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Game Boy Zelda Comes With Source, Sort Of

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the hate-when-that-happens dept.

Jamie found a fun story about a 90s Zelda Game Boy ROM that shipped with the source code- not so much on purpose, but more because the linker padded out the last meg of ROM with random memory contents, which happened to include game source code.

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  1. so... by hitmark · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    what can be seen as a life saver om hardrives (that by default, "deleted" files are still there but not part of the file system) can be a troublesome issue in ram?

    oh wait, not zeroing a hardrive can be bad, if one sell of a old one...

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  2. Exposed by WindFish · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is there a draft? I feel exposed. (See my username.)