Genesis Game genie issue

[Chainsaw_Charlie]

The gg is working fine but i cant save my games, is there something wrong?

[Mark III]

I've heard of that happening with some codes. They'll work fine on an emulator, but give you trouble on the actual hardware. I was told you can get around it by turning the GG off to save and then turning it back on when you're done.

[Chainsaw_Charlie]

It happened 3 times, on phantasy star 2, Beyond oasis and Sword of vermillion and i did try turning the codes off and still nothing

[Blitzwing256]

that doesn't work at all.
about 90% of the save ram games just plain don't work with the gg (an electronics geek could explain it better then I could)

[Chainsaw_Charlie]

Grr why is the genny gg so crappy compared to the snes one?

[mastamuzz]

Does someone know of a hardware mod to save with the GG I was thinking that maybe the GG is not connected on the pins that carry out the information back to the cart so using a jumper wire in a trace on the PCB of the GG could work! any ideas?

[Push Upstairs]

I used a GG with Sonic 3 way back when and my gave saves were fine.

Still worked last time I fired up S3.

[goldenegg]

I used a GG with Sonic 3 way back when and my gave saves were fine.

Still worked last time I fired up S3.

Sonic 3 is one of the few Genesis games to use an FeRAM chip to save game progress. It works differently than previous games which contained battery backup SRAM.

[Push Upstairs]

Which should probably read "the more I know".

[Emuaust]

I have had this issue before and after cleaning the pins of the GG and my Sonic 3 cart it worked fine, might not be your issue but it is something for you to try.

[Az]

that doesn't work at all.
about 90% of the save ram games just plain don't work with the gg

Seems like I ran into a few that wouldn't save when I had 32x and SCD attached.

I don't know if it was one or the other, or the combination.

NBA Jam gave me problems, and I think another one also.

[mastamuzz]

It is for sure this games don't work with the game genie, you can play and the codes work but you are not able to save, that is why I try to figure a workaround procedure but right now I only have one GG for the genesis so Ill have to wait till I get my hands on another one to open it and test directly on the genesis and also another copy of Phantasy star cause I may burn the cart in the process!