IRC on a Super Nintendo?

b/Consoles publicado por u/Dream of Omnimaga April 17, 2015, 06:36:38 AM

IRC on a Super Nintendo?

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.

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u/Unicorn 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.

u/Yuki April 17, 2015, 06:55:42 AM

Yeah, I saw that, they showed it at the last AGDQ marathon. It was quite crazy.

u/Dream of Omnimaga 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.

u/Duke "Tape" Eiyeron 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.

u/Snektron April 17, 2015, 02:33:47 PM

Wow, that's cool o.o

u/Dream of Omnimaga 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.

u/Duke "Tape" Eiyeron April 18, 2015, 09:16:02 AM

Hyup, we definitely need moar IRC on our consoles! :p

u/Snektron April 18, 2015, 11:04:17 AM

And calculators!

u/Duke "Tape" Eiyeron April 18, 2015, 02:46:00 PM

There already is an IRC client for 84+ using DCS IIRC.

u/Snektron April 18, 2015, 06:07:42 PM

Oh cool

u/Dream of Omnimaga 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.

u/Travis 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

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.

u/Dream of Omnimaga 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.

u/Duke "Tape" Eiyeron 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.