Do you still use Gold Finger codes?

Aerdan · Post by **Aerdan** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 10:42 pm

Gold Finger codes are 7-byte codes, in relation to the SNES. These are unlike PAR codes, which are 4-byte codes comprising an address and a value to assign to that address, and GameGenie codes, which are also 4-byte codes, but they use a simple cipher to encrypt the value and CPU address.

xamenus · Post by **xamenus** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 11:38 pm

I had never heard of them until I first looked at the ZSNES documentation. I've still never used one before, nor have I searched for/found any codes.

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 11:46 pm

I never heard of Gold Finger codes.

Post by **badinsults** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 6:10 am

You can find goldfinger codes on Usenet. They are basically cheat codes for certain copiers. I have never tried them, but I imagine you just imput them like normal codes.

Aerdan · Post by **Aerdan** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 6:14 am

Evan wrote:You can find goldfinger codes on Usenet. They are basically cheat codes for certain copiers. I have never tried them, but I imagine you just imput them like normal codes.

I already knew that, but I wanted to know if people actually used them, or if having support for them is needed any more.

Noxious Ninja · Post by **Noxious Ninja** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 6:17 am

I've never actually seen one.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 10:18 am

I think I've seen them in a videogame magazine, '95 and later. Never used them though.

Nightcrawler · Post by **Nightcrawler** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 2:26 pm

nope.. never use them. Only things I've ever used are PAR or Game Genie.

Murdock · Post by **Murdock** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 5:50 pm

I wouldn't mind seeing GF support drop, PAR and GG get the job done just fine for me. One question though are there any benifits of dropping it?

Aerdan · Post by **Aerdan** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 6:55 pm

Dropping Goldfinger codes means I don't have to work as hard in rewriting cheat support in C.

Tallgeese · Post by **Tallgeese** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 7:01 pm

Good enough for me.

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 11:54 pm

Vareni Stargazer wrote:Dropping Goldfinger codes means I don't have to work as hard in rewriting cheat support in C.

Sounds good to me.

Neo Kaiser · Post by **Neo Kaiser** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 1:58 am

I never heard of Gold Finger codes before...Only Game Genie.

PHoNyMiKe · Post by **PHoNyMiKe** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 2:02 am

I would say just leave it in asm if you can, because goldfinger are really designed for game copiers, not emulators. besides, I think the game genie can address more area than goldfinger. you can probably convert goldfinger codes to game genie if you really wanted to.

for copiers, it pretty much just changes an area of the rom. for umihara kawase, I made one for infinite lives. I looked at the asm of the game and found where it decrements the life counter, and overwrote it with NOP. since my copier doesn't support game genie nor par, I took that address and NOP and made it into goldfinger. it's kinda cool because 1 goldfinger code can modify 3 consecutive bytes in rom, so overlaying instructions is cool, opposed to par and gg which only do 1 byte per code.

Aerdan · Post by **Aerdan** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 3:47 am

We're porting ZSNES's ASM bits into C as fast as we can. Leaving parts of it in ASM kinda defeats the porting process's purpose.

Post by **badinsults** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 10:46 am

Personally, I would support the inclusion of goldfinger codes in future editions of zsnes. However, if it is too difficult, it would not be such a large deal. However, you will have to deal with those that still support this format.