O.O
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/01/pokemon-plays-twitch-how-a-robot-got-irc-running-on-an-unmodified-snes/
Apparently by using a Pokémon glitch (I assume the one used in another TAS to reprogram the game into a My Little Pony song), they managed to take over the Super Game Boy SNES add-on, then the SNES itself, and used a controller cable to stream IRC-based Twitch chat via it.
Thats pretty cool!
That reminds me, is there any online IRC clients that automagically log you in to IRC? I know there is IRC Cloud, but I was wondering if there is anything else.
Yeah, I saw that, they showed it at the last AGDQ marathon. It was quite crazy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv7RqnT0_Wo
Oh thanks for the vid. There was a Twitch link that supposedly showed it in action on the page, but for some reasons it showed a different video.
Nah, it's just plain dark magic to me, it's amazing to have Twitch chat into Pokémon Red, it'sd a wonderful shout-out to TPP.
Wow, that's cool o.o
Quote from: Duke "Tape" Eiyeron on April 17, 2015, 01:59:05 PM
Nah, it's just plain dark magic to me, it's amazing to have Twitch chat into Pokémon Red, it'sd a wonderful shout-out to TPP.
Yeah I liked that reference too. Made it even cooler.
Hyup, we definitely need moar IRC on our consoles! :p
And calculators!
There already is an IRC client for 84+ using DCS IIRC.
Oh cool
Yeah IIRC Merthsoft did it. It's possible to chat in many channels IIRC. You need to use a computer as a bridge for now, though.
Nice. Seemed a bit glitchy, though, or is that what their chat channel normally looks like? :) Looks like there's more GDQ videos for me to catch up on now., too :P I've also seen the arbitrary code execution hack of SMW a while back. These are really cool to watch because they're just like what happened with the TI-81 to execute user-supplied machine code. That's what they remind me of.
Ooh right I didn't think about the TI-81 hack haha. Now imagine if someone reprogrammed WFRNG inside Pokémon. :P
You ahve a few byttes of RAM available, you could do some sort of bootwrapper and then start programming something more advanced. WFRNG could be doable.
i take it this is some kind of inside joke from the years before me? :P
Wacky Fun Random Number Generator/Game. A parodying take on the ludicrous amount of "Guess the number" games every programmable calc series have.
oh wow. I saw there was an OS of it too :P
Quote from: Cumred_Snektron on April 20, 2015, 04:34:54 PM
i take it this is some kind of inside joke from the years before me? :P
Indeed. It started in July 2000 as a parody of the crappy TI-BASIC games that flooded ticalc.org archives back then and made it hard to find the good ones. It was a very popular joke and there were some revival attempts (although sometimes a bit overdone by some community members in 2010-11 or so so it kinda died down afterward). Other long-lasting community running gags were the Omnimaga peanuts and Hays Games.
There is a similar prank that came up in 2006 when someone released a grayscale xLIB quadratic solver.
Ah i see. Thanks for the explanation :)