X-Men - Genesis (Game Genie playthrough) (recorded 2009)
0This take was played on an original Genesis console, probably model 1. It would have been either a standard 3 button or 6 button controller, and probably played on my Magnavox console TV.
It was recorded on VHS then transferred to a DVD recorder around what records in my files seem to point toward July or August 2009, but the exact date is not known. I had just started using a DVD recorder for the first time and didn't know what I was doing quality-wise so I set it to SLP mode to make the discs last longer. Consequently, the quality of the video is not very good.
On this DVD I had to split the videos into separate files and re-render them which might have introduced even more slight quality loss.
To figure out roughly when this was recorded, I only have dates for a few other gaming videos from July and August 2009 that were ripped to my old PC in 2009 with my first capture card that did not have very good audio capture capabilities, which led me to give up on the capture card and stick with DVDs for a while.
In my 2009 game recording video set there are some videos like this one that were first recorded on VHS then recorded onto DVD but still remained on the tape making it possible to re-rip them later though the tape condition didn't usually hold up well after so many years, some that were only recorded directly to DVD-R, some that were only recorded on VHS then transferred to PC with my first capture card then taped over, some that were recorded onto VHS and recorded onto DVD but were taped over, and some that were recorded on VHS but never copied after all these years. There are also a select few videos that managed to be copied with the capture card, copied to a DVD-R and also still remain on the tape.
This is just a full playthrough with the game's audio only and no commentary.
During this playthrough I played through the whole game (Amateur and Hero modes) using the Game Genie codes for invincibility, quick energy recovery, switching X-Men an unlimited number of times and unlimited summons for Archangel. After defeating Mojo I found out pressing reset with a Game Genie inserted does not allow the Danger Room computer to reset, so I had to trade I think the code for switching X-Men infinite times for a warp code to the last level. Unforunately, it took me a long time to figure out how to properly fight Magneto. Once I finally did, I managed to let Archangel deliver the final blow.