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(This week's article comes from a question asked in the RGMechEx Discord server. You can join it here!)

So here's a thing that me and a bunch of other people have noticed before: the breakable bricks in the Super Mario All-Stars version of Super Mario Bros. seem less firm than in the original NES release. That is, they don't seem to pack as big of a punch to Mario's noggin when he hits one from below. In fact, if you just barely bump a block at the apex of your jump in the Super NES version, it will send Mario upwards for some reason.

I've heard that the developer's accidentally reversed Mario's impulse velocity when breaking a brick somehow, but that doesn't seem right. We've known that most of the code for the All-Stars releases of games was just a copy-paste version of the NES versions, so it sounds unlikely that a random byte would be changed like this. Time to investigate!

CHA CHA LICENSE, VERSION 2
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This is something new, the CCLv2,
featuring the corporate ban,
and this time, we're gonna get LEGAL (legal).
Everybody clap your HANDS (hands).
Clap, clap, clap, clap your HANDS.

Alright now, we're gonna do the

BASIC STEPS
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1. COPYLEFT. Give it back now, y'all.
2. NO COPS this time.
3.a. RIGHTS all reserved.
3.b. LEFTS all reserved.
4.a. CHA CHA real smooth.
4.b.
5. Turn it out.

link to the actual paper, although the above image pretty much covers everything

dude spoke basically zero english and had to work his way through a presentation more or less phonetically, but he fuckin did it

I love how every part of it is trying to wrap the concept in Serious Academic Language but it's still incredibly clear that the actual motivation is "DUDE TAILS ARE COOL AS HELL. EVERYONE WANTS A TAIL, AND I AM GOING TO HAVE ONE", and then also the academic language worked and it got accepted into Literally Siggraph

what a legend