What is Gameshark?

[charliebrown]

I'm not a gamer, but a friend overseas is asking me to buy and ship him something called "Gameshark" for PS2. Apparently its some kind of gizmo for cheating games. After searching I found one made by Intertec ($49) and one made by Madcatz ($29).

Which one should I get? Does it work? What advice should I give this guy?

Thanks guys.

 

[pyonir]

They basically allow you to do stuff with the game you normally wouldn't be able to do, specifically cheat. I haven't had one for the new generation of consoles, but i had one for Nintendo. It did stuff like allow Mario to run super fast, or to skip to any level...stuff like that.

Madcatz stuff is pretty cheap...and unreliable. If i were you, and he is paying you back, then i'd get the intertec one.

 

[MustISO]

There's gameshark, action replay and codebreaker. I like codebreaker the best. The latest version has some really nice features.

 

[Tremulant]

I used to have a gameshark for my PSX (actually, I had about 3, and they were all different models) and I would mess around and try 'hacking' codes and such. That was like 5 years ago though.

Anyways, for the PS2 we have a codebreaker. I haven't tried the PS2 Gameshark, but it works the same way I think. I haven't even used the codebreaker in like 5 months, cause the PS2's been iffy and the only game that works (sometimes) is MVP Baseball 2004.

And as pyonir said, I'd go with the Interact one, but it looks like Madcatz bought out interact or something, because on the gameshark website under 'contact' it says they don't support older gamesharks made by interact.

 

[MustISO]

One cool feature of the action replay I have is that you can dump your saved games to a USB thumb-drive. Then move it to your PC as a backup.

 

[royaldank]

Gamesharks are also used with some older mod chips for no solder solutions.

 

[Colt45]

kinda same idea as a game genie. at leas tthey used to be in the super nintendo days.

 

[JEDI]

Originally posted by: charliebrown
I'm not a gamer, but a friend overseas is asking me to buy and ship him something called "Gameshark" for PS2. Apparently its some kind of gizmo for cheating games. After searching I found one made by Intertec ($49) and one made by Madcatz ($29).

Which one should I get? Does it work? What advice should I give this guy?

Thanks guys.

Gameshark is an NBA team. they werent involved in the fan melee

 

[Tremulant]

Originally posted by: Colt45
kinda same idea as a game genie. at leas tthey used to be in the super nintendo days.

I remember my game genie, for genesis though

 

[EarthwormJim]

Game Genie was a pain, you had to re-enter the codes each time you used it.

 

[rstove02]

The one made by Madcatz is the newer version....the latesting being 4.x or so.

The reason why Madcatz is cheaper is that it does not come with a memory card, while the older Intertec ones did. You must have an existing memory card to load the Madcatz software onto to use it.

The footprint that Gameshark takes up on the memory card is minimal and you can use it for cheating and game saves at the same time.