact that PC games were usually patched a few times during their lifetime, can indeed break these cheat code engines.
Be kind! Rewind, Clint!
Wow it's nice seeing the Packer Bell back, it's been a while.
Also super rad video man!
Watching a 320x200 game in 3840x2160.
yeah....
XD
At least you're watching the graphics being rendered correctly.
Back then having the graphics as they were supposed to be was not exactly guaranteed, specially if you had a cheap 3D accelerator like a S3 virge or matrox, or god forbid an AT3D.
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@@Speedojesus you're a twat
@@HappyBeezerStudios True. But it falls apart for console games.
320x224 is a pain.
256x224 is even worse.
anything which outputs 576 lines is going to be a nuisance too.
Especially because the consoles that output 256x224 still output it with a 4:3 aspect ratio.
Worse is the PAL ones that have even weirder aspect ratios.
Still, The NTSC pixel aspect ratio for 256x224 is 7:6 (the PAL pixel aspect is 25:18) - that means if you scale the image non-uniformly you can use integer scaling and still maintain the aspect ratio.
256x7 = 1792 and 224x6 = 1344
And because of the prime number factor, you have to jump to 14x and 12x scaling...
None of these numbers are particularly great.
And if you have to support both PAL and NTSC aspect ratios you're looking at a lowest common multiple scaling factor of something like 175x in one direction and 108 in the other...
Some of these resolutions are just... Nasty.
See, if you had an actual 320x240 image you can scale that up by 3x and get 960x720, which works fine in HD.
But a lot of resolutions are weirder than that.
Even 320x200 is awkward.
Although that PAL SNES I mentioned, with it's 25:18 pixels, actually means that 256x200 is a 16:9 resolution.
Except, good luck scaling that up using an integer factor...
@EtikaArchiveNetwork your TV should upscale it to 4k?
I haven’t seen the game shark logo in so long! Nice video
Lazy green giant, noooo!
Rest in peace...
He said he already fixed it.
@@cvtt3194 Reading is for pussies!
And lazy people.
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It's also a very dusty green giant in this episode. Very strange ^^
@@hamstrungharry259
And I am nothing if not lazy :P
It's minor but I loved that you showed video and audio of the cassette tape being put into the VHS player. I haven't heard those sounds for a while.
the N64 gameshark was so fun too use..
that goldeneye paint ball cheat was great
Wait wait wait... you do not need a Game Shark for the paintball code lol
you could just unlock the cheats by doing stuff, at-least it made the game more interesting.
Nowadays, you have to buy cheats and other unlockable extras, now most commonly known as DLC... sad times...
My friends older brother beat Goldeneye all levels difficulties and cheat unlocked by beating all the 00 par times and he unlocked the options to increase/decrease enemy damage, health, accuracy, and reaction time.
Poor Lazy Green Giant, happy to know it was just a minor issue though! And also happy to see this Action Replay saga continue, I was curious to see if it actually worked with a properly localized version!
That 90's trend of games about small vehicles populating man-sized hallways.
Trivia from the UK for you Clint! I'm 95% sure the actor in the CD-ROM video is UK soap star Luisa Bradshaw-White, currently playing a main character in one of the UK's biggest TV soaps, Eastenders. Big fan of your vids, thanks!
And the chap doing the voiceover on the video sounds like the one who voices all of those JML adverts.
Never knew about PC version of GameShark, though people use CheatEngine or hex editors?
Or differecence between US and European version of PC games for that matter, though it was only consoles thing...
Many did. But when you're gaming experience and knowledge comes from Mom taking you to Wal-Mart, you buy the Gameshark.
@@TheTrout9000 harsh but true words
just replace "mom taking you to the Wall-Mart" with "living behind Iron Curtain and Soviet Union Collapse yesterday and you have no good source of informations what people play these days"
I think they key difference between US and EU version is that the EU versions usually tend to have support for multiple languages added in while US releases only really need to support English - that can make some slight differences. Nowerdays, that's thankfully not an issue anymore.
Yeah, I grew up with a gameshark for the PS1 and 2, but never knew such a thing was for the PC. ...and with what I know now, I'm scratching my head, wondering what was the point beyond a cash grab for those wanting it easier? Even with a few console cases, it wasn't necessary, depending on what the button codes were like for the game in question.
@@gimok2k5 i think its a bit bigger than slight differences. to my understanding even something as small as adding language options can offset memory locations for everything in the game. like adding a card to a card deck, the 5th card is no longer the 5th card.
