Hackers discover how to reprogram NES Tetris from within the game
Building a better Tetris —
New method could help high-score chasers trying to avoid game-ending crashes.
Enlarge / I can see the code that controls the Tetri-verse!Aurich Lawson
Earlier this year, we shared the story of how a classic NES Tetris player hit the game's "kill screen" for the first time, activating a crash after an incredible 40-minute, 1,511-line performance. Now, some players are using that kill screen—and some complicated memory manipulation it enables—to code new behaviors int...
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