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and could be accessed later rather than having to be reentered. The cartridges also acted as memory cards, with equal or greater storage capacity to the consoles' first party memory cards. It was originally released for the Sega Saturn and Sony PlayStation consoles in January 1996. It was a runner-up
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game consoles. Players load cheat codes from GameShark discs or cartridges onto the console's internal or external memory, so that when the game is loaded, the selected cheats can be applied.
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and other products for a variety of console video game systems and Windows-based computers. Currently, the brand name is owned by
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When the original GameShark was released, it came with 4,000 preloaded codes. Codes could be entered, but unlike the
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s Best Peripheral of 1996 (behind the Saturn analog controller). A GameShark was released for the
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in late August 1997. The Nintendo 64 GameShark also bypasses the console's
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