This is really complicated. I'd just recommend anything where folks have ruj doom on it.

Pretty much. It was actually discovered _during_ the N64 era that the first version of the system keeps a bunch of RAM around for about 10 Seconds, and could be used to transfer information between titles. The initial intent was gladly non-malicious, but it ended up being an unused feature in both Banjo Kazooie titles and DK64. Somewhat recently, OoT ACE has been used to write code into the RAM of the N64 to be executed in Paper Mario as a Credits Warp. It’s also not the last time people have taken advantage of coding oversights in games to bust into a system, although it usually isn’t malicious in intent. During the 3DS era it was found a game called Cubic Ninja had a different vulnerability that allowed for Homebrew.

Rust ftw

@@FrostGlader using ACE in ocarina of time DOESN'T crash paper mario also stop n swap! and i remember the cubic ninja thing, i watched tech rules' video on it

@@FrostGlader I remember using the Cubic Ninja hack to mod my 2DS a while back! I was super lucky that my library had a copy of the game at the time lol

That only raises the question, what can possibly be next?

@@huevonesunltd ace in doom but Zelda. Literally this opens up any possibility. This is like a meta verse type of possibilities

I often think we need to sacrifice something like a robotic goat every time I see a TAS block... We must not let the bot hate us... Because he (and his programmers) will wipe the floor with us in gaming

Dwango and team said they probably won't have anything this spectacular again for a while, it took several years and thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of man-hours to create this showcase. Of course I'd love to be proven wrong but I think they may keep it simple for a little bit (I don't think AGDQ2023 even had a TASBlock).

I remember seeing ACE used to program Breakout and Snake into Super Mario World and thinking it was magic. We've come a long way.

I wonder when we’ll be able to do ACE on Xbox games, that’ll truly be wild

what about in Pokemon?

@@WinVisten that’s already been done. Look at the Tetris in Pokémon crystal video, and the coin case glitch

Technically it's used in Super Smash Bros Melee to run homebrew on a GameCube, but that's achieved using a modified save file instead of controller input, and isn't as impressive to watch. It's just, you start Melee, go to a menu, and now some other program is running.

Hey Bismuth! We are all waiting for your next video!

One of the legends himself!

You're one to talk! Your videos usually explain things better than anyone else I've seen on the subject

release more of your piano music pls

MisButh, orangutan, orange, erratic, mystery, unlocked

Thank you!

wait hours before wHA

@@RGMechEx Which game do you run?

@@Logan-tz1ry RGME is run by IseFrieze, who's going to be running "Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World (All Five Games w/ACE)" with SethBling in... two hours from the point that I write this, I think.

Thanks doc

Zelda community basically said "fine, i'll do it myself"

Same. I still remember the Video Gamer X rumor site. I'd check that place daily for new glitches.

Truly shows how much games touch our hearts. Gaming brings people together and stuff like this is just truly amazing as well as beautiful

Two decades to find the exploit, and two and a half years to make the whole project using the exploit.

I'm a fan 😀

@@AlexB-W33gee happy you are a fan ❤️

And yet, I'm sure we will find anti-speed runners spouting, "That's not how the game was meant to be played!!!!" haha. They suck the fun out of everything. The big wrinkled brains behind this type of work is insane.

@@thebootknifer ive seen so many people being like "well this modded stuff how is this special" ... .no.. no... shut up... you have a pea brain... shush ... they have no appreciation for the art behind this...

QA dream teams

It's a different game and set of programmers but the teams behind Pokémon have expressed how impressed they are with what people have managed to do with those games. Especially he glitch to acquire Mew in the original games.

I think they'd rather be afraid of ever making a new game be this exploitable

Well, we know that the OoT3D devs have seen an OoT speedrun, because they patched out glitches used in speedruns. In fact, we know which one they saw because everything they patched was used in it.

They would be impressively PISSED.

He used ACE to go back in time and write and produce a 35 minute video within five minutes of the run ending in our timeline.

@@Narokkurai [ANGRY RUNNING MAN NOISES]

(and how much they lied? sorry DirpAC. but coppin that the cart RoM is clean and oh wait. no. sigh. Not. the. Spirit. of beta stuff!!!!

@@gorkskoal9315 it was cool that they injected code in realtime as the game was being played, and not just a simple rom hack. The twitch chat stuff in realtime blew my mind and took a few seconds to realize what was happening.

We are considering possibly doing that sometime in the future. MrCheeze has already created a way to use ACE to be able to type in limited code with the file select screen. We could use that and code in a hex editor, and then spend hours manually writing a payload into RAM. Just the Triforce scene (no plot) is probably doable in a few hours. It would be extremely boring after the beginning though.

