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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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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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Gigachad ◴[10 Sep 25 05:42 UTC] No.45193753[source]▶
Probably not. But silent deranking of censored terms has everyone paranoid that anything even slightly controversial will get hidden.
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bigyabai ◴[10 Sep 25 06:01 UTC] No.45193878[source]▶
I'm just covering my ass. Life is good right now and I don't want to meet any Nintendo ninjas, even for insinuated infractions.

It's not so much a condemnation of HN, but the way IP is in the US. The only website I want hosting my comments on Nintendo modding is my own.

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jraph ◴[10 Sep 25 06:54 UTC] No.45194186[source]▶
I doubt a star will make Nintendo lawyers go "ow nose, they didn't spell out emulator in full, we can't attack them! Damn those star armors!". I don't think it changes anything technically.

The only thing this kind of censoring does is countering basic censor bots I think, and somehow making swear words publishable in the US.

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stavros ◴[10 Sep 25 09:07 UTC] No.45195135[source]▶
The asterisk would make it so they can't just search for "Nintendo emulator" online and find their comment.

Until I typed this, I guess...

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1. jraph ◴[10 Sep 25 09:48 UTC] No.45195405[source]▶
Few results include "Nintendo emulator". Did you mean "Nintendo emul*tor"?