http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2009/the-minus-world-and-the-blue-screen-of-death/ Music, Technology, Evolution Fri, 18 May 2012 20:25:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2009/the-minus-world-and-the-blue-screen-of-death/#comment-495 Ethan Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:14:16 +0000 http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/?p=503#comment-495 Thanks for the super thorough corrections. I'm going to work them into the post, if you don't mind. Thanks for the super thorough corrections. I’m going to work them into the post, if you don’t mind.

]]> http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2009/the-minus-world-and-the-blue-screen-of-death/#comment-494 Myria Tue, 06 Jul 2010 04:46:34 +0000 http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/?p=503#comment-494 1. The arcade version came out in 1986, whereas the NES version came out in 1985. 2. The fact that the glitch results in a blank tile for a world number is not a coincidence. It is closely tied to the Warp Zone to world 5-1, specifically the fact that that Warp Zone has only one pipe while 1-2's has three. 3. 1-2 doesn't have a "buggy brick". You can do the wall walk glitch at any similar arrangement of bricks in the game. It's just that glitching at this particular location has an interesting side effect. 4. The Minus World going to 2-2/7-2 is essentially happenstance in its programming: the game ends up trying to interpret unrelated data as if it were a level number. The data happens to be different on the Famicom Disk System, which is why that version's Minus World is different. 5. The Minus World *is* level 7-2, just with a broken mechanism to control where the pipe at the end of the level is supposed to go. The object data for the levels contains commands like, "if the world number is X, the next pipe shall go to world Y at screen Z". This data for the level has entries for worlds 2 and 7 (and an unused entry for 3). Since obviously 36 wouldn't be in such a list, the game gets confused and reloads the level it just loaded - hence the infinite loop. 1. The arcade version came out in 1986, whereas the NES version came out in 1985.
2. The fact that the glitch results in a blank tile for a world number is not a coincidence. It is closely tied to the Warp Zone to world 5-1, specifically the fact that that Warp Zone has only one pipe while 1-2′s has three.
3. 1-2 doesn’t have a “buggy brick”. You can do the wall walk glitch at any similar arrangement of bricks in the game. It’s just that glitching at this particular location has an interesting side effect.
4. The Minus World going to 2-2/7-2 is essentially happenstance in its programming: the game ends up trying to interpret unrelated data as if it were a level number. The data happens to be different on the Famicom Disk System, which is why that version’s Minus World is different.
5. The Minus World *is* level 7-2, just with a broken mechanism to control where the pipe at the end of the level is supposed to go. The object data for the levels contains commands like, “if the world number is X, the next pipe shall go to world Y at screen Z”. This data for the level has entries for worlds 2 and 7 (and an unused entry for 3). Since obviously 36 wouldn’t be in such a list, the game gets confused and reloads the level it just loaded – hence the infinite loop.

]]> http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2009/the-minus-world-and-the-blue-screen-of-death/#comment-493 Jacob Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:55:09 +0000 http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/?p=503#comment-493 Hi, The Minus World Tile "36" Is Blank Because The Game Doesnt Use 2 Digit Numerals. Hi, The Minus World Tile “36″ Is Blank Because The Game Doesnt Use 2 Digit Numerals.

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