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Emulators are also great for the speedrunning community. They especially help in developing TAS's (Tool Assisted Speedruns), which contribute strats back to the
by ben-schaaf 9y ago
Emulators are also great for the speedrunning community. They especially help in developing TAS's (Tool Assisted Speedruns), which contribute strats back to the human runners and push the boundaries of how fast games can be beaten.
- 0xcde4c3db 9y agoThe kind of insight offered by TAS experimentation and reverse engineering enables some really impressive stuff, like manual arbitrary code execution. There are multiple ACE exploits in Super Mario World, which have been used for credit warp runs and even poking code into RAM to turn the game into a Flappy Bird clone.