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WarmSoda@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Cosmic ray partial. Same thing happened during a Mario64 speed run years ago. The partial just happened to be flying through space and the earth and just happened to hit a spot on one of the computer chips. It made Mario warp upwards slipping a crucial section of the clockwork level. They couldn’t figure it out for years.
Pretty neat.
Same thing happened during a Mario64 speed run years ago. The particle just happened to be flying through space and the earth and just happened to hit a spot on one of the computer chips. It made Mario warp upwards slipping a crucial section of the clockwork level. They couldn't figure it out for years.
You cannot seriously believe this bullshit. There are so many other potential possibilities with actually a fair likelihood, than such a stupidly rare cosmic event to be the cause of it.
Veratisium did a good video about it. youtu.be/AaZ_RSt0KP8?si=mR7B5V4qIlhTF0Gc
if you think it’s unbelievable, then the video is probably worth a watch
If you ehink is belivable this one is worth a watch youtu.be/vj8DzA9y8ls?si=JmHztJMxA_JqXJqC
You're missing the point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor
No I get what you are saying, the thing is that the cosmic ray bit flip fits the razor. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_ray
Studies by IBM in the 1990s suggest that computers typically experience about one cosmic-ray-induced error per 256 megabytes of RAM per month.
It isn’t unlikely for it to have happened on non-ECC hardware. I think they even replicated what happened in the video in an emulator with a single bit flip, so it really just boils down to “what are the chances someone recorded while a bit flip did something noteworthy”, and the odds are… pretty big actually, over so mamy years.
To be honest I kinda suspect you’ve done no effort to fact check this but are just going with your gut feeling? I don’t mind discussing this further, but if so I’d really like to hear what your point is, because if it is that: a) cosmic bit flips doesn’t happen or b) a bit flip couldn’t have impacted the game like that then I think you’re better off watching that video I linked or actually read up on the subject because my impression is that if you apply occam’s razor to that mario64 incident… a bit flip is all that’s on the table.
lmao this sounds like the sort of shit my uncle would come up with instead of accepting that “xQtipx” is not a valid word in Scrabble
Daxtron2@startrek.website 7 months ago
That’s actually probably not true, it was suggested as one possible reason and games media outlets ran with it. youtu.be/vj8DzA9y8ls
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
I don’t give the slightest shit about speedrunning or bit flips, but I sat through that entire video and found it fascinating.
Daxtron2@startrek.website 7 months ago
Haha well that’s good at least! There are some great YouTube speed run analysis / history videos in this same style. You should check them out even if you don’t really care about speed running.
arin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Memory fails because of cosmic rays, this is why computer server systems use ECC memory
Daxtron2@startrek.website 7 months ago
Memory fails for lots of reasons, more than just cosmic rays.