Comment on Speedrunner Cannot Return from the Game World (RTA Sousha wa Game Sekai kara Kaerenai) - Chapter 13
wjs018@ani.social 2 weeks ago
I was dying when the placeholder No Image thing popped up. That feels pretty reminiscent of the weird inventory/memory manipulation that is done in some Pokémon speedruns.
Endmaker@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, and 151 pretty much confirms the reference
wjs018@ani.social 2 weeks ago
I remember watching a Pokémon run during a GDQ before and they were just menuing through their inventory and talking about how their inputs were directly manipulating the Game Boy’s ram bit by bit; essentially rewriting the memory to create a favorable game state, like an in-game save file editor. Blew my mind.