apparently there's a new exploit found for dragon quest iii speedruns that requires you to heat up the cartridge, but i don't understand what makes that not count as a hardware mod

wasn't there controversy over people using a rubber band for ocarina of time speedruns to hold the stick in a specific direction on controller 3 or whatever

now we have a speedrun where someone's playing with their famicom on a hot plate

@monorail iirc in goldeneye runs you can stop the