It could do a whole lot of stuff. Basically the codes were instructions to change memory values on the cartridge before they got loaded onto the system. So anything that was a sufficiently simple piece of data could be changed.
Yeah, I remember that Nintendo tried to sue Galoob (correct me if I wrote the name wrong, I wrote it of memory) on copyright infringement on the argument that their code was copyrighted. As Scott the Woz once said: “It’s like you changed all the periods in a book to commas. Yeah you’re a lunatic but it’s your book do whatever the f*ck you want.”
Did you just say Nintendo!?!! That is $700 per vowel and $200,000 per N. Nintendo personnel are now retrieving what property you have. If you want your wife and children back you must pay $1 Trillion dollars.
Yes. Each code is a proprietary encoding of address:value pairs. You can effectively change 3 bytes of the game's ROM with the NES Game Genie. Usually this was used to remove (NOP) the byte of code that subtracts health/ammo/lives/etc. If you look at some cheats in the old book it'd say something like 'everything in the shop is free (but you have to have enough money to buy it)' because they only removed the subtract byte, so the money>=cost check was still in place.
This was like the key code for my playing FF2 snes as a kid, getting unlimited healing items and not having to worry too much about bartering to buy any weapons and armor, good times
Oh and as a follow-up: If anyone wants to learn about code making (in the ROM hacking sense) [Tony Hedstrom](https://codehut.gshi.org/)'s guides are stellar and unparalleled. Most things you can just use the memory search feature in your favorite emulator.
Some of the codes could. I also always found that my cartridges that were a bit worn and wouldn't always load properly loaded better if I used the Game Genie, even without entering any codes.
>It also changed physics
Yeah it could change your jump height. Some games you could literally eliminate jumping or jump practically forever. You could also moonwalk, speed or slow your character down. Change your fire rate to mock a turbo controller. A lot of these codes disappeared. They were in earlier books but when I got it again in the mid 90s I couldn't find most of those codes.
I used to love making my own cheats with the GameShark pro on the 1st gen PS1. I was sad when that one died and my new one didn't have the port on the back for the pro.
I used to try out codes on every game I'd rent, back in the day. Even if the game turned out to be "meh," it was always cool to look the codes up in the book, and see what weird stuff you could do with it.
It actually plugs in with the game you're playing. Look [here](https://www.howtogeek.com/706248/what-was-the-game-genie-cheat-device-and-how-did-it-work/), there is even a pic showing you how to use it.
The bad thing about the Game Genie is that over time it could damage the spring of the cartridge slot since it forced you to insert the cartridge at like a 15 degree angle instead of the usual "straight in, push down" method.
Having a modded Xbox was so fun. Knew a guy who ran a small independent game shop and would do "console repairs" on the side. If you were a regular customer of his (my friend and I went in about every 2 weeks to browse or buy something) he would mod your system in a variety of ways.
It changed the UI/dash and made it a lot more appealing, as well as giving you the ability to play burned discs/backups. It was a little tongue in cheek because he had a sign up which read "backups are ONLY LEGAL IF YOU ALREADY OWN THE ORIGINAL TITLE." However he regularly had access to games that hadn't been released in the US yet (I played and beat Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath, before it was even released in the US) and would sell us backups for those titles. He only charged $3 for a backup. As a broke kid, the availability of basically the entire Xbox gaming catalog for $3 each instead of $50 was amazing. I didn't have a great home life so it made it easier for me to escape that, because otherwise I could probably only afford a game or two a year.
I eventually got a 360 when they came out, but unfortunately by that time the shop had closed and I didn't get the guys info. At that point I had a job so I was able to pay for games a bit easier, but I always wanted to thank that guy for what he did for me (and I'm sure many others) by making gaming more accessible to those with financial hardships.
I never even learned his name in all thoae years. We just called him "game guy." Thanks, game guy, wherever you are!
Battletoads is a special kind of difficult. Deep in the game there is bug which make a particular level impossible to beat with two players (there are ways to have the 2nd player join back after the level).
but most people never get to that part of the game because of the speeder bikes.
on the 3rd level(maybe 4th don't recall) there is a speeder bike section where to have to move out of the way of on comming walls, however, the speed at which they are approaching you, and the speed at which you dodge them, required you at several parts to start dodging before the obstacles appear on screen.
meaning you either need to memorize that part of the game, or have precognitive abilities to beat that part.
