You must be extremely careful when entering codes with this product, and many cheats that adjust "inventory" for your character(s) should be saved on a different save slot than your regular saves. The reason being is there often is a glitch in the saved game data while the gameshark codes for adjusting the inventory are on. I found it best to cheat the inventory, save, reset, turn those inventory codes off, and resume/load.
If you intend to use this to move game saves around, look somewhere else. An 8mb cartridge with 15 saves took FOREVER to load the directory, and another eternity to perform the requested operation. I have to mark off a point from perfection just for this performance issue alone. (I'm using GS2 v2.)
I also would encourage simply using the PS2 by itself to view DVDs, or get the Sony DVD remote and software accessory. I don't believe the GS2 has any specific advantage to being used as a DVD player.
If you don't have a lifetime to master the technique required to defeat a boss, earn an item of equipment, survive a specific challenge, or progress past a certain point in the game, this product enables you to get over these hurdles, if in a somewhat technical, sometimes confusing, way. Especially if it's a game you have to enter codes for. Entering 16-digit hexadecimal numbers (sometimes 10 of them at once) to workaround your game problem can be a bit daunting. My wish is that they would allow you to burn a CD on a regular PC CD-R drive that this product could read and use as an update to its code library.
You must be extremely careful when entering codes with this product, and many cheats that adjust "inventory" for your character(s) should be saved on a different save slot than your regular saves. The reason being is there often is a glitch in the saved game data while the gameshark codes for adjusting the inventory are on. I found it best to cheat the inventory, save, reset, turn those inventory codes off, and resume/load. If you intend to use this to move game saves around, look somewhere else. An 8mb cartridge with 15 saves took FOREVER to load the directory, and another eternity to perform the requested operation. I have to mark off a point from perfection just for this performance issue alone. (I'm using GS2 v2. )
I also would encourage simply using the PS2 by itself to view DVDs, or get the Sony DVD remote and software accessory. I don't believe the GS2 has any specific advantage to being used as a DVD player. If you don't have a lifetime to master the technique required to defeat a boss, earn an item of equipment, survive a specific challenge, or progress past a certain point in the game, this product enables you to get over these hurdles, if in a somewhat technical, sometimes confusing, way. Especially if it's a game you have to enter codes for. Entering 16-digit hexadecimal numbers (sometimes 10 of them at once) to workaround your game problem can be a bit daunting. My wish is that they would allow you to burn a CD on a regular PC CD-R drive that this product could read and use as an update to its code library.