As kaze explained it. The n64 is bottlenecked between transfers of CPU having control, and the RDP (reality display processor) Essentially (from my memory check his video) the cpu and rdp switch between having ram access to memory per cycle? With CPU eventually giving commands to the rdp, and then having to wait for the rdp to finish. So if you read only memory (I'm assuming your referencing the ROM) You would be loosing valuable CPU time needed to upload the next RDP instruction. As while carts are fast, it's not exactly fast enough for that. And as a result hurt the framerate more (granted OOT only runs at 20fps but still)

That's my guess using another persons explanation and applying it hefe. I can easily be wrong

The N64 can't really run code directly from ROM. It's too modern for that. What OoT does is a primitive form of dynamic linking, where code is not only loaded but there's a sort of address space translation done on the fly. However, there's no security separation between code and data like there is in modern systems.

@@Sauraen From a major member of the Triforce% showcase. You heard 'im! Hahaha. This is all so excellent. Bravo.

Executing directly from ROM is too slow.

Glad you got it! And also, the fact that it actually can be done in a certain sense, because we did it through controller input without modifying the cart. ACE blurs the line between what's in the game and what's not. The Triforce scene has not actually been in OoT all along, but the ability to create the Triforce scene HAS actually been in OoT all along.

@@Sauraen Y'all didn't _find_ the triforce, y'all _made_ it. And that's far more impressive.

@@Sauraen exactly! the artistry and perfection you all displayed, without even doing any modification just shows what's truly possible when you know how to use (or exploit) an engine to its fullest. i thank you and all the triforce% team for all your hard work to bring us a truly stunning and beautiful experience.

the consolation prize the f boots actually can be done by a human. and that IS coding or modualting an item. though sad there never really was a way to get the triforce you had to make it user content basically

@@zmyr88 With some changes to how we went from the initial ACE to Total Control, the rest of Triforce% could theoretically be done by a human. It would just take days for them to type in all the data for all the custom content.

Technically, yes, but limiting the run to being "Legitimate inputs" constrains what you can send.

Yes, R and Z are held the entire time during that section for that exact reason! Thankfully the addi and sh instructions using the $gp register require those two bits to be set.

That's why we did it!

This comment is getting screenshot and printed for my board of quotes to apply to life. Thank you. ✌️🍍

Well I'm not an expert, but the Arwing, butterfly in a bottle model, the Kokiri Head (Not the body I believe), the giant Rupee that is the Running Man's "reward," the ability to equip Medallions as items (Not the Sage's Charm, nor its doubling of the magic meter, just the ability to equip Medallions), and the Unicorn Fountain + Beta Great Fairy is all the legit beta content that was shown that I can count off the top of my head. As for the masks that got buffed with the Magic Powder, I don't believe it was ever planned to have the Bunny Hood work like it does in MM for OoT (During development). Edit: Forgot some beta elements.

@@SSDARKPIT so... why is there an Arwing in the files for OoT?

@@DenebTM apparently it was used to test z-targeting and volvagia's flight patterns

@@BBSplat Correct. It's a pretty common thing. Why make a new model to test something when you can just drop in something from a game you already made?

@@BBSplat that makes a lot of sense actually, thanks!

There's at least one video on KZfaq where somebody apparently thought this was real and explains it like it's a documentary about how someone found this. Don't get me wrong it's very impressive but this is a ROM hack done by ACE. The quadruple bootstrap was genius though!

@@bensmith3890 Oh absolutely agreed. The injection bootstrapping is so fascinating. (Also I think you may be thinking of SwankyBox's video on it... I didn't even finish his full video because it seemed too enraptured on interpreting the faked plot and not enough de-masking of the real workings)

That's true for the build toolchain as well! There's a number of places where there's code which writes code to run on the N64, but there's even one place where I programmatically edit a script ingested by a build tool describing how to build something else.

Thanks!

you ever see brain training? seriously, thats amazing too.

Them putting Mew under the truck in 2016 was pretty dope too, but that doesn’t really compare in scope to Triforce%

Generally, the final cutscene was made the same way as all the other custom cutscenes we created and showed. We loaded all the 3D models, animations, actor code, music, voice acting sound files, and other data into the Expansion Pak via controller input much earlier in the run while Savestate was doing other things. Two of the unusual things about that scene were the cel shading on BotW Link and Zelda, which we did by modding the RSP microcode (which you can think of like a shader), and the Twitch messages, which was an actor which rendered the received usernames into textures and drew them in the sky. Part of the controllers injection system handled actually decoding the usernames being supplied by TASBot.

It's about 1.5MB actually

actually only about 5 minutes (until twitch chat at the end)