Anyone familiar with "Action Replay Power Saves" for 3DS?
They have a thing that let's you use cheats. There are a few problems though.
• It requires the internet. It uploads your save, the server edits it, then it downloads your save again.
• You're limited to the cheats on the server. Many games with multiple save slots only have codes for slot one, or might as well.
Let's add these to that list:
• Due to requiring you to insert the game cartridge, it's not compatible with eShop-purchased or pre-installed games.
• The less popular games are not given equal priority, very few ever getting codes available from the product.
• The cheats are highly limited,
--• Taking next to no DLC into account, if any.
--• Most games just have 'infinite X' cheats and nothing beyond that.
--• Not only are there usually only good cheats for first save slots, but also only for one or few characters, and the first few inventory slots of that save.
• Some lists show sub folders for other save files, but there are no cheats in the folders.
• The program sometimes loses sight of the device randomly while selecting the cheats you want, clearing the selections so you need to pick them again.
These are issues with the product unrelated to the code customizer (which is a misleading name) feature:
• If your net goes down, the product is completely useless, not letting you back-up your save, restore a save, or use a power save.
• They had to stop hosting "power saves" (cheated progress save data) because loading a 3DS save into a cartridge it didn't originate from (even if it's the same game, region, and version) corrupts the data.
• Games they don't have codes for can not be backed-up either.