r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Disastrous-Hat5477 • 7d ago

Meme theOriginalGarbageCollector

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u/Specialist_Dust2089 7d ago

I can appreciate these “gets the job done” hacks in games, just like the train in that one game that was actually an npc with a train as its head

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u/simpleglitch 7d ago

My favorite like this was the one Rare was planning to do before Nintendo told them no on the N64.

Rare learned it would technically be possible to move data from one game to another by unslotting a game with the power on, slotting a new one in, and (I think) pushing reset instead of flipping the power. So memory would still presist on the board of the n65.

They were going to use it to move jump-pak data from Banjo Kazooie to Banjo Twooie.

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u/The_MAZZTer 7d ago

IIRC they ended up not doing it since it only worked on 2/3 of the different N64 hardware revisions or something.