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Re:Game Devs Explain the Tricks Involved with Letting You Pa... by amiga386 on Sunday April 19, 2026 @02:38PM (#47826521)
The demo playback on 8-bit games was rarely more than a few seconds long, and it's just a capture of input data.

Here's Super Mario Bros's demo replay data: https://gist.github.com/1wErt3r/4048722#file-smbdis-asm-L108...

21 bytes of joypad input and 21 bytes of input timings

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