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you_are_dust@lemmy.world 1 week ago
What would actually happen if you used an action replay and a game genie at the same time? Would it not even be able to boot up? Would it work and just one supercedes the other? I only ever had game genie so I couldn’t test it. Does anyone know?
Metype@pawb.social 1 week ago
Based on my (admittedly not incredible) knowledge of how those devices both work, they intercept reads for specific memory addresses from the CPU and insert their own values. As long as they both weren’t set up with codes to modify the same address very little would happen, it would behave as you might expect.
If the two both had codes that modified the same address the Game Genie would “win” here since it is physically closer to CPU in the chain. It would see the address matching one of its codes and spit back its value, neither the cartridge nor the Action Replay would see the memory read occur.
you_are_dust@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Thanks for that. Do you know would the serious issue be like hardware damage or just like corrupted gameplay? I’ve seen some videos of game corruption and I’m wondering if that’s something people could use or would it just fry the game or console.
Metype@pawb.social 1 week ago
There’s always a chance for hardware damage chaining devices together that were not designed to be used as such. To keep your hardware safe don’t use it in ways that violate the manufacturer’s guides and recommendations.
In this case? Probably just wouldn’t really work, might corrupt save game data.