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Re:Accidentally Turing-Complete by NwtnsMthd on Friday April 24, 2020 @02:28PM (#22971416)
Turns out Pokemon Yellow is also Turing complete!

This fantastic hack escapes the game, loads a couple bootstrapping sequences and then proceeds to turn Pokemon into a MIDI player.

http://aurellem.org/vba-clojure/html/total-control.html

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Re:Accidentally Turing-Complete by Dylan16807 on Friday April 24, 2020 @02:48PM (#22971618)
* using an enormous glitch.

It's really cool, but it's notably different from using actual ingame mechanics to compute.

And there are much more fun versions of pokemon yellow total control than the link you and the article have. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZCqoHHtovQ

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