How We Solved the Worst Minigame in Zelda's History

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as a rigorous, fun example of reverse engineering a game to predict and conquer its RNG.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Linkus7

Topic

game rng reverse engineering

Format

explainer

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2024

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From the original HN conversations

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• Excellent video. I'm impressed the author went to recreate the run frame by frame, and then used those findings to analyze what was happening. Never expected this video to turn into a full on reverse engineering explanation. As a side note, this kind of speed …

• The sheer depth of knowledge and analytical ability pannenkoek has is honestly quite amazing. I've become quite spoiled watching their SM64 videos, it's been incredibly hard to find something of similar rigor and production value for other games. The closest I've found so far has …

• If you're developing a game, there's a fairly big issue in that many things may be requesting values from, and thus incrementing, the PRNG, and many of them could be indirectly controlled by the user (where they are, where they're looking, etc. [VIDEO] is a …