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Revision as of 02:22, 26 July 2024

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GameShark
Developer Datel
Publisher InterAct Accessories, Mad Catz
Platforms Dreamcast, DS, GameCube, Game Boy, GBA, GBC, N64, PS1, PS2, PSP, Saturn, Xbox
Released 1998 - 2007
Added to
Museum
Dreamcast (CDX): August 26, 2017

GameShark was a series of devices by InterAct Accessories and Mad Catz.

The original purposes of the GameShark devices were to allow gamers to input codes in order to enable cheats in video games and to work as import boot discs, on systems with region-locking, to allow games from other regions to be booted via the menu. InterAct licensed Datel's Action Replay devices for sale in North America under the GameShark brand name.

After InterAct went bankrupt in 2001, Mad Catz acquired the rights to the GameShark brand name. Subsequent GameShark devices were savegame devices rather than cheat devices. After this, Datel published the Action Replay devices in North America directly.