There are some major problems with this new release of AR max...
1st there are 50,000 pre-loaded cheats on the disk, fine... try to put your own one in and of course it wil let you but it will not save to the memory card so you are stuck with having to re-type the whole cheatcode in after every reset! DOH.
Another downer is the max media creator that you install onto the pc. After trying to convert different avi files to play via a cdr the footage was skipping all over the place. after many times trying to set the files to convert at all the different bit-rates i still could not get a good conversion, result: useless movie clips and wasted cd-rs.
One good thing is that it comes with the obligatory dvd region free software, but even this takes an age to load, (Blaze released one a while back and sets up in half the time).
I have not used the memory-card compression program so i can't comment on that, or the broadband auto-update for the cheats, as you need a network adaptor for that.
so, in conclusion, as long as you want to cheat the games that are already loaded onto the disk, fine. But beware the tiresome need to re-enter the code every playtime as it refuses to save. BE WARNED!