Genesis & SNES Game Genies for Japanese titles?

[josekortez]

Does anyone know if the U.S. versions of the Game Genies for the Genesis and Super NES can be used as passthroughs to enable Japanese games to be played on either system? I know that the N64 Gameshark can be used to get Japanese N64 games to play on American N64s. If anyone has an idea about this, I would appreciate it. I don't particularly want to break the tabs on my Super NES if I can help it.

[buzz_n64]

I use the Game Genie to play my Super Famicom games, but I had to cut off a small amount where the cart fits into for the different shape carts. It beats cutting up my snes, I don't have any mega drive games to test out the genesis game genie, but I imagine it should work.

[Loremaster]

Yeah, the Genesis Game Genie works wonderfully. A couple games will need codes input to get past territory lockout, but most are fine without codes.

[mobiusclimber]

I'd actually say it's more like half of the Mega Drive games need codes while the other half don't. And there's a pretty large percent of the ones that need codes that don't actually have them. I ran into that problem when I picked up the two Dragon Slayer titles (I should have just gotten them on the TG/PC Engine CD since one of them is in English).

[buzz_n64]

I'd like to add to my previous statement, the modified game genie works as a pass through on most games on the snes, I've recently tried it on my Japanese copy of Donkey Kong Country 3, and it gave me a statement that it's illegal to copy games. Damn! Now I have to either somehow modify my snes, the game, get a super famicom, or a clone snes that plays jap snes games.

[Breetai]

Like others have said... yes, Game Genies DO work as a pass-though on either system. Just be aware that some games (mostly newer ones) are region locked. SOME of them have Game Genie codes to get around this.