That Creative PC-DVD woke so many memories. I got Creative DVD encore with DXR2 on Dec 31st 1997 for about $330, played the bundled "Captain Claw" and Wing Commander IV, run three 15 meter cables from my room to the living room, connected the TV to the DXR2 card, went to the video club which had thousands videotapes but less than 20 DVDs, rented 2 of them and it was the most amazing experience! Standalone DVD players costed two to three times more.
8:41 owen wilson "wow" xD
@LGR This is AWESOME Finally get to see my favorite game on your Channel, StarCraft and to top it off, not only did I see it on your channel but I saw it on the exact same Packard Bell Machine my parents purchased in 1998!!!
Gameshark... God they helped back in the day when things got annoying. :) Not the pc version obviously.
The way Clint said "Can't find dongle, please insert the dongle into your port!" will have me cackling for days.
Ah, got to love the international rebrandings.
Nikku4211 "This Action Replay... a Gameshark! This Lucifer's Call... a Nocturne!"
Did they think "action replay" was too sedate for the US market or something I wonder? "Make it sound like GameGenie, only more dangerous! Sharks are better than genies, right?"
@@me2olive The GameShark brand was already in use in the USA by InterAct for their console based cheat cartridges; they wanted to expand into PC gaming too, but lacked the skills or expertise to do so. InterAct bought the US distribution rights to the Action Replay from Datel and changed the branding to cash in on the GameShark legacy in the US.
@@gwishart Are you sure they weren't already doing that? According to wikipedia, all the pre-Mad Catz Game Shark devices (Gameboy, PlayStation, Saturn etc.) are just Datel Action Replays released under license. It's pretty obvious when you look at the N64 Game Shark cart, it looks identical to the N64 Action Replay, and it was a fairly unique design.
You’re videos always make me go out and find retro gear from my childhood and I’m not mad
That's weird, I only remember Game Shark as the name of a GBA emulator and cartridge. It had the same logo. Back in middle school I was a pokémon master swiming in pokédollars as I was the only person in school who had the extremely tedious to catch Feebas. I bred and traded it to complete the pokedex. Until someone with a game shark showed up and cornered the market with cheated shiny Jirachi.
I had a GameShark for PS2 back in the day. I remember seeing Action Replays available for the DS as well, but I never tried them.
Maaaaan, your videos take me BACK!!! I remember the Game Shark. A friend of mine used to have one. I remember having infinite ammo on some of the FPS games he had. The 90s were a great decade to be a kid.
The best of GameShark it's the radical 90's logo design :D
Big up man, love your content. Thanks for all of your effort! And congratulations on hitting 1 million, weren't you just talking about that the other day in your end of year summary?
Yes I reached a million some time ago :) The year-end video was talking about how that happened back in 2018.
Guffaw, I guess I should have payed more attention! And thanks for your reply! @@LGR
congrats on 1mil subscribers!
4:33 Wow, that VCR looks so nice, and so does that little Trinitron TV.
Hey, i'm the one who told you about this on twitter, haha
Glad to see it arrived in good shape!
Love that video's presentation, too, Clint. It's pure 90s goodness. I never got GameShark for PC or anything, but did buy a Game Genie for NES. I did see them all over Walmart.
*Behold, The all* *_"new"_* *Gameshark* *_(Sharks not included)_*
Future computer historians are going to love you for going over minute details even for the most pointless and redundant software! Someone is going to write their computer PhD thesis on something incredibly niche like Computer Game Cheating in the late 20th century and will use this video as a primary source hundreds of years from now. You’re doing invaluable work!
I remember when this thing came out in the late 90s...pretty much garbage. Magazine writers pointed out that it didn't work right, had very few codes even for the games it WOULD work with and since cheat codes were common (IDDQD, anyone?) it was unnecessary. Curiously, I bought a later release (it was marked down to maybe 10 cents at the local Electronics Boutique), but it was in a standard jewel case and no dongle. I seem to recall it working with out the dongle, but ultimately it wouldn't work right. Still have one for the Dreamcast, since you can use that to play imports.
Does the console one work well? I remember seeing videos about it on the PS2 and GameCube
still have an action replay for my cube. worked fine.
