I'm afraid that submitting this run on April Fool's day might lead people to believe that it isn't genuine, but I'm so excited for everyone to see the finished product that I'm gonna take the risk. Another branch name that I considered for this run is "Finishes A Different Game".
My run essentially replaces the contents of Pokemon Yellow's RAM with the data necessary to play the entire end-of-game sequence from GBC Link's Awakening, i.e. beginning immediately after the wind fish fade-out and continuing all the way to "The End". Not surprisingly, it takes a substantial amount of time to write all of that data; the total payload is about 690kB, and as we're only able to do 1 byte per frame, 690kB / (60 B/s) = just over three hours.
All input up to the payload delivery is copied verbatim from bortreb's submission; special thanks go out to him for making this run possible.
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Yes vote, watched it all the way through. Jk, but still an amazing video.
IronSlayer wrote:
Your counterargument would be like me saying that the Earth is round and then you telling me that I need to show it's flat so I can "prove us all wrong".
Wouldn't this be a copyright violation? You are effectively encoding a good portion of game code into your submission file. Might fall under fair use, but I'm no lawyer.
Yes, it's cute that you start out in one game, and beat another, but I think the whole we can do anything once we can input code onto the stack is getting a tad old.
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I must admit, I appreciated it just for pissing everyone off.
IronSlayer wrote:
Your counterargument would be like me saying that the Earth is round and then you telling me that I need to show it's flat so I can "prove us all wrong".
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Has anyone watched the input file to the end? I'm playing it back now but it could be a while even at 1000% speed
IronSlayer wrote:
Your counterargument would be like me saying that the Earth is round and then you telling me that I need to show it's flat so I can "prove us all wrong".
In a real one, the payload would have to be significantly less than 690kb, as the system only has 32kb of RAM.
Not 100% true. If you could rewrite the ram as the ending was being played out you would need more space. Also I don't think there is a 1:1 of record file size to ram. I'm not sure of the internal format, and how the game but I assume that the annotations take up space in some way (seeing as there are 8 gb buttons).
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FractalFusion wrote:
By the way, the actual VBM file crashes VBA at frame 44077, around where execution of the payload would normally begin in bortreb's TAS.
Well, you're doing something wrong then, probably interference from antivirus software or something. Check your firewall settings, and make sure all of your speakers are plugged in.
Oh, play it cool. Play it cool. Here come the space cops.
YES for APRIL FOOLS
BUT a FUCK YOU TO HELL FOR PONY GANGNAM STYLE
Holy crap. If a brony can be pissed off by something with ponies in it, then I sure refuse to watch!
I refuse to accept anything that isn't pi. Only irrational numbers exist.
My first language is not English, so please excuse myself if I write something wrong. I'll do my best do write as cleary as I can, so cope with me here =)
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April Fools has passed. Could you atleast explain if the movie file or anything is legit so we can get this grue'd?
IronSlayer wrote:
Your counterargument would be like me saying that the Earth is round and then you telling me that I need to show it's flat so I can "prove us all wrong".
The fact that not only can you skip forward, but youtube actually shows a thumbnail image of the video at any point by hovering the timeline bar kind of spoils the joke...
I'M OUT
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Edit: There is a joke behind this I'll explain in detail in pm if you want to know.
