The GameBoy Genie granted all my wishes
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ส.ค. 2020
- For ages I have wished I could run faster, fall slower, run through walls and live forever. Now, with the help of my Game Genie, I still can't do that. But the characters I play in my GameBoy games can!
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Make a game boy that has a built-in game genie
Make sure it's a long gameboy so it becomes an ungodly entity
@@sarahbushhunter6547 the long Jon game boy genie
laust 7170 also make it a dega muck, gingendo bame noy mega duck crossover
Nooo a game genie with a built in game boy!
69 likes pogchamp
"look like it came out in 1992"
Look at his shirt.
It says ninety two, not 1992
R/wooooosh
Captain Antilles you don’t deserve..., just just stop
*ninetytwo*
@@captainantilles9094 last time i checked we didn't have 2092 yet
I remember when I was a kid, I saw this at the window of a thrift store. I wanted it so bad but the store didn’t open for another 30 minutes. My mother was so kind enough as to wait the 30 minutes just to buy it for me. It’s something I will forever hold on to :)
"Let's get a regular gameboy"
Yeah whats up with that? Its so elongated
The nope.avi boy
I mean, for the standards of this channel that's kinda regular
He already bought a bunch of gameboys
Its so tall
"I just don't see it being that useful" - Man, back in the day, this was the only way that I could see the end of most of my favorite games. With no savestates, the "Nintendo hard" level of cheap deaths, and a child's skill level at video games, Game Genie was a must-have peripheral. I think of it these days as "fixing bad game design". I think most people just used it for an "infinite lives" or "infinite continues" code.
I remember using the Genesis version of the Game Genie to access unfinished stuff or change color palettes and stuff
fun times
I also had one of these (still do) - and as @BlueVII mentions it was often the only way I could get to the end of some of my games. A wonderful little gadget... the extra booklets were the same form factor as the one in your video but had less pages. I think I have 4 of them somewhere in my basement. LOL
If I had one of these it would have saved me so much frustration in games like Castlevania the Adventure or Metroid II, never mind that there are even harder games out there haha
I feel the same way, I had a Gameshark back when a was a kid in my PSX.
Helped me beat Yugioh! Forbidden memories.
That game was brutal xD
totally agreed this guy just showed up on my feed I don't know him but I can tell he's young but he's not understanding the time and the place Game genie was awesome we didn't have cell phones we didn't have internet we just had hard as nails games and sometimes you wanted to do something.. different in this was a way to do it. Making fun of stuff is easy appreciating something is harder
“They were very anti-this I imagine” - Were they ever. The NES one caused a pretty big lawsuit that Nintendo actually lost, and it ended up setting a lot of legal precedents for several other tech suits. Pretty interesting stuff!
I had to wait for my already ordered NES game genie because of that lawsuit. My mom ordered it. The lawsuit happened so it couldn't ship until it was resolved. When it got resolved, I finally got my game genie.
@@robXloserX hell yeah glad you got it
Nintendo's arguments made no sense either. They claimed it made the game less fun. Well...okay? Even if that's true, that's not your problem, Nintendo. And if it made the games less fun, why would people buy it?
@@MuchWhittering I'd argue it made certain games more fun, or at least more attainable. Giving myself 100+ balls was one of the only ways I was able to finish Pokemon Pinball, and I adored that game. Although I generally try to play within the spirit of how the games are intended :P
And something funny is that there was a game genie for sega genesis, but sega actually licensed it.
Had one of these as a kid I sawed off a corner so I could fit it into SNES Super Gameboy. IT WORKED I think that was technically my first console mod 😎
You're Hackerman :D
@@DYNANiK.official not hacker MAN...
HACKER GOD
Me too!
Genius!
"Lets take out our NoRmAl GaMeBoY"
Ultimate tall game boy: long game boy, game boy game genie, and the long bootleg cartridge
Makes the longest answer of a penis
MAXIMUM LENGTH
no, not a bootleg cartridge, the test cartridge!
Game Genie:
*Does what it advertises on the box*
Elliot:
"WHATTT?! THAT ACTUALLY WORKS!"
elliot this is illegal you are only allowed 3 wishes take this video down now
Notice that it only lets you use 3 codes at a time.
I wanna like but there's 69 likes...
