Game Genie Super Nes

[kroogur]

Has anyone had a problem with the Game Genie for the SNES not working anymore? I dug mine out of the mothballs and cleaned it and it will not work the game will either not load or the screen comes up glitched or frozen.

The code entry screen works fine and is crystal clear but when i hit start is when i have the problems.

I bought another Genie and it behaves the same.

 

Any ideas?

[nintendo]

Make sure the contacts on your game cartridge and the Game Genie are clean. That's usually the most common fix. Or maybe your putting in the wrong codes?

[XZX]

There were some SNES that did not work with Game Genie. I had one. It came with Link To the Past.

[DragonmasterDan]

My SNES 2 refuses to work with it thinking I am using a pirate cartridge.

[Vic George 2K3]

My Game Genie works. Of course, some webpage told me it could be used for playing import games, but even with the minor cosmetic surgery I did to my Game Genie to receive a Euro/Japan-shaped SNES cartridge, it still wouldn't let me play the SNES Smurfs game on my U.S. SNES system. Sigh.

[kroogur]

I took it to work and got them contacts shiny, i'll try it tonite. I had tried several different carts before and none worked.

One trick i did discover today was to take an old gift card and i wet down the end with alcohol and ran it in an out of the contacts and i removed a fair amount of crud

[JB]

My SNES 2 refuses to work with it thinking I am using a pirate cartridge.

That's game-level, not system-level.

There's a "master code" you have to enter for games with "copier detection" to make them work on a Genie.

 

 

 

My Game Genie works. Of course, some webpage told me it could be used for playing import games, but even with the minor cosmetic surgery I did to my Game Genie to receive a Euro/Japan-shaped SNES cartridge, it still wouldn't let me play the SNES Smurfs game on my U.S. SNES system. Sigh.

That's because the website was only half-right.

The US and Japan use the same lockout chip and clock timings. So a trimmed Genie will let you play Japanese games. No problems at all.

 

BUT...

Europe uses a different lockout chip. So those games won't work without a more elaborate hack.

And once you get them booting, TV standard differences will make them run too fast, and with graphics hanging off the top and bottom of the screen(moreso than usual). And timing differences in the system raise the possibility of causing bugs in the game.