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Jailbreaking Super Mario World to Install a Hex Editor & Mod Loader

SethBling · Youtube · 185 HN points · 0 HN comments
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Youtube Summary
Cooper Harasyn found a Super Mario World save corruption glitch, and we worked together to create a jailbreak that works on real, unmodified cartridges and Super Nintendos.
Livestream Archive: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/147924402
Livestream Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ji2p3p2qB3hEcQw84ZIiq3P5z61YfU2GCjC69mRSiNs/edit?usp=sharing
Flappy Bird Code Injection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB6eY73sLV0
Credits Warp Easy Setup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH1jvznymiI
Bizhawk SRAM File: https://sethbling.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Downloads/Bizhawk+Scripts/SMWJailbreak.SaveRAM
Jailbreak Manual: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bVZFGK_aYFyIlFsj-IZr9DLV57DaiGskBO0u--dGhT8/edit?usp=sharing
Cooper’s YouTube: http://youtube.com/cooprocks123e
Cooper’s Twitch: http://twitch.tv/cooprocks123e
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May 29, 2017 · 185 points, 13 comments · submitted by ChazDazzle
MrJagil
Pannenkoek2012 does great breakdowns of SM64: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpk2tdsPh0A

If you like this sort of stuff, reddit.com/r/speedrun can be fun to visit.

joshguthrie
Pannenkoek2012 is both genius and crazy awesome at the same time. Its video "0.5x A Key Presses" provoked a riot in video game circles some times ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpk2tdsPh0A
rjeli
Pannenkoek just released a glorious 37 minute video on sm64 mechanics: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UnU7DJXiMAQ

And if you have never watched speed runs, Summoning Salt has a fascinating series on world record progressions in popular games: https://youtu.be/RdAkY7RfajY

ozzmotik
oh thank you so very much for sharing the new pannenkoek video, i love his stuff but it tends to get buried under my 500 other subscriptions :B
CM30
Okay, this is just insane. Modding the game via using a glitch to write custom code to it? That's impressive work.

Reminds me of some similar stuff you can do with Pokemon Red and Blue, which let you hack the games and share your changes to other people through the link cable functionality:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2x3pIvVnP4

ericfrederich
This guy needs to travel back in time and do that on one of the demo machines in an electronics store.
ZenoArrow
In a similar vein, there's the TASBot-programmed mods of Super Mario World. This one is particularly impressive (the mod you see on screen was programmed by controller inputs):

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IOsvuEA2h4w

JTon
I had a good laugh when he pulled all the controls, C-clamps, and multi-taps. Amazing.
artemisbot
The number of things people do to break old games consistently amazes me. Glitched speedruns ala 0 Exit in SMW (first demoed on a real SNES by the creator of this video) and Ocarina of Time Any% show an insane amount of dedication.
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cgijoe
That's just insanity. Love Seth's work.
jordache
how do they even find what each hex code does? wow
pubby
It's all 65c816 machine code, which is well documented. You'd run the ROM through a disassembler and use an emulator to find out what everything does. Most (all?) of the disassembly work has already been done though, as SMW is very, very popular to romhack.
skierscott
At PyCon (not long ago), I saw a talk on hacking NES games and integration with Twilio.

The speaker live coded a hacking script for a NES emulator. He was showing off the Twilio API, which allowed the audience to text memory addresses and bytes to modify the games memory.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=v75rNdPukuI

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