@@gabrielmalta1962 I never had any real problems with the console versions (other than the N64 cart version). There were two Dreamcast versions; one had a dongle that was in essence a glorified memory unit and I recall, a VHS tape :). The version I still have is the second version which was sold without a dongle or VHS, and is called a GameShark Lite because of it. You just use your own memory unit with it. There was a version for the original PlayStation that plugged into the I/O port on the back. With the last versions of the OG PS1 Sony eliminated the port (there was a device that could use that same port to create a "safer" way to use the ol' swap trick, so Sony cut it). I still have that version and it works great! There was also one for the Sega Saturn I had, but since I have a 5-in-1 that has the same functions and then some, I gave it to my nephews in the late 90s.
I never tried the GameCube version of the GameShark, but I did used to have the version for the PS2. I had no problems with it. The aforementioned N64 version? I had given my nephews my old one in the early 2000s, and they tried it with Super Smash Bros. The GS crashed and I could never get it working for them again. Reports online at the time suggested that was a common occurrence.
Other than that, never had any real problems with the console versions.
@@theodorerelic2718 interesting how the console version seems to be mostly fine but the PC one just fails to do any of the things it promises
@@gabrielmalta1962 Seemed to me that the development team for them at Datel wasn't used to working on PCs.
Oh, the joy of seeing a new LGR video pop up on my feed!
Man I would love to have that sony trinitron tv damn that is cool.
Thank you so much for showing gameplay footage of Forsaken! Maybe you've shown this game before, but I've been trying to figure out what it is for at least a decade now, based on some vague childhood memories of playing it.
Well, damn.
So much for the LGG... :/
As for the Game Shark, it falls in line with the ProHance Power Mouse, what a silly thing.
"A silly thing indeed, and very much odd, which is why I just talked about it." lolz
He mentioned it was fixed in the video.
I remember going through lists of codes on the internet back in the day testing for working ones with the PS Gameshark. Sucked but when you found the working ones for games that didnt have cheat codes it was like finding buried treasure 😉
Gameshark? More like Gameshart, am I rite lolololol.
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I'll get my coat.
Don't let the door hit you on the way out
GameShart? More like Bore Ragnarok!
Boooo!!!! **throws stuff**
SHART XING
@@birdfan0416 leave your coat
Man, for years I've been trying to track down an ancient, similar product for the PC that I remember my aunt having back when she was playing Sorcerian, when that was new and fresh. Basically allowed you to edit the memory as you were playing, tracking down your health value and freezing it, for instance, or editing your gold, XP, etc. in games that had those.
I remember it having a peripheral with a single red button for actually going into memory editing mode.
It's not cheating, it is for exploration!
Nice... they give you the excuses as well :x
What!! Different background music?! Oh, man we love your choices of those smooth jazz music; bring them back please.
Could have been worse, you could have got a loan from a Loan Shark.
You should patch the games to the newest patch that was out around the release of the product, might help! Keep up the awesome videos man, always brings a smile to my face seeing a notification from you. Also your more than welcome to put you dongle in my port ANYTIME. I mean ANYTIME.
The video on the tape was brutal.
I'm curious if Dune 2000 was tried. As far as I remember it didn't have much post-release support.
Windows shark do-do-do-do-do-dooo
Hahahahaha
Game Shark do-do-do-do-do-doooo
lol made me laugh my kids so so love that bloody song, but at least it works unlike the softwhere
ruclips.net/video/R93ce4FZGbc/видео.html
At least we got to see Action Replay lady again, seeing that familiar face made me chuckle
Interesting. I had a GameShark for Gameboy, and every single code/item worked perfectly. There was no way to patch or update the ROM in a gameboy cartridge at the time, so there was only one version of machine code that they had to target for cheat codes. Not true of PC games of the era, where you'd get an update whenever. I imagine trying to keep on top of the latest patches of this and that was an unholy nightmare. All it takes is a small code change, and your compiler decides to rearrange items and that would break the patching addresses for your gameshark. Low budget and scope of the product probably turned it into a dummy project that the marketing team felt they had to sell anyway. Dongle is 100% copy protection for sure. You'd have to have pretty sophisticated hardware in it to turn it into an actual trainer, whereas everything necessary for modifying software already exists without the dongle.
I had a GameShark for the N64 back in the day and it worked flawlessly. Never was into PC gaming back then. It was a cartridge that you plugged the game into and then put both into the N64. Brings back memories!
You can actually screw up the N64 GS. The only way to reset it is with Goldeneye. I think a few other titles work as well.
I remember gameshark for playstation 2. lol I love modding GTAV on PC now and love ps4.
I remember I had the action replay for my DS and I loved it, never had an issue with it, but that would have been like a decade (or more) after this product.
It's amazing how useless this thing is. I remember having the Gameshark pro for my original PlayStation and it was awesome. Being able to make your own cheats was pretty cool. Took a bit of time to learn, but once you did it changed the game.
