Super Mario World: Arbitrary Code Injection At AGDQ 2014, Performed Live

At its most extreme, this crossover gets you things like arbitrary code execution on Super Mario World. EDIT: There was supposed to be a link here. ▶ this video

Just to add some context, arbitrary code execution in Super Mario World is nothing new, it has been known since 2014. There was a tool assisted demonstration at Awesome Games Done Quick 2014 [1] where they inject a pong and a snake game using a TASBot (a robot controller that replays input scripts to the console). And in 2016 a streamer performed it manually to inject a flappy birds game [2] (this second video is really good, he goes into detail of the process). So, what this newer demonstration brings is the use of the known arbitrary code execution capabilities of "Super Mario World" to help finish all 5 games in "Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World" as quick as possible. [1] ▶ this video [2] link

> Evolved player makes invalid moves far away in the board, causing opponent players to run out of memory and crash Well, this sounds like speedrunning. People have found arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities in SNES and used them to jump to the credits (which counts as completed the game) in less than a minute: link They also used the same technique to inject runnable code in the game: ▶ this video