The only cheat device for the NES I’ve ever owned is a Game Genie, but I do believe there is an Action Replay out there for the NES as well. Unlike the Game Genie, the Game Shark will work in a Super Game Boy, but due to the lack of a notch for the power switch, it will not work in an original DMG. Although a little unorthodox in the way you connect the cartridge, the Game Shark was far superior to the Game Genie, in that it offers on-board memory to store cheat codes, as well as allowing the user to remove or even input new codes/games into the Game Shark’s memory.
Many years later I acquired a Game Shark Pro, which encompassed both the Game Boy and Game Boy Color library of games. They do seem to work on the DMG and Pocket, but GBC games won’t work on that hardware anyway, leading me to assume Game Boy Color games will not work with the Game Genie. Even though Game Boy Color games fit, they blank out the screen on the Game Boy Color. This Game Genie works universally with the DMG, Game Boy Pocket and the Game Boy Color, but it will not work with the Super Game Boy without modification. When the Game Genie started up the user was prompted to enter codes, meaning if the game you wanted to use didn’t have any stickers or wasn’t in the booklet, you were out of luck.
It also came with stickers that you could place on the back of each game and punch in codes at a glance.
GALOOB GAME GENIE SNES VERSIONS CODE
One of the earliest Game Genies I owned was for my Game Boy, which came with a little code booklet that had such small print it was almost of no real use. I don’t own them all (I wish I did though!), but I will be going through the cheat devices I do own (or have owned) for each console and giving them a quick review. When the home console market started heating up many companies decided it was time to step up to that market and throw their name into the ring. Ha, losers!Īs far back as the Commodore 64 days, cheating devices have been on the market. From infinite exp, gold or levels in an RPG, to allowing Mario to swim through thin air and complete levels untouched, these cheating devices offered endless possibility and helped many gamers beat a game, while all their friends were struggling to beat the game the intended way. Sometimes, with a little fiddling around, codes could help us forget about our struggles by completely altering the game in quite interesting ways. The main function of these devices is to alter the game’s coding so that we don’t have to struggle. For the rest of us, and even all of the above, there was the Game Genie, Action Replay or Game Shark! Others will only try so many times before they pull out an old issue of Nintendo Power, look up a walkthrough, or find cheat codes. Most vintage gamers prefer to play video games as they were intended, trying over and over to get just 1 more level and feel our hard work has paid off.
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