Customer Reviews

PS2 Action Replay with 16 Meg Memory

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This product has been satisfactory, thus far, but I had some difficulty in getting Action Replay MAX to recognize any of my 3 USB flash drives. This was a big problem, as the only reason I bought this program was to copy save games from the internet to my memory cards. Anyway, after doing some sleuthing on the web, I came across some instructions that worked perfectly for me on the first try!

(courtesy of Stone14 on the [...] forums, with a few of my edits)

These directions assume Windows XP (although they should be remarkably similar for other editions of Windows)

"you can use ANY size, brand, and style of USB flash drive (I'm using my mp3 usb drive) as long as

1. it's plug and play and

2. you follow these semi-simple steps to format your flash drive so that your ps2 will see it.

1 insert drive onto computer

2 click on start/settings/control panel

3 go to administrative tools

4 double click on computer management

5 click on storage/disk management(local)

6 find your flash drive (BE ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN THAT IT'S YOUR FLASH DRIVE)

7 right click on the area that says your flash drive's name AND has a blue stripe above it

*8 delete partition ((it will tell you that you'll lose all of your data stored on the drive)(hence why i said to make absolutely certain that the drive you're clicking on is in fact your usb flash drive)

9 right click on the now unallocated space where your drive was before

10 create new partition: in the popup it will give you some options; volume label, file system, allocation unit size, perform a quick format

11 volume label doesn't matter, file system has to be fat, allocation unit size has to be 16k, and you choose weather to quick format or not (I did just so you know)

12 after it's done just plug it into your ps2 usb port and away you go!!!!"

* - You may not have to delete the partition manually--I didn't. I just went right to the 'format' option when I right clicked on the area with the blue strip. All you really are trying to do is format your flash drive to FAT file system and allocation unit size of 16k. That's it!

I hope these instructions help someone out there. You DON'T have to buy the Action Replay flash drive in order to transfer files...your flash drive will work, but you have to be willing to reformat it to FAT (which WILL erase all of the files on it, so move them or back them up first BEFORE you click 'format')

I bought this item used for under $20 and it was well worth the price. I have so far used this item on 5 different video games and have not received one problem yet. All you need to do is just choose the codes for the game you want to play after being instructed to switch the AR disc with the chosen game disc. It only takes less than a couple of minutes for the game to start with the selected codes which is compared to the hours it takes to complete a single game. The memory card has a mega storage capacity for saving whatever you accomplish in any game. The only drawback is even though it has a ton of codes for many of the games that have been released, I would like to see them add codes for the games that are being released this year. Otherwise, I have no other complaints since, this cheat system has done everything I was hoping it would do and, has saved me a lot of frustration and time. This is a great addition to the playstation 2 console.

Works great! I am using the AR Max to transfer edits from my Fire Pro PS2 game to the Fire Pro Club site on line and downloading others edits to my PS2 system. I have had no problems at all with it. AR Max does exactly what it is supposed to do.

I have no idea if this works with the newer, slim-line PS2s, but I know for a fact it doesn't work for the older models. It says it nowhere on this page, nowhere on the box, nowhere in the instruction manual. The only time you find out that the $25 product won't work for you is when you call the customer service number. Not only that, but my system has not worked properly since trying to run the software. If it's worked for some people on here, I'm glad to hear it. But in my personal experience, it's a 100% hunk of junk.

I saw this in the store one day and, off the cuff, decided to buy it. The Action Replay cheat device for the PlayStation 1 worked well, and since I found that one so useful, I figured I'd give its "sequel" a try.

Looking back, it was a waste of money. A lot of money, considering. It usually takes about a half an hour (sometimes it takes so long I just give up) before the game stops spitting back a "disk read error" message at me and loads the disk. That's half an hour of standing around by the PS2 pressing the eject button again and again and again. It's really quite infuriating. And then, once it finally works, there's a long enough load time for you to take a potty break, or two, or three, or maybe go out for coffee.

In addition, there aren't very many codes for this device, and a lot of them don't work anyway. ...On the plus side, the memory card's nice. *cough*

My advice? Get a Codebreaker. That one actually works.

Okay I have broke down and finally purchased the cheat engine to beat a game of mine and of course I wasted money.. Doesn't cover game, connected to internet to UPDATE games and it freezes every time or starts skipping (Which not one scratch or smudge on the disc) Customer Support does not exist which is quite funny.. Website not one bit helpful.. All in all Id say I purchased and 54 dollar change box lol!!! I will gladly post any info needed to prove this is 100% real and not just hating on the product or company!

First off automatic game recognition doesn't know ANY game I own (though it's supposed to) so I had to scroll to find the game. Anyway I followed the directions word for word, action for action and when the game loaded I got a message asking me to insert a PS2 memory card to play the game. Well come to find out it destroyed my card. And I don't mean ruined or corrupted save files, I mean the memory card was sterilized and the PS2 doesn't even acknoweledge the card being inserted, so it's basically just a piece of plastic now. This was SO nice to find out because this was the really expensive PS2 memory card (Sony brand too) and it had ALL of my game data from EVERY PS2 game I've ever bought since the PS2 came out in the United States. Everything is gone... everything. Final Fantasy, Dragonball Z, and everything else.

Thanks Datel!!!!!

Works perfectly, don't let anyone tell you anything different! THE ONLY CON is that it doesn't accept RAW FORMAT codes. Other than that, its great for hacking games like Kingdom Hearts 2!

My question is this: What version, if any, of the PS2 is this thing compatible with? It won't work on my newer model of the PS2, and it will not work on my friends older model. And, yes, our PS2's are the U.S. consoles. Until Armax changes the label on the package from "For PS2" to "For (specified) version of the PS2" this will continue to be flagrant FALSE ADVERTISEMENT.

This is a great gift and i recommend it to anyone who still has a ps2 and needs help with their games thank you this was an awesome product!! :)