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I replaced Animal Crossing's dialogue with a live LLM by hacking GameCube memory

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868 points vuciv | 4 comments | 10 Sep 25 02:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.753s | source
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wincy ◴[10 Sep 25 04:04 UTC] No.45193115[source]▶
That's hilarious that you give the villagers thought and the first thing they want to do is overthrow Tom Nook. If this works in Gamecube on an emulator, surely it'd be possible to make it work on the Switch emulators as well?
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amilios ◴[10 Sep 25 04:17 UTC] No.45193217[source]▶
Would require decompilation of the Animal Crossing game code for the Switch. I believe DRM has gotten a lot better since the Gamecube days as well. Hypothetically possible maybe but good luck haha
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vuciv ◴[10 Sep 25 04:21 UTC] No.45193238[source]▶
I actually think now that I've gone through the process, memory scanning and writing will be enough... Except, they probably have different control codes that I'd need to reverse engineer.
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bigyabai ◴[10 Sep 25 04:50 UTC] No.45193422[source]▶
You should be able to run Cheat Engine on your emul*tor of choice to tweak New Leaf "and newer" titles.

And if you're a stickler for pissing Nintendo off in very specific ways, LayeredFS + Atmosphere opens up some modding opportunities right on the console itself. Not sure how easy it would be to pull something like this off though...

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sterlind ◴[10 Sep 25 05:06 UTC] No.45193529[source]▶
you really don't have to self-censor "emulator" here. HN moderation is not like social media platforms.
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lazide ◴[10 Sep 25 05:26 UTC] No.45193666[source]▶
Social media platforms censor emulator?!?
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1. perching_aix ◴[10 Sep 25 06:35 UTC] No.45194064[source]▶
Yes. Facebook at some point filtered links to them from private messaging. I know this from personal experience. Not sure if they still do.

Also fairly common on Reddit and Discord for communities to ban discussions of them, or even falsely claim they're blanket illegal outright.

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2. HeatrayEnjoyer ◴[10 Sep 25 15:38 UTC] No.45199298[source]▶
Why? An emulator isn't legally any different than a virtual machine.
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3. bigyabai ◴[10 Sep 25 16:55 UTC] No.45200519[source]▶
Low-level emulators can be legally identical to a virtual machine, but often isn't. Most modern consoles can't be emulated that way, and most require you to dump a bootrom from your own console hardware, alongside game keys and other dubious digital paraphernalia.
4. lazide ◴[11 Sep 25 21:05 UTC] No.45216101[source]▶
Just like a PC, bare hardware without firmware or a boot OS is pretty useless. Same with emulators.

Most distribute a pretty wide range of stuff along with them.