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What are we looking at here? Would this hypothetically work with a cartridge, or is this exploiting a bug in the emulator?

• sputnikus 13y ago
  He's using dual multitab to connect 8 controllers and then programming game through control ports, more here http://hackaday.com/2014/01/10/teaching-mario-to-play-pong-and-snake-through-innumerable-exploits/ http://hackaday.com/2014/01/10/teaching-mario-to-play-pong-a...
• panic 13y ago
  This was actually done live with a real cartridge last week at AGDQ: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioQmbEoYL0M http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioQmbEoYL0M
  • Sniffnoy 13y ago
    A note, to ward off confusion: This was done with a real cartridge, but with a computer hooked up to the controller ports; it wasn't done unassisted.
  • w-ll 13y ago
    So pong and snake where already in SMW?
    • pilif 13y ago
      No. They weren't. That's the idea. By exploiting some bugs, they managed to make the game execute arbitrary code. The menu, the two games and the victory screen were all programmed by manipulating the RAM using nothing but controller input. This is why it's so bloody impressive.
  • jalada 13y ago
    This is impressive. Emulators have nuances that make me wonder when watching TASs if they would actually work on the game itself. Are all 'accepted' TASs tested in a similar way?
    • AndyKelley 13y ago
      Not all of them. Here are the rules: http://tasvideos.org/MovieRules.html http://tasvideos.org/MovieRules.html
    • enneff 13y ago
      No.
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