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In a sense adding the code to handle inputting the numbers wasn't even necessary, this easter egg is already readable by looking at the ROM dump itself, so alre
by Aardwolf 7y ago
In a sense adding the code to handle inputting the numbers wasn't even necessary, this easter egg is already readable by looking at the ROM dump itself, so already does its job that way
- Wowfunhappy 7y agoParticularly when you consider that without the rom dump, it would be impossible to discover this code. Why make the code so absurdly long? Even by the most conservative and/or optimistic estimate, that code is well beyond what could be randomly guessed.
- jkaplowitz 7y agoMaybe so that Mr. Glass could prove to someone non-technical that he wrote it by providing the passcode directly, whether to friends or family for "cool points" or in a legal dispute over authorship/credit/royalty rights.
- Wowfunhappy 7y agoThanks. Now that you mention it, I think your scenario is 100% right! The code was long exactly because no one was ever supposed to find it, it was supposed to be for the author to use.