Ep 81 - Cheat Codes and Game Genie

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RetroLogic - Episode 81

Introduction

Welcome to RetroLogic episode 81 - I'm Dan Caporello here with John Cummins, Sam Wagers.

Why didn’t the Dreamcast Controller have 2 analog sticks?

But RetroLogic isn’t just a podcast, It’s a whole community of retro gamers! Visit RetroLogic.games for our discord link, fair trade merch, blog posts written by Sam Wagers…And dive into our family of podcasts!RetroGroove, a music history podcast, and On Topic Retro, a podcast dedicated to 1 video game per episode hosted by our very own John Cummins.

Housekeeping:

• On Topic - RetroRewind - Mario Vs DK Miniland Mayhem

Icebreaker - what did you buy? And what did you play?

Sam: Bought: Kirby: Canvas Curse, Mario vs. Donkey Kong

Played: Mother 3, Majora’s Mask, Beat Umihara Kawase (Ed 2), Beat Kirby’s Star Stacker

John:GBA console to swap in IPS screen, Classic NES Series Donkey Kong, Dr. Mario GBA, Miracle Warriors, Time Soldiers, Transbot Master System,Box and manuals for DK gameboy, Vanquish PS3, Freaky Flyers PS2,and Gameboy Camera Red

Dan: Bought: Gameboy lot: Wario Land 3, Mario Land, NBA 3on3 Kobe, Mario Golf, Wave Race, Donkey Kong Land 3, Mario Tennis, Power Rangers Time Force (natsume???). Tonic Trouble N64Played: Donkey Kong Land, Mario Strikers demo,

25:06 - BREAK

31:42

The price is RETRO

“If this is your first time playing The Price Is Retro, this is how we play.

I’m going to list off 4-5 games, and everyone else has to guess how much the games are worth in total. Whoever’s guess is the closest wins that round, and the next person lists off their games. Everyone brought a list of games, and everyone guesses on each other’s lists.

At the end of the game, whoever won the most rounds wins the game!But look out for Polterguest! He guesses $300 on each list, and if he wins the game I have to give away a sticker from the merch store!”

Dan’s list

Sam’s list

John’s list

“Spot the fake”

“We’re given a list of game titles, and we have to guess which one was made up”

• Real or Fake Game Genie Code - Ambassador

“Games Described Badly”

“We’re given several descriptions of video games and we have to guess what game is being described.”

• Ambassador
• Sam

“Retro-pedia”

“I’m going to start reading the description of a game from wikipedia. As soon as you think you know it, yell out your answer! If you’re wrong I’m giving the other people an opportunity to guess. If everyone’s wrong I’ll keep reading until someone else yells out.”

Fact or crap?

- Ambassador

“Trivia Card”

Plug Ambassitor’s Podcast “Warriors of WASD”

Show Topic1:15:50

Topic: Cheat Codes in games

Cheat Codes, an easy way to add more content to your games.-The cheat code- gamer magazine industrial complex

-Did the internet kill cheat codes?

-Codes for making hard games easy, to codes that just made games weird

-Where did the Cheat codes go?

Cheat codes and non-linier coding

Game SharkGame Genie

Turok

Shoutout to https://www.denofgeek.com Metroid – Justin BaileySamus’ bodysuit design and a collection of gear, weapons, and items.Sonic the Hedgehog – The Debug CheatOn the title screen, press Up, C, Down, C, Left, C, Right, C, A+Start. Keep holding A until Sonic appears on screen.

Super Street Fighter II: Turbo – Play as AkumaTo select him, the player must highlight Ryu for three seconds, then go to T. Hawk for three seconds, then Guile for three seconds, then Cammy for three seconds, and then go back to Ryu, wait three seconds, and hit the Start Button and all three Punch buttons at once, and Akuma will now be playable.Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 – Moon PhysicsWhen entering codes, begin playing, then pause the game. Some codes will only work in Career Mode. Hold L1 while entering the following codes.X, Square, Left, Up, Down, Up, Square, Triangle Moon PhysicsThe Legend of Zelda – The Second Quest SecretName yourself “Zelda”Gradius Konami CodeMortal Kombat (Sega Genesis) – The Blood CodeA, B, A, C, A, B, B-Age of Empires and Star Wars Battlegrounds

-how do you turn this on/shelbycobra

-furious the monkey boy

-simon the killer ewok

-death star/thatsnomoon

-The “rosebud” cheat in the sims was probably my introduction to citizen kane PLOK cheat codes

WarriorofWASD — Today at 9:31 AM

The Game Genie was known for some game altering codes that did ridiculous things to the game. There was a code for Street Fighter 2 where you could replace the Capcom logo with Balrog.In Mortal Kombat 3 you could unlock a Space Invaders game where Kahn would say "You Suck" if you lost.

SpiderShan — Today at 9:49 AM

Growing up on the Nintendo, the first code I ever learned was the classic Konami code! It was the only way I could get through Contra and Life Force! Up up down down left right left right a b a b

neoprime33 — Today at 10:43 AM

I don't remember which magazine I got it from (NP or EGM), but this was one I used all the time, so I could build the city of my dreams in Sim City for the SNES (source: IGN)...

Easy Money

First spend all your money. Put the game on the fastest setting and wait for the tax grid to appear. As soon as the screen turns black hold L + R. While holding these buttons change all settings to 0% and exit the screen (don't release the buttons yet).

While still holding these buttons, use the menu to return to the tax screen. Raise all settings to 100% except for the tax rate. Set that to 20%. Exit the tax screen and the menu, then release L and R.

Congratulations! You now have $999,999. You might want to lower the tax rate now. Give those SimCitizens a break!

OctoRock (Adam) — Today at 10:55 AM

I always liked DK mode in Goldeneye. 🤣

Eric Plunk — Today at 12:46 PM

Unlocking various celebrities and developers in NBA Jam was awesome. The Beastie Boys vs Bill Clinton anyone?

Flightsy — Today at 1:22 PM

There’s a part of Mario and Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story called the Lunbar Nook where you are basically forced to take a break as Toadbert and Toadstool drink tea and listen to soft music. But if you talk to Toadbert BEFORE you go to the Lumbar Nook when it is made available, he tells you he had a dream about him having tea and time passing really slowly. He then says he heard the sound of ABXYLRYXBA being pressed to make time go at a normal speed. Doing this in the Lumbar Nook speeds up the wait time to a couple of seconds. You don’t have to talk to Toadbert to do this, the cheat works no matter how you learn of it. I found it in an old cheat book I got from my elementary school’s book fair!

PrestoTheMagnificent — Today at 2:43 PM

I love the “cheat codes” that just let you do ridiculous things. Lego Star Wars the complete saga comes to mind

hambone jonny — Today at 3:20 PM

My parents bought me a NES game genie in an attempt to delay getting me a SNES. Man I loved that thing.

DesolateSaturation — Today at 4:48 PM

The Scott pilgrim video game had a cheat that could indirectly get you infinite money. “To do the cheat, the player will need to be inside of a level, preferably away from enemies. This is best done with 2-players. Basically, the way the cheat works is that the player will input it and instantly die. Although when they die, they will drop $50. The second player can then pick up the money and revive the player to repeat the process. Players can get thousands of dollars within minutes without needing to do anything else. This is called the Noble Sacrifice.” (Screen rant)

The code for the cheat was:

PlayStation: Hold X and press Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, Circle

Nintendo Switch: Hold B and press Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, A

Using this cheat made getting achievements and leveling up characters you hadn’t used much require less grinding. That way you could play later stages with friends and not have one person stuck with a useless character.

Community Couch

Questions

Outro

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