@@nickyaboi Bruh, no one gives a shit about 69 likes. Haha Reddit Moment Big Chungus Wholesome 100 Keanu Moment
@@zenithaltitan dam you didnt have to be a period princess about it, and I hate reddit so way to assume.
@@nickyaboi I never said you liked Reddit you do act like one though.
Soon enough you'll have enough peripherals stacked on top of the long boy to be able to touch the roof with it
One interesting thing about these devices is that the codes are just an obfuscated way of doing what we would now call a 'rom hack'. The codes map to offsets in the rom and functionally replace the values. Nowadays many emulators let you do the same thing in a very straight forward manner as well as the GameGenie custom code system.
I had the NES and Genesis versions back in the day and you could actually make up your own codes, or modify existing ones. A code to give you 7 lives or 1, with a little experimentation you could make a code that gives you 255 lives. The big thing though was that you could modify ANY part of the rom, so you could totally glitch the heck out fo a game if you just entered random codes.
I found that the GameGenie was the most fun with a game that you hate. The worse the game the more fun it was to muck with it. A game too hard or boring? GameGenie the crud out of it. Most times bad games had bad endings and it wasn't going to be worth your time to beat it anyways. This was especially a thing when you'd rent a game for the weekend. I mean it was the only new game you were going to have that weekend so you might as well get all the most out of it.
It would totally change the game to something actually worth playing again too if you completed it before. Done Super Mario brothers to death? Now try it where all enemies have super speed and you're in low gravity.
@nullptr_t Oh yeah that's why more complex changes require 2 or 3 codes. Luckily these are 8 or 16 bit games so the memory address range is relatively small as are the values one substitutes. Most of the time values fall in range of 0-255 or 0-65536. This can be represented by 1 or 2 characters in a code. There is some fascinating documentation for the exact details online. tuxnes.sourceforge.net/gamegenie.html
No one calls that rom hacking, it would be called memory editing or maybe even trainers.
@nullptr_t Yeah, but they *had* to protect their ability to sell codebooks. If they hadn't who knows what demand might have been like. Imagine an infrared version that supported like 300 line patches, that you could download from the internet. Very doable at the time.
@@Jdbye While modern ROM hacking is much more complicated, this is really 'hacking the ROM'. Here is a tool that applies game genie codes to a ROM and saves the output. www.romhacking.net/utilities/1054/
My cousins and I had a lot of fun using the Game Genie on the SNES back in the day. I think I might still remember a few cheat codes for Turtles in Time!
Came out in 1992? You are wearing a ninetytwo t-shirt? Coincidence? I don't think so! 🤔
👌
Lol
@@TheRetroFuture if u no reply you r gæ
CherryBlossom 😐😐
COINCIDENCE
I THINK YES
Fun fact: Nintendo attempted to sue the creators of the Game Genie for modifying their games but due to Nintendo not knowing how the Game Genie really works the sue failed
This is actualy incorrect I think. If I remember correctly, the creators sued Nintendo, so that Nintendo wouldn't be aloud to change their systems so they wouldn't be compatible, and Nintendo fought it. But like you said, it didn't work.
They knew how it worked
Game genie is literally action replay's old ancestor
Yep same for Game Shark, and Pelican Code Breaker.
@@sabr5162 I don't remember the Monster Brain. I got some research to do lol.
My friend Sasha in primary school had one (or something similar) and we would use it to catch legendary and shiny Pokémon. That's the best thing you could use one of these for, in my opinion.
Yeah. This is how my friends and I got Mew when we were 10.
Does it give you unlimited Pokeballs?
@@lifeEnthus1ast Unlimited Master Balls mate ;)
What's the point in a Shiny if you cheat for it? Makes it less special.
Imagine selling it at recess
Game Genie was fun to have, you know when you didnt have loot packs, internet abilities to lookup starts or chreats. Game Genie was a swiss army knife to make games fun or to advance when you had no idea what you were doing...especially when you were a kid.
Oh we still had cheat codes without the Internet. They'd get published in gaming magazines and passed around the playground, and you would copy them into the "Notes" section of the game manual. I still remember how to start Sonic 2 with all the Chaos Emeralds (Sound Test 04, 01, 02, 06). Since the Sound Test was often right there in the Options screen of most games, a lot of cheat codes were just kinda left in there by the devs.
