I use Action Replay and other such Cheat Devices purely for entertainment purposes or in the case of the Pokemon Games, because I live in North America.
I take no issue with Sony allowing the AR to work with the current Firmware but I fully understand why they don't. I won't get into...stuff I shouldn't say on the Official Site but I will say if people want to cheat, they'll find a way. Datel isn't the only company that makes cheats. Everyone here knows it or how to do it, etc (even if they've sworn off doing it of course). "That Site" (Ends as "faqs". or "XXXXFAQS", I assume most of you know the site and I'm referring to), which in recent years has been fighting an uphill battle to kick freelance/amateur game modders as well as fansub/fandubbers from their site (mostly because of the number of buyouts and partnerships they've gone through over the years) is against the discussion of illegal activity and other such things that are obvious violations of a company's EULA/TULA. I'm not gonna get into the specifics because I don't want to sound like I'm trying to solicit or offer services in that regard, which I'm not.
The reason I won't say "That Site" by name is because in the opinion of many circles, that site abandoned its original intent in favor of satisfying the corporate sponsors they've been gaining over the last ten years. I belong to one of those circles obviously XD
Getting back to Datel:
Their customer service sucks. They almost never followup with queries and complaints about their products and they rarely update their code databases. I have the AR DS and I get my codes (which are much better than what Datel offers) from other sites. I can understand the fact that they do have to make sure they don't do anything that could get them in trouble with Sony/Nintendo/Microsoft, hence why it took them almost a decade to release the AR PSP VS a year for the AR DS. The Wii is the first Nintendo system to require periodic firmware updates while the PSP has been like that far longer. Of course, there are some developers at Datel going "All that and they 1-upped us!" while others are probably going "Oh yeah? We'll have a new one out too!"
It's basically a cat-and-mouse game between Datel and Sony XD
TC: You do need to involve your Attorney General and the Better Business Bureau (BBB) because that's the only time they will listen to you sadly. To give you a brief backstory on Datel, they've been around about ten years and bought Gameshark, Inc. just when they (Gameshark) was being sued by Nintendo and Sony for ignoring Cease and Desist orders regarding the Gameshark. They inherited those lawsuits and apparently settled but now they're in trouble again XD
Planning Gets In The Way of Execution...
