Well, to be honest with you I do not know how game genie works, but I am sure that there are other ways of modifying specific RAM locations. What you also might wanna try would be to disassemble the game, modify it so that it looks like a mapper #2 game (the one with PRG pages only) and add RAM initializing code to, say, a third PRG bank. Accomplishing something like this would be hard, but doable. It would also allow you to add even more functionality to the game (perhaps more graphics?). I imagine this would turn out to be expensive, but oh well...

I don't think anyone has notified the hackers about these problems yet. With so many smb1 hacks out there, it's hard to find the people who worked on them. Besides, I am sure the authors themselves are aware of most of the problems found in their hacks...

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