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Jeffrey - Feb 25, 2003

		Jeffrey		Feb 25, 2003
			I just want to settle what may be a myth. I have heard from several sources that the Genie can be used to play games with regional lockout programming. I know it fixes the cart shape problem by extending it. I use it often. But I have heard that games with lockout (DragonBall, Doreamon, etc.) could possibly be played with use of certain codes. Well, I used to have this Zany Golf cart which I thought was broke. It never played on Nomad or Genesis. I assumed it was dead. But when plugged in via a Genie, it worked! My guess is that the cart must have some regional difference because it is shaped like the north american carts; eventhough it did not function as such. So now I think there may be something to the Genie thing. My Doreamon and Dragonball carts still do not work when connected via a genie. But does anyone think it is possible to bypass the program and trick a cart into thinking it is in a particular regional consolewith the use of a Genie code? Has anyone accomplished this with a locked-out (not just MD shaped) cart?

		sizone		Feb 25, 2003
			along similiar lines are there any hardware hacks that can be made to facilitate game saving while using a game genie?

		Jeffrey		Feb 25, 2003
			It seems like the Genie would be a game hackers heaven. I don't understand why there are no Genie sites or groups using it for mad science experiments like other hardware. If this thing alters the code, i would think it should also be able to alter the part of the program which scans for region in the rom. This is the best I have found but nothing on playing imports with lockout. http://www.angelfire.com/games2/codehut/Sega.htm... Unless you count fugged up sites like this which REALLY piss me off! http://www.cell-phone-directory.us/dir/seg...nie/i...