What is the difference between the GameShark Pro and the Shark Link Trainer?
The devices work on the same principle. The major hardware differences between them are: The Shark Link Trainer consisted of a PC Comms link board that was inserted into a ISA slot of your PC for PSX owners and for N64 owners an additional special adapter that was for all intents and purposes a “stand in game shark”. This adapter was essential to use for N64 owners as the Game Shark for N64 lacks any parallel connector port as in the PSX version. N64 owners also had to purchase a 4 meg ram expansion pack for their N64 console and replace the standard jumper that comes with it. This memory upgrade was also essential as the N64 lacks sufficient memory to operate the Shark Link alone for storage of found codes and activated codes during use. Custom written software and drivers were then loaded on the PC and then used to perform various searches of the game ram to find a varied assortment of different code addresses depending on what was displayed on the screen and what codes were active i
