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Xarpolis said:

Thinking way back to the days of NES....

I had a Game Genie. And I used to use that all the time on different NES games. Did the game programmers have to include the cheats that the game genie would then allow access to? Or did the Game Genie people somehow intercept the games signal and changed it so the game thought something different than what it was intending to do? I'm curious about that.

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Noodleface said:

The CPU is constantly reading/writing to/from the cartridge addresses. If someone knows the address of things like number of lives, or even something else tied to values like health then you can easily intercept and modify those values. That's essentially what the game genie was doing. Intercepting data, changing it, and making sure it passed valid data back.

I did look up a bit because I was curious how it did stuff for so many games. I guess the company really did disassemble source for games and use logic analyzers to figure this stuff out. Im sure a few developers helped them out, but it seems like a crazy engineering thing to pull off in the 80s/90s.

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Caeden said:

Metroid Dread would have been fine if it wasn’t for the EMMI sections. I haven’t watched this trailer yet.

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Xarpolis said:

Awesome info. Thanks for the knowledge.

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Siliconemelons said:

It would have been /passable/ without EMMI

The slide to action and rougelike is what is not wanted or needed

Look at this new metroid and the new castlevania - neither know why "Metroidvania" became a thing and why they were so popular… they want to be Dead Cells - and that is NOT metroidvania

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