Best Game Genie Codes For Super Nintendo Games - SNESdrunk 

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The SNES SFII play as the bosses code was a very big deal back then. It was featured in gaming magazines.

Those radical 90s Bill and Ted stoner archetypes are just perfect lol. What a time to be alive.

Final Fantasy 6 had a code creators club with a website back in the day. They found some absolutely insane things; I wonder if they're still on the net somewhere. I think some of the codes are printed out in a binder here somewhere, but there were untold numbers of them.

As much as i abused the game genie cheat my way thru games in the 8 and 16 bit era, i loved the pro action replay even more for the psx era. It let me recruit all the normally unplayable and guest characters in my party for final fantasy tactics, and if I'm not mistaken if you had one for the sega Saturn you could play import games without modding the consoles. I bought dragon force 2 from a local import shop and i think that's in part how i got it to play.

Ah yes, the Game Genie. I remember some oddities like different colored blood codes in Mortal Kombat and the like. Fun times! I think must've inspired at least a few people to become ROM hackers.

The Game Genie allowed me to enjoy so many games that frustrated my limited skill set. I don't say I beat those games, but I did enjoy them.

When I had a NES and Game Genie as a kid we happened to make a code that turned green into orange in Super Mario Bros 1. It was actually quite pretty, with trees and hills becoming orange, we called it Autumn Mario. I wish I still knew what the code was, we just happened to come up with it by accident whem messing around with the device but it is now lost.

The 3 True Outcomes mode for Winning Run is an interesting one for sure.

What's the song playing at the end of the video?

The Game Genie was created by Codemasters, Galoob were just the distributor in US. In other parts of the world it was Camerica.

The guys in game genie commercial its a blend between wayne's world and bill & teddy excellent adventure.. lol♡

I grew up in the 90s playing all these games without a Game Genie. As cool as it is to have the option to use cheats I am glad I never used one and played the games as they were meant to be played.

I used to have a lot of fun with game genie codes. And just trying to create my own codes.

Missing the 90s right about now

Like cheat codes in games. It made the games more fun to play and thus buy more. Unlike now where it's frowned aponed if you even think about patching a game just to get a stat boost. (And yes, I'm talking about single player, not multi player)

Game genie was the shit back in the day! I think the NES was the most necessary with how ridiculously hard a lot of the games were. I don’t mean hard like the way they make a lot of modern games hard in a not fun way. But stuff like Gremlins that had the most ridiculous “pit falls”, which now that I think about it was one of the major issue with NES games. There was a millimeter in terms of room for error in so many games. Although if there is a game I definitely used the invincibility code on it was f’n Battletoads! I swear that game was meant for kids to break their controllers so they’d have to buy new ones. Although back in the day I seem to remember them not considering people broke controllers until the PS One and N64 era came about. But before that I don’t remember even seeing extra controllers just for sale. The one exception being the 6 button Genesis controller (a MUST) but even the multi taps were hard to find.

what tune is that playing at the end of the video?

I used to use my Game Genie for SNES on Street Fighter 2. I'd play around with different codes. Once I got the game to play really fast. So basically I played SF2 Turbo long before the official cart came out 😂

Man your radical dude voice sounds just like Otto the bus driver from the Simpsons! Niceee

