That’s ok, this is not one of those controversial titles where we’re telling you that Paper Mario sucks and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is much better. No, the title is literally what we mean: it’s a speedy tactic called arbitrary code execution, and it’s absolutely joking.
We’ve dealt with the implementation of Arbitrary Code, or ACE, before – it’s a quick trick that allows players to manipulate the game code and thus complete the game faster than ever before – or just to spawn a bunch of Heirs in Kakariko Village .
The latest game to fall prey to the ACE technique is Paper Mario, which beat streamer JCog in 54:22 – a new world record for Paper Mario Any% runs that is almost twice as fast as the next runner-up.
“For anyone wondering, no, this is probably not the new Any% route, as it will have to manipulate memory with OoT, but chances are we’ll add it to the category expansion board.
Either way, it’s technically the fastest Paper Mario ever beaten by a human using only official Nintendo hardware. ‘
– JCog
However, this Paper Mario run is unusual, not because of its speed, but because 30 of those 54 minutes are actually spent playing Ocarina of Time. JCog’s Speedrun from Paper Mario mostly takes place in the world of Hyrule for some reason – as WarChamp7 puts it, “OoT is so f ***** g break open people now break other games with it.”
To put it bluntly: the speedrunner can use Ocarina or Time to write code using ACE which will twist them directly to the credits in Paper Mario, but to perform this neat trick they will need to swap the game patterns in the middle of speedrun with timing for split-second.
Ocarina of Time erases the memory of the Expansion Pack when it starts, but Paper Mario does not, so if the speedrunner can turn off the console and swap the two cartridges during the 1 or 2 seconds that the Nintendo 64 still has power remaining, then the code they wrote in Ocarina of Time is loaded into Paper Mario, and the speedrunner will be taken directly to the credits after making a bunch of precise moves, including hammering the ground. very.
However, there is one problem: JCog did not blow on the cartridge before it was placed. He may have set a new world record, but does it really count if he has not even taken out all the rubbish?