Awesome Games Done Quick 2014 [online event]

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Speed Demos Archive, the home to video game speed runs, is proud to present the third annual speed running marathon: Awesome Games Done Quick 2014. It is a 7-day online event to raise money for cancer prevention, streamed live for you to watch!

Featuring over 115 games, speed runners will play continuously in order to collect donations for the Prevent Cancer Foundation, our partner for this event. During the marathon, donations enter you into various prizes, and can be used to determine the outcome of bidding wars!

http://gamesdonequick.com/#

Starting in 2 hours and an half. Get in there!

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More than 60K viewers yesterday on twitch!

The stream is on 24/24h. So you can watch it whenever you want some entertainment.

The schedule is available here: http://gamesdonequick.com/schedule

You can donate to the Prevent Cancer Foundation here: http://gamesdonequick.com/tracker/9

[trey31]

Pro Gaming on Contra. Awesome!

[Chief Blur Buster]

For me, the most unusually impressive thing that happened during AGDQ 2014 is a demonstration of hacking of a Super Nintendo through the controller port -- to install a game on PONG into Super Mario World on an unmodified SNES running an unmodified Super Mario World cartridge.



Exploiting a bug in Super Mario World and then transmitting several bytes of arbitrary executable code data through the controller port -- to run a game of pong.

Relevant articles:
Ars Technica: How an emulator-fueled robot reprogrammed Super Mario World on the fly
Programming Exploit Info: Submission #3957: Masterjun's SNES Super Mario World "glitched" in 01:39.74

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That was one of my favorite moment as well!