After 40 years, arbitrary code execution has been achieved in Super Mario Bros.
Further proving my statement that speedrunners would be the best exploit engineers in the world if they cared as much about Excel as they do about getting to Kakariko Village 0.016 seconds faster.
@rk I really had no idea there was such a huge community around ACE, I'd never thought about it or anything.
I'm also certain there is an overlap of speedrunners and security engineers lol
What’s crazy to me is that there are speedrunners who had zero computer science experience who taught themselves MIPS assembly and all to figure this out and then, basically, had no idea that this sort of thing would’ve a marketable skill.
(MIPS for other games. 6502 for NES, obvs.)
@rk yeah like a highly, highly niche skill. Just wildly guessing here but probably tens of thousands (maybe?) of humans could say they know MIPS assembly too
This is the true hacker spirit. You want to make the machine do a thing so you learn how to make it do a thing.
To me this is the crossover of art and technology and why I can't understand why someone would want another machine to do all the fun thinking for them.
rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually
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