THE VIDEO SHELF · video game glitches
Super Mario World Credits Warp Explained
A speedrunner-made explanation of the Super Mario World credits warp, an arbitrary code execution glitch that jumps the game straight to the ending. It simplifies the underlying assembly and memory behavior with animations so non-experts can follow.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN people cite it as the clearest explanation of how the credits warp exploit works.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Frieze
- Topic
- video game glitches
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2015–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Here's the author taking the world record (now superseded) at glitching mario world into the credits to "win" the game in 3:07: [LINK] This is on a real console, not an emulator. They overflow the snes into the controller registers to achieve arbitrary code execution …
JonnieCache on Hacker News · 2015-06
In MarI/O – Machine Learning for Video GamesThe most interesting speedrun I've ever seen is the Super Mario World credits warp, which requires the player to write + execute arbitrary code in game by carefully positioning koopa shells. At first thought to only be possible with tools in an emulator, this has …
mlinsey on Hacker News · 2018-10
In Mario Kart Wii: The History of the Ultra Shortcut [video]
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