We all knew it was "cheating." But back then, the line was blurry. We weren't trying to break the game's challenge; we were trying to break the grind . Nobody had time to train a Dratini to level 55. We had homework. We had Club Penguin . Action Replayy was a time machine. Looking back, Action Replayy 2010 was a precursor to modding. It taught a generation of kids how code works—even if it was just copy-pasting strings like 94000130 FCFF0000 62111880 00000000 from a forum post written by a user named "CheaterKing69."
If you were a kid in the late 2000s or early 2010s, your backpack had three essential items: a sticky bag of gummy candies, a cracked iPod Touch with a dodgy headphone jack, and a Nintendo DS Lite with a small, grey cartridge sticking out of Slot-1. action replayy 2010
It was janky. It was unstable. It crashed your game three times out of ten. We all knew it was "cheating
You’d boot up your DS. The top screen would flash white. Then, bam . You were in the code manager. We had homework
Posted by: RetroReload | Filed under: Hardware, Nostalgia, Handheld History
Tags: #NintendoDS #ActionReplay #PokemonHGSS #2010 #CheatCodes #RetroGaming
You felt like a god.