You are wrong when it comes to the lawsuit between NOA and Galoob. Galoob initiated the lawsuit to prevent NOA from altering its hardware from becoming incompatible with the GG Then NOA countersued stating that the GG harms their intellectual properties by making changes within the game's programming code. Galoob won the lawsuit by proving that the changes to the game's code are temporary and the game will resume normal gameplay without the use of the GG. Now, When it came to the GG for the SNES, Nintendo found a loophole to make the GG incompatible. Up to a point all games worked with the SNES GG. When MK 1 and SF II Turbo were released, the software ran a quick check to see if there was anything changing the game's code from being read normally by the system. This would just cause the screen to just go blank after pressing start to leave the GG Screen after entering codes produced by Galoob at that time. I remember calling Galoob's GG helpline regarding this and they told me that they were aware of the problem and for me to send in my GG for an upgraded exchange. The upgraded SNES GG cured the incompatibility problems with MK 1 and SF II Turbo, and it cured all compatibility issues, even those that used the SFX chip when the GG did not have the extra PINS on both the male and female connectors of the GG. This was going great until Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest" was released. On real hardware only, if you were to take a copy of DKC 2 plug it into a GG, and just start the game with no codes, you will receive an error screen with Dixie and Diddy in the background with an error message referencing that you should not be using game copying attachments. Galoob hacked a 3-line code (I discovered that only the first code was feasible) to override this warning screen. After typing all of this, I just remembered one more thing. This is regarding Super Punch-Out!! The software had the ability to check if you were using a GG or not. If you were, the game would prevent you from entering the Special Circuit. But the way to get around this was exceptionally easy. When you defeated the last boxer prior to going to the Special Circuit, while your bonus points are being added up, turn off the codes via the switch on the GG. Then start the Special Circuit and flip the code switch back on. Anyway, I could go on even longer regarding why the GG was incompatible with the Top Loader NES, or why NOA said the hell with it, to some degree, when it came to InterAct's Game Shark for the N64 and the GBC. Yes, InterAct had to release version 3.1 to be compatible with all GB games including those that were GBC-enhanced. I am going to stop here as I could go on even longer talking about the Game Shark, the Code Breaker, and the Action Replay for the GBA.

Those totally tubular dudes had a bit too much Ranch i think..

0:20 oh hi doggie. Awww

Awesome thanks snesdrunk great work Sir

Sega made a smart move doing that official seal 👍…Nintendo was hating 😂

GOAT gaming channel? I think so....

Solid video

I thought you had to lock the GG on first to the game, then insert as the tabs on the side kept it from disengaging the grabbing tab on the top piece? Of course it has been 20 years, so I can be remembering wrong

Never had GameGenie, but I owned a GameShark for GameBoy games. I don't even recall what games or cheats I used it for :(

This is an exciting video for me. As a kid I used Game Genie all the time to see the endings of those real hard games I could only rent! It was big news back in the day that Nintendo was not thrilled about it, but I never knew they had Sega's stamp of approval! I love how your videos always have these interesting little facts.

I remember the Game Genie being a life saver on the original NES. Some of those games were so brutal that a Game Genie was nice since you could experiment and figure games out, and then beat them without needing it.

The best Game Genie thing that happened to me is when I was entering in the Infinite Magic code for A Link To The Past, but I accidentally transposed the first few characters of one of the two codes. The results was that I could no longer walk on stairs in the overworld. Sounds bad right? Well not quite, for you see, I could instead walk through anything else vertically. Yes, I accidentally found a walk through walls code and it let me break the game. I could rescue Zelda and take her into dungeons. I discovered that if you save the old man while its raining, the game glitches out unless you fall down a hole first. Then I found out that if you enter the dark world while it's raining, the sprites from the light world after it rains appears where the dark world sprites would normally. Later I found out that the game has a global overworld state that increments after specific events. That's how for example you cannot enter the lumberjack cave until you defeat Aga 1. Doing so increments the global sprite state and also loads in all the dark world enemies. The other fun thing I did was use a game genie code I found on Gamefaqs that messed with your inventory in Lufia 2. I found out that using speed potions would actually toggle between the game's two lists of items. That means I could buy items in shops, use a speed potion, and it transmogrifies it from a weapon to say, a key. Using this code I was able to complete the game without opening a single treasure chest. It also gave me access to a few debug items like the RAN RAN Step which does no damage, but instead softlocks your player into performing every single battle animation in the game.

I'm actually impressed that the SNES was capable of such a realistic looking baseball game! The coders must've pulled miracles!

My favorite game genie/shark/action replay codes were the ones that let you access content that was dummied out. In Tales of Destiny PS1 you could add a character named Lilith to your party who was cut very late in development. You could also use them in games like Final Fantasy Tactics to add boss/guest only characters to your party like Alma and Zalbag.

