Hacker Exploits Bugs in Original ‘Doom’ Code to Run ‘Snake’ Inside the Game (vice.com)

The Singularity will be Dooms all the way down.

I want Doom inside of Snake so we can daisy-chain them ad infinitum.

Doomception

I can't find a link to it now, but I'd read an article where someone wrote a custom bootloader for one of the original pokemon games using the hexcodes from items in their inventory.

Here are some other fun examples of arbitrary code execution exploits discovered in video games.

Pokemon Yellow demo movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZCqoHHtovQ

"Spawning Arwings in OoT Without Mods or Cheats": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JnQUZkePEw

This one creates a Flappy Bird clone by hand from within SMW, using the controller under ordinary manual control, on an original, unmodded SNES (with a couple or other standard controllers attached with buttons taped down).

Explains the process in detail, which includes creating a kind of crude "IDE" using the score table as feedback for hex values input to make the process faster and less error-prone:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hB6eY73sLV0

It's amazing how this has stuck with me for like 30 years but I have trouble remembering birthdays. IDDQD, IDKFA, IDSPISPOPD

But do you remember the origin of this? :D

Yes, it's a gigantic link in like the third paragraph. But here: https://github.com/kgsws/doom_ace