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NESBot: Tool Assisted Speedrun On Real Hardware

Posted by Soulskill on from the take-that-game-genie dept.

Xistic writes "For many years tool assisted speedruns were purely theoretical and the domain of emulators. No longer! Using an Arduino Duemilanove microcontroller to drive an actual Nintendo console, pjgat09 plays back prerecorded input to beat Super Mario Bros. in record time. The selection of possible games is limited: 'If the game relies on any uninitialized memory for randomness, or if it is heavily based on console timing, it may not work. In the case of Super Mario Bros however, as long as the button presses start play back at the right time, the movie will play back correctly.' The author includes complete instructions on how to setup the device."

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  1. Re:Holy bug exploitation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    That run exploits bugs from SMB that I didn't even know where there.

    Congratulations! You're another functionally illiterate fuck polluting the Internet.

    Since you seem to be having great difficulty with very basic things, I'll give you a quick little cheat-sheet you can print out and keep next to your monitor:

    Where == a reference to the location of something.

    Were == the past tense form of the verb "to be", typically used with a plural subject.

    They both begin with a "w" but that's about all they have in common. You're welcome.

  2. "Set up", not "setup" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The author includes complete instructions on how to setup the device.

    The word "setup" is a noun. The sentence should read "The author includes complete instructions on how to set up the device.".