[Jerry8538]

> Your score is stored in memory at the address pointed to by R12

As someone who has very little idea of what instructions or addresses are, what is this a reference to?

Edit: I had the page loaded before your reply, so I didn't see it until I replied, reloading the page lol

[justsid]

It's not a reference, it's just a really neat game mechanic. Normally the high score is guarded by the game and changes only if the game deems it fit to change it. In this game, because the high score is accessible within the game and you can execute arbitrary instructions, you can use that to modify the high score.

It's as if in a more normal game the high score was kept in a big chest somewhere in the game world and once discovered you can start messing with the contents of it all within the rules of the world itself.

[__s]

That game is Zelda on N64

https://www.zeldaspeedruns.com/oot/tech/get-item-manipulatio...

https://www.zeldaspeedruns.com/oot/ba/reverse-bottle-adventu...