their unlicensed Action Replay stuff
And do you know who invented them, at least up to the mid 90s? Wayne H. Beckett (former C64 developer of more ordinary software)
...which then got sold under a truckload of different brands, names, and artworks (not THAT weird but still a bit sketchy, especially in Japan where the importer was called "Karat", which was later revealed to having been bought, or always having been a front for, another sketchy gaming accessories brand: Cyber Gadget)
Then he quit Datel and started Future Console Design (the Codebreaker/Xploder/X-Terminator/Gameshark SP/etc etc etc company)
...and in this period Datel had many self-bricking (worse than r4isdhc.com's) ARs, the allegedly awesome but mostly unseen Trainer Toolkit, the Wii one that's a commercial homebrew based on wilbrand and therefore launched in 2012 (4 years after Gecko OS), then they started selling
car exhaust theft alarms (!) which no doubt were generic rebranded Chinese stuff - interestingly, this was around the time shop01media dabbled with car license plate hiders
What about our man? He went to Hong Kong to work for "DataPower Development", apparently founded in 2001 (
https://opencorporates.com/companies/hk/0744208) but which seemingly made nothing under their own name until the PS4 Save Wizard, which as you may know is an all-cloud save-based cheat service allegedly using a farm of modded PS4s to sign the results...
Does that statement remind you of anything? Isn't it an accurate description of the 3DS/Amiibo Powersaves'es too, which btw are for now
the last Datel products apart from their Pokemon Go assist watches? Nevermind, I just checked again, they make
wifi jammers or whatever now
OK, if you remember what I just wrote
, did you notice how I went out of my way to mention
another sketchy gaming accessories brand: Cyber Gadget
the Wii one that's a commercial homebrew
?
What is Cyber Gadget nowadays famous for?
https://www.cybergadget.co.jp/support/
- Well, they made the first and only "standalone" cheat device for the 3DS (the CodeFreak, right as Japan famously came out with an anti-cheating law, that's basically an ntrboot card running a proprietary CFW; hmmm didn't another company make history with a non-flashcard using another proprietary CFW with an Action Replay like cheat engine?),
- something comparable for the Wii U that's clearly based on the browser exploit,
- something else that's pretty much a 3DS Powersaves,
- and their only international product, an emulation multi-console called the RetroFreak
In 2014, the Retron 5 (another product like that) got in PR trouble for being spotted using non-commercial emulators... and so did the RetroFreak after it launched, you can read about it at
https://github.com/snes9xgit/snes9x/issues/264 but wait until you see the reply by the inventor of the RetroFreak, which unsurprisingly isn't Cyber Gadget but... Wayne H. Beckett of DataPower Development!
(Very funny to see RetroCrap associates raise complaints, however correct, of ripping off software against the author's wishes seeing what's up with "MAME 2003" and the like; also funny to see the posts on RetroCrap's blog taken down, just like Team Twiizers did with... oh that's another story)
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