Product Description: With Action Replay MAX, you can make powerful changes to any PS2 game, just by pushing afew buttons. The easy interface and simple set-up lets you make minor changes or rebuild a game from start to finish! No more code clashes -- Intelligent Codes feature keeps you from activating codes that will interfere instead of help Pack more saved games onto your memory card, or download saved games directly to your PS2 Action Replay MAX even breaks the region coding on DVDs - turning your PS2 into a multi-region DVD player!
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Pretty good cheat program
This is one of the better PS2 cheat systems I've tried. It's not perfect, but it does beat the other major one I have...(I probably can't say the name, but I suppose I can say GS are the initials of the thing).
Pros: Lots of cheats included, and adding cheats manually from their website is pretty simple. If your PS2 is hooked to the internet, you can also just download the cheats. There is also a USB 'flash drive' with software available that lets you download codes to their own special Flash Drive to transfer to the PS2, (purchased seperately), for those who don't wish to muck around with manually entering cheats.
Cons: Like other cheat devices, those writing the cheats don't often do their work properly. You end up with cheats that don't quite work the way they're advertised: (Case in point, the Persona 3 FES code to give you unlimited hitpoints doesn't do anything in fights, your hitpoints will not be unlimited at all, however AFTER a fight, your hitpoints will recover, which is kind of useless). Also, this device loads a bit slowly, though not quite as slow as some others have made it out to be, (It loads in under a minute for me every time).
All that said, this is a handy bit of software to have if you get stuck on a game and really just wanna see the end, or for those like me who replay games a lot, and just find it more fun with cheats when replaying.
Rating: - HORRIBLE
This product works just fine but at what coast may i ask AR MAX comes with many problems like the possible corruption of your memory card and the fact that using it to much on any one game can totaly ruin it because it changes the game itself you can alter the codes to much and say good-bye to your game i used it to much on kingdom Hearts and now the game turns on for about five mins then freezes and shuts down so if you do bye this product keep this in mind the game is worth more than the cheats
Rating: - Platstation 2 Action Replay MAX
I heard about this product looking for PS2 cheat on line. I retired in 2005. Now I enjoy playing video games alot. There are some games that frustrate you because in my case my hand and eye coordination is not as quick as my grandson's LOL. So I have to find a crush, if you will, to help me with the tough parts to some games in order to advance, since my grandson cannot be there all the time LOL. Well I found the solution in this CD. Now my grandsons and I take on the hardest games with confidence. This item is/was worth every penney, and you can connect broadband internet ethernet on the back of you PS2 insert a flash drive to the front of the PS2 and download the updates automatically or manually, depending on your personal setting. We love this CD. One word of warning, this disk is sold to work only in the region you are in(ie,USA, Europe,Asia etc) as does your electronic(PS2, Tv etc) it will not work in other regions electronic etc. So when and if you decide to buy this CD make sure it is the one compatible with the region you live in or you will do like me and mail it back for the correct one. Have fun I know you will, we did and are still.
Rating: - AR Max to the max
Helps immeasurably in getting past those pesky impassable spots in games that just put your blood pressure through the roof.
Rating: - Codebreaker and AR Max are both great
The Good: Interface is great, incredibly easy to use, comes preloaded with a bunch of codes already for use. DVD Region support, in which I have had zero problems with.
The Bad: The Codejunkies website. This is where you will go to grab codes for games that you bought that may not be preloaded into AR Max. The site CAN be extremely unreliable, and there is no other website you can use to get the codes that you desire. So if the site is down...sorry. Another bad is the amount of codes compared to Codebreaker...just wow there really is no comparison, there are just that many more codes for codebreaker.
The Ugly: The Memory manager. Just to test it I backed up some saves on another memory card. Took a clean memory card and "crushed" (which is like a compressing tool) some saves, yes it saved room but I also half the files I crushed became corrupt.
Why this is on Par with codebreaker: There are tools out on the net that will let you convert codes over from v6 - v7 codebreaker to AR Max Format and visa versa. Without these I would go codebreaker, even taking in account the benefits with AR Max.
Words from the Wise: As with any cheat device, make sure that you back up your games first before you start using codes. Some codes as with any device can really mess some things up and even cause loss of your original save!!
- Pretty good cheat program
- HORRIBLE
- Platstation 2 Action Replay MAX