Thanks again for your videos! this is the only channel where i always hit the like button, BEFORE i watch it.. and i never had to take it back. ;)
Thanks Clint!
greetings from Germany.
Luisa Bradshaw strikes again, I wondered what she acted in after Grange Hill and This Life, now I know.
She was in Bad Girls also
She also played "prostitute #3" in The Bill.
thank you for making it feel like i didn't miss out on anything in my childhood. you've cleared up my fomo.
Hold on, they got Warlords 3? Freaking awesome Warlords 3? I need this Software.
Clint, did you try turning it off and on again? That's all I learned from Roy and Moss from IT Crowd.
But Starcraft already has cheats......?
exactly...
Just gotta say man, that trinitron you played the vhs tape on is seeexy
had something like this for gameboy advance, i remember it had a black button you could press that would help you find memory cache for whatever you were looking for. like if i lost health with pikachu, press button, then lose health again.... repeat until one memory string was left.... then you could change it to FF for infinite health. you could also use it to change colors on pokemon and do all kinds of 'mods'
addressing your pinned comment and thinking of you saying the patron's giving tips on videos helps: Showing an image of the inside when you mention would've been rad.
I want to play Starcraft now.
I never ever had enough gas in that game
That directions sticker on the Packard Bell!!! I can imagine people turning their pc down via the power button and the OS completely dying in a matter of few days...
Man, putting a GPU in like ANY packard bell is next to impossible.
Reeeeee
I had an old PC into the early 2000s that was an HP where the power supply died on it. It was impossible to access and fully encased. In retrospect I probably could have figured out how to open it. But I didn't. I had this weird frankenstein looking thing lying on its side with another power supply sitting on top connected to all the components, case open for years. I salvaged the supply from another old PC that broke. Good times.
I remember the action replay for the Nintendo DS. Cool video, Clint.
You need to run the program "as administrator", that's probably what wrong x D
Windows 95/98 didnt have admin restrictions out of the box iirc.
@@meetoo594 lol yeah probably not
@@meetoo594 I think he was joking, as thats the catch-all for help advice nowadays. True though, the DOS kernel (win9x-ME) didn't have execution privilages like the NT kernel (win2000-10) does.
@@emprsnm9903 Yeah i know, I was a bit slow that day lol
I'm glad you made this video, now gameshark will need to make sure their future cheat software is up to par!
Gameshark cheated you
Its still neat to see something from the 90s opened as new.
How about a VHS tape on console commands lol
Maybe that guy from TechnologyCnnections might know how. :P
@@DumDoDoor I love TC's vids and his second channel too! ..but yes, he would be the perfect candidate on VHS.
The Dongle DRM is a very British computing solution to Piracy. Ocean software invented one for the Amega Joystick port to slow down illegal copies of Robocop 3. They had to redesign the device because the original block version had issues connecting to slimline Amegas.
Nowadays we have Cheat Engine.
We'll miss you, Lazy Green Giant.
I had both action replay for ps1 and PC and the both workt and the code's workt, it's wash fun Time. And you wonder if i have dem now,
the anser is no both action replayer's is gone. I Lost them.
LGR almost went RCR with that dongle bit at the end. Almost had him chanting "Hot Dix" for a second there
Gameshark normally for consoles but this thing for pc interesting🤔
now a days we just use cheat engine for most things, but CE is 1000% more powerful and capable than this thing they were selling. i think there was something they didn't fundamentally understand about creating cheats on PC with this product.
yeah it actually works on consoles unlike the ones for PC
You need to buy the gameshark cheat disc which opens up the cheats on the gameshark. Are you saying that you have been cheated by a cheat disc?....the 90's were so lame
Datel just licensed the brand name from the original makers, so it's probably just some crappy cash grab to prey on unsuspecting inexperienced PC gamers at the time
I had action replays on my c64 and Amiga, they were full on hacking and pirating tools contained in a cart that wasnt just a drm dongle. They had built in dissasembler, sprite and sound rippers/editors and memory dump/disk dump pirating utilities. This Gameshark thing is an action replay in name only. Fun fact, Datel released a demo of the dreamcast action replay disk on a magazine coverdisk that contained code for circumventing all the drm in the machine in order to do its stuff, pirates modded the code and created the utopia boot disk to run cd-r`s and open the machine up for pirating. Whoops lol
I remember using "Cheatbook Database" or something in 1999, it had all the codes and as a kid i loved it :) good old days