Action Replay

An Action Replay is a hacking device that is used to alter the game's coding Nintendo DS or Nintendo DSi's system. In, it can make every item available and cause the player to have maximum Bells. This results in the game beginning to glitch. Action Replays also can create items (such as seeds) and can seriously damage the DS systems if used in a certain way. It is also often used for the Villager Modifier. Also, the Action Replay does not work on DSi's because of Nintendo's increasing the security on it. The creators of the Action Replay later released the Action Replay DSi, allowing people to hack games on a DSi.

In for the GameCube, it is possible to obtain Mario Bros., Ice Climber, Super Mario Bros., and The Legend of Zelda, but Mario Bros. and Ice Climber are also obtainable through e-reader cards.

Using an Action Replay on Animal Crossing, it is possible to give one certain items (such as the Snowman Series) or modify the bug/fish log to say they have caught everything available. The players can also grow and shrink using the C-control stick, and jump using the Z button, which can be used to get onto the train track, jump into the river, and get to the island.

Wild World is capable of many Action Replay codes. Built into the Action Replay are codes that give the player an infinite supply of any item (not including "not used" items by default), infinite Bells, the ability to reduce their mortgage by huge amounts, the ability to remove weeds, and so on. There are also programs, such as AnimalMap, which can create powerful codes to change acres in the town, spawn items on the world map, duplicate buildings, and give "seeds" – buildings that are held in the inventory, which make buildings when dropped. Jumping is not possible, as Wild World has no Z-axis for both players and non-playable characters.

City Folk has no Action Replay codes, but uses game saves instead. Game saves can be installed using Action Replay for Wii. Despite this, there is a way to alter the game's files using the Homebrew Channel and using Gecko codes via Cheat Manager.