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		georgemcbay 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Finding Atari Games in Randomly Generated Data There was a sub-industry created around doing this sort of memory modification on purpose with devices like the "Game Genie". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Genie

Dwedit 8 months ago [–]

Game Genie was a device that could replace values on the cartridge bus, allowing it to change what the system sees when it fetches bytes from ROM.

Unlike many other cheat devices, this meant that Game Genie modified ROM (game program) rather than RAM (game variables).

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