TasBlock at AGDQ 2017: TASBot

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zer01 · 2022-06 · Strong recommendation

I absolutely love speed runs and think they’re a great expression of the hacker mentality. To take a subtle bug in something like a physics engine and bend it to your will to eek out another 5s save off the world record is absolutely fascinating. Not to mention things like TASBot which always makes a great GDQ watch [VIDEO] and got me interested in speed running in the first place!

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pdkl95 · 2019-11 · Strong recommendation

LOL... from "Reverse emulating the NES to give it SUPER POWERS!"[1] (which is insa^Wbizza^Wa very creative hack): "The cartridge is the dual of the Nintendo." [1] [LINK] edit: for a very impressive variation on the SMW "joke" in [1], I recommend this[2] video of TASbot streaming Skype realtime to [2xNES, SNES+SuperGameBoy] through the controller ports . [2] [VIDEO]

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gmueckl · 2025-02 · Recommendation

He was the public figure for TASBot and TASVideos for a while (see [LINK] ). TASBot is really a beautiful idea to help visualize what tool assisted speedruns are doing via the controller button lights in TASBot's hands. I think DwangoAC and TASBot represented the TAS community at multiple events, not just GDQ. Tool assisted speedruns are remarkable to me because creating the authoring tools is hacking in the classic sense. And then there's the sheer insanity of exploiting broken game logic to gain arbitrary code execution solely via controller inputs. The most elaborate demonstration of this that I know of was given at AGDQ 2017, eventually injecting a video player into Zelda on SNES and streaming the video through the controller port: [VIDEO] Ars Technica went into a little more detail about that feat: [LINK]

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