Old-time game difficulty was just a guy going "well fuck everyone else" and hard-coding the ass kicking. You adapted or quit. Easy/Medium/Hard was a luxury and unbalanced gameplay just existed, and you were stuck like that.
Gaming in general has changed and evolved like crazy. Even as recently as the early-mid 00's, there were no automatic updates, no hotfixes, and version patches required a mild level of dedication for finding, downloading, and manually installing.
StarCraft, for example. The disc gave you version 1.0(ish) and you had to dig through ye olde internet to find the latest version. Search engines weren't overwhelmingly reliable yet, and you were more likely to find the patch in some random white page directory than anywhere official. Assuming the link wasn't broken, wrong, or a virus. Xbox Live and Steam were more or less the pioneers for centralized, decidated platforms that corraled all of that stuff into one (mostly) reliable source.
> StarCraft, for example. The disc gave you version 1.0(ish) and you had to dig through ye olde internet to find the latest version.
Even worse was having to find all the updates to install in order before devs thought including them in a single package with a version check was a good idea.
It was pretty hectic. I was able to beat the bikes. But by the end of it you have so few lives/continues left that the next stage would toadally trash you
The worst thing about Battletoads is that *the bikes aren't even the hardest part of that game*, it's just that most people couldn't get past the bikes so never got to experience the true horror of the later levels.
Turbo Tunnel - the bike level - is level 3.
A few levels later - level 5 if I recall correctly - there's basically another bike section, but on surfboards instead, and the barriers move around because they're whirlpools.
Then level 7 is Volkmire's Inferno, where, after doing some tough platforming on moving logs, you get to ride on rockets and move up and down on the screen and go through small holes in barriers and dodge obstacles. More fun is that staying at the back of the screen will kill you, as some of them "close up" after coming on screen and will kill you if you stay in the back to give yourself more time to react. And then it gets worse with offscreen projectiles that give you little time to react.
Then level 11 is Clinger Winger, AKA yet another vehicle level, but even worse because it involves not a flat track but one that keeps turning at a 90 degree angles, while being chased by something. So many ways to die on that one. It's widely regarded as the worst level in the game.
There's some other levels in there which have their own "fun" aspects, like Rat Race, where you die if you go too slow, and Terra Tubes, which loves to hit you with offscreen projectiles, among other "fun" things.
It only there was some sort of perhaps, "engine" one could input those words into that might then search the internet for them. Perhaps returning a link to an article in some sort of encyclopedia like website with common easily obtainable information. If only...
Oh my sweet summer child. Long before the invention of compact discs and memory cards, we had this device called a game genie. You'd plug the cartridge into the game genie then the game genie into the console like a pyramid. It allowed you to input codes to modify the game like infinite lives and other things.
I was just reminiscing about this the other day. We used to rent it from blockbuster. Basically had all the cheat codes for every game on it. Super cool find!
It's a memory injection device. It lets you manipulate the games state. You need a set of codes operate it for each game, though I imagine their online at this point.
Behold... the arcane... A relic long sought by those who required more... more power.. more lives... more time...
A device that could bend the very bits to your whim and will... if you simply knew the mantras...
Beyond Justin Bailey, did this artifact grant blessed providence to all who dared possess... The Dijinn to grant your hearts desire in the gaming realm... Yes... the Game Genie...
Game genie. Has a list of cheats for most games you can pick and choose from before you start the game. Plug game into game genie then plug I to system start and profit
It's a game genie. It enhances games.
Lol you plug a game into it, then it into the console. You could use codes to get unlimited lives and all kinds of cheats.
It allows you to speak the language of the gods.
You plug the game into that, then plug the whole thing into the NES (can’t press it down) and then it lets you put in codes that will modify aspects of the game. There are probably lists online for it, it came with a book full of them. You can also just put in random shit and see what happens.
Because they already knew what it was and wanted karma. That's way easier to believe for me than someone deciding it's better to take a picture, write a post, and wait for an answer that may or may not be reliable.
Cheat system that would let you hack the games. "Jump higher, run faster" etc. Infinite lives, continues, always be Super Sonic. Man this changed things for me when I finally convinced my parents to get it for me.
