I recently got the Gameshark for my Playstation Two, placed it into my PS2 and started it up, nothing happened. I was furious, that is, until I took the disc back out, cleaned it, placed it back in and tried again. It too a couple of times, than started up, and everything worked fine. That is, until I turned it off and tried starting it up again. I had continious problems with this product.
I tried inputing cheats onto the Gameshark, but it doesn't work, the cheats cannot be highlighted and whenever I tried starting the game-up, it says that there are no cheats loaded. Once again, another frustrating thing about this product. It appears that you must in-put the game name exackly as it is displayed on the Gameshark website for it to work. I found that some of the new inputed codes I put in DO work, but on a game that was already listed on the Gameshark, not inputed by myself.
I have to continiously clean the gameshark disc a number of times before it will fianlly work. Why can't they make this any easier? Its like a chore to do anything with it! Although the value is a little higher knowing that AT LEAST some of these cheats work. But trust me on this, don't waste your time or money on this lame product. If Gameshark wants to keep going, they need to make there products better.

My relatively new PS2 had a little trouble reading the disc (may be due to it being a CD Rom, though it reads Fighter Maker 2 just fine). The only other issue is that there aren't really any new codes. what you see is what you get, and that's all they have on the site. Not bad, not great. Meh.

Use to be back in the day you could pop in some cheat codes and you were good to go, what was even better was that people would dink around and find new codes by mistake and share them. It was nice, you had a wide variety for any game, you just copy the number and be set. Now you cant enter in numbers, You HAVE to download cheats, and only cheats that gameshark deems worthy to have. Not only that, but this item should provide the buyer with a pendrive. What do you get instead? a disk. the rest is up to you. Im sick of great companies that use to do things perfectly getting in that "lets renovate" mood. Seriously if you hit a bullseye why would you take out the dart and try again? Get it right, and improove and add, not change.

Buy an older version... if you can find it, from back when the people who ran this company knew what they were doing.

i just got mine and couldn't even use it bc it was missing some memory thing??? i thought they all just used the ps2 memory card??? my code breaker one did and it always work perfectly... this sucks if anyone knows a way to get the memory thing for this game shark for cheep please help me out...

This Gameshark works better than that crappy GBA SP One but one problem You need a large screen TV cause the letters to punch in the codes are way too small to see I had to almost sit right up to the TV to see what I'm punching in Gameshark used to be good starting out but now they Plainly Suck!