In 2013, a Super Mario 64 player experienced an impossible teleportation glitch. What did scientists say caused this?

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Ocarina of Time speedrunners execute precise controller inputs to manually write arbitrary code directly into the active memory of the Nintendo 64 console allowing them to warp…

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In 2013, a Super Mario 64 player experienced an impossible teleportation glitch. What did scientists say caused this?

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Backwards Long Jumping against a staircase in Super Mario 64 exploits negative speed values to shatter the game engine's collision detection causing the iconic plumber to…

Why speedrunners deliberately break through walls

Why do elite video game speedrunners frequently switch their game's language settings to Japanese?

Ocarina of Time speedrunners execute precise controller inputs to manually write arbitrary code directly into the active memory of the Nintendo 64 console allowing them to warp…

How do extreme video game speedrunners manage to beat massive fifty-hour RPGs in less than five minutes?

Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr A.

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