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Jailbreaking Super Mario World to Install a Hex Editor and Mod Loader [video]

185 points by ChazDazzle 9y ago

cgijoe 9y ago
That's just insanity. Love Seth's work.
artemisbot 9y ago
The number of things people do to break old games consistently amazes me. Glitched speedruns ala 0 Exit in SMW (first demoed on a real SNES by the creator of this video) and Ocarina of Time Any% show an insane amount of dedication.
MrJagil 9y ago
Pannenkoek2012 does great breakdowns of SM64: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpk2tdsPh0A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpk2tdsPh0A If you like this sort of stuff, reddit.com/r/speedrun can be fun to visit.
- rjeli 9y ago
  Pannenkoek just released a glorious 37 minute video on sm64 mechanics: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UnU7DJXiMAQ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UnU7DJXiMAQ And if you have never watched speed runs, Summoning Salt has a fascinating series on world record progressions in popular games: https://youtu.be/RdAkY7RfajY https://youtu.be/RdAkY7RfajY
  - ozzmotik 9y ago
    oh thank you so very much for sharing the new pannenkoek video, i love his stuff but it tends to get buried under my 500 other subscriptions :B
- joshguthrie 9y ago
  Pannenkoek2012 is both genius and crazy awesome at the same time. Its video "0.5x A Key Presses" provoked a riot in video game circles some times ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpk2tdsPh0A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpk2tdsPh0A
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CM30 9y ago
Okay, this is just insane. Modding the game via using a glitch to write custom code to it? That's impressive work. Reminds me of some similar stuff you can do with Pokemon Red and Blue, which let you hack the games and share your changes to other people through the link cable functionality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2x3pIvVnP4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2x3pIvVnP4
- ZenoArrow 9y ago
  In a similar vein, there's the TASBot-programmed mods of Super Mario World. This one is particularly impressive (the mod you see on screen was programmed by controller inputs): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IOsvuEA2h4w https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IOsvuEA2h4w
- ericfrederich 9y ago
  This guy needs to travel back in time and do that on one of the demo machines in an electronics store.
JTon 9y ago
I had a good laugh when he pulled all the controls, C-clamps, and multi-taps. Amazing.
skierscott 9y ago
At PyCon (not long ago), I saw a talk on hacking NES games and integration with Twilio. The speaker live coded a hacking script for a NES emulator. He was showing off the Twilio API, which allowed the audience to text memory addresses and bytes to modify the games memory. https://youtube.com/watch?v=v75rNdPukuI https://youtube.com/watch?v=v75rNdPukuI
jordache 9y ago
how do they even find what each hex code does? wow
- pubby 9y ago
  It's all 65c816 machine code, which is well documented. You'd run the ROM through a disassembler and use an emulator to find out what everything does. Most (all?) of the disassembly work has already been done though, as SMW is very, very popular to romhack.

185 points by ChazDazzle 9y ago

That's just insanity. Love Seth's work.

The number of things people do to break old games consistently amazes me. Glitched speedruns ala 0 Exit in SMW (first demoed on a real SNES by the creator of this video) and Ocarina of Time Any% show an insane amount of dedication.

MrJagil 9y ago

Pannenkoek2012 does great breakdowns of SM64: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpk2tdsPh0A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpk2tdsPh0A If you like this sort of stuff, reddit.com/r/speedrun can be fun to visit.

rjeli 9y ago
Pannenkoek just released a glorious 37 minute video on sm64 mechanics: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UnU7DJXiMAQ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UnU7DJXiMAQ And if you have never watched speed runs, Summoning Salt has a fascinating series on world record progressions in popular games: https://youtu.be/RdAkY7RfajY https://youtu.be/RdAkY7RfajY
- ozzmotik 9y ago
  oh thank you so very much for sharing the new pannenkoek video, i love his stuff but it tends to get buried under my 500 other subscriptions :B
joshguthrie 9y ago
Pannenkoek2012 is both genius and crazy awesome at the same time. Its video "0.5x A Key Presses" provoked a riot in video game circles some times ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpk2tdsPh0A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpk2tdsPh0A

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CM30 9y ago

Okay, this is just insane. Modding the game via using a glitch to write custom code to it? That's impressive work. Reminds me of some similar stuff you can do with Pokemon Red and Blue, which let you hack the games and share your changes to other people through the link cable functionality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2x3pIvVnP4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2x3pIvVnP4

ZenoArrow 9y ago
In a similar vein, there's the TASBot-programmed mods of Super Mario World. This one is particularly impressive (the mod you see on screen was programmed by controller inputs): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IOsvuEA2h4w https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IOsvuEA2h4w
ericfrederich 9y ago
This guy needs to travel back in time and do that on one of the demo machines in an electronics store.

JTon 9y ago

I had a good laugh when he pulled all the controls, C-clamps, and multi-taps. Amazing.

skierscott 9y ago

At PyCon (not long ago), I saw a talk on hacking NES games and integration with Twilio. The speaker live coded a hacking script for a NES emulator. He was showing off the Twilio API, which allowed the audience to text memory addresses and bytes to modify the games memory. https://youtube.com/watch?v=v75rNdPukuI https://youtube.com/watch?v=v75rNdPukuI

jordache 9y ago

how do they even find what each hex code does? wow

pubby 9y ago
It's all 65c816 machine code, which is well documented. You'd run the ROM through a disassembler and use an emulator to find out what everything does. Most (all?) of the disassembly work has already been done though, as SMW is very, very popular to romhack.