Playstation 2 Action Replay Max Evo Edition

by Intec

Product Features

• Enjoy MP3 music via your TV or music system using your PS2
• Play Sega Megadrive game ROMs, or watch DivX movies, on your PS2
• Pack up to 10 times more data onto any memory card, using the MAX Memory Manager
• Online chat and instant messaging - real-time discussion with other Action Replay owners from all over the world

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0002V2AXM
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: August 1, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,072 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

The Action Replay MAX Evo Edition is a powerful cheat code system and video game enhancer that goes a step further than the usual cheat code collections.It comes preloaded with 50,000 cheat codes for the latest and greatest PS2 games. Blast your games wide open with infinite health and ammo, unlock characters, levels, vehicles and more. You can also update with new codes through a PS2 broadband internet connection, USB Flash Drive, CD-R, USB keyboard or standard PS2 game pad.
But what really sets this apart is that you can now burn a CD-R that will function on any standard PlayStation 2 console. Using this new feature, you can create your own custom-made PS2-compatible discs containing MP3 music, movies and even retro Genesis/MegaDrive games. Experience them all through your PlayStation 2, only with Action Replay MAX. Use your PS2 like a multi-region DVD player -- watch movies from other countries Download game-busting PS2 game saves direct to your memory card

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Here's how it is..., May 13, 2006

By 

M. Salakka "restless soul" (Texas) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Playstation 2 Action Replay Max Evo Edition (Video Game)

This product has received a lot of negative reviews due to its tendency to corrupt memory card data. Does it corrupt it? Yes, and no.

ARMAX is good for the very purpose it was originally created: cheating in games. All the extra junk they slapped on it, that's the problem. You see, the disc is loaded with cheats, and so long as you simply pick cheats for your game and then launch the game, you'll be fine.

The troubles begin when you try to use the much-advertised online updating feature (via either the Ethernet connection directly, or via the USB module that comes with the EVO edition) to get more codes. Most of the time, this is precisely what corrupts the existing data on your memory card. Either all of it, or some of it.

What happened to me was that I used ARMAX for over 6 months without any problems or corrupted data. I was playing titles like Final Fantasy X and X-2, which the disc already had lots of codes for, so updating wasn't needed. Then I purchased a newer game, and wanted to download updates for it via my Ethernet connection. Downloading was easy, and installing was automatic. Then I rebooted the ARMAX disc, and it started crashing at the point where it reads codes into memory.

I examined the memory card with the memory card manager in order to try and remove the new codes, so that perhaps ARMAX would at least work with the old ones. However, some data slots had been corrupted, and the memory manager could only remove some of the corrupted data, but not all.

However, not all of my dozens of saves were gone. In fact, it seemed as if only ARMAX-specific data (probably the new code lists) had been corrupted. I had some saves on the memory card that I had put serious hours into, and didn't want to start the games all over again, so I purchased a backup memory card, slid it into slot 2, and handpicked the non-corrupted data slots (the ones with the saves I wanted to keep) and used the copy feature to copy them to the backup card.

Then I formatted the slot 1 card and restarted ARMAX. It is working fine again, and both memory cards are fine. My memory card wasn't rendered unusable, nor were my dozens of saves.

I can always add codes by hand, which is a pain, but you have to think of it this way... This is a good product, when used solely for its bare bones purpose: to allow you to cheat in PS2 games. I can punch in the codes myself for the latest games, or just not cheat at all. In the end, complaining about the product's obvious design flaws doesn't accomplish anything.

Forget about the much-advertised extras, focus on its huge cheat collection, and don't buy the expensive EVO version with the USB module you won't want to use. As for me, I find that ARMAX was worth every cent.

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars the best, February 6, 2005

A Kid's Review

= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Playstation 2 Action Replay Max Evo Edition (Video Game)

it wont glich your sytem like game shark. the web site has the best codes

12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Works great for 1st 3 months, February 7, 2005

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Concerned Consumer (New Hampshire) - See all my reviews

= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Playstation 2 Action Replay Max Evo Edition (Video Game)

Do not purchase. I have bought 2 copies of this and in both instances, it worked for the first 3 months and then wouldn't go online to download codes nor would it even load the codes already stored on the flash card. This rendered both copies useless. Customer service is non-existent both on their website and by phone. When you call them (not toll free), you get an answering maching asking to leave your name and number for someone to call you back. So far, no one has returned my call and I have two $40 coasters now. Stay away, stay very far away from this product or any of their other AR products since I've had similar problems with all of their products.