Parameters

History

Action Replay MK3 was a shot at a complete freezer pack that allowed multi file tape games to be backed up along with the game and title picture to disk. Since for this to work out a little more than just freezing the computer state is required Datel teamed up with Dosoft (or acquired them, who knows?). With MK3 also came the Parameters and NOVA TRANSFER on the ROM which we're looking into here. Before there MK3 there was no multi file support.

Parameters allow the owner of an original (tape) game to create a backup running off disk by loading a parameter into the freezer. By that the original loader will usually be removed (some "Turbolinker" usages are an exception of sorts) and replaced by standard routines working off a disk drive. Due to the freeze often happening after some loading screen or intro was shown the "Graphics Disk" contained demo maker alike programs to preserve such things as well. Also the "SceneStealer" extension stems from this idea of supplying a full package apparently.

Since all Action Replay ROMs only offer NOVA TRANSFER and would fail on anything else the parameter disk comes with MULTIMENU 1.1 which has further descriptions for some Parameters and .... more todo blabla

When a major rewrite of the ROM happened with the "Pro" series (AR 4.2+) a few Parameters were re-worked but it seems most kept working and the system was slowly extended even.