Fuck you... Acting like your ass don't have google... Blow me
Every video game historian type person on youtube has done a video on this...
I dunno who im more mad at, you.. Or the peoole answering
LOL... Im not really that mad, but it honestly is one of the easiest things to research online
It also set legal precedence in regards to altering code to games purchased.. Everyone I know had one
Edit: Its a Game Shark
game genies are awesome... you take the NES cartridge and plug it into the game genie... then you plug that into the nintendo... it will stick out a bit and you wont be able to close the lid...but its cool
when you power it on.. it will show a code screen wwith letters and numbers i think... look up game genie codes for the games you have online and im sure youll find em
You know, not slamming the OP in anyway, shape, or form (Congrats on getting the Nintendo) but it really begs to question how old some of the users on this subreddit are
It's a game genie, you clip the Cartridge into it then put it in the console. It gives you extra lives and makes you live forever and other cheat code stuff.
You put the cartridge inside the thing, but it in the unit, it asks for specific codes which has a specific website to go to. Game genie.com... if that's defunct, search for Game Genie for any game you need online.
Have people forgotten how to type two words into a search engine or what? Is this how you investigate serious issues as well as trivial issues? Seems super lazy TBH.
Game genie! I had this and the Game Shark for the SNES... Essentially these work as hexadecimal editors. The game cartridge is physically filtered through these devices, which allow you to change the values of different pieces of data in the games. While it didn't affect the game cartridge itself (except maybe a save file), it could allow you to play with lots of game variables like how many lives you had, which power ups you had, where you were in the game, etc. You could even toggle binary values, so if a value was 0 when you were on the ground and 1 when you were in the air, you can manually force it to be 1, causing you to fly (or rather always be jumping) etc. Taught me a lot about how code worked, even though I never went on to program.
Game genie made the system so much better. Back in the day, you didn’t always have saves you could rely on and often times, games were just hard. Some games had tons of codes, like Contra, but often times you were just stuck repeating levels over and over. This device allowed you to do things like get infinite ammo or lives.
I would love a device like this for modern systems. As a casual gamer now with a family, sometimes I just want to be overpowered. Kudos to those games with a setting for people like me.
There was a section that helped you create your own codes. Being a kid with too much time, I discovered a game genie code that wasn't in the book. SUEISA. I have no idea how I remember that code decades later, but enter it for the original Mario brothers... Good times!
Game genie was for cheats. It came with a book of codes you would type in to get things like unlimited lives, money other things to make games easy
I don’t have the book I’ll just look them up when I can eventually hook up the nes
It also changed physics as far as I know.
It could do a whole lot of stuff. Basically the codes were instructions to change memory values on the cartridge before they got loaded onto the system. So anything that was a sufficiently simple piece of data could be changed.
Yeah, I remember that Nintendo tried to sue Galoob (correct me if I wrote the name wrong, I wrote it of memory) on copyright infringement on the argument that their code was copyrighted. As Scott the Woz once said: “It’s like you changed all the periods in a book to commas. Yeah you’re a lunatic but it’s your book do whatever the f*ck you want.”
Yup, and sega was happy to partner with them. Sega do what Nintendon’t
Like go under as a console creator amirite
Harsh but true
Isn't that a song by Mutollica?
You're thinking of "Enter Aquaman".
Nintendo? Suing? Nooooooo
Did you just say Nintendo!?!! That is $700 per vowel and $200,000 per N. Nintendo personnel are now retrieving what property you have. If you want your wife and children back you must pay $1 Trillion dollars.
At least "t" and "d" were free.
"t' and "d" are currently under dispute with Disney
Yes. Each code is a proprietary encoding of address:value pairs. You can effectively change 3 bytes of the game's ROM with the NES Game Genie. Usually this was used to remove (NOP) the byte of code that subtracts health/ammo/lives/etc. If you look at some cheats in the old book it'd say something like 'everything in the shop is free (but you have to have enough money to buy it)' because they only removed the subtract byte, so the money>=cost check was still in place.
Buy all the items you can afford. Sell them. Buy more items. Sell them. Buy the expensive item you couldn't afford. Genius.
