Just a side note, yes you can mod your box with action replay. Do a search on the modding part in the threads of this site and you should find more about how. Always search before posting. There are too many needless threads on this subject. Not beeing mean just trying to help you out before the moderators get to you.
Well you can softmod without action replay. Just if your friend has a soft modded Xbox you can use a normal memory card and transfer the files from his Xbox to yours.
YES U CAN! without any of the games memcard actionreplay or anything else that u would have 2 get. ill reply l8tr so i can post a proper tutorial on how 2.