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Game objectives

  • Emulator used: Dolphin 3.0-378 more-save-fixes
  • Starts from saved state or SRAM.
  • Reaches credits early.
  • Gets the best ending.
  • Overflows buffers.
  • Yo dawg, i herd you liked emulators so i put an emulator in your emulator, so you can emulate while you emulate.

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This run uses a simple buffer overflow exploit. It uses a save file, which can be found here that has been edited to replace Epona's name with a short program. When Epona's name is read from the save file, the game crashes, and executes this program, which will load boot.dol from the wii's sd card. In this case, boot.dol is the wii port of snes9x, which can be found here. Once snes9x gx is loaded, i simply select Kirby's Avalanche, and hold right+L on controller 1, and left+R on controller two, which will instantly trigger the credits of Kirby's Avalanche.

NitroGenesis: Astounding. All the no votes prove the viewers love it. Accepting for publication. Changed game name, now this April Fool's submission can have dignity.

Nach: At the author's request, replacing the submission file with a faster one.

Nach: This is a well known exploit. Nothing technically is being done with TAS tools here. It's cute, but just demonstrating exploitation of a glitch on its own is not publish worthy. Rejecting.

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hegyak wrote:
Hey. No promoting piracy now.
It's not promoting piracy. He probably owns the game. He just hacked it. Also, it's really great to see a Wii April Fool's Day submission. It'll be funny to see all the GameCube/Wii/Windows/TI-83 joke submissions next year.
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CoolKirby wrote:
hegyak wrote:
Hey. No promoting piracy now.
It's not promoting piracy. He probably owns the game. He just hacked it.
The hacked save lets you load anything on to the wii, ie you can load pirated stuff. So telling people how to do it would effectively be telling them how to pirate a wii.
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This brings glory to the Seventh Reich. Yes vote.
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errror1 wrote:
CoolKirby wrote:
hegyak wrote:
Hey. No promoting piracy now.
It's not promoting piracy. He probably owns the game. He just hacked it.
The hacked save lets you load anything on to the wii, ie you can load pirated stuff. So telling people how to do it would effectively be telling them how to pirate a wii.
Well yes, that is possible. I don't see how that is promoting piracy though. Running code that hasn't been signed off by Nintendo is hardly illegal, or even unethical. It isn't my responsibility to hide any information that could potentially be used for illegal activities. Should i also not do any runs using dolphin, since someone could also use that to play pirated games? By the same argument you are making, demonstrating the use of a sword is promoting murder. It's absurd, and i'd appreciate it if you didn't come to my submission thread to post such nonsense.
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Also, if anyone was wondering, the graphical glitches with the text at the start are caused by dolphin. It displays properly on the wii.
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Please make a non-hacked TAS of it.
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TASeditor wrote:
Please make a non-hacked TAS of it.
He is working on one, and you should probably check your calendar...
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I am willing to accept this as an exception to the no sram rule in order to demonstrate the power of it.
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Just a note: I think the missing text in the ending message is from the texture cache not being accurate enough. You can fix that in Graphics settings under hacks (just set it all the way to Safe).
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Our Führer says its legit so I vote yes.
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This is amazing, impressive and awesome. Kudos to you sir.
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errror1 wrote:
CoolKirby wrote:
hegyak wrote:
Hey. No promoting piracy now.
It's not promoting piracy. He probably owns the game. He just hacked it.
The hacked save lets you load anything on to the wii, ie you can load pirated stuff. So telling people how to do it would effectively be telling them how to pirate a wii.
Except the glitch was squished with the 4.0 System Menu, so anybody that's upgraded to that point (or beyond) can't use it anyways, so it's useless knowledge.
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This run is the Avalanch
YoungJ1997lol wrote:
Normally i would say Yes, but thennI thought "its not the same hack" so ill stick with meh.
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TASeditor wrote:
Please make a non-hacked TAS of it.
Check the gamecube/wii forum. I've been working on it for a while now.
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hahaha... nice try. I got fooled by Cheat Engine today saying that I need to pay to get a license and that it "expired".
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No. Seriously... Someone explain what it is this is...
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Limne wrote:
No. Seriously... Someone explain what it is this is...
I updated the submission text with an explanation yesterday.
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He is now GANNON-BANNED for claiming he encountered a game-ending bug. APRIL FOOL'S!
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This is by far my favorite April 1 TAS of all time.