My brother spent days making up codes for Super Mario Bros 3 with a Game Genie, then come and show me the results. You can't understate how mind blowing that was in the 90's. Great times with these devices

My NES game genie got a hell of a lot of work done as a little kid. Generating codes was like decrypting an enigma machine in ww2, but it sure was fun. I never had a SNES genie, but it seems like more game breaking gold. Totally radical dude.

The Clyde cameo was a nice touch❤ I still go back and watch your video about him when depression thinks it’s funny to ruin my day/week/month. Been a little while since we’ve seen the good boy.

The "air moves" one from Street Fighter was my favorite. I combined it with the code that allows every character to wall jump, like Chun Li and Vega. We had some fights of pure madness.

C4A4-6767 is embedded in my memory forever. Allows special moves to be performed in the air for Street Fighter 2 on SNES.

FF3: replacing Terra’s “Fight” with “Magitek” Gau using Rage and Mog-Dance without frenzy status

Ah, my Tuesday morning equivalent to strong coffee. Have a great rest of your day, SNESDrunk.

I never had a Game Genie as a kid, but some of my friends did and we would randomly try different codes in various games to absolutely break them. It was always pretty amusing. It is funny how different Nintendo and Sega's business philosophy was (and still is). Nintendo seems to always have chosen the litigation route. Though, I can't believe it cost them $15 million for that Game Genie case. Yikes!

Clyde does not approve of the use of cheats.

I remember using the internet back in like 1996 to find game genie codes for SNES games and discovering a bunch for FF6. The only one I really liked was one that made random stuff drop after every battle. And boy do I mean random. You could have a fight before you're on the raft with Banon and get an Atma Weapon or Ragnarok or something, or you could just get a useless Tonic from a boss that normally drops some good equipment or an Elixir. It was fun just for shaking up what you might equip or who you might use, though.

Good morning all

Cheats and passwords used to be fun unlockables.

Yes give us more Clyde the dog !!! I hope your depression and anxiety are ok snes drunk, thanks for all the work you do !!

Nintendo sued someone over having anything remotely to do with their own IP? I can't believe it. Color me absolutely shocked.

Total length of video: 730 secs. Total length of "SNES Drunk": 3.5 secs. .48% of the video was spent listening to "SNES Drunk".

That Sim City music gets me every time. Nostalgia overload.

That fire code for Super Street Fighter 2 is using the effect of Fei Long's Dragon Kick. Trying to kick-olate people was top-tier arcade fun circa 1993.

My brother and I caused a permanent effect on our Final Fantasy VI (3 US) cart. We weren't using custom codes or anything, just using 5 codes from a list. Somehow the order we entered them caused an ancillary effect of swapping color palettes for party character sprites. Mog changed from white and pink with blue eyes to cream-manilla with turquoise wings and pom, and purple eyes. Terra had blonde hair like from her concept art, Edgar and Sabin swapped palettes, Gogo was inverted. After all these years the battery still works and that save file is still messed up. The other save slots don't have that issue. Makes me wonder if it's actually just some status condition like Shadow's dog Intercepter is actually just a status effect in code terms.

Swear man, 90's commercials for SNES always felt like the spiritual sequel's to Bill & Ted.

If you're interested in some other game genie codes, there's a RU-vid channel called "Displaced Gamers", the guy has a series where he looks into old NES games that were messed up in some way and usually provides a game genie code to fix the error. He did one on NES TMNT and fixed hit boxes and attack speed delays, really interesting stuff!

I've never had a GG for the SNES...only for the NES...although I wish theses devices would come back...or at least cheat codes....now you gotta buy the same cheats or unlockables!

Wow, flashback to me getting a keyboard for PS2 just so I could enter 120 lines of code to have a controllable Sephiroth in ff7

Also I love your otto impression.

I had a game guide for SNES games when I was a kid that had a bunch of original Game Genie codes in the back. The one I liked using the most was the always-on hyper beam for Super Metroid. Yes, you got hyper beam from the very start of the game. It was awesome. For some reason, the graphics for the beam were always messed up (it made the beam look like a rainbow waffle fry instead of the solid beam you get fighting Mother Brain) but it worked just the same.

