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Development => Consoles => Topic started by: Dream of Omnimaga on April 17, 2015, 06:36:38 AM

Title: IRC on a Super Nintendo?
Post by: Dream of Omnimaga on April 17, 2015, 06:36:38 AM
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.
Title: Re: IRC on a Super Nintendo?
Post by: Unicorn on April 17, 2015, 06:42:46 AM
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.
Title: Re: IRC on a Super Nintendo?
Post by: Yuki on April 17, 2015, 06:55:42 AM
Yeah, I saw that, they showed it at the last AGDQ marathon. It was quite crazy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv7RqnT0_Wo

Title: Re: IRC on a Super Nintendo?
Post by: Dream of Omnimaga on April 17, 2015, 11:28:15 AM
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.
Title: Re: IRC on a Super Nintendo?
Post by: 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.
Title: Re: IRC on a Super Nintendo?
Post by: Snektron on April 17, 2015, 02:33:47 PM
Wow, that's cool o.o
Title: Re: IRC on a Super Nintendo?
Post by: Dream of Omnimaga on April 17, 2015, 04:13:04 PM
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.
Title: Re: IRC on a Super Nintendo?
Post by: Duke "Tape" Eiyeron on April 18, 2015, 09:16:02 AM
Hyup, we definitely need moar IRC on our consoles! :p
Title: Re: IRC on a Super Nintendo?
Post by: Snektron on April 18, 2015, 11:04:17 AM
And calculators!
Title: Re: IRC on a Super Nintendo?
Post by: Duke "Tape" Eiyeron on April 18, 2015, 02:46:00 PM
There already is an IRC client for 84+ using DCS IIRC.
Title: Re: IRC on a Super Nintendo?
Post by: Snektron on April 18, 2015, 06:07:42 PM
Oh cool
Title: Re: IRC on a Super Nintendo?
Post by: Dream of Omnimaga on April 18, 2015, 06:09:00 PM
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.
Title: Re: IRC on a Super Nintendo?
Post by: Travis on April 19, 2015, 05:22:03 PM
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.
Title: Re: IRC on a Super Nintendo?
Post by: Dream of Omnimaga on April 20, 2015, 04:09:32 AM
Ooh right I didn't think about the TI-81 hack haha. Now imagine if someone reprogrammed WFRNG inside Pokémon. :P
Title: Re: IRC on a Super Nintendo?
Post by: Duke "Tape" Eiyeron on April 20, 2015, 04:31:39 PM
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.
Title: Re: IRC on a Super Nintendo?
Post by: 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
Title: Re: IRC on a Super Nintendo?
Post by: Duke "Tape" Eiyeron on April 20, 2015, 04:39:04 PM
Wacky Fun Random Number Generator/Game. A parodying take on the ludicrous amount of "Guess the number" games every programmable calc series have.
Title: Re: IRC on a Super Nintendo?
Post by: Snektron on April 20, 2015, 05:45:21 PM
oh wow. I saw there was an OS of it too :P
Title: Re: IRC on a Super Nintendo?
Post by: Dream of Omnimaga on April 21, 2015, 05:55:47 AM
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.
Title: Re: IRC on a Super Nintendo?
Post by: Snektron on April 21, 2015, 12:15:00 PM
Ah i see. Thanks for the explanation :)