I think it's funny how goblin mode this whole hack is. The memory scanner itself was clearly written by an LLM (using python??) and the way this person goes about hacking the game is very non-reverse engineer but instead someone equipped with very capable tools. No shade to the dude to be clear, I think it's sort of incredibly how possible this stuff is now due to LLMs and doesn't require someone to know how to use Ghidra.
replyAND ALSO - the Gamecube did actually have networking through a barely used peripheral (though I knew and loved it through Phantasy Star Online Episode 1&2): https://gc-forever.com/wiki/index.php?title=Broadband_Adapte...
Wrote up a few more notes on my blog https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/10/animal-crossing-llm/
reply> Those <Pause [0A]> tokens cause the came to pause for a few moments before ...
replyShould be "cause the game to pause" :)
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replyI've seen this argument plenty of times with respect to LLMs writing code, but this is the first time I've seen someone roll it out for using an LLM to answer questions about code that is being fed into it as input!
replyDo you try trick your calculator by entering large sums that it might not have been programmed to answer?
replyI spent a long time doing this as a child :)
replySneaky sneaky natural logs and that precocious savant, Euler!
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replyThis is a fundamental misunderstanding of how LLMs work.
replyLmao, good one.
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