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Awesome Games Done Quick 2015: Speedrunning For Charity - January 4th - 10th

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StriKeVillain

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Nanashrew said:
Best Twitch chat is TwitchGAF chat.
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The1Ski

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Every once in awhile I leave theater mode to check out the viewer count and I don't close the chat window right away. I know, it's my own fault!

It's still pathetic and annoying.

Just glad the GAF exists!

P.S. mitchflowerpower is my new fave!
 
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MayMay

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Oh wow I had it on my second screen and missed what was happening - just heared everyone cheering. What happened? lol
 
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Raw64life

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I watched that guy on Twitch when he was practicing it one day and he was failing constantly. Pretty cool to see him pull it of first try.
 
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nynt9

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jett said:
How do people figure this shit out? I don't understand.
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Usually TASers look at memory addresses of data in the game. When they find a buffer overflow exploit (the game accidentally writing data that doesn't fit into where they're trying to write it thus letting you write data into the adjacent piece of memory) they figure out by trial and error the ways to manipulate what is written into the adjacent memory in order to achieve a desired result.
 
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RandomExpletive

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nynt9 said:
Usually TASers look at memory addresses of data in the game. When they find a buffer overflow exploit (the game accidentally writing data that doesn't fit into where they're trying to write it thus letting you write data into the adjacent piece of memory) they figure out by trial and error the ways to manipulate what is written into the adjacent memory in order to achieve a desired result.
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Sockfolder does a lot of this on his streams, he was one of the people involved in figuring out the OOT "Ganon Door" warp that cut the any% record to sub-30 minutes.
 
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dhlt25

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nynt9 said:
Usually TASers look at memory addresses of data in the game. When they find a buffer overflow exploit (the game accidentally writing data that doesn't fit into where they're trying to write it thus letting you write data into the adjacent piece of memory) they figure out by trial and error the ways to manipulate what is written into the adjacent memory in order to achieve a desired result.
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wow that sounds incredibly time consuming. I remembered doing some buffer overflow homework and hated it.
 
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SeventhSon

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nynt9 said:
Usually TASers look at memory addresses of data in the game. When they find a buffer overflow exploit (the game accidentally writing data that doesn't fit into where they're trying to write it thus letting you write data into the adjacent piece of memory) they figure out by trial and error the ways to manipulate what is written into the adjacent memory in order to achieve a desired result.
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So it's nerd sorcery
 
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Cavalier

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nynt9 said:
Usually TASers look at memory addresses of data in the game. When they find a buffer overflow exploit (the game accidentally writing data that doesn't fit into where they're trying to write it thus letting you write data into the adjacent piece of memory) they figure out by trial and error the ways to manipulate what is written into the adjacent memory in order to achieve a desired result.
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I love nerds.
 
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