Game Genie Key Chip question

MM007 · Post by **MM007** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 5:04 pm

As many of you know, the NES has a lockout chip which requires a key-chip to activate the NES.

I am wondering if the Game Genie has it's own such chip, or if it just acts as a passthrough in that respect, relying on the normal game's keychip.

Nes Man · Post by **Nes Man** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 6:28 pm

It acts as a pass-through. It was not licenced by Nintendo.

peppers · Post by **peppers** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 8:41 pm

yep pins leading to key chip gos straght to cartrige

SgtBowhack · Post by **SgtBowhack** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 10:10 pm

On a semi-related topic, I believe all of the unlicensed NES carts have their own implementation of the chip. Most of them weren't perfect, and various versions of the NES don't play nicely with them. Codemasters came up with two different codes to run, selectable by a switch.

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 2:43 pm

SgtBowhack wrote:On a semi-related topic, I believe all of the unlicensed NES carts have their own implementation of the chip. Most of them weren't perfect, and various versions of the NES don't play nicely with them. Codemasters came up with two different codes to run, selectable by a switch.

Yep. Some companies's chips actually tried to electrocute the lockout chip, or make it try to crash to get around. http://www.tripoint.org/kevtris/mappers ... index.html

peppers · Post by **peppers** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 1:23 pm

I wonder why they did not just make there games have a passthrough everyboady that was going to buy there games had at least one nes game with offical key chip so it probubley would not have hert there sales

Post by **gannon** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 2:53 pm

Some companies did do that