@@lauraschantz9058 well people cant read anymore now in 2021 with comprehension let alone could they probably enter a code in a game, unless its a redemption code for a loot box LMAO
4:03 “Let’s take a look at a standard gameboy” *proceeds to pull out some expand dong looking skyscraper gameboy*
Why is there not more comments bringing that monstrosity of a gameboy up?? 😂
I had a Game Genie (type device) for the Gameboy, it was purple and I remember one of the main selling points on the box was that it worked with Pokémon. I used it to get a Mew (and giving my team moves that they would never be able to have) and then it ended up corrupting my save game. It was fun but I didn't really use it after that. lol
I would wish for Nintendo to release a game this year
There's an independent developer putting out Gameboy games.
@@DirtyPlumbus who do you have a name？ I would like to see.
This aged well indeed
botw 2
The end of the 'rona blues
I've still got one of these for the NES.
Yes. I still have the NES too.
Some of the cool stuff you could do was enter random codes and some random bit of memory will be modified causing unintended things to happen :) could lead to properly trippy games, we used to exchange codes that would work between friends at school.
I did the same thing as a kid LOL, all it was doing was modifing OP Code values stored on the game carts.
I thought the Action Replay for my DS was big, but damn
Got one from Ebay last year, 20 bucks. Finally beat "Operation C" after 25+ years
4:05 "Let's take a look at a regular, standard Gameboy"
*Takes out the long Gameboy*
My wife was watching with me at the point and said “uhm I don’t think that game boy is right”
Imagine how heartbroken a kid would be if they lost the code book!
That was me.
“So let’s set it up on a standerd regular gameboy” Mmm yes *very regular*
If only the game genie would make Platinum Games give us an update on Bayonetta 3.
Wow this actually made the Long Boy look smaller. Next Video:
"Putting wheels on my Long Boy and using it as a skateboard"
"You can never die, you just start back at the level"
So it's like a modern game then.
I had one back in the day, and used it all the time. There's WAY more codes you can use that aren't in the included booklet (search online), and you can get some very strange results by just putting in random codes.
Amazing content,
drinking coffee and enjoying these videos
Thank you!
I had this exact Game Genie & it was amazing because it was simple enough to program your own codes. It’s really useful for a lot of games. Anything you could save, or have a restart code for was the best because once you saved stat changes in an RPG were permanent, so you didn’t need to have the genie in top. I had notebooks full of test codes so I could get exactly what I wanted. I really miss cheating in games. XD
Elliot: Has been doing youtube for a couple of years and he is a grown man
Also Elliot: hey mom
Hey son 👋🤣
I love your REGULAR standard Gameboy!
Something interesting about this: all this thing does is basically change bits inside of the ROM of the Gameboy, and the codes are just instructions on which values to change. If you know which memory addresses you want to change, there are actually calculators online that will translate those addresses and their new values to game genie codes. There are a lot of smart people out there that are still developing new codes for the Game Genie, nowadays mostly codes for making it easier to practice speedruns of certain games, but it's quite interesting because you can do anything you want to a game as long as you put in the work to find out what you want to change. It's basically just a programming language for reprogramming game ROMs
Tom Nook just stares at the camera the whole time lol
Omg thanks for heart! Keep up the good content! (Love the channel btw)
I had one of these as a kid, because of my disabilities I had terrible reactions, legitimately slower than frozen molasses! That little beast gave me the satisfaction of seeing the end screens of so many of my favorite games!
It also allowed you to make games harder as well so starting with less lives or making bosses harder to beat. The everdrive carts also allow you to input game genie codes and there’s no limit on how many codes on those.
WOW i was literally just looking at buying one of these!
Hey The Retro Future, will you be doing a review on the Analogue Pocket when it comes out? Great video btw
So I had this back in the day (still do some where ) it came with a sheet of stickers with a load of popular games of the time. Both teenage mutant ninja turtles. Spider -man. Mario land 1. The codes were also printed in video game magazines. The last game I used it on was pokemon Red to eventually get all 151 Pokemon. Yes you could even get Mew. It was really good device , if you ever got stuck on a game you could use this to help you. Also this was before the internet so finding new codes for new games were really hard.
I’m loving the new look for the on air sign. Looks really fresh
This brings back such nice memories. It was so much fun. I even had one for the news and one for the snes. I used to subscribe to the updates. The book it came with even told you how to make up your own codes. Yes, some codes would cause the game to temporarily malfunction, due to a certain code you punched in.