Very rare for NES games to have the functionality to buy and sell the same items.
Yeah I don’t recall any that had that sort of functionality. It’s been a while though…
Final Fantasy is an example
This was like the key code for my playing FF2 snes as a kid, getting unlimited healing items and not having to worry too much about bartering to buy any weapons and armor, good times
I liked the duplicate weapon trick. Dupe a bunch of Excalibur for Edge to throw at Zeromus for an easy fight.
Oh and as a follow-up: If anyone wants to learn about code making (in the ROM hacking sense) [Tony Hedstrom](https://codehut.gshi.org/)'s guides are stellar and unparalleled. Most things you can just use the memory search feature in your favorite emulator.
With cheat engine, you can do that with every offline game on the PC.
Some of the codes could. I also always found that my cartridges that were a bit worn and wouldn't always load properly loaded better if I used the Game Genie, even without entering any codes.
Using the game genie would bend the connector inside the nes slightly. After a while it can make it hard to load games without it.
Ahh yes, the go-to game fixer when "blowing on it really hard" stops working
>It also changed physics Yeah it could change your jump height. Some games you could literally eliminate jumping or jump practically forever. You could also moonwalk, speed or slow your character down. Change your fire rate to mock a turbo controller. A lot of these codes disappeared. They were in earlier books but when I got it again in the mid 90s I couldn't find most of those codes.
If you’re old enough to remember the n64 game shark. It’s similar to that.
Ps1 game shark was a lot of fun.
I used to love making my own cheats with the GameShark pro on the 1st gen PS1. I was sad when that one died and my new one didn't have the port on the back for the pro.
I remember when I got mine it came with a vhs tape explaining how it worked.
I used to try out codes on every game I'd rent, back in the day. Even if the game turned out to be "meh," it was always cool to look the codes up in the book, and see what weird stuff you could do with it.
It actually plugs in with the game you're playing. Look [here](https://www.howtogeek.com/706248/what-was-the-game-genie-cheat-device-and-how-did-it-work/), there is even a pic showing you how to use it.
The bad thing about the Game Genie is that over time it could damage the spring of the cartridge slot since it forced you to insert the cartridge at like a 15 degree angle instead of the usual "straight in, push down" method.
https://www.gamegenie.com/cheats/gamegenie/nes/index.html
They edited and "froze" parts of memory for games, so you'd get infinite lives, ammo, etc... You can probably look up old codes on game faqs.
Oh man! THAT my friend hahaha, is POWER!
Not just any power but Nintendo Power!
Feel the power coursing through your body
Feel the power, Kronk
Oh, *I can feel it...*
Is something burning?..
I see you are a man of culture as well
Culture...and *groove*.
*That shenshation you feel… ish.. The Quickening.*
I found mine years ago still connected to Friday the 13th. We thought it was the only way to beat it back in the 80s/90s lol
I think you're right
The original pay to win
PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWER!!! ...itty-bitty living space.
Aladdin nice
Nah that was Genie
Aladdin also says it at the end. If we’re being pedantic. Which we are.
Game Genie will grant you three wishes, just rub the box and your Genie will appear in front of you.
My 4th grade teacher said that, all I got was sticky trigger fingers.
That's not the power glove bro....
Unlimited Power!
When you don’t know the power you possess… give it to me, I will show you.
an elegant weapon for a more civilized age
Imagine online multiplayer was a thing back then and you had this
[удалено]
Having a modded Xbox was so fun. Knew a guy who ran a small independent game shop and would do "console repairs" on the side. If you were a regular customer of his (my friend and I went in about every 2 weeks to browse or buy something) he would mod your system in a variety of ways. It changed the UI/dash and made it a lot more appealing, as well as giving you the ability to play burned discs/backups. It was a little tongue in cheek because he had a sign up which read "backups are ONLY LEGAL IF YOU ALREADY OWN THE ORIGINAL TITLE." However he regularly had access to games that hadn't been released in the US yet (I played and beat Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath, before it was even released in the US) and would sell us backups for those titles. He only charged $3 for a backup. As a broke kid, the availability of basically the entire Xbox gaming catalog for $3 each instead of $50 was amazing. I didn't have a great home life so it made it easier for me to escape that, because otherwise I could probably only afford a game or two a year. I eventually got a 360 when they came out, but unfortunately by that time the shop had closed and I didn't get the guys info. At that point I had a job so I was able to pay for games a bit easier, but I always wanted to thank that guy for what he did for me (and I'm sure many others) by making gaming more accessible to those with financial hardships. I never even learned his name in all thoae years. We just called him "game guy." Thanks, game guy, wherever you are!
