[HN Gopher] The Story of the Game Genie, a Cheat Device Nintendo...
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The Story of the Game Genie, a Cheat Device Nintendo Tried (and
Failed) to Kill
Author : adrian_mrd
Score : 26 points
Date : 2021-12-27 11:39 UTC (11 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.nintendolife.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.nintendolife.com)
| grendelt wrote:
| That page layout is puke. The number of ads is really distracting
| when trying to read on mobile.
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| creativenolo wrote:
| All good using Brave.
| mensetmanusman wrote:
| So many good memories of this device.
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| I remember playing Final Fantasy 2 with the Genie making our
| character invulnerable and reaching a boss in the dwarf fortress
| whose life points were somehow coupled to ours.
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| It took us kids a while (over two hours of battling) to figure
| out we had to turn off the genie on this battle to finally end
| it!
| dandotway wrote:
| Interesting legal tidbits: They even had Shigeru
| Miyamoto in court - he came to San Francisco. They were
| saying that because the player was plugging in the
| interface and making Mario jump higher, the player was making a
| derivative work, and we were helping him infringe copyright. In
| the end, the judge said it was not permanently changed when
| you unplugged it, and for a derivative work to exist it has
| to be permanent. [...] Some of the team's
| tactics were quite interesting, highlighting the hypocrisy
| of Nintendo, as Menzies explains. "I helped with the
| lawsuit by creating non-Game Genie codes that could be
| entered into an official Nintendo game's own password system and
| would crash it, cause graphical corruption, weird behaviour, and
| so on. Basically all of the things that Nintendo's lawsuit
| accused Game Genie of doing, so we could say to the judge
| 'look, this isn't anything to do with us, Nintendo's games
| do this on their own, it's just how video games work'."
| hermes8329 wrote:
| The original was awesome but the first external mods to the PS1
| also has some nifty stuff to hack around with just an lpt1 port
| away
| tweetle_beetle wrote:
| Funny to read this at this time of year. I remember my sibling
| and I pouring over the absurdly small book for the Game Boy
| version, pictured in one of the photos, one Christmas. It seemed
| magical that every game we ever came across was in there. Little
| did we know that someone had been grinding out game after game.
| There was a kick from knowing that you were somehow modifying the
| game in real time, even though I was too young to know about
| hacking culture.
| adamrmcd wrote:
| I remember the first time I learned about the Game Genie.
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| I was 12 when I walked into our local game store late one night
| and saw Super Mario Bros 3 being played on the big screen, except
| Mario had 99 lives, jumped higher than the screen, and looked
| like a beetle throwing hammers. WTF!
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| I asked the guy playing how he did it, and he replied with one
| word, "genie". I was so floored by what I was seeing, I didn't
| even think to ask any follow up questions.
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| I spent the next three months searching every corner of that game
| for the Genie, like he was a super secret character built-in. I
| only stopped after finding the Game Genie for sale at that same
| store :D
| 41209 wrote:
| One of the coolest tricks during gaming's golden age!
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| I even remember Nintendo power running an article telling people
| NOT to buy these.
| SippinLean wrote:
| I remember when new games would get released, Galoob would put
| fliers with the GG codes on them for you to take home with the
| game!
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| https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/game_ge...
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