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I bought this game and just as said in all the other bad reviews it did not work properly. I couldn't put in any of the codes off my pc. You could use the cheats that were already programmed in to it, but soon found it messed up the game. There was not a phone # to call, not in this country anyway.I spent hours trying to figure out this and it was useless. It was very frustrating and would advise against buying.
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My 11 year old asked for this specifically. He is always wanting to get cheat codes for his games and this was perfect!! He used it all the time and let other kids borrow it too, very fun!
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Game never worked called company never was able to speak w/live person left messages no call backs. Also sent two e-mails no response. Junk
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I bought two of these for my two kids for Christmas, and each one works perfectly. The boys were so stoked being able to max out their Pokemon on Diamond and Pearl! Whoever said "cheaters never win" obviously didn't use an Action Replay DS for playing Pokemon Diamond. Really was money well spent. As another reviewer put it, they were the Kings of the DS! Given that, I want to try to address some of the complaints I've seen about this excellent product.
I easily installed the software on my computer (Windows XP operating system -- I can't address it's compatibility with Vista or Mac), and easily updated said software by clicking on the "update" icon. Updating the codes on the device itself wasn't as intuitive as I originally thought, though, and I initially couldn't get it to work because my computer couldn't "see" the device. Yes, the instruction booklet could be written more clearly; however, anyone that has more than a nodding acquaintance with computers shouldn't be put off by what is an all-too-common complaint with computer components: poorly written instructions. After I *carefully* reread those instructions it was obvious what my problem was. The Action Replay DS must be inserted in the Nintendo DS (with the cable attached to the device and plugged into a USB slot on your computer) and the Nintendo DS must be then powered on for your computer to "see" it and to enable you to update the device. I'm guessing the small amount of power trickling through the USB connection isn't enough to enable the thing to work, but whatever the case is, you have to have it in a powered-up Nintendo DS for it to update. If your computer can't find the driver for your Action Replay DS, just tell it to search the internet for it and it'll find it for you (it'll find something called "NDS" something or other), then just tell it to install it.
Once you've established connectivity, if you use the software to do a "quick update" it will delete all the codes currently on the Action Replay DS and attempt to replace them with all the codes on codejunkies.com for the Nintendo DS. What you'll find is the hackers at codejunkies.com have been busy writing new cheats for new and old games since your Action Replay DS was packaged. The end result is they have more codes than your Action Replay DS can hold, thus, when you get about 80% of the codes loaded, it'll give you a message along the lines of "update canceled, memory is full" and will stop updating the Action Replay DS. Since it takes several minutes to get to that point, I recommend you only update the codes for those games you actually have. Just peruse the codejunkies US list, and drag the folders for the games you want to the main window, and the software will replace the existing data (if it already exists on the Action Replay DS) with the new data. There are other ways to manage this, too, and I'll leave it to you to read the instructions to find out.
In any case, I'll bet you ten bucks that 99% of the complaints for this are from people who didn't follow the directions. It's OK to complain when something truly doesn't work, but it just makes you look foolish when you didn't even follow the written instructions that came with the thing. Besides, other than smashing it with a hammer, jamming a crayon in the cable socket, or cutting the cable, I'm not sure how you could "break" this thing. Of course, 7-year-olds are prodigies when it comes to breaking things, so I guess I shouldn't speak so fast. Anyway, I hope this all helps someone out there.
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My seven year old got this for Christmas. Without doing any software downloads, he plugged it into his DS and played Pokemon Diamond for a few days without issue. A friend at school told him that he needed to upgrade so that he could get 999 Master Balls. So, with directions in hand, I managed to delete all of the data he had on his system using the "Quick Update" (my gosh, my heart was pounding!) and then had to reload it again. Then it took several tries for us to figure out how to turn the information on in the application before he could have access to it. And I'm pretty computer savvy. You can just unplug the system from the PC when you're done. I was looking for a save or eject button. But once we got it up and running, it worked perfectly and he can get all the health points and extra lives and Rare Candy that he wants. Great codes for Pokemon Diamond and Blue Rescue Team. I just wish the booklet had a quick step-by-step for new users.
Update April 08: For the first three months, he was the life of the party (ok, the bus stop and the after school care program.) Then, suddenly, the Action Replay stopped working. Whenever he would use it with a game, he would get a blank white screen. By now he's eight and is completely out of sorts because it's not working anymore. In my head I'm thinking that I should have listened to the warnings and should never have spend money on this thing. But since he loved it and it made him so happy, I thought I would try to revive it. So I contacted Datel, explained the issue, told that it was a new unit (still within the 90 day warranty) and asked for assistance. They assigned me a case number and I sent the unit to them for repair. Not only did they repair and return the unit within a timely manner, they kept me updated on the status of the unit. These days, Customer Service is everything. My son now has his original unit in perfect working condition and he's happy again. Now we're just waiting for the codes for Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness.
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