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I don't have any of those to test here, also is bios configurable per game and what happens if there is no bios for the user that tries to run it with the option forced on? I have never used the option and didn't know if it exists for gameinis frankly.

Don't know, and don't know, will check it out. What's weirder is that games share a game ID. Does that cause problems with the INIs?

All the titles will need to use the same settings (unless they have different revisions?), but I think that's the only problem it causes.

Could you explain what you mean by games share a game id in detail? Which games? If you boot the action replay and then a game for example all games will have the game id of the action replay? I don't know much about cheating, but if that happens the the default gameini is probably ignored.

Maxplay - GNHE5d
Max Drive Pro v1.0 - GNHE5d
Advance Game Port - GNHE5d

All the same GameID.

Oh then what JosJuice said above, all titles will have to share the same settings.

Also the gameini title will have to use all three titles :-p.

NHL Hitz 2002 also has an GameID of GNHE5D.

If that helps, my Action Replay disc share the same ID from the others (GNHE5d) instead of DTLX01. I can confirm they won't boot without Skip BIOS disabled and DSP LLE (and that maybe a problem since Skip BIOS will always be enabled, no matter what, if no IPL dump is present)...

Well, Skip BIOS may not be needed anymore if issue 8223 gets fixed, I think...