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MrCheeze
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I reverse engineer games, etc. Also found elsewhere on the internet: https://mrcheeze.github.io/
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all my homies hate stupid bruteforce trial and error switch puzzle
November 27, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Claude got the third badge, tying its current best number of badges in under 6000 steps! And just from watching it play, it really can't be understated how much this specific model improved on spatial understanding (go AROUND the wall) and on taking and following useful notes on where things are.
November 27, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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...However, Gem 3 has completely stalled on one specific puzzle in the game. Not an ice or boulder puzzle, but rather the Goldenrod underground switch puzzle that frankly has insane mechanics that are unfair even for a human:
pokemow.com/Gen2/Shutter...
(that said, it did miss noticing an NPC hint)
November 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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That said, it was helped by a change to the harness where floor tiles that are behind a wall are marked with a unique colour, on top of the existing two for walls/floors.

There's also these changes designed for Rocket hideout - past Claude models were not given this, making any comparisons unfair.
* Marked Spin tiles and Teleport tiles as not navigable so navigation sequences wouldn’t accidentally hit these which was impossible for the model to realize * Made it so when the model hits a spin tile we wait for the player to stop moving before giving the model the next screenshot
November 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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In AI Pokemon news, Opus 4.5 started playing Pokemon Red and is a big improvement, being the first Claude model to complete Viridian Forest and Mt Moon efficiently via actually properly tracking what it tried and sticking to a plan - despite its very minimal harness.
twitch.tv/claudeplaysp...
November 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Super Mario Sunshine sand bird made of cubes Super Mario Sunshine secret level full of cubes
November 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Trevor Moore from WKUK describing his face being taken off in the take my face off skit
November 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Put it in the pile
November 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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The official synopsis is pretty minimal but closest to the original NES game, at least. Set photos don't tell us much, but green link and blue zelda means that they're taking their most iconic looks rather than matching any specific game, as expected.
“A live-action adaptation of the video game franchise. ‘The Legend of Zelda’ follows Link, a young warrior destined to protect the magical kingdom of Hyrule from the forces of darkness. The land is under threat from Ganon, a ruthless warlord who seeks the Triforce—an ancient relic said to grant limitless power. To stop him, Link must embark on a perilous journey, battling monstrous creatures, exploring treacherous dungeons, and solving intricate puzzles to uncover sacred artifacts that can aid him in his quest.”
November 15, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Real ones know that "location previously presented as being part of the mushroom planet inexplicably is now its own galaxy" is in itself established Galaxy lore.
Throwback Galaxy - Return of the Whomp King from Super Mario Galaxy 2
November 15, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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November 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Look, we're all trying to find the guy who did this
Benny Safdie in The Curse, looking upwards at an (offscreen) Nathan Fielder whose gravity has been reversed and who is holding onto a tree for his life. Benny Safdie is standing very suspiciously next to a gravity switch from Super Mario Galaxy.
November 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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In honour of the Louvre looting
November 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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New "hyperspace levels" that go beyond 100... Maybe this is the real reason you can't tradeback mons from Z-A to previous games?
November 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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October 29, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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October 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Our long national nightmare is over.
October 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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The helmets are changed to NO SKUB and YES SKUB
October 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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And ON TOP of that madness - this game also has a glitch that lets you execute your current experience level with Blink as if it was a game script, so after doing the above, you can just beat the game!

RTA run with cartridge swap: youtu.be/RABlqJochyE

TAS: youtu.be/d8dR0Ta0ujQ
From the TAS description: Chara #1 (Maria) will write data 0x43 to address $62bb as proficiency experience by equipping Blink's book as a weapon and choosing "attack" 67 times. The formula is as follows: Experience = initial experience + number of a Initial experience: 20 • Action count: 67 Level reward: 20 Inn Event The address $62bb written in the goblin battle is originally the event ID for the Inn. 1. The script pointer address (address $0072-$0073) is calculated from the event ID, and if ID# Ox43, data $0020 is written to the pointer. 2. Since address $0020 is used as the user's button input, data Oxe7 is generated to address $0020 when the user presses left, down, right, select, B, and A on the joypad. 3. When the script system reads it, the ending will begin.
October 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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In terms of what's actually happening here, there's no writeup in English, but it seems closely related to this TAS: tasvideos.org/7170S

Basically, FF2 RNG is seeded from uninitialized ram, and it *seems* Dr Mario is used just because the value it leaves there manips a rare battle and drop.
Exerpt of the description of a TAS that does a very similar route, but without any cartridge swap. ("Final Fantasy II improved TAS" by naruko) "Encounter manipulation The enemy group is determined by the player's position and address $00f7, and the value is incremented by a structured number of steps. The default value of address $00f7 in FCEUX is 0xff, and it is power-cycled to be the closest 2 to 0xff so that the Ogre Mage will appear." (Not explicitly stated, but the fact that he refers to the default value in a specific emulator means that the game does not initialize this RAM.) Exerpt of a RTA speedrun by Hisakaki_Mimi where they are obtaining a book of Blink from an enemy's drops, shortly after having done a cartridge swap to Dr. Mario and back. Their description says: "By replacing the cartridge with Dr. Mario, the memory inside the main unit is operated. The book of Blink is obtained from the enemy's loot, and the ending is performed according to the prescribed procedure."
October 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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3. NEVER USE THE FOLLOWING cleranied, brettahek,.skuiring, epve, Idiffed, impeation, YOU WILL BENAIZED FEIM YOU WILL SENALLL BRNIZAAZED FOR USING THEM.
October 6, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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October 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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September 22, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Remember pre-chatgpt when this was an inherently built in feature?
(2023) Example of OpenAI's GPT-3 web interface with output token-level probabilities displayed.
September 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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I don't think they hid it very well: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4050...
September 16, 2025 at 12:01 AM