The Battle of Olympus ※ Cracking VG Passwords S3e1

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Published on June 25, 2025 6:29:22 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xzWmTfapuM

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The Battle of Olympus (1988)

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In the advent of 1990 I played NES games a lot. Cracking the password systems in those games captivated me. In this series we will study some of these systems.\n\nBecome a member: \n\nMy links:\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/RealBisqwit\nLiberapay: https://liberapay.com/Bisqwit\nSteady: https://steadyhq.com/en/bisqwit\nPatreon: https://patreon.com/Bisqwit (Other options at https://bisqwit.iki.fi/donate.html)\nTwitch: https://twitch.tv/RealBisqwit\nHomepage: https://iki.fi/bisqwit/

0:00 Teaser
0:42 Series introduction
0:53 Video begin
5:17 Research
6:12 Details of structure and algorithm
9:41 Data contents exploration
17:30 Tangent: SIMD code

Music:
Reorchestrated Title Theme – ‪@vgmusicrevisited8668‬
   • Past Days (Star Ocean) SPC-to-OPL3 conversion  
Toccata And Fugue In D Minor — ‪@frederikmagle‬

Downloads (sample encoder and decoder):
https://bisqwit.iki.fi/jkp2/olympass-encode.py
https://bisqwit.iki.fi/jkp2/olympass-decode.py

Passwords, in order of appearance:
かはやたま　ぺがてれふすの　のふよあぜ　ぎじほげし
W1BT3g BgX8kVq Zyn7Fw 0n4EW?g
mILMsP AvsxVuF wRSOGw SQMWoOX
ABUSED UTILIZE POROUS MEDIUMS
fencer granted insane demands
Soviet grilled olives takeout
!!99?? 9999999 999999 9999999
Manila paradox eludes Bisqwit
?SYKud 8t4fHwH K9ghBo KICMe6a