A good cheat apparatus; Action Replay poor.

After arriving quietly in my mailbox, in the basic package amazon, I open the cardboard box, and there first surprise; contrary to what is marked in the object descriptions, Datel has finally abandoned the development of a Mac driver and therefore this AR is, like all previous models, via Windows compatible only.

So I installed the software via my Windows VMWare virtual machine, and then another surprise; you must enter a serial number, and email address, to use AR. And that's when you realize that this AR is in fact a pretext by Datel to show that they are still active pending TRUE 3DS AR as we like, like the Action Replay DS and GameCube for example. Understand by this that you are not free, as with the old AR, change the RAM of your game to do everything and anything; this is only a backup editor. And again; unlike the Japanese publisher cybergadget backup or jenesaisplustropquoi, leaving the player the opportunity to do what he wants with his backup, you do not have that préfournis codes Datel for some basic stuff. Exit therefore the codes that anyone could create with a little experience, and farewell support for absolutely every game by fan communities; you will here that codes for the biggest games, and certainly as Datel says, there is a good ten thousands of codes available, when you know 831 x 2 is intended exclusively for Pokemon X / Y that ALL of animal crossing NL furniture is available via one by one these codes (1 furniture / clothes / other = 1 code), you see that it amounts to the final very few. And especially height of Fluff, the fact that AR can be used qu'online means that in ten years it will be completely USELESS! Forget, if you buy this camera, refuel super candy has the time or the 4DS jenesaisquoi your Powersaves will become useless. Anyway.

Besides powersave in itself, it comes with a mini USB to USB cable, a manual that contains the serial number and the box. Besides, do not believe the huge fraud on the box that contains exactly the same description that the AR DS saying that you can have "ammunition to the endless lives to the endless" etc., which is absurd because now the cartridge can not be changed (obviously) only when it is out of the console. So, admittedly, you can fill your life bar or ammo chargers, but I can not see me "use the powersave-play-empty my-back-chargers use the powersave-play" etc etc ...

The mini USB to USB cable is also provided in the worst imaginable quality, very frequent disconnections, very slow; Fortunately, it is simple to find the cables of a reasonable quality quite cheap nowadays.

For the number of the series, that means it is simply unthinkable to buy used Powersave; not even imagine saving a few euros by taking a used even once, you can not use it, unless the previous owner regains its serial number (which is quite likely) and gives you his email address (which is less likely).

For the manager code, it is ... very average. No search, frequent bugs (either crash or via the fact to tell me, from time to time, without reason, that my serial number is invalid), and although it is not because of the particular software, servers plant regularly. Fortunately there is an Automatic Backup, which is extremely useful.

Furthermore, I want to clarify that what irritates me most with this Action Replay, Datel is that voluntarily restrained the AR either because they were bribed by Nintendo (which I think is unlikely) or because they Nintendo afraid of reaction (which seems rather unlikely given me that they did with previous models). The best example, in my opinion, is with Diancie / Floette the AZ / Lati @ sites. Upon discovery of these, they were available (finally good to me, they could add Hoopa and Volcanion, but hey, we will pass on the subject ...). Suddenly, for no apparent reason, they were deleted. No possibility to re-inject these three things in the game. It took over a month for the lati @ sites are discounts at disposal, and we had to wait until the official announcement to re-obtain a Diancie. No news of Floette overkill since.

I think the only really positive thing is that this camera allows for full backups of your games, handy if you want to navigate between two parts of a game with a single backup location for example.

I think I would have two stars, or even one, in other circumstances. But then, since Datel may at any time change the mode of operation of the aircraft and allow decryption safeguards in order to modify at its discretion, or even to put codes without "restrictions" by publishers, I let three stars because I remain hopeful.

I can not recommend this product; unless you have really, really needed for some codes it proposes, rather buy a device that will let you do the backup of your DS and 3DS games (I can not remember the name but I know ca there, I had even seen on Amazon for something like 15 euros), where even better, wait for the next REAL Action Replay as we like.

EDIT 30 November: That's it, Datel has finally made (again) available Hoopa, Volcanion and Floette AZ. A little late, yes, but better late than never ...