To this day, I want a code for ToeJam & Earl on the Mega Drive that lets the player walk on air without falling.

0:24 Your dog is so disappointed in your cheating, she can't even look at you

I remember how cool I felt when I discovered a cheat in Riddick Bowe Boxing. When you get to the post fight training, just keep resetting the game until you get the gold gym! :)

Didn't grow up owning a SNES, but my NES won't work unless I have its Game Genie in it. I played it constantly back then. I even found the Code Book not too long ago. Still love that thing.

Yes that single jump to clear Mario levels! I used a similar code for Mario Bros 3 called Skywalker. You jump and you stay at the top of the map, just off screen as long as you hold the jump button. Then you just hover your way over to the end of the map! Also, I always wondered why the SNES game genie didn't have passthrough connectors for the pins on the edge of the cartridge?

I forgot all about the "Bill and Ted Present: Game Genie" commercials

These are cool, and I'm surprised there hasn't been more talk in retro gaming circles about Game Genie and Action Replay codes. Thanks, Mr. Drunk!

Game Genie was great for those who didn't want to get good. It's why I love RPGs. Not really a matter if getting good as grinding your way to godhood. It's weird how "getting good" is a hellish experience but grinding out levels is a fun time. *shrug*

When I was a kid (this was a few months after Super Metroid came out and my parent's bought me it), I had beaten the game without using the Genie and had my big saved file on the cartridge, as well as my mother's saved game, and figured I'd start messing around with the Game Genie since I beat Super Metroid. There was one particular code that the book warned in bold letters that it MUST be typed in correctly, and I used it a few times, no problems (it was like a infinite life code). THEN one time I must have type that code in wrong, and I all of a sudden got an FBI warning screen telling me how copying videos games will get you this and that kind of fine and jail time, and the screen completely froze my snes. Started the game up again, and the FBI warning had wiped out all of my saved games lol. The mistyped code literally made the game think I was trying to copy it, and Ninentdo clearly had safeguards to detect that on their games, and would give you a punishment of erasing your data.

How about a video where brief slowdown makes a game feel more dramatic? The end of Armored Armadillo stage is one such scene I feel is more dramatic because of the slowdown.

Jago's slow fireball in KI was one of my favorite moves. Leads to so many combos.

I remember that commercial. I thought it was pretty annoying back then too. Remember advertisers, kids aren't stupid! Me and my brothers would make up codes all the time, it was so much fun. I don't remember any of them, but I do remember fixing a couple from the booklet that would normally crash the game.

There was a faulty Game Genie code for the original Street Fighter 2 that kinda allowed the player 2 to play as the bosses. However the color pallette was all messed up and the inputs were pretty limited. Champion Edition/Turbo hadn't been released for consoles at that time so it was advertised as a big deal by a brazilian magazine About that Game Genie TV ad, sometimes I wonder if people were really unaware about being that empty minded on the 90s (me included)

Had so much fun with GG and SF2. Play as bosses, if jacked up versions of them. Double-jumps, wall jumps, air specials... there was so much cool stuff you could do there. Really changed the way the game was played.

My favorite Game Genie codes were for infinite lives in Contra III. It’s how I originally learned the game. Would have a friend over every weekend and one of our rituals for the night would be to play through Contra III and see how few times we’d die. Then we’d play through Turtles in Time.

Game Genie also saw a revival on PS3, though as a save editor rather than an outright cheat device. The people who revived it now have one for PS4 known as Save Wizard. Still a save editor, though.

Pffff i have an Action Replay! I still have a messed up Save Game from Zelda and i remember it was neat (but useless) to get with Yoshi into the Castles. I still use some codes nowadays with some Games that are just not fun without, unlimited continues/lives et cetera on unfair games are just a blessing.

