I read somewhere that there were about 500 Saturn games made, yet less than half of those ever got released in the US. I don't know how accurate that is, but I do know that several Japanese-only releases are what got me to recently jump on eBay and get a Saturn. Since a used US Saturn is usually cheaper than a Japanese one, the ARP was definitely a must-buy. Not only because it allows you to play almost all Japanese Saturn games, but also because it has the RAM expansion. This was important since one of my favorite retro-games, Dungeons and Dragons Shadow over Mystara, requires the 4MB RAM card. The ARP works nicely not just for this game, but also for X-Men vs Street Fighter, Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter, Vampire Savior, Final Fight Revenge, etc... I think there's only a few games out there that won't work; King of Fighters 95 comes to mind,but I can't remember the others.
Bottom line is if you're a fan of retro-gaming, you gotta get a Saturn; and if you get a Saturn, you gotta get the Action Replay Plus. Make sure it's the most recent version you purchase cause the previous Saturn Action Replay versions WILL NOT work for the 1/4 MB RAM games.
As other reviewers pointed out, ARP also provides cheats for the more popular Saturn games, as well as memory storage.
The ONLY problem I had with this was that it took a few times inserting it and re-inserting in to the Saturn and a little bit of jiggling and wiggling to get it to finally work. But I don't know if that's the console's fault (I bought it used after all) or the ARP's, but now that it's in and working properly, I'm never taking it back out!
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