Gameshark and the horror of millions of combinations, who knows if one unlocks Mundi?

[Guest Darth Vega]

If my math is correct, there are ACTUALLY 184.88 quadrillion combinations for a gameshark. Much harder to pick out a missing character in this game than in a game like Pokémon with only 24.14 trillion combinations

 

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Apprentice to Bane --

Master to Iniquitai, Veli, Adeth,

and Sidious I --

Darth Vega

[Guest Jedi Dire]

now, even if there is 184.88 quadrillion combinations to the game shark codes, imagine how the Game Shark Code Creators Club (GSCCC) (excuse me if i'm wrong about the name) finds a whole bunch of CORRECT codes. for most of the games too.

 

i don't think they go one by one

[Guest Darth Vega]

Actually, they do go one by one, all starting with 00000000 0000 and ending at FFFFFFFF FFFF, if I'm not mistaken in my hexidecimals.

Oh, and one PS for everyone, there are actually only 871.78 billion combinations. I forgot to divide 16 factoial by 4 factorial. How humorous. I forgot my permutations!

 

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Apprentice to Bane --

Master to Iniquitai, Veli, Adeth,

and Sidious I --

Darth Vega

[Guest Acid_Rain327]

Uh...yeah, don't you hate it when you forget your permutations?

I know I do.

[Guest DarthNemesis]

The last four digits in a gameshark code are the value modifier - the first ones are for the address. So the GSCCC doesn't need to search all of those.

 

Also, they use a program and a cable link to the PSX to search for codes. They set the program to watch all addresses with a certain value in them, then do something in the game to change that value, and check which addresses have changed accordingly.

 

This all makes it tremendously less difficult to find a code than it would be searching every value!

 

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[This message has been edited by DarthNemesis (edited July 30, 2000).]