Game Genie was one of those turning points back in the day. I still remember the early commercials, and I ended up getting the NES and, later, the SNES Game Genies. I still have the NES manual that came with the accessory, but the SNES one wasn't as... erm... durable. I tried to only use them for games I had beaten for additional fun, but there were a few games where I admit I ended up cheating my way through because I either lacked the patience for the game, or it was just a terrible game and I just wanted to see the stages/story/endings, if any. Some of my favorite codes usually did something like make temporary party members permanent (usually replacing a normally permanent character), or changing up a character's stats/weapons/fighting style/etc. General Leo of FF6 comes to mind, though he obviously lacked some things that the other characters got. Infinite money or MP (depending on the game) usually just allowed for insane fun.

Final Fantasy 3 (6). There were some codes that let you start with better equipment. I used to use that code that gave you the ragnarok sword. When you normally get it late in the game you have to choose between keeping the sword or turning it into an esper item, which was one of only two ways to learn the ultima spell. With the code I could have both!

8:20 Funny enough, thats the very point BEFORE you'd normally locate the Hadoken. SNES slowdown was a much a feature as a flaw. Fight me.

Man that Ken Griffey baseball you had in tha genie was one of my all time favorites

Woah, this the first time I heard the intro with headphones on, and it gave me brain tingles. SnNNnEssS⚡🤯😵🤪😏sSDruunkkKK.

Best way to start my day!

@killgruz has some awesome NES game genie vids, very funny guy too.

My personal best use of game genie was using it on street fighter 2 to win with each character on the hardest setting basically I could do each character’s special moves with just pressing one button this worked best with fireballs and characters that shot fireballs like ryu ken guile etc. and you would shoot them so fast the computer controlled characters wouldn’t have enough time to block them I was able to get the ending for each character this way cuz I wasn’t good enough to beat this game on the harder settings

I always envied my friends who had a game genie. I had big, bulky code books, and they had a hardware enhancement that didn't require timed button presses. I still remember the moment I got tired of using cheats, though, and I've really never looked back, but it's still fun to crack a game open sometimes and find the tastiest bits in all the chaff and pulp.

Dont use all your power. Talk like those dudes... TALK LIKE THOSE DUDES!!!

I never noticed that about sega embracing the game genie. “Sega does what Nintendon’t”… I guess

They both sounded like Michaelangelo but you sounded like Kuwabara from Yuyu Hakusho 🥲

Somehow your "rad voice" is a SCARILY accurate impression of Otto from the simpsons

Just saying that, your 90s coolness voice would fit well for a parody of 90s video game ads, seriously.

great topic for a video, i never knew if the game genie was even sold in my country, but playing around with cheats is always fun as a kid (i did a real mess in gta3 later on)

I wish there were codes that made games with crappy controls work better or codes that reassigned button functions theres quite few games out there that would be a lot more playable if the button functions werent screwed up and no im talking about literally every n64 game ever made thats just an atrocious controller design

I remember using game genie to bypass to level 8 in little nemos dream master just to hear that awesome nightmare land theme music. Now you can hear it all over youtube and I can relive my childhood on emulators!

I hope you cover final fantasy 3(6) codes soon there’s a buttload of them like stuff in shops are free, give characters random abilities and my favorite the “new abilities” code where you get random things happening when you attack

I love that Sega embraced Game Genie- that's sooo Sega 😄

For Street Fighter I like to use the special moves in the air with the unlimited Zangief grab range. It’s super broken and he can beat anyone at any difficulty level.

I haven't watched the video yet but number 1 for me is any code that turns off random encounters in RPGs. I always look for those and toggle it on and off.

It is worth mentioning that the SNES version of the Game Genie has a switch on the front so that you can turn off all the codes while you are playing. I think they did this to allow you to use some of the codes that would otherwise crash the game, or maybe so you can turn off things like every hit a home run when the other team is at bat.

I got this thing for one reason only: The persistent rumor that you could somehow use it to play as the boss characters in the first SNES Street Fighter 2 release. Too bad this was beyond even Game Genie's power.

The reason Sega was so willing to give them their license to the Game Genie was probably because they saw the headache and a****** and Bs Nintendo went through suing them and they just figured it was easier to comply than to fight them and plus they saw that people actually really love the game genie like I did and they wanted not to look like the bad guys and the people's eyes kind of like Nintendo did during that lawsuit

Good Memories. Glad I was able to give my son this experience too