>>39420546Everything an action replay does is executed through the game's codes. It just manually changes the values for you, instead of doing it through a series of glitches that would have been blocked off if the devs could have.
It's like going to a grocery store and reporting someone you see using a device to turn off the barcode detectors to shoplift, while you yourself shoplift by stuffing items down your pants, saying that you got them legitimately because it was '100% doable within the confines of the barcode detector's mechanics'.