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10958885 No.10958885 [Reply] [Original]

>Whoopsie! Looks like I sprinked a bit of source code in your ROM there, buddy! Just keep it between us, ok?

>> No.10958905

>>10958885
The tools they used on PCs to develop on were so primitive that they would often hoover up ajacent sectors of the HDD to fill in the empty space of the ROM. That's usually how that ended up in there. There just happened to be a source code file located ajacent to whatever actual data it was trying to build into the ROM.

>> No.10959181

>>10958905
At least one game ended up with a bit of a '90s porn site burned into the ROM because of this

https://tcrf.net/DynaMike_(Game_Boy_Color)

>> No.10959209

>>10958905
Which primitive tools did that?

>> No.10959408

>>10958905
Sounds like bullshit.

>> No.10959465

>>10959209
The kind you run from a command prompt.

>> No.10959489

>>10959465
Is that the opposite of command tardy?

>> No.10959505

>>10958905
>>10959181
That's not how that works. Those things found in the ROM were in memory, RAM, at the time, and because of how languages like C work, and the memory being handled incorrectly, it sucked in adjacent things...in this case, a few filename strings and the html of a website presently in-memory. Fucking up memory boundaries is the basis of a number of attacks and flaws even to this day.

>> No.10959514

>>10958905
>>10959181
>>10959505
>muh speculation
provide source or you're all zoomers

>> No.10959681

>>10959465
>none. im just another bullshitting baby