Now that the cosmic dust has settled, what really happened here?
>>741480242Bit got flipped
>>741480242Unironically, the man was using cheats.
>>741480242a cartridge tilt
>>741480242almost certainly the cartridge was faulty or not properly inserted
>speedtrooning
cosmo was onto something when he said all the categories are arbitrary
>>741480634>>741480712That's actually very unlikely to be the cause since this is a manipulation of something in RAM, not something that would be corrupted on transport over the cartridge bus. Cart tilts cause weird things, sure, but this is not the type of thing they cause.
>>741480242the digital demons played a prank,Panneko tamed them once even.
>>741480905I can tell you're a leftist because you think you can win arguments by basically saying "no you're wrong" without any evidence for your claim.This is exactly the type of thing that happens with cartridge tilting. I've seen it. There are videos proving it.
>>741481108>I can tell you're a leftist because you think you can win arguments by basically saying "no you're wrong" without any evidence for your claim.>proceeds to do just that
>>741483280What if he's a leftist too? Didn't think of that, did you?
>>741480242No one knows. Most likely is cheats.
>>741480242Cosmic Ray™
>>741480242A solar flare that would've wiped out modern technology if it wasn't solely absorbed by the N64's RAM causing a bit flip.
>>741480242... wasn't that the one caused by heating up the cartridge?Or am I mistaking with another weird bug?I do remember one old game having "heat up the cartridge to a precise temperature" among the list of its speedrunning tricks.
He used angle 17 without realizing
Dusty old bones full of green dust.
Solar flare
>>741480242Unknown, but the most plausible is some type of random hardware corruptionIt can happen and it's more common than you'd believe especially with CPUs, if you look it up it's not uncommon for datacenters to have cpus that have >=1 defective core that generates incorrect results or crashes in frequencies anywhere from deterministically when executing specific code patterns or exceptionally rarely and randomlyJust like a failing 14900k will regularly randomly crash a game when performing specific things like loading a secondary quest cutscene, equipping an item and triggering a ui reload etc...(this is from experience)The N64 through which the upward happened passed extensive tests iirc but it was done with test suites which have the problem that passing such tests does not guarantee no corruption when executing other code.Therefore i would believe that the guy's N64 is barely unstable enough to cause rare problems like that but it's hard to confirm.
JJ902 was able to replicate it once so who knows
>>741488386You can't equate the feats of other people to the shit JJ did. Dude was just built different. Let that sink in.
>>741480242QRD?
>>741480242it was reproduced in the end, heat was a factor
>>741480242I finally learned the meaning of the "to get the other side" punchline.It's a suicide pun.
>>741491390Mario64 glitch that happened once and was never replicated despite the source code begin known and an army of glitch-hunters setting up every fucking possible RAM combination trying to recreate it.It's especially funny because that level is an utter pain for a ton of speedrun categories, and that glitch (*if* it could have been reproduced) would have saved a fuckton of time.
>cosmic dust bit flipis the most reddit shit i've ever heardoccam's razor, it was probably a cartridge malfunction, "earth dust" or something
>>741494551That was the excuse invoked by a voting machine company in Europe (Belgium, I think?).Since then, it entered normies' mind as "something that can just happen", because it would be too world-shattering for them to accept that the election process in the western world are just as jury-rigged (and often just rigged) as they are in the 3rd world.
>>741494551It was far more likely a cheating device.
>>741491563Big if true
>>741491563ESL here.No way that's the joke.It's too dark.
>>741480242>dude goes on to give a perfectly reasonable explanation on what might have caused this>community goes, "COSMIC RAYS! COSMIC RAYS!"Why are speed running troons like this?
>>741480242if something happens in speedrunning out of the ordinary, assume cheating until proven otherwisealso speedrunners are gay faglords.
>>741496162this>that one time Dream somehow got astronomically stars-aligned "1 in 7.5 trillion" good RNG on a speedrun, and was later proven that he had modified game files to increase the chances far beyond what they were supposed to be
>>741480242>Godthis site is 18+
>>741496346*tips fedora*
>>741496289i dont even blame him desu. minecraft speedrunning is basically just a slot machine that requires pulling a billion different levers in the right order for a chance to hit jackpot.
