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Self Aware Numbers Station @HereticSoul8/21/2023, 7:25 PM

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X @xkeeper8/4/2023, 2:51 AM

Anonymous User asked:

If you could change a single instruction or constant in the code of everyone's copy of a single NES game, what would you change and why?

Mega Man 3 (USA).nes: 26F39 = 00

You can find out what that does for yourself.

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The address assumes a ROM that still has the 16-byte header. It's a ROM, after all.

I'm not spoiling what the surprise is — you have to see what it does yourself!

I'll just say that it took longer than I had expected to find the right byte to modify. The other ones would have been a lot easier...

#ask #shitpost #i am not explaining this joke

liffy 💜@lifning8/4/2023, 3:26 AM

here's how to make this change from the shell if you don't have a hex editor handy

cp "Mega Man 3 (USA).nes" mm3hack.nes
dd conv=notrunc of=mm3hack.nes if=/dev/zero bs=1 count=1 seek=159545

(and then to open in your system's default NES emulator: xdg-open mm3hack.nes)

non-unix users may have to install unix first

Obspogon @obspogon8/5/2023, 2:06 AM

This post has content warnings for: the joke.

#video games #mega man #romhacking #The Cohost Global Feed

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X @xkeeper8/4/2023, 2:56 AM

if you actually check what it does, you're free to share, of course. i'm just not giving it away.

liffy 💜@lifning8/4/2023, 3:19 AM

heh heh heh heh

X @xkeeper8/4/2023, 3:21 AM

:^)

Jess🌺@CyanSorcery8/4/2023, 6:44 AM

oh man now I wanna know

X @xkeeper8/4/2023, 5:30 PM

did you see it yet

Jess🌺@CyanSorcery8/4/2023, 10:57 PM

no, I dont have or play megaman 3 :(

ash?!@estrobiologist8/4/2023, 9:38 AM

hehehehehehehehehe

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Gabu!! ☁️ ΘΔ @gabu8/4/2023, 9:07 AM

nice fdjkhffd

Vikxin @vikxin8/5/2023, 7:58 AM

sorry I run Linux, which is not UNIX® certified. I am unsure where I can purchase a copy of UNIX® in the Year of Our Epoch 53, but perhaps I might be able to purchase AIX if I had a few grand kicking around, which is probably close enough. I don't, however, have an POWER machine to run it on, which seems like a bit of a damper on this, though I do have a friend with a POWER7 machine, which should be able to run AIX 7.2

liffy 💜@lifning8/5/2023, 8:17 AM

yea, if you want something more POWERful for yourself you might be able to grab a Blackbird from raptorcs, though chip shortage ballooned the price a bunch, but a POWER7 should suffice for these instructions. you could also maybe try to pick up a used SGI Indy for not too much money and go the IRIX route, though you'd probably eat the rest of the cost difference with adapters

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Wobbly Python @WobblyPython8/21/2023, 7:12 PM

Thank you. I was not about to check.

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