SNES Game Genie question

[AndrewTS 0]

Okay, I bought a used SNES Game Genie online, only to find out it didn't work. Oddly, when I have the switch off, it plays just fine, but when I turn the switch back on, it doesn't.

 

Anyway, I found out the likely problem; later versions of the SNES were made to prevent the Game Genie from working with any games. I'd heard about it in a FAQ and it was one of the measures Nintendo took after losing a lawsuit to Galoob.

This makes sense, because I have the 2nd model SNES, which looks completed different. I don't know if the "earlier" SNESs were changed directly after the lawsuit.

 

So, basically I'm stuck with it so I'll have to try to find somebody who can use it. I was hoping somebody here might be able to tell me the newest manufactured models of SNES that still work with the Genie. Of course, that may be hard to pinpoint, because the bottom of my SNES 2 says "1991" which doesn't sound right to me.

 

I believe the lawsuit ended in 1992, but I don't know when Nintendo may have started modifying their consoles to prevent its use. I think Christmas 1994 consoles already had protections from it, because I believe that's when I got my original SNES and had problems when I'd rented a Genie.

 

Anyone know?

[Guest CronoT]

Okay, I bought a used SNES Game Genie online, only to find out it didn't work. Oddly, when I have the switch off, it plays just fine, but when I turn the switch back on, it doesn't.

 

Anyway, I found out the likely problem; later versions of the SNES were made to prevent the Game Genie from working with any games. I'd heard about it in a FAQ and it was one of the measures Nintendo took after losing a lawsuit to Galoob.

This makes sense, because I have the 2nd model SNES, which looks completed different. I don't know if the "earlier" SNESs were changed directly after the lawsuit.

 

So, basically I'm stuck with it so I'll have to try to find somebody who can use it. I was hoping somebody here might be able to tell me the newest manufactured models of SNES that still work with the Genie. Of course, that may be hard to pinpoint, because the bottom of my SNES 2 says "1991" which doesn't sound right to me.

 

I believe the lawsuit ended in 1992, but I don't know when Nintendo may have started modifying their consoles to prevent its use. I think Christmas 1994 consoles already had protections from it, because I believe that's when I got my original SNES and had problems when I'd rented a Genie.

 

Anyone know?

Because, one, Nintendo doesn't like to lose; and two, because Nintendo wasn't going to let a little thing like the law stand in their way. After Lewis Galoob won their lawsuit, barring Nintendo from interfering with sale and production of their product, the Game Genie, Nintendo simply set up the NES, SNES, and Game Boy units to block out the Game Genies.

 

Since Lewis Galoob never got a license from Nintendo, Nintendo could do anything they wanted, in relation to preventing the Game Genie from working on the system. That's basically the way the "Cheat Device Wars" have gone since then. The console makers produce a console, and the cheat device makers crack it, and release a chaet device for it. Then, the console makers find the way the cheat device makers used to affect the system, and close it. Simply put, it's the video game equivalent of The Red Queen Theory.

[AndrewTS 0]

...that wasn't the question.

 

"I was hoping somebody here might be able to tell me the newest manufactured models of SNES that still work with the Genie."

 

Thanks for restating what I already knew and not helping at all.

[Guest CronoT]

...that wasn't the question.

 

"I was hoping somebody here might be able to tell me the newest manufactured models of SNES that still work with the Genie."

 

Thanks for restating what I already knew and not helping at all.

Ooops, sorry about that. As for where you could go, or who you could contact; the only thing I can think of is to look for one in pawn shops and EB Games and Gamestops.