“let’s take a look at a regular, standard game boy”
**pulls out the longest game boy I’ve ever seen**
hi there! amazing video if i knew about this accesory when i was a playing some games for sure i was going to get it !
Another awesome trf video
I had the one for NES back in the day. It was fun to play around with and you could make the games harder and weirder which I enjoyed doing.
I love how you still recognize your Doc's Fix-A-Pad controller!
Had one of these. Had one for the nes as well. Loved it
🤯
agreed
I've been using the Game Genie since it first debuted on the NES. I also had one for my Game Boy and my SNES. Nintendo sued Galoob, who obtained the rights from Code Masters to publish the Game Genie here in the USA, and lost because Galoob proved that the GG did NOT infringe on the copyrights of the games. As time progressed, Nintendo tried many times to keep the GG from working on their consoles, but failed. When Nintendo released the "top Loader" version of the NES the PIN connector was modified to create a better connection to the carts. Well, this modification prevented the GG from being inserted. Galoob answered this problem by releasing an adapter that would connect to the NES GG and would aloow the GG to slide right in. This adapter is extremely rare and goes for a pretty penny on eBay. As for the GG for the SNES it was a whole different ball game. Nintendo tried modifying the games to do a quick check to see if the GG was connected. If so the games would not boot at all. Every time Nintendo would find a way to block the GG from working on the SNES, Code Masters would update firmware of the GG to circumvent the block. For example when I discovered that my GG did not work with my copy of Street Fighter II Turbo, I called Galoob and they were already aware of this problem. They had me send in my GG and they sent me one that would work with ALL games up to that point. Nintendo tried again by blocking games with the Super FX chip, but Code Mastrers was already on top of it. After a while, Nintendo just gave up. Now, on a different note, just to 1 up Nintendo, Sega licensed the GG for the Genesis / Mega Drive. Well, when Nintendo lost that lawsuit it paved the way for other game enhancers such as the Pro Action Replay and the Game Shark to be developed and released for not only Nintendo systems but other consoles as well without the fear of being sued. Now, as for emulation, practically all emulators have Game Genie / Game Shark / Pro Action Replay support built in the software. If you want the most cheat codes for these type of devices then visit gamehacking.net
The fact that he said the LongBoy is a regular standard gameboy is just hilarious to me
I had a gamegenie back in the day and it kicks so much butt. I have one for the NES, SNES, Gamegear, Gameboy, and Genesis. I even have one of the stickers still on the back. Fun times. You can look up the codes online and almost every game has codes as there's an algorithm used to generate what does what.
Omg i had a game genie for my OG NES system. Loved it. Used it alllllll the time.
This was awesome when I was little! The subscription was awesome - the updated codes would come in a little booklet (about the same size as the regular one, just much thinner). Creating your own codes was fun to experiment with- I found a code for Mega Man 3 that made your shots rip through enemies instead of disappearing when they hit.
So much nostalgia!
That is the worse name for a company ever, I dont know why but it makes me feel like all their products are sticky
When I think of codemasters, I think of Dirt.
I would say Bung Enterprises has that name beat lol
How about Ayds - an appetite suppressing candy
Yes yes
@@dragon940carp6 Just googled what that was, xD
i remember buying it in the 90's . was the best thing you could buy for gameboy . worked perfectly and codes got updated via nintendo magazine .
www.gamegenie.com/cheats/gamegenie/gameboy/index.html full list for codes
I've been waiting to see this in the regular Gameboy for ages!
I got one of these for Christmas alongside my gameboy what i was a kid, it was fun trying codes with games that those codes weren't intended for to see the results
Most amazing is that the tiny book has so many pages!
I rented one of these ages ago for the Sega Genesis/Megadrive. See, in level 5 of the game Castle of Illusion, there is a point at which the only way to reach a certain platform is by bouncing off of an enemy. If you forget and kill the enemy first, or you timing isn't absolutely perfect so that you jump on the enemy at *just* the right spot, then you're stuck. One of the Game Genie codes for CoI is "Jump Higher," which essentially makes every jump go as high as when you jump/bounce off of an enemy. With this, we were finally able to beat the game.
If you haven't played Castle of Illusion, I do recommend it. The remake for PS3 is also very good.
I have this exact one! This was actually extremely useful back in the day!
