Extensions for Action/CyberpunX Replay: Difference between revisions

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Name	Scene Stealer
Author	Datel
Year	1988
Compatibility	Action Replay v5 and v6 only
Known as	e.ss
Note	Scene Stealer was delivered with the Action Replay Graphics Disk and is able to save certain graphic screens to disk as executable program. The supplied demo maker is able to load the stolen scene and save it with more modifications. The Scene Stealer extension could be fixed to work with Replay based extensions but requires some more attention for this to work out as it not only utilises some obscure table for managing the IO switching but also directly jumps into the cartridge ROM for a filename requester ($8057, $9018 - yieks). No nice programming here and it seems that Scene Stealer might have been assembled in parallel to the Action Replay ROM to share variables and tables.

Name	Elysium Cruel v2.9+
Author	Hain/Elysium
Year	1993
Compatibility	Action Replay, Nordic Power
CSDb	#32682
Note	This version allows to pack several files at once, but is restricted to $0801 as start address (doh!). Unfixed currently.

Name	The Packer v2
Author	Morris/Agony
Year	1994
Compatibility	Action Replay v4 only! - v4.0_5.0 best
CSDb	#2898
Note	The Packer v2 directly uses ROM routines and even avoids the standard jump table here rendering it incompatible to many ROM versions. No fixing planned.

Name	VIP v3.2
Author	Kulfon/Medium Moonchild/Hitmen
Year	????
Compatibility	Action Replay, Nordic Power
Note	Moonchild added code to save a loading pass by moving code to the Replay RAM. There is no check for the Action Replay or the additional RAM though.

Name	Zipp-Link v2.0/Zipp-Link v2.0+
Author	Skyflash/Oneway Zizyphus/Oneway
Year	????
Compatibility	v2.0: Action Replay v5 and v6 only v2.0+: Action Replay, Nordic Power, Retro Replay, 1541 Ultimate
Note	The patched version works using any Replay compatible with at least 8k ram - it is assumed a proper speeder is in place then. The Replay RAM is not used.

Name	Action Replay Cruncher v1.2 (fast & slow) Based on Darksqueezer
Author	Ewen Gillies/Shinjitsu Software
Year	1997
Compatibility	Any fastloader that can load save under ROM is required.
Note	The extended Replay RAM is not used and not being checked for. Also the load/save vectors remain untouched, so any proper speeder should make this operational.

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