[HN Gopher] The Super Mario Maker community faces its final boss
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The Super Mario Maker community faces its final boss
Author : Tomte
Score : 22 points
Date : 2024-03-19 12:13 UTC (4 days ago)
(HTM) web link (arstechnica.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
| makin wrote:
| That final boss, Trimming the Herbs, has definitely turned out to
| be a hacked (TAS) level, so The Last Dance was the last, already
| beaten level. This article is fairly outdated for a developing
| story.
| BryantD wrote:
| Beat me to it! See
| https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2024/03/random-its-done-ev...
| for more.
| permo-w wrote:
| interesting nonetheless
| TillE wrote:
| That was always by far the most likely explanation, it was the
| general opinion of top-level SMM players. Something like 10
| frame-perfect inputs with a lot of precise movement, it's just
| not plausible.
|
| He's not really clear about how exactly he did it, but it's
| pretty easy to just take a controller cable, wire it into a
| microcontroller, and program inputs. A lot of people were
| saying "there was no TAS in 2017", meaning I suppose there were
| no specific tools for emulator at the time, but that's just
| irrelevant when you can take a day or two to trial-and-error
| it.
| tech234a wrote:
| I've heard that people are still trying to attempt it before
| the deadline.
| Waterluvian wrote:
| I assume they look at the levels but don't edit them, so that a
| statistically unbeatable door maze can be defeated by knowing the
| answer?
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