I don't know if other linkers do that too, but with the M3 real, you have an included cheat database, but it is 100% compatible with official Action Replay cheats too.. You jut download .xml database from datel (they are made to update the AR) and put then on the M3 real and you can use them directly (with new games since it's datel official databases !)
This is possible with m3 simply too but you need a file converter to make the xml file readable for the m3 simply