>>741496346Jesus fucking Christ are you embarrassing yourself right now.This is not 2010 edge lord atheist 4chan; it's 2026, and liking God is not cringe anymore. You might be looking for something like Tiktok or Instagram.Get. The. Fuck. Out.
>>741495541The game does not contain code that conditionally flips a bit of the exponent byte on the 32 bit float vertical position of an entity/object/whateveryouwannacallit or Mario himselfTilting the cartridge can cause the hardware to corrupt cartridge reads but the chances of crashing the game on boot are too damn high to be reasonable and the game code is copied to main RAM on boot so it is immune to cartridge tilting, this implies an extremely weird code corruption on boot that is reproducible, worth exploring but not reasonable enoughThe fact similar things have happened to other players according to the ukikipedia hints at a specific failure mode of the hardware, somehow causing a bit flip in a specific bit of a floating point register of the N64's register file.If i investigated the issue more in depth i would explore the possibility temperature and very worn hardware may be involved and the bug is facilitated by an idiosyncracy in the silicon design(maybe a specific bit in the silicon implementing floating point operations is more vulnerable than others to such failure modes?)I'd also investigate a possibility there may be a memory failure mode where a specific bit of the memory gets randomly flipped on read/write, the position vectors are three floats(12 bytes) and the exponent is the fourth byte(N64 is big endian), maybe a specific 8th or 12th byte of such operations is flipped on a specific bit?
Maybe the real takeaway here is that speedrunning is fucking stupid
>>741496726>or Mario himself tilting the cartridge can cause the hardware to corruptholy shit mario can do that????
>>741496346>outing yourself as jewishwhy? afaik only jewish people get pissed off at the uncensored mention of god
>>741481108as opposed to cuckservatives that will deny any evidence that doesnt fit their narrarive? retarded americans trying to polarize everything when both sides are equally stupid
>>741483373No, I didn't. fair point.
>>741496607>liking God is not cringe anymoreYes it is lol.You might be looking for some like X anon.
Probably a dirty cartridge contact that caused the wrong bit to flip when he landed. It's looking more and more likely that it is not a replicable glitch and was some sort of hardware malfunction.
>>741496994>You might be looking for some like X anon.>for some like XESL detected; opinion rejected.
>>741487932I think you're thinking of one of the early Dragon Quests
>>741495009NGL that'd be very funny since it triggered so many speedrunners and glitch hunters.
>>741481108Flippantly asserted, flippantly dismissed. It's the initial statement that evidences first.
>>741496607incorrect semicolon use
>>741480242it was cartridge elves but they don't want you to kn
>>741497507It is not. Learn proper English, please.
>>741496801I've noticed this too
>>741491563bullshit
>>>741496346#>>Jesus fucking Christ are you embarrassing yourself right now.>>This is not 2010 edge lord atheist 4chan; it's 2026, and liking God is not cringe anymore. You might be looking for something like Tiktok or Instagram.>>Get. The. Fuck. Out.
>>741498107Do you understand how posting on 4chan works?
>>741488076Made for correction
>>741498240Shartyniggers don't think, they simply shit on the floor everywhere and hope someone gives them a (you).
>>>741498107 (You)#>>Do you understand how posting on 4chan works?>>>741498240#>Shartyniggers don't think, they simply shit on the floor everywhere and hope someone gives them a (you).
sharty lost btw
>>741496346
>>741496898everyone I want you to look at this post chain, see how easy it is to out leftycels?
>>741498240He's a jew trying to shartypost, so no
>>741496607>This is not 2010 edge lord atheist 4chan; it's 2026, and liking God is not cringe anymore>I base my beliefs on what's trendy on 4chanAs cringe as militant atheists can be this is billions of time more pathetic
>>741480242It wasn't actually a cosmic bitflip. The cartridge was tilted a bit
>>741499969>I base my beliefs on what's trendy on 4chanWrong.I was God fearing in 2010 too. The difference is back then I would face harassment if I ever mentioned that online.
>>741491563
>>741480242All evidence points to a bit flip, caused presumably by outside interference. Whether it was a cosmic ray or radiation of terrestrial origin we'll never know.
>>741481108>>>/trash/