I used this frequently with Pokemon Blue. I'd input random codes just to see if I could make the game function in an interesting way. I once was able to get Pokémon to level down instead of up. I also found one where you could use pokeballs in the overworld and it just looked like you were throwing something. Honestly I should have saved all the codes I made but in a house with 3 other kids I would have never been able to find what I wrote down anyway. I barely had anything to myself!
I had one of these! And one for my NES
I have one for a NES (can't use it anymore because I only have a toploader now) but it was really fun messing around w/ custom codes to glitch games out or mess with them in other ways
I love that you're reviewing a product I've had for decades. I also have the ones for NES and SNES.
I remember using the Game Genie on the NES. So many codes to choose from too. I didn't know they made one for the Game Boy.
This is the best intro you have done, "hey mom"
Looks great on the looooooong gameboy! 👍
i remember a friend of mine had the game genie for orignal nes. Was like magic to me then... so cool!
your gameboy capture device is sooooo awesome !!!
We had one growing up and was a life saver!
What I used those game genie things for was to make games harder. There are codes that benefit NPC's just like there are ones that benefit you. Once you beat a game and have it down adding extra difficulty could make it repayable.
Oh hello on air glad to see you working again.🤣🤣
😂
god it looks so good, my uncles was super faded and dirty from a lot of use and im sure he took it to the playground and such, so cool though
Sorry, unrelated to this video, but by watching your videos, I got confident enough to swap the shell of my nintendo switch and fix the drifting joycon twice. Furthermore, I ordered a lot of DS's from Japan, and now I have a homebrewed Japanese 3DS XL which plays my EU games! Your videos are so pleasant to watch, keep up the good work mate!
I had a Game Genie when it came out. It was fun to mess around with, I do remember with certain games it didn't work or it was a bit glitchy. It's funny I have my original Gameboy and all of my games still. I have had it since it came out, but my Game Genie is gone. I have no idea where it went.
I remember this! Best ever!
Actually super duper useful back in the day when practicing speedrunning. "Practice codes" make it a lot less tedious.
I have one of these with the game genie sticker missing on the front, and no code book in the back.
I had no idea what this thing was. Now I do. Nice.
Imagine losing the code book during the 90's
Mine went through the washer and I lost about half of it. It sucked. Luckily, I already had the stickers on a handful of games so no harm no foul.
Perfect dead-pan delivery. Well played. >__
Had one of these back in the day, really well made and lots of fun. Putting in the code was annoying but you felt so cool if it worked. I still have that Mario game, play it on the SP once in a while. Always hated the slower falling code, messed up my timing more then anything. I used it to increase the difficulty of the game once in a while, really difficult to do.
This device is a cheat cart for the gameboy it prime use to cheat at games which were very difficult to complete, there were others which where used on other retro computers/consoles of the time a notably famous one was the action replay cartridge. You would also get the cheat codes in gaming magazines of the time. these carts were basically a one stop shop to save trawling through old mags to get the codes. i still have a game genie in my gameboy collection from when i was 12.
Thats so cool
Messing with codes It was part of our childhood. I loved to buy game magazines and check the codes
Alternate video title: How to Make the Long Game Boy Longer.
Had the NES version back in the day, and many a rainy Sunday afternoon was spent making up codes and watching games bug-out in sometimes quite amusing ways! Hours of fun! :')
Me: zones out
Eddie: Ïts a bit of a taller package, we don´t mind
Me: dares to look
And I never was the same
*gAlOob*
I have on of these, it’s in rough condition though
The holy relic! The game genie! Had one, loved it!
"Into a regular Gameboy" *pulls yout a Gameboy that is ridiculously long*
It also came with additional stickers with pre-printed codes for games like Mario Land, Mega Man II, Tetris, Final Fantasy Adventure etc. but yours seemed to only come with the blank ones.
You're "ON AIR" neon sign is now perfect :-)
That extra long Gameboy always makes me smile
I Hadd this and I loved it. After beating a game regularly I always love messing around with cheats, so I felt like I got much more out of my games with this thing!
Nice! I have one of these!
I got mine back when they were new, and I still use it. There are codes online for the first two generations of Pokèmon. Oddly, it only works with Red, Blue, Gold, and Silver, but not Yellow. But it lets you catch any creature you want and buy any item you want.
My mate used to have one for the Nes. Remember playing Boy and his blob. 😁