WobblyPython

Wobbly Python

@WobblyPython

Cute, capable, funny snake artist.

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The internet's favorite cartoon snake. A real cutie patootie. One of those guys who's real good at lots of things but not perfect at any one thing.

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xkeeper
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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...

lifning
@lifning

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

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vikxin
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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

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lifning
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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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