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Super Mario World speedrun hack takes up up down down left right left right B A to the next level
2014-01-14 15:47:45| Extremetech
Over the last week, Awesome Games Done Quick 2014 has raised over $1 million for charity by live streaming some of the world's best video game speedruns. While most of these speedruns were performed live and unassisted by dexterously gifted gamers, a select few were tool-assisted speedruns, or TAS for short. My favorite, by far, was a TAS by Masterjun that used an exact combination of acrobatic Yoshi moves to exploit Super Mario World on the SNES, allowing him to run arbitrary code that's uploaded to the console via its controller ports. Within moments of the "total control" exploit being executed, Super Mario World is replaced by a game of Pong that uses Mario's head as a ball. At this point, you should really watch the video below.
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