There are several sub-versions of the english 5.2, but they strangely enough appear to be changes from the 4.2 versions without the major code update which happened towards the official 5.0 version. Any Pro or even Professional doesn't really mean anything here. Said release of the v4.x hardware and software quickly made the Action Replay and its' various clones a de facto standard for most c64 sceners and users.Įnglish PAL and NTSC versions starting with 4.1 up to 5.0 and 6.0 share the same hardware base, meaning the ROMs can be modified and cross-used. Compatible enough to run original AR v4.x ROMs as well. The Nordic Power being a Datel hardware production and some other companies' collaboration work can even be seen as a small hardware successor to the Action Replay as Nordic Power adds another mode but remains compatible to the original AR hardware. Most Action Replay ROMs found on the net will meet these standards and of course the archive below aims to be as complete as possible. :) This hardware requires one of the commonly known v4.x, v5, v6 or other hacked firmwares to operate and this hardware is most likely what you are looking for or owning in regards of original hardware. There are several different versions of this hardware but they all work and act the same (see also: Action Replay v5/v6 Tech). V4.x, as we call it, carries 32 kbyte of ROM and finally got 8 kbyte of RAM added. It appears the base board could have been the same even though the control register differs. We could really use some high quality pictures of this hardware so some comparison to the MK3 board can be made. The ROM size was doubled from 16 kbyte to 32 kbyte with this update. ![]() MK4 extended the hardware even further so it now allowed banking. To add to the mess Datel also sold MK3 carts on which the Fastload was named Diskmate. It appears the same hardware was used for selling the DISK MATE on which the button was replaced by a switch as the Disk Mate software did not support bank switching. It appears the continous usage of even tiny menus on the earlier available Final Cartridge I and II encouraged the developers to add such things as well. MK3 introduced a hardware change and the ROM was largely rewritten. ![]() The MK1 and MK2 ROM dumps are not carrying version numbers so there is some guessing involved which explains our labeling of the binaries in the archive with MK2 v1 and MK2 v2. The base for the MK1 freezer obviously has been the Snapshot 64 ROM which underwent only minor changes on the freezer part. MK1 and MK2 likely (we cannot confirm this yet) share the same hardware base and are direct branches of the Snapshot 64! The Action Replay cartridge series developed by Datel was released in the middle of 1986 and got several updates during the years. See Tech Section and Extension Programming Check Action Replay Category for even more!
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