Action Replay DS - The Official Guide. - Page 8

Everything on the left window is the content of your AR. To add games, everything you need to do is to drag them and drop them from your subscriptions or your custom lists.

Learn to make the codes by yourself and you will learn how to get the code. Else you will have to wait.

You can try entering random numbers and letters, but you will screw your game that way . You need to know the hexadecimal system and a bit of programming to do it.

Have you installed it the way I told you? Are you using Windows Vista?

When you get your disc back, install it using the Admin account of your computer.

For everyone with Vista:
You can get your computer to recognize an AR, but you must be very technologically savvy.
Connect everything and turn everything on.
Simply monitor the USB root hub ports on your computer via device manager for any sudden change.
Go to "Properties" for whatever this new development showing up under your root is, and go to device drivers.
Manually install the drivers included with your AR on the disc. (If you've gotten this far, you should know how to do this.)
There you go, your AR should work.
If you need further assistance, please PM me.

For those who wish to make codes, here's how the pros do it:
Using special tools, one monitors the Hex block of Ram data a game has ongoing.
Say they want to create a code that edits "Lives."
Their current life count is three, so they monitor all Hex values that equal three (there could be thousands.)
They (during gameplay) change their lives to, let's say, two.
They now check all the previous values they've monitored and look for the ones that equal two.
After they've found a few, they change the values to whatever they want, and watch the "lives" counter to find a change.
If an address, say 94000130, seems to affect "lives", they create a code that tells the game "94000130" always equals "3" (really 00000003) and they now have an Infinite lives code.
That's how.

And for those who don't know, Hexadecimal is a way of writing numbers. After you reach nine, instead of typing "10", you would type "A". If you want to type eleven, you type "B". 12=C, 13=D, and so on.
Once you get to "F", or fifteen, you go to "10" (sixteen).

If you'd like to learn more, feel free to PM me.

Hope I helped!

This message was edited by Luigi Panache on Dec 01 2007.

(And the address 94000130 actually monitors button input. Just saying)

This message was edited by Luigi Panache on Dec 01 2007.

This message was edited by Luigi Panache on Dec 14 2007.

This thread has the perfect info on how it can be screw your games. You shouldn't worry though, because if you know what you are doing, your game should be fine.
And well, you don't add the codes to the games, you add them to the AR and the AR activates them. The effects of the AR are temporary, and when you turn off your game, your game should be normal again.