How to beat Paper Mario fast by playing Ocarina of Time? (opens in new tab)

(arstechnica.com)

11 pointsczinck5y ago3 comments

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chrisgd5y ago· 1 in thread

I have no idea how people figure this out of test it out, but I find it very interesting.

l-p5y ago

A mix of serendipity and digging for it.

In the case of OOT, SRM was found accidentally and then researched via live-debugging using emulators and the decompilation project which in turn exists because a debug ROM of OOT MQ was leaked and people were willing to manually rewrite code to match the assembly.

wussboy5y ago

When I read these sorts of stories I always feel so torn between fascination at the ingenuity required to figure out these things (remember that one about predicting where the battleships were in Wind Waker? Amazing!) and that the things they are figuring out are so utterly pointless.

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