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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 | 1 comments | 10 Sep 25 02:59 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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shomp ◴[10 Sep 25 05:26 UTC] No.45193667[source]▶
This is amazing. Well done figuring out the shared memory hack. That's a huge time saver and really makes sense from an engineering perspective. Ten dollars for the hammer and five thousand for knowing where to strike the machine, to paraphrase a trope on expertise applied correctly.
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1. a_t48 ◴[10 Sep 25 08:33 UTC] No.45194869[source]▶
This is a fairly "common" technique for doing multiplayer randomizers. Typically on a smaller region, but you end up with some sort of scratch memory being used as a buffer for messages sent back and forth between the emulator and the network layer (or your flash cart's RAM and the network layer, in the case of FXPakPro!). It's super useful.