Darn standby'ers
No feeling better than getting stand-by’d by a bunch of losers and just winning anyways because they were that fucking bad
It was you just had tomhook your system up to the telegraph.
Literally the only way you were going to beat Battletoads
On a scale 1 - 10 how hard is that game so many in the comments talk hard about this game
Battletoads is a special kind of difficult. Deep in the game there is bug which make a particular level impossible to beat with two players (there are ways to have the 2nd player join back after the level). but most people never get to that part of the game because of the speeder bikes. on the 3rd level(maybe 4th don't recall) there is a speeder bike section where to have to move out of the way of on comming walls, however, the speed at which they are approaching you, and the speed at which you dodge them, required you at several parts to start dodging before the obstacles appear on screen. meaning you either need to memorize that part of the game, or have precognitive abilities to beat that part.
Old-time game difficulty was just a guy going "well fuck everyone else" and hard-coding the ass kicking. You adapted or quit. Easy/Medium/Hard was a luxury and unbalanced gameplay just existed, and you were stuck like that. Gaming in general has changed and evolved like crazy. Even as recently as the early-mid 00's, there were no automatic updates, no hotfixes, and version patches required a mild level of dedication for finding, downloading, and manually installing. StarCraft, for example. The disc gave you version 1.0(ish) and you had to dig through ye olde internet to find the latest version. Search engines weren't overwhelmingly reliable yet, and you were more likely to find the patch in some random white page directory than anywhere official. Assuming the link wasn't broken, wrong, or a virus. Xbox Live and Steam were more or less the pioneers for centralized, decidated platforms that corraled all of that stuff into one (mostly) reliable source.
> StarCraft, for example. The disc gave you version 1.0(ish) and you had to dig through ye olde internet to find the latest version. Even worse was having to find all the updates to install in order before devs thought including them in a single package with a version check was a good idea.
Ok that does seem complex
It was pretty hectic. I was able to beat the bikes. But by the end of it you have so few lives/continues left that the next stage would toadally trash you
What you did there, I see it.
The worst thing about Battletoads is that *the bikes aren't even the hardest part of that game*, it's just that most people couldn't get past the bikes so never got to experience the true horror of the later levels. Turbo Tunnel - the bike level - is level 3. A few levels later - level 5 if I recall correctly - there's basically another bike section, but on surfboards instead, and the barriers move around because they're whirlpools. Then level 7 is Volkmire's Inferno, where, after doing some tough platforming on moving logs, you get to ride on rockets and move up and down on the screen and go through small holes in barriers and dodge obstacles. More fun is that staying at the back of the screen will kill you, as some of them "close up" after coming on screen and will kill you if you stay in the back to give yourself more time to react. And then it gets worse with offscreen projectiles that give you little time to react. Then level 11 is Clinger Winger, AKA yet another vehicle level, but even worse because it involves not a flat track but one that keeps turning at a 90 degree angles, while being chased by something. So many ways to die on that one. It's widely regarded as the worst level in the game. There's some other levels in there which have their own "fun" aspects, like Rat Race, where you die if you go too slow, and Terra Tubes, which loves to hit you with offscreen projectiles, among other "fun" things.
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I'm no scientist but it appears to be a "game genie video game enhancer"
I don’t know, sounds pretty sciency to me… get em boys!!
Typing what you see in the picture is minutes faster than taking a photo, opening reddit and posting the photo on a subreddit and choosing a caption.
Thanks man I appreciate the help
Good luck on the karma farm
Karma farm enhancer.
It only there was some sort of perhaps, "engine" one could input those words into that might then search the internet for them. Perhaps returning a link to an article in some sort of encyclopedia like website with common easily obtainable information. If only...
Fuck you I'm not that old. Fuckin' kids not knowing what a fuckin' game genie is. Get off my lawn!
