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		bilalhusain on May 19, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How do GameShark/GameGenie codes work? 16 bit is 1 sign + 5 exponent + 10 significand exponent bias is 15 0011 1111 1000 0000 0.875 --- 32 bit is 1 sign + 8 exponent + 23 significand exponent bias is 127 0011 1111 1000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 1.0

wzdd on May 20, 2013 [–]

My mistake, you're correct. I still suspect he was seeing 1.0 though, so I guess he was just looking at the top 2 bytes of a 4-byte float.

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