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"FREELOADER STILL IN DEVELOPMENT!!! :("

The release of the Freeloader looks set to go back and back each day, after ringing them today, they announced that the freeloader was still in Development and probably wouldn't make the Early August release they promised. The whole point of importing games will go out of the window soon, as all the big titles come out September/October and November and with a release of probably September now it's probably a good idea just to wait for the European releases.
Your best bet now is to go with the action replay as it is still slated for a middle of August release and they are just hopefully getting things ready.....

play.com have moved back their release date from 2/8/02 to 30/8/02 for freeloader and action replay.

Thanks for clearing that up edgy, yeah that would make sense and it had been bugging me for a while.

redeyez wrote:
> If datel are developing both the freeloader and the action replay, how
> can the a.r be released next month if the freeloader isn't...?
>
> Are people saying that they have no trouble developing a region
> free+cheat disc but they can't handle just the region free disc on
> it's own!!!
>
> Wheres the logic in that....(could this just be a ploy to get the
> initial rush of people to buy the more expensive disc as they know how
> much it is in demand)cynical i know....

I think the Action Replay is being designed for PAL GameCube's only. There will be codes for NTSC games but they'll most likely be different to the PAL games. Even with region-free games such as Game Boy games, there were differences in the coding. The American version of Action Replay is called GameShark and is made by the same people (though distributed through Interact) however that is not very likely to work on the UK GameCube.

However, the Freeloader is being designed to work with all versions of GameCube whether NTSC or PAL, so there may be incompatability issues that need to be sorted for all systems to be covered and that's why it's taking longer for it to be released.

This is all a guess - your best bet is to go to www.codejunkies.com and email Datel to find official information.

Gangsta2002 wrote:
> this is getting f**king ridiculous,
> i remember:
>
> COMING JUNE 20th
>
> and then that was delayed, and then:
>
> COMING JULY 20th
>
> and then that was delayed, and then:
>
> COMING AUGUST 2nd
>
> and now thats delayed.
>
> f**king hell.

None of those dates were actually announced by the makers - only by companies that claimed to have contacted Datel but I know for definate they didn't.

If datel are developing both the freeloader and the action replay, how can the a.r be released next month if the freeloader isn't...?

Are people saying that they have no trouble developing a region free+cheat disc but they can't handle just the region free disc on it's own!!!

Wheres the logic in that....(could this just be a ploy to get the initial rush of people to buy the more expensive disc as they know how much it is in demand)cynical i know....

this is getting f**king ridiculous,
i remember:

COMING JUNE 20th

and then that was delayed, and then:

COMING JULY 20th

and then that was delayed, and then:

COMING AUGUST 2nd

and now thats delayed.

f**king hell.

0-MessiaH-0 wrote:
> "game enhancer"...so that's what you call them these days?

Cheat is such a dirty word.

"game enhancer"...so that's what you call them these days?

There's an Action Replay for virtually every console out there.

The GameCube one is still in development as is the Freeloader. My advice would be to go or the Action Replay as you're getting both a game enhancer and a region-free disc all in one!

Anyway, lets just hope Datel do it all right and don't end up developing 'update' discs all throughout the GameCube's life like they have to with the AR2V2 on the PS2.

i thought i saw an action replay in game the other week. maybe it was for the GBA?