Hacking Japanese Gameshark thing

[Shadow_The_Hedgehog82]

Anyone know what this is it came with a gameboy i got from japan. I assume its some sort of cheat device it has a usb-b on the side. GBA picture is with a Japanese pokemon ruby inserted

 

[Shadow_The_Hedgehog82]

Oh actually looks like it's an action replay would it be possible to flash english firmware on here?

 

[k0walski]

I'll try and guess that it's pretty much like a cartridge with programmable memory... It's possible that when the cartridge is connected to the PC it should be represented as a mass storage device. The storage won't be pretty big I guess, but one-two games may fit... But this is just my guess.
It's RARE Action Replay Gameboy Advance Cheat Code Cartridge System AR GBA Pokemon

 

[duwen]

Oh actually looks like it's an action replay would it be possible to flash english firmware on here?

It's possible... you may just need the Windows software/driver disc that it came with - should be available online somewhere as an iso, or just an exe, but it's likely it will only run under WinXP. With a bit of luck it may just convert it to run in English.
It's also possible that there may be a language option on the device itself. May need to do a bit of "google lens" translating, or just see if you can find a scan of the English language manual.

 

[MikaDubbz]

Oh actually looks like it's an action replay would it be possible to flash english firmware on here?

Action Replay and Gameshark for the GBA were made by the same people and their devices looked the same on the device except for the little emblem that would be in that oval area (you could even update the firmware to be that of the other device, at one point my device was a GameShark on the outside, but the software clearly read Action Replay when booted up, I think I later reverted back to GameShark though). You may have an Action Replay there, but it also might be a GameShark like mine here:

 

[Shadow_The_Hedgehog82]

It's possible... you may just need the Windows software/driver disc that it came with - should be available online somewhere as an iso, or just an exe, but it's likely it will only run under WinXP. With a bit of luck it may just convert it to run in English.
It's also possible that there may be a language option on the device itself. May need to do a bit of "google lens" translating, or just see if you can find a scan of the English language manual.

Cool I am setting xp up on a laptop. I found an iso on archive.org of the european action replay disc so will try using that. I dont think the menu has language options didn't see anything about that on a manual i found

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Action Replay and Gameshark for the GBA were made by the same people and their devices looked the same on the device except for the little emblem that would be in that oval area (you could even update the firmware to be that of the other device, at one point my device was a GameShark on the outside, but the software clearly read Action Replay when booted up, I think I later reverted back to GameShark though). You may have an Action Replay there, but it also might be a GameShark like mine here:

Why did you revert back to game shark does it have better codes or something?

 

[Plstic]

I personally had no issues updating my action replay using an XP virtual machine recently. I just used USB passthrough.

 

[Shadow_The_Hedgehog82]

I personally had no issues updating my action replay using an XP virtual machine recently. I just used USB passthrough.

Yeah its working fine

 

[MikaDubbz]

Why did you revert back to game shark does it have better codes or something?

This was years ago, I'm honestly not sure why I changed to begin with. I think it was just a case of chasing the latest firmware with the most built in codes.