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I watched this live last night on the AGDQ2015 stream, it was insane. It's always interesting to see what can happen when a buffer overflow occurs.

As a side note, this strikes me as a great charity event, and I would recommend that people who love old games and watching software being abused should watch it.

https://gamesdonequick.com

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You can also look up the runs from years past on YouTube; great way to lose a few hours.

Last year's Super Mario World exploit can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioQmbEoYL0M

They programmed Snake and Pong within Super Mario World by pushing an overwhelming data down the controller port using 8 connections (if I have that right?!). That is some serious hacking.

Yes, they use a trick to make the video game jump to the controller input buffer and execute data from it.

But this year they took that to the next level. Instead of programming snake or pong they made a fully functional Super Mario (from NES) run inside Super Mario World.

Incredible. Do you think it will become available to watch at a later time ?

It already is, just search for "AGDQ" on YouTube and sort by date.

Found it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMMP7iRS6DY

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