Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: Ed Federmeyer Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.freetalk,scee.yaroze.freetalk.dutch,scee.yaroze.freetalk.english,scee.yaroze.freetalk.german Subject: Re: Action Replay Cartridge Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 19:26:32 -0500 Organization: SCEA News Server Lines: 40 Message-ID: <35A2BCB8.3462C182@mw.3com.com> References: <6kjrhq$lev13@chuka.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: charlie.cns.iit.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (WinNT; I) Xref: chuka.playstation.co.uk scea.yaroze.freetalk:804 scee.yaroze.freetalk.dutch:17 scee.yaroze.freetalk.english:1368 scee.yaroze.freetalk.german:26 Maurice Sibrandi wrote: > Does anyone know where I can buy an Action Replay cartridge with PC-Comms > Link. Preferably a online-store or post-order company. You can leave out > Datel, because I already checked them. Can anyone explain the whole story of the "Game Shark" to me? How do "Datel", "InterAct", "Rocket Game Products", "Action Replay", "Game Shark", "Shark Link", "Comms card" all relate to each other? (As well as any other bits I'm missing.) Are these companies related to the original "Game Genie" company that made Game Genies for the NES/SNES/Genesis/GameBoy/GameGear/(other systems?) (Wasn't it CodeMasters, the makers of the current Micro Machines game on the PlayStation?) On the Rocket Game Products web page http://www.rocketgameproducts.com they seems to have Game Sharks and Shark Links for sale, which seem alot like the Action Replay and Comms Card, but different (Comms card seems to be a PC ISA card, and the Shark Link seems to connect to the PC's parallel port). But they also seems to mention somewhere that "Game Shark" is a trademark of "InterAct". Why then are both (all three? Maybe more?) companies selling "Game Sharks"? Can I use the ARS type Yaroze software with a "Shark Link" rather than the "Comms Card"??? What is the difference between ARS and "Nice ARS"? Are there other fast-download solutions along these lines? Can anyone from Sony comment on whether these products are considered "good" or "bad" (whatever those might mean!) Whats the company line on these kinds of 3rd party peripherals? If someone could write a nice, clear, complete picture of this seemingly grey area, that would be very cool! Please help clear this confusion up for me!!! EdF