Super Mario Land 2 - Memory Exploration

so basically Mario figured out how to manipulate his own reality

did you record your voiceover with a tin can?

Calvino/Murakami Mario. Phenomenal video. Of course it’s being speed run.

Super Mario Land 2 Glitch Invasion: Wario turns the game's code into one of the hardest custom levels ever

why not say " hex eff thousand ee hundred and a(i)ty" for $FEA0

Holy shit, this has to be my new favorite glitch, being able to physically explore and edit memory and code is so cool

What a wonderful video. It is as amusing for me as an adult as it was the game itself 25 years ago.

Do you reckon the echo ram was intended as a way to pass data to/from an external expansion that never came out? Like a Nintendo 16X, lol

If the rom was instead rwm then you could probably hack the game with that

Just tried it with my cartridge.
I don’t have the right version.

Its so hard to navigate, and sometimes I accidentally hit a block, and the level somehow finishes.
edit: and now i somehow died?

If a bug like this ever somehow came up in a video game on Windows, it might not even have a blue screen, because you destroyed the code to execute the blue screen, as a pixelated plumber.

Who's idea was it to give the shroom addict god powers? XD

Is this patched on the switch version?

Does the Switch Online SML2 rom use V.2? I want to try this glitch out!

how does one enable the dynamic tile changes as you did?

is there a name to half a byte? if not,it could be "hex" as 1 base 16 (HEXadecimal) charecter can fit in those 4 bits

I got to this glitchy area in the beehive level in tree zone by getting one of the bees that appear in the holes in the second room after you go up the long pipe to follow you down to the beginning of the level where you first start and with the rabbit ears, hover over the bee and then while holding A button you should launch up to the logs on top of the screen and then you jump up again and then you hear the pipe sounds and you are brought to the glitchy area.

Does not work in the NSO version of the game.

I find it insane that mario can just casually clip out of bounds and mess the code itself.

Alright, time to reprogram the entire game from within itself.

Mario open world

So Mario escapes the game world, finds himself in the code of the game itself, then rewrites the code himself by physically interacting with the code, to program the game to automatically win. Gotcha.

Mario travels through the floor and lands on actual memory. In this sacred land of unstable volatility, mario immediately gets the urge to spin and break as many blocks as he can...

LITERALLY WALKING THROUGH THE CODE
I've always thought this is one of the coolest glitches of all time. Mario just strolling through those bytes.

I dunno whether I should be amazed or terrified that a game character can travel through their own game's memory and modify it how they want

amazing explanation and visualisation to an amazing glitch

I remember when it was just a “what if” that someone could reach the end credit trigger in real time. Something about being able to walk around the ROM itself will always tickle me.

I remember this area from doing the bunny fly over glitch, it feels so surreal seeing it finally mapped out and explained, like the wild west being over somewhat

Imagine someone using this trick in order to custom-make a brand-new level, or to re-unlock the first level of the game.

I love this glitch to death because of how this can be interpreted. Mario is literally travelling through the very fabric of his reality, and it's completely unintentional. It's like discovering god's workshop. I kinda wish ACE looked more like this in other games, instead of just being a bunch of inexplicable actions before suddenly cutting to whatever you did.

Insanely amazing!!!!! Great!

Amazing!!!!!!!

Before ending up in RAM, the level data has to be copied from ROM. Has anyone tried to use this method to write to the MBC registers and try to swap in a ROM bank containing data for another level, then try to play it in the ROM space? But I'm guessing the "engine" doesn't entirely fit into bank 0, does it? :/

This is what i like about old games, outside of the map you will always find something interesting, in modern games you will only find the void and the floating point and its only interesting for the first time. This one is really cool tho, i didnt know it was possible to go into the ram etc. visually and mess with it in some gameboy games.

a similar case of random placement of things happens in pokemon: red and blue: by having the safari zone step counter run out in certain places after doing a glitch, when you exit the gate house, you find yourself in an endless-looking town with buildings and bodies of water strewn everywhere like a scribbles drawing

Imagine if the Matrix was written by someone with this level of knowledge. Imagine Neo falling into an area full of random crap and the only way to escape was to utilise this sort of knowledge to find an obscure object to get out.
Unfortunately, as cool as it would be it would go over the heads of the average audience.

This would be a cool game idea....

Talk about a trip down memory lane

Now I'm wondering about the possibility of designing a game with its object values deliberately chosen to make exploring and changing memory be fun.

It’s not a problem, but am I crazy or is there some crazy hall reverb going on? Where was this recorded?

ACE and Any% really go hand in hand hahaha

Is there any obvious tell without dumping the cartridge which version you have?

please do a video of Doom 1 or Doom 2 and entering the void by using a rocket launcher

falling into the code section, so darn cool