This patent expired on according to current US patent law. Patent #5112051, "Interfacing device for a computer games system", filed May 30, 1990. The Game Genie's innovations are covered by U. The results can yield a useful code, but will most likely result in anything from a mundane or highly unnoticeable change to freezing the game and possibly corrupting saved data. Nonetheless, inputting a random code is as effective as using PEEK and POKE operations randomly. In rare cases, codes even unlock hidden game features that developers had scrapped and rendered unreachable in normal play. The most popular codes give the player some form of invulnerability, infinite ammunition, level skipping, or other modifications that allow the player to be more powerful than intended by the game developers. These codes can have a variety of effects. Each code contains an integer value that is read by the system in place of the data actually present on the cartridge.īecause the Game Genie patches the program code of a game, the codes are sometimes referred to as patch codes. Upon starting the console, the player may enter a series of characters referred to as a "Cheat codes" or several such series that reference addresses in the ROM of the cartridge. Therefore, the Game Genie was designed in such a way that it did not need to be depressed in order to start the game. The addition of the Game Genie causes the cartridge to protrude from the console when fully inserted, making the depression impossible. The Game Genie attaches to the end of a cartridge and is then inserted into the cartridge port of the console for which it was designed.
2.1 Creating own codes (Genesis version).The Action Replay, Code Breaker, and GameShark are similar hacking devices, some acting as a spiritual successor on later generation consoles, although they were created by entirely different companies. Emulators that have Game Genie support also allow a near-unlimited number of codes to be entered, whereas the actual products have a much smaller limit that usually tops between three and six codes.
Although there are currently no Game Genie products on the market, over 5 million units have been sold worldwide, and most video game console emulators feature Game Genie support. It is known as the first example of consumer-friendly "game enhancement" by means of (temporarily) directly altering the binary code of a game. The Game Genie is a series of cheat systems designed by Codemasters and sold by Camerica and Galoob for the Mega Drive, Sega Genesis and Game Gear that modifies game data, allowing the player to cheat, manipulate various aspects of games, and sometimes view unused content and functions. Single player (for inputing codes) Credits
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