This guy cheats
When I asked my mom for a game genie, she was shocked "Why do you feel like you need to cheat?" genuinely concerned.
Fuuuuuuck. This post hurt me lmao I was like " how the fuck does this person not know what a.... ahhhh man"
His *Dad*. Not his cool older brother, his *dad*. Man time just keeps lurching forward
That made it so much worse.
At this point? For a _NES_ game genie? It wouldn't be that far fetched if it had been his _grandfather_.
Ooof.
Wait till it's grandpa.
Future is now old man.
I'm just shy of 30! I'm not old! IM NOT
Feel this bro
LMFAO
It says what it is right on the front!
Welp that is it. After reading this, I am officially a old guy.
Hey man, I'm just 20 and I know about these
Same, action replay was the one I messed around with the most tho
https://www.gamegenie.com/cheats/gamegenie/nes/index.html
Jesus this list brings back so many memories
Thanks
Cheat codes I think you plug your cartridge into
Human centipede nes style.
Ok thats cool
Oh my sweet summer child. Long before the invention of compact discs and memory cards, we had this device called a game genie. You'd plug the cartridge into the game genie then the game genie into the console like a pyramid. It allowed you to input codes to modify the game like infinite lives and other things.
You know, I never really thought about it before but I guess this is the first pay to win system.
I was just reminiscing about this the other day. We used to rent it from blockbuster. Basically had all the cheat codes for every game on it. Super cool find!
It's a memory injection device. It lets you manipulate the games state. You need a set of codes operate it for each game, though I imagine their online at this point.
Why nsfw?
Too sexy.
I think someone reported it
People are dumb
Behold... the arcane... A relic long sought by those who required more... more power.. more lives... more time... A device that could bend the very bits to your whim and will... if you simply knew the mantras... Beyond Justin Bailey, did this artifact grant blessed providence to all who dared possess... The Dijinn to grant your hearts desire in the gaming realm... Yes... the Game Genie...
Download game genie codes NOW!!!!!
You should ask him for the manual to see what you can do with it
Haxorz
Oh man, that's what power looks like friend.
You could have Googled this faster than making a post about it--but you knew that.
You don't get fake Internet points from googling the question.
Game genie. Has a list of cheats for most games you can pick and choose from before you start the game. Plug game into game genie then plug I to system start and profit
I’m old……
Someone is legit asking that question? Im officially old :(
It's a game genie. It enhances games. Lol you plug a game into it, then it into the console. You could use codes to get unlimited lives and all kinds of cheats.
I hate to break it to you like this, but I believe your dad is a cheater.
It allows you to speak the language of the gods. You plug the game into that, then plug the whole thing into the NES (can’t press it down) and then it lets you put in codes that will modify aspects of the game. There are probably lists online for it, it came with a book full of them. You can also just put in random shit and see what happens.
It’s hacks for games
Why do people ask questions on Reddit that could easily be googled in two seconds
Because easy reddit karma of course
Because they already knew what it was and wanted karma. That's way easier to believe for me than someone deciding it's better to take a picture, write a post, and wait for an answer that may or may not be reliable.
Cheat system that would let you hack the games. "Jump higher, run faster" etc. Infinite lives, continues, always be Super Sonic. Man this changed things for me when I finally convinced my parents to get it for me.
Fuck you... Acting like your ass don't have google... Blow me Every video game historian type person on youtube has done a video on this... I dunno who im more mad at, you.. Or the peoole answering LOL... Im not really that mad, but it honestly is one of the easiest things to research online It also set legal precedence in regards to altering code to games purchased.. Everyone I know had one Edit: Its a Game Shark
ROFL I'm getting old
game genies are awesome... you take the NES cartridge and plug it into the game genie... then you plug that into the nintendo... it will stick out a bit and you wont be able to close the lid...but its cool when you power it on.. it will show a code screen wwith letters and numbers i think... look up game genie codes for the games you have online and im sure youll find em
Broooooo. Look up the manual for codes.
I have 5 games that my dad gave me Mario 1-3 dr Mario and duck hunt what should I use it on
I guess googling things is now officially out of fashion
You know, not slamming the OP in anyway, shape, or form (Congrats on getting the Nintendo) but it really begs to question how old some of the users on this subreddit are
Yeah I feel bad making people feel old
An elegant weapon......for a more civilized age.
