In the case of OOT, SRM was found accidentally and then researched via live-debugging using emulators and the decompilation project which in turn exists because a debug ROM of OOT MQ was leaked and people were willing to manually rewrite code to match the assembly.
When I read these sorts of stories I always feel so torn between fascination at the ingenuity required to figure out these things (remember that one about predicting where the battleships were in Wind Waker? Amazing!) and that the things they are figuring out are so utterly pointless.
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 14.6 ms ] threadIn the case of OOT, SRM was found accidentally and then researched via live-debugging using emulators and the decompilation project which in turn exists because a debug ROM of OOT MQ was leaked and people were willing to manually rewrite code to match the assembly.