Game Wizard (Genesis)

[MathUser2929]

It's like Pro Action replay, but it's very obscure. All I know about it I put in this article:

http://gamehacking.org/wiki/Game_Wizard_%28Genesis%29

I couldn't find a pic of it or anything. There's one guy who made a youtube video about it:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cye8Ny75msc

So anyone know anything more? This could use a article on sega retro, but I figure you guys need more info than what we got.

Edit: I should mention the SNES port of Game Wizard had two cartridge slots. One for the game and another for an accessory cartridge. The two accessory cartridge they had was one for new code saving. And another one that came preloaded with codes. I can't confirm if the genesis port had the same feature but I wouldn't doubt it.

[SparTonberry]

An Innovation product.
A strange company. I can remember their magazine ads with a whole bunch of unlicensed stuff (game enhancers, controllers, even games) that may or may not have ever come out. One of those being an NES game called Buzz & Walldog (some unlicensed Korean game) with graphics unmistakably copied from Super Mario World. Wonder if they'd have bothered to try to change that. :D

[Az]

An Innovation product.
A strange company. I can remember their magazine ads with a whole bunch of unlicensed stuff (game enhancers, controllers, even games) that may or may not have ever come out.

Innovation was a real pie in the sky company, promising the world and delivering little. Those ads from the 16-bit days you mentioned were great, I especially like how they used shitty cartoons to simulate what a single game screenshot might be like. They released (or intended to) a lot of shithouse products from the East and rebranded them. They always seem like they're one step away from peddling Double Pro Fighters, Multi-Game Hunters, and other floppy copiers. They intended on releasing the Game Gear SFII ripoff Jang Pung II as Street Battle, which I'm sure would have went over like a fart in church.

This was basically a low-rent ripoff of Datel's product, kinda like how EMS ripped off Datel's Saturn PAR and added the 1/4Mb RAM and marketed it as their own thing. It only saw a tiny release in the US and along with the rest of Innovation's unused stock was sold by one particular person. The ones sold on eBay (for a ludicrous $70USD asking price) came loose with a photocopied paper manual but were classified as "new" since they were loose NOS that never had proper packaging produced.

The SNES PAR had a second cart slot that was used to bypass region checks. Innovation never released any add on carts and I have never heard of them existing even in foreign markets.