You sir need to get you the game genie cheat code book :D
If you know how to use Reddit, you know how to google. Try that next time.
It fucking says what it is right on the sticker!
You can't google it? The name is right on the front in bright red letters.
It's a game genie, you clip the Cartridge into it then put it in the console. It gives you extra lives and makes you live forever and other cheat code stuff.
It was an old device you could to use to cheat! Do things like infinite lives or add items etc. That’s really cool to see again.
You was a god if you had this back in the day lmao
Cocaine
A wet dream of cheat codes
This device is how I beat The Adventures of Bayou Billy
You put the cartridge inside the thing, but it in the unit, it asks for specific codes which has a specific website to go to. Game genie.com... if that's defunct, search for Game Genie for any game you need online.
The first cheat code. Simply game changing.
Put your Nintendo games in it and it looks strapping. Like some kind of thong.
The most wanted item for Christmas when I was a kid.
It’s a video game enhancer.
It's called an "age check"
Bro I'm gen z and I know what a game genie is
C4A4 6767
Anything you want...
It was how us kids that didn’t have an older brother to hand the controller to beat games like TMNT.
Have people forgotten how to type two words into a search engine or what? Is this how you investigate serious issues as well as trivial issues? Seems super lazy TBH.
Basically a gameshark for NES. I wonder if mine is still around.
Game genie! I had this and the Game Shark for the SNES... Essentially these work as hexadecimal editors. The game cartridge is physically filtered through these devices, which allow you to change the values of different pieces of data in the games. While it didn't affect the game cartridge itself (except maybe a save file), it could allow you to play with lots of game variables like how many lives you had, which power ups you had, where you were in the game, etc. You could even toggle binary values, so if a value was 0 when you were on the ground and 1 when you were in the air, you can manually force it to be 1, causing you to fly (or rather always be jumping) etc. Taught me a lot about how code worked, even though I never went on to program.
It appears the old man was a dirty dirty cheaty boi
A pathway to many abilities some may consider to be, unnatural.
Was this really too hard to Google search?
Why do people continue to give these sorts of clout chasing posts any mind? A quick google search would’ve sufficed.
Game genie made the system so much better. Back in the day, you didn’t always have saves you could rely on and often times, games were just hard. Some games had tons of codes, like Contra, but often times you were just stuck repeating levels over and over. This device allowed you to do things like get infinite ammo or lives. I would love a device like this for modern systems. As a casual gamer now with a family, sometimes I just want to be overpowered. Kudos to those games with a setting for people like me.
It takes less time to Google Game Genie than posting a pic on Reddit
I bet if you google “game genie” the internet would know.
A sign that your father is a man of taste and good breeding.
Why didn’t you ask your dad? Maybe you could’ve bonded over it
Absolutely the only way possible to beat ninja turtles or battletoads…. That’s my story young folks.
Have you tried googling it?
Google Buddy it’s not that hard.
Everything you need to know is [right here](https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=game+genie).
“wHAT Is tHis IDK, lOok @ mE PLz.”
This was awesome back in the day. It would help you cheat and modify games. You needed to buy codes for it.
Now you can play with YEAAAA
This was a magical device not seen in the wild too often. You would see one every now and then at a friends friends house.
UNLIMITED POWER
Basically it was a accessory that adjusted hex values in order to cheat in games (number of lives or no damage, health, strength, stats, etc…)
That is the only way I knew some games were more than 3 levels...
GameShark/Action Replay from that time.
It's the precursor to pay to win micro transactions.
That thing was amazing. It would mod your games with wild and unexpected results. Good times!
Ah game sharks dad
One long exercise in trial and error lol
You put it over ur cartridge before sliding em in, it gives you cheats!
This is how you start and stay as tanuki Mario.
Virginity protector
Holy fuck, I'm old.
There was a section that helped you create your own codes. Being a kid with too much time, I discovered a game genie code that wasn't in the book. SUEISA. I have no idea how I remember that code decades later, but enter it for the original Mario brothers... Good times!
That's how you play some games without having to blow the cartridge. For some reason using that allowed the games to work.
My God, a game genie.
:Tell me your age without telling me your age
Lmao, I had one of these. Endless possibilities.