Considering how most signal conductors are driven by output drivers. In regards to flipping bits on signal conductors. Then our ball would have an energy of 28 J, or over an order of magnitude more than the highest ever observed among cosmic rays. (apparently about 90-120 km/h if one asks google.) Lets say something more modest, like 50 km/h.
There is some subatomic particles that have been observed at a bit over 1J.īut the phrase “the energy of a flying base ball” seems like it implies it being thrown.įor a roughly 145g ball moving at a typical throwing speed. Subatomic particle reaching these energies is exceptionally rare to say the very least. And at this speed, it won’t really be flying through the air, rather just casually rolling off a table. “Some cosmic rays actually have the energy of a flying base ball”Ĭonsidering that the LHC reaches a particle energy of 6.5 TeV (the world record for accelerators), or in Joules, about 1µJ for a given particle.Ī baseball moving at a casual 1m/s has about 145mJ of energy. Posted in Nintendo Hacks Tagged speed run, speed running, speedrun, speedrunning, super mario 64 Post navigation
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Of course, if Nintendo doesn’t get you going, try speedrunning Windows 95. For now, the jury remains out, but who knows – maybe in the future we’ll find out it was a hidden, undiscovered exploit all along.
Other suggestions involve electrical noise or other malfunctions causing the flip, though one would rarely expect such an occurrence to change just one bit of RAM. It’s possible that there remains another cause for the flip, though after much work from the community replicating the situation in emulation, none has been found.
The leading theory is that this bit flip was caused by a cosmic ray event, though the likelihood of such an event is exceedingly rare. Testing by seems to indicate that this may have been due to a single-bit change to Mario’s height value, from C5837800 to C4837800, leading to the plucky Italian plumber warping upwards through the level. The flip happened to, who suddenly found Mario flying upward to a higher part of a level, completely unexpectedly. However, it seems just such a ray happened to flip a crucial bit that assisted a speedrunner in the middle of a competition. She missed out on a chance to beat her personal best when the speedrun ended at 21:29:40 and she hadn’t gotten distracted and done that nonsense at the end, that could’ve easily been twenty minutesĮmiru said that it is not Alinity’s fault, saying that it’s just stupid, and deflecting blame away from Alinity.We’ve all heard about cosmic rays flipping bits here and there, but by and large, it occurs rarely enough that we don’t worry too much about it on a day-to-day basis. While Emiru was conversing with Alinity, she accidentally directed Mario into lava, effectively ending the run. Alinity demanded as she entered the room saying that they don’t stop speedrunning and carry on.Īlinity mentioned that she was on her way out of Mizkif’s stream and just wanted to say hello, but her greeting distracted Emiru, who asked how did it go and that she’s in the middle of her gamer void, so she’s not sure. On December 8th, however, Emiru was streaming her latest speedrun of the N64 game when things went wrong.ĭuring Emiru’s run, Alinity paid a visit to Mizkif’s streaming house and dropped by her room.Įmiru was nearing her personal best timing near the end of a Super Mario 64 speedrun. Emiru has gained a reputation on Twitch as an extremely skilled SM64 speedrunner, in addition to her extensive and impressive cosplay feats. Emily Schunk AKA ‘Emiru’ was in the middle of a tense Super Mario 64 speedrun when fellow Twitch streamer Natalia Mogollon AKA ‘Alinity’ barged into her room, distracting her and putting an end to the run in the worst possible way.Įmiru has moved into Mizkif’s streaming house with a friend and collaborator, and the two have been producing a lot of content together.Įven a Super Mario 64 speedrun competition pitted the two against each other, with Emiru coming out on top.