How to Reprogram Tetris By Playing It - Behind the Code Leveled Up

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Game:
Tetris (1989)
Duration: 31:58
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Let's exploit the logic that crashes Tetris and write code by using the High Score Tables! All you need are a few extra controllers...

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0:00 Here, hold my tacos and watch this.
1:38 The Crash Theory Spreadsheet of Awesomeness
4:26 Our Target
7:14 Controllers, ports, and code explained
9:52 Has anyone seen D1 on the Controller Port?
10:43 240p Test Suite Cameo!
11:12 Two controllers for Each Player, huh?
12:08 Previously on "Behind the Code..."
12:35 We need to know what Temp_0 and Temp1 are
13:37 Original, Orange, and Yellow Interrupt Scenarios
17:54 Built my own controller. With switches.
19:27 What part of the High Score Table(s) will we use?
20:38 The Setup Work for Redirection
21:58 Opcodes explained
24:06 Programmin' Time!
29:25 Testing on the Emulator
30:43 Testing on Real Hardware
31:33 Outro


#NES #Programming #Tetris



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Tags:
nes
programming
assembly
code
tetris
hacking
crash theory
crashing tetris
programming with controllers
Famicom
expansion port
controller ports
arbitrary code execution
world records
crashing


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Tetris Statistics For Displaced Gamers

At this time, Displaced Gamers has 128,408 views for Tetris spread across 2 videos. Less than an hour worth of Tetris videos were uploaded to his channel, roughly 3.26% of the content that Displaced Gamers has uploaded to YouTube.