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Inside TASBot's semi-secret, probably legal effort to control the Nintendo Switch, Ars Technica

Inside TASBot's semi-secret, probably legal effort to control the Nintendo Switch, Ars Technica


    

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Behind the scenes as a speedrunning robot breaks in to modern consoles.

      

      
           

A sneak peek of the (Super Mario Maker 2) gameplay that TASBot will show off, live, on stock Nintendo Switch hardware and software this weekend

****************time andagainthattool-assisted speedruns– which can feature superhuman input speeds powered by frame-by-frame emulator recordings —Can actually work on unmodified console hardware (******************. Thus far, though, TASBot’s efforts have focused on defunct retro consoles from the (Atari) ****************************************************************************** [the input] ************** (up through the Gamecubeand Nintendo DS.****************** weekend, TASBot will finally take its talents into the modern gaming era, showing off expert-levelSuper Mario Maker 2
gameplay on an actual Switch duringthe livestreamed Awesome Games Done Quick speedrunning marathon. And this time, the TASBot team is taking pains to make sure no one else can copy its method — to hopefully avoid Nintendo’s potential legal ire in the process. (Fill the Switch)At the same time, other efforts likeCommunityController’s “Twitch plays Nintendo Switch”were using similar concepts to let a Twitch chat room take control of live Switch gameplay (a las’s Twitch Plays Pokemon “phenomenon.

Playing on the Switch also means the TASBot team does not have the benefit of recording its inputs on

robust, TAS-configured emulators