Creator's commentary for the latest video will be at 9pm eastern on Friday, March 8! As usual, check the embedded video to see when that is in your timezone. And of course if you don't make it to the livestream, it will be available to watch afterwards!
Edit: Starting shortly!
Edit: And that's a wrap! You can still watch the past broadcast in the link above.
2024-03-06 23:12:13 +0000 UTC View Post
This video looks into the code and explains the reasons for many of the bugs and crashes in NES Tetris as you get to insanely high levels. Strap in, it's a long one!
2024-03-05 09:14:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Looking a little deeper into the slot machine code for Mario 2, including how it was rewritten for Super Mario All-Stars.
2024-02-05 03:27:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Let's see what changed with the upgrade to the slot machine in Super Mario All-Stars!
2024-01-21 23:02:03 +0000 UTC View Post
A small look into how relatively simple the Super Mario Bros. 2 Bonus Game slots work.
2024-01-14 17:59:28 +0000 UTC View PostWith the house finally under control, it's time to back into the swing of making videos. Here are a few video ideas I am planning on doing--I'm curious which one I should work on first! Let me know which one sounds the most interesting to you.
I also might consider making a video on the NES Tetris kill screen; it wasn't initially planned but it is a relevant topic and a few people have requested I do an in-depth explanation video to supplement the many videos that others have made o...
2024-01-13 18:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
I made a video a few months back about our house renovations, and now they are mostly complete! I'd like to share a video about how it all turned out as a thank you for everyone's generous support that help accelerate the process and get everything finished just in time for the new year!
2024-01-12 10:38:48 +0000 UTC View Post
A fun video that aims to try and reverse engineer the source code of Yars' Revenge just by looking at the mess up pixels that is the neutral zone.
2023-12-17 18:02:11 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate time!
It's been a bit since I released anything (videos and articles alike) so I feel like I owe at least a short update post so you know I'm still here. Long story short: things have been hectic with the house renovations, but they're almost complete now. Next video should be out mid December if everything goes to plan! I might be able to put out two more articles this month, but regular weekly articles will definitely return in January even if that's not the case. I'm excited t...
2023-12-01 22:32:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Going a little bit more in depth about how the segments of the SMB3 roulette work.
2023-10-30 20:47:48 +0000 UTC View PostAs of Patreon's newest update, you can no longer pledge a custom amount while still receiving tier benefits. (As opposed to before when it would let you get the benefits from the highest tier under your custom pledge.) To allow for a wider range of pledges that offer benefits, I have created a few more pledge tiers. I based these off of common custom pledge amounts current patrons are using ($2, $3, $25), and some higher ones just in case ($50, $100). These new tiers don't have any new benefi...
2023-10-09 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Creator's commentary for the latest video will be at 6pm eastern on Monday, October 9! As usual, check the embeded video to see when that is in your timezone. And of course if you don't make it to the live stream, it will be available to watch afterwards!
Update: We are live!
Update: Stream is over, but you can still watch the past broadcast at the link above!
2023-10-08 08:50:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Turns out the roulette game is rigged against you, while the card matching game is broken and is considerably easier than it could have been.
2023-10-05 19:54:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Learning about an unused map object in Super Mario Bros. 3.
2023-09-25 15:36:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Looking into how you can softlock Super Mario Bros. 3 with Hammer Bros.
2023-09-12 16:32:04 +0000 UTC View Post
I made an unlisted playlist for all of the Creator's Commentary livestreams. I'll keep this updated as more get released so you can find them all in one place!
2023-09-07 04:35:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Clarifying exactly what happens during one of the crashes invoked by the piracy checks in Tempest.
2023-09-05 09:11:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, not yet at least! They'll be launching when this video goes public on the 1st of next month. However, there are other channel updates and such in the video, which is why I'm making this early access for patrons! (Also so that YouTube can generate me some subtitles to work with, this was pretty much unscripted.)
2023-08-30 09:04:17 +0000 UTC View Post
A small anecdote of mine turns into a half hour of finding anti-piracy checks in Atari's Tempest. There are four of them, and they all check for different things and sabotage the game in different ways!
2023-07-27 05:12:21 +0000 UTC View Post
A short article about how Atari drew text in their vector games, as well as a certain character that misbehaves a little bit.
2023-07-26 00:47:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Explaining a trick in Super Mario World that circulated back in the day, and why it actually works!
2023-07-18 18:01:59 +0000 UTC View Post
After a short break, the articles are back! This week we look into a small change made in Ms. Pac-Man that made the ghosts move a bit more randomly.
2023-07-11 04:25:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Now let's look at what happens when a frightened ghost runs into a dead end. It's way more exciting than a normal ghost!
2023-06-12 18:13:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Looking at more alternative direction-choosing algorithms, as well as the frightened ghost distributions in Ms. and Jr. Pac-Man.
2023-06-07 15:41:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Creator's commentary for the latest video will be at 6pm eastern! As usual, check the embeded video to see when that is in your timezone. And of course if you don't make it to the live stream, it will be available to watch afterwards!
Edit: currently live!
Edit: And that's a wrap! You can watch the past broadcast still above!
2023-05-30 18:14:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Let's see find out exactly how frightened ghosts randomly navigate the maze, and see if they tend to roam to any particular area of the maze (spoiler, they do).
2023-05-29 18:12:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Things have been a bumpy ride over on my end so this video is coming out a bit later than I would have hoped. But I had a lot of fun with this one, so I hope you enjoy!
2023-05-28 03:25:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Some SNES games do some preliminary checks before booting up. Here's a few of them!
2023-05-22 21:46:16 +0000 UTC View Post
What if a Pac-Man ghost were to run into a dead end?
2023-05-16 09:21:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Super Mario Bros. coral is made out of bricks.
2023-05-08 18:49:32 +0000 UTC View Post