The newest, PS3-based incarnation of the Game Genie doesn’t share much of a lineage with the original line of similarly named, cartridge-based cheat devices nearly ubiquitous in the 8- and 16-bit eras; manufacturer Hyperkin picked up the rights to the name when Galoob’s original trademark recently lapsed. It doesn’t share exactly the same functionality as its namesake either. While the old Game Genies actively patched the ROM code being loaded from the game cartridge, the PS3 Game Genie is actually just a computer program that lets you decode and modify PS3 save files stored on a standard USB stick.
As long as you keep your expectations in check and are OK with only being able to modify the saves of a select number of titles, then grab yourself this magical USB drive and prepare to have some game-beating wishes granted.
Full review by Chris "Wolf Man" Mitchell.
Maybe just maybe try to improve your gaming skills to unlock things instead of wasting money on this junk.
I have never been a fan of these kinds of things.
They still make these? Yeah let's spend $30 on something so we can cheat and totally defeat the purpose of gaming. Makes sense.
This week on the CG Podcast the crew talk about the latest in news along with wayne digging deeper into Game Genie and The Secret World. Everyone takes some time to talk about Lollipop Chainsaw in the spoiler filled segment. In the second spoiler filled slot we rip on The Dark Knight Rises.
The folks at Hyperkin are earnestly working on expanding the device’s reach, but there’s no doubt that a purchase of the Game Genie is an investment in potential. If you’re rooting for a return to the days of GameSharks and Action Replays, the Game Genie may be right up your alley. It’s simple, easy, and when it works, it works. But with the cheat library as limited as it is right now, and the bugs in some of the cheats that are listed, you may want to keep this Genie in its lamp until it can grant you more than just three wishes.
"That kind of hunting can even unlock things that the developer had probably intended to remain totally hidden, as Hyperkin found out for itself when it unlocked a previously unknown “god mode” in the save file for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow. “It was probably a god mode that was built-in and probably left in for the developers, I guess, to give to magazines for reviews and things like that,” Beckett said. “That's something they probably never expected us to find it, but we have found it and we've unlocked it."
That sad true about gaming portals and their reviews.
My only fear now is Sony reacts to it by copy protecting all its saves and gives us more cloud space to compensate.
I doubt they will do it so last in the generation but I wouldn't put it past them either.
Edit: They might be able to do anything if the Game-Genie case with Nintendo that is mentioned in the article.
A couple of years ago a friend asked me which game platform he should buy. I recommended the PS3 for him since he is a big Gran Turismo fan back during the PS2 era and he was asking about GT5.
A couple of minutes later I saw him tinkering something on a writing pad. Something like codes...like the one in this article's screenshot. Wow, he hasn't made up his mind whether to buy a PS3 but in just mere minutes he already downloaded a sample save file and busy decrypting the codes manually.
does this mean people can hack trophies now ? :(
i dont really understand this thing. why dont you just use a normal usb and do it all yourself