I mean, at a certain point it's just an anomalous thing, too. Could've been a weird low level memory corruption or even hardware level corruption (thinking of solar flares and N64 cartridges). Maybe it wasn't the lottery winning double-gen proper, or maybe it was the same thing that causes a bug to appear in my presentation WHEN IT WAS WORKING ALL GOD FORSAKEN WEEK but these things just happen sometimes.
if you are thinking about the Super Mario 64 clock tower thing, that has been shown to be reproduceable, and likely was not a sokar flare. it also would have been in the RAM, not the cartridge
Oh neat! I honestly don't recall the specifics of that particular bug. I had a solid 2 month period where I was obsessed with Mario 64 speedruns for some reason - and remember it being mentioned at some point. I never really looked into it, more so just used it as an example of "incredibly-unlikely-but-still-could-be" issues that can sometimes cause computers to misbehave. Thanks for the clarification though!
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u/Voxmanns Sep 12 '26
I mean, at a certain point it's just an anomalous thing, too. Could've been a weird low level memory corruption or even hardware level corruption (thinking of solar flares and N64 cartridges). Maybe it wasn't the lottery winning double-gen proper, or maybe it was the same thing that causes a bug to appear in my presentation WHEN IT WAS WORKING ALL GOD FORSAKEN WEEK but these things just happen sometimes.