I always looked at these things as ways to help really explore the game. I remember Nintendo Power magazine would show no support for either game genie or game shark and would always say negative things about people who used them. I mean Nintendo tried to sue to get Game Genie shut down back in the day. Why are game companies and developers so against these devices. Here is one thing I never understood though. I loved my game genie and game shark back in the day. Editing took about two weeks but that's mostly because my workload at my job has been hectic the last few weeks. I reached out to Datel to find out why but didn't get a response. Granted, it was a long time ago and they may have just forgotten. Some of the guys from InterAct I talked to didn't even know Datel was basically competing against them through Rocket Games. Once i stated looking at the business records for these companies, cross comparing addresses, etc. At.times it was a bit difficult to tell if a cheat cartridge was made by Datel or if it was a knock off. The most interesting thing to me was that I kept finding all of these other Action Replay distributors, random cheat cartridges, and shell companies Datel created. I also live about an hour from where coast to coast, rocket games, and Datel design had their headquarters, so knowing the area helped me with knowing where to look to get information on them. I probably could've taken about half the time researching it but my general rule of thumb is to confirm my information with three sources. Those articles also had information on STD and InterAct that I was then able to corroborate with the guys I spoke to from InterAct. Finding information on recoton was difficult at first, but I live about two hours from where their offices were and found a bunch of information by going to a library that had some articles that weren't on the internet. Other stuff I confirmed through contacts I found that worked at InterAct, reading through tons of old gaming magazines, old press releases, newspapers, etc. Some stuff was only a Google search away. Most of my videos involve a pretty healthy amount of research but after a couple of weeks I could tell that this one was going to take longer than usual.įinding information on some of the GameShark specific stuff was both easy and difficult. I stopped in the middle of that to work on another video for about 4 weeks. Thanks! I started researching it about 4 months ago but I wasn't working on it the whole time.
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