Tool-assisted speedrun by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
To some extent, the ultimate achievement of a TAS is to achieve arbitrary code execution (ACE) on a game, although this has been becoming rarer and rarer in newer consoles. The Nintendo 64 is the current interesting ACE discovery frontier as of 2020.
Post ACE, you then get into more subtle categories which tend to be more geometric clipping through wall glitches, but those can still be fun.
The most beautiful TAS content ever made are:
It is also amusing to see console verification of emulations, e.g.: Video 1. "Super Mario 64 '120 Stars' in 1:20:41.52 Console Verified by Soul Umbreon (2012)".
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Super Mario 64 '120 Stars' in 1:20:41.52 Console Verified by Soul Umbreon (2012)
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Cartesian product by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
A function that maps two sets to a third set.
Computer architecture by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
The term loosely refers to certain layers of the computer abstraction layers hierarchy, usually high level hardware internals like CPU pipeline, caching and the memory system. Basically exactly what gem5 models.
The amount of detail in which he remembers all that happened is astounding. Not too different from the Murray Gell-Mann interview in that aspect.

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