Talk:Game Genie

This article needs a complete rewrite. This sentence: Nintendo's SNES and NES consoles used a Lock chip to prevent unlicensed (or grey import) games which was unaffected by the Game Genie, which simply passed the chip connections through to the cartridge without interference. Hence the Nintendo Game Genie devices did not act as a country converter. is cryptic and frustrating to read. The grammar throughout the article is extremely poor. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.230.119.26 (talk) 20:30, 4 May 2008 (UTC) [reply]

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This sentence is very unclear, "To keep demand up, the booklets would only last a certain number of months/issues." It is so unclear I can't fix it. Did the booklets disintegrate after a certain time? (I think not.) Was it the demand for the device, the booklets, or the subscriptions being manipulated? Someone who is knows the details of this should take a wack at rewriting this.

As someone who owned a GG and wanted to subscribe (but never did - Thanks Mom!), I can remember that with a subscription you received all the newest books for the term of your subscription. However, I do not think the statement above is correct. If memory serves me right (I will consult the GG Manual as soon as possible to be sure), there was an order form for ordering any of the extra booklets. This would make the unclear statment removable as it is incorrect. User:LinkP

If I had to make a guess, I would say you could only buy it for a few months. I agree that the sentence is very unclear.

I restructured the article and rewrote the section discussed above as best as I know. I know some about the Game Genie, but not a lot -- I think there's a lot more that could go into this article. --Pagrashtak 18:33, 12 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Code creators club link doesn't seem to work.. link to archive.org version?? User:Os

Trivia

I distinctly remember there being an ad for the NES gamegenie. Therefore I removed the comment saying that the GG one was the only one advertized. --Thaddius 16:40, 23 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The comment said that the Game Gear version was the only one never advertized. (I would be willing to believe that, but I cannot prove it.). -- Calcwatch 02:02, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

http://www.videogamesource.com/genie/ somone add this link

Availability and Popularity

There seems to be a lot of information about how Game Genie was advertised. I am curious as to where it was sold, did you have to mail away for it or could you buy it at a toy store? I had a Game Genie for NES and I was the only one of all my friends to have it, and it had been bought at a garage sale. I bring this up because I'm curious on how popular Game Genies were in the past. KittyKat 1987 03:00, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

KittyKat - it was sold very widely in retail stores throughout North America, Canada and other territories. If I recall the total sales of all Game Genies were about 3m units, maybe more.

The article states that the SNES Game Genie does not work with the SNES Doom port. I can attest that it does, I had both as a kid and even created cheat codes for Doom. That I'm sure about, the only thing that I can't remember is if the flap at the top of the device would lock into place on the Doom cartridge, as it did any other game.

68.185.248.62 06:40, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Um... Canada is part of North America. But yeah, I managed to buy a NES, Game Boy and SNES one at Zellers here in Canada as a child. --Thaddius (talk) 12:30, 10 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

NES is wrecked by game genie use

Did anyone care to report a source that says the pins of the nes are bent back and wrecked as a result of using this advice, it seemsto be a very un balalanced article mentioning only the good 130.15.112.169 (talk) 17:36, 17 February 2009 (UTC) found it130.15.112.169 (talk) 17:58, 17 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

While obviously my personal experience with the game genie is irrelevent to the wiki, I have to say that I've used the game genie on many different NES consoles, and it never 'wrecked' any of them - HOWEVER, it did seem to exacerbate the 'games don't fit' problem, where one has to move the cartridge around more to get it to work - but over time this has happened to absolutely every NES I've ever used, regardless of game genie usage. It is a problem of the front-loader NES design not the game genie. 71.236.178.126 (talk) 21:14, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]