Amiga Action Replay Exploration 

perfect timing. i've been learning about how to crack games with my AR recently lol. great video !

So much Amiga one desk! Beautiful

There's something special about your videos. Not sure what it is. It may be the tea.

Just stumbled across your videos and this is right up my street. I've recently got an Amiga to relive my Antics as a teenager. The things you show with the Action Replay were exactly the things I did myself :ripping stuff for use with my own creativity. Lovely view from your window BTW lol. Subscribed very enjoyable and quite enlightening to watch someone else doing the same stuff I loved doing too. Cheers 🕹📺☕

I keep forgetting to comment. Nice job on the video opener. I dug it. I had one of those back in the day. I'd forgotten all about it. Now I remember what a cool bit of kit it was back then. I spent so many hours tearing into games and stuff with it. Finding sprite graphics and mods in games and demos. I had so much fun with that cartridge. I miss those days.

I want an Amiga after watching this ❤

Good job! Didn't know about these - now I need one! I hope you keep the Amiga-specific videos rolling!

Wow, not seen one of these for years… I worked for Datel here in the UK making these after leaving school. This has bought back so many memories.

Hi MML, I'm searching for a comparison between the AR-I and the AR-III (I own a AR-I) and I'm glad I find you again 🤩 So let's check your exploration. Thanks and keep up the good work, love watching your videos 👍

Great video. I'm pleased things are getting better for you.

Nice to see your vids again. Great presentation. :) Thank!

Thanks for bringing this up, Maddy! Great video. I used and still have the ARMKIII. It is such a powerful disassembler and editor. It really gave me an insight into programming at the time, and of course gave me some extra lives when I needed them!

Miss your videos, need my Amiga Fix

Yay, It's the Neelix show. Welcome back Maddi, You have been missed. I never had an action Replay , so I'd copy the mods and pics, (when possible), off the original game/ demo disk.

Just watched some of your videos, you just got a 👍 and I subbed. Have a great weekend from a swedish amiga lover.. 🤗✌️

I stumbled across you RU-vid channel looking for videos about the Atari 800. I love your videos. Your cat is adorable. And your music is incredible, I can't wait to hear more :)

This brings back so many memories! Another cool feature of the Amiga Action Replay was Save State. I can't remember what they actually called it, but it really helped with difficult games. You could save the entire state of the game memory to a blank disk, and then load the game from that exact point where you saved it. I think it also had a quick save to RAM, so could save just before a difficult part, and then load from that exact point if you died. I seem to remember the commands SQR and LQR for Save Quick to RAM and Load Quick from RAM. But that was so long ago, I might be wrong. I had Action Replay Mk III. So I'm not sure about the features of the other versions. Action Replay on the C64 was awesome. It could freeze the game and you could view or edit save sprites. You could save the screen, or back up the whole game. You could enter pokes (cheats), kill sprite collision, find the the life counter and have endless lives, etc. It had utilities for copying, formatting and all kinds of things. It also had a reset button to reset the C64 without having to switch it off and back on. But for me, the greatest thing about it was the FASTLOAD. You could boot into FASTLOAD which made your 1541 disk drive load about 15 to 20 x faster than normal. It was a HUGE speed boost. The first time I heard that drive head stepping through the tracks so fast, it nearly blew my mind! It really was a total game changer, not having to wait ages for everything to load on that slow disk drive. Equally cool was the DOS wedge. It gave you much shorter and easier disk commands, and hotkeys. You could use the F keys (F1 - F8) to quickly list the disk directory, load, list and run games, and even run a machine code monitor. It just made using the C64 so much quicker, easier and more pleasant. The earlier versions had a fast load that was about 5 times faster than standard. But from version 5 and 6 (and possibly 4) it got _really_ fast! Like I said, about 20 x faster than standard. And you could even save games in a special format called Warp*25, with a Loader that would allow the game to load 25 x times faster, even for people who didn't have the cartridge. But it had some issues, so I was quite happy to "settle" for the normal FASTLOAD with it's 15 to 20 times speed boost! ;-)

Welcome back. I have one of the Mk 3 cards. I used it to copy a lot of disks !!! as well as many other uses on my A 500.

brings back many memories of ripping samples from games in the early 90s

Love your chilled videos and your mod selections Ms Mad Lemon. 🥰 Nostalgia Amiga therapy for the win! Sorry to hear things have been tough of late. Take care. 🤗

The disassembler was really handy, I was writing a game on the Amiga in assembler and used it to see my code running, helped a lot in tracking down hard to find bugs.

Great to see you back really enjoyed the vid as always

Glad to see you back

So much fun! I used to have the MkIII with my A500. I’d use it to slow down Street Fighter II, screen grab Ryu one frame at a time, and then use Amos to control him with my joystick. Also, to cheat. The humble beginnings of my software engineering career!

I’m so envious of the view from your window 🪟

When writing 68000 ASM this tool was a must as it allows break points in your code and what nots, you could see where your code was not doing what you wanted. I had the M2 which was bang on everything I needed to go along with Devpac 1.x, Dpaint 3, and sound/pro tracker.

AWESOME VIDEO! I wish I had known about the AR back in my Amiga 1000 days. Stock Amiga 1000 took at least 12 disk swaps to copy the workbench disk.

Welcome back :) Glad your feeling a bit better!

I remember when I got the Action Replay Mk.VI for the C64, it absolutely revolutionised the way I used my computer. :)

Keep up the good work. So reminds me of things I used to mess around with in the nineties. I've still got my amigas although it would get a bit crammed on my desk with a CRT as well as pc stuff.

Hope you are ok, glad to see you are back. Thank you

Welcome back! Wasn't sure if you fell off my radar or you were taking a break but feels cozy to see you back

The one thing I really missed when I upgraded from my A500 to the A1200 was the Action Replay MKIII, I spent many hours ripping mods and graphics, and discovering how to hack cheats and generally mess around with the contents of memory. I still have the Action Replay cartridge, but alas no A500 to plug it into, so it was nice to see one in action again.

Man this makes me want my A500 back. So cool!

Sei una amighista,lo sono anch'io,complimenti,hai degli AMIGA stupendi.ti ammiro da morire.io sono italiano.ciao.

I had one of these for my A500. Such an amazing piece of kit! Why oh why did I get rid of my Amigas (had an A1200 as well). Great video. Thanks!

Nice video Madi, takes me back to good times playing around with trackers. Hope you're OK. Your voice sounds a bit tired. Look after yourself and here's to a good new year. Take care.

I said it before, I'll say it again... I love this intro! Good to hear things are getting better!

I pulled the 'No way!' from Mega Lo Mania with the MkIII and was very surprised and amused to hear that the full sample ends with swearing! They cut the sample short before the swearing when you hear it in the game.

I just want to say thank you. I have an AR MKII and this is very handy for me. I don't have the manual.

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I missed Your Videos!!💻✌

Ive had my action replay mk iii for many years...today its useful when paired with an external gotek

That voice sample - i ripped that myself and used in an octamed track back in the day!

Wow, never knew these existed for computers back then! So much more powerful than the console Action Replays or Game Genies.

Me encantan tus vídeos además de aprender con ellos, disfruto de la elegancia tu fotografía y la naturalidad de tus grabaciones, buen trabajo te felicito.

I acquired the action replay 2 last year. So this will be interesting to watch. Hello Madi. Long time no see! Lol

Never saw one of these in action before. Maybe I can finally play Sensible Soccer in slow-mo :D Great video!

Welcome back and thanks for another great video. Seems that there's something in universe that re-activated AR interest in some of us recently. I never had one back in time (but always wanted :( ), and few weeks ago I finally read manual, loaded AR rom in WinUAE and learned few neat tricks. I now even more wish I had one back than :) Btw, is there some place where we can get (or buy) your .mod music? First tune (Zaman) is awesome :)

best cart ever

This was an amazing piece of equipment and it is very interesting to see it in action. I don't know if the something like this can be done on current computers, but in the MS-DOS era there was an Action Replay for PC with that same controller the one for Amiga 1200 had. I missed you. I hope you're doing well.

I remember a friend having one an Action Replay for his Amigs 500 and how impressed I was with it. I sooooooo wanted one at the time. P.S. I don't recall there being a second version of the Action Replay, this was news to me, that, or I've forgotten about its existence 😂

i used the MKIII for cracking my original monkey island 1 game, using the debugger. Old times...

What a beautiful view from your window! I wonder which country you are based in. For some reason, i’m always thinking UK or either poland/tjechia...don’t ask me why

Fascinating, I never had one of these.

you have the coolest videos!

I had (still have) a Super Snapshot for the C64 which was similar.

Purchased a mk1 however still would like to purchase a mk3 like new condition of course, I love your knowledgeable youtube videos :-)

I love your setup!!!

Very nice video, thank you.

that old remote looks like some horrifying medical device from the 80s and reminds me too much of being in hospital as a kid haha

I haven't worked up the courage to plug in my Action Replay II into the side of my Amiga 1000 yet but if I do it sounds useful if using an external Gotek with it.

Actually my ECS Amiga and my Amiga 500+ played Rebels Megademo and Wild Copper Megalo demo with the audiofilter ON by default, so on my ECS Amiga I could use Action Replay 2 to turn it off, but I couldn't do that on my Amiga 500+ coz I had to use the expansion port for my HD controller, and unfortunately I sold my Amiga 500 ECS together with my Action Replay 2, so I had to use an app called Degrader or something to turn the audiofilter off before I booted the demos. I remember my floppy disk drives constantly got busted for no obvious reasons, so I ripped all the modules and put them on my HD with EaglerPlayer, and now I got them all on my Phone with PulsarPlayer pro. I also made Tracker Music on the Amiga for 10 years, but 've only got them as modules on my old HD, and I haven't sampled them as mp3's yet. What a bummer. And the diskdrive's busted. Cheers! Xxx

I love your video ☺️

if you Write ''lord olaf'', you can see hidden message :)

Love your channel!! which cartridge allowed to change the sprites on Amiga games? I remember changing the shoot-em-up and drawing my own plane :) it even allowed the change the bullets etc..

I think I have the action replay 64 cartridge built into my Ultimate 64 - Haven't tried it out yet either, but I'm wondering how similar it is too.

Beautyful cat :)

Cool stuff! Would be neat for my 500. Playing Turrican superslow on weed😀😎

this is awesome! 16:44 Can you save images to a different drive? For example could you play the game from df0 and then save images from the game to df1?

I have 2x of these which I need to test. Question 🙋. Does the manual mention all the commands you have used here in this video? Or you have learned with experience? Thanks Maddi, keep it up!

Great video,, I've built up my Amiga collection and I would love to use my Action reply with my A590 hard disk attached ... Any idea how I go about that .. thanks 😃

I use to have one

This is cool I want one!

Ace video! Is it possible to save pictures etc to another drive other than df0, for example a CF drive?

It was an awesome tool to get control & insight in how a computers work, miss the #@ thing!. And yea was the BIGGEST downside to upgrading to 1200 for sure😫

Good Shadow of the beast music in the background!