the Gameboy had a cheat cartridge called GameShark that allowed cheating in GB games. How did it work?

Question

the Gameboy had a cheat cartridge called GameShark that allowed cheating in GB games. How did it work?

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Answer 1

The games are made up of strings of code, GameSharks basically intercept that code as the console is interpreting it and replaces it with it’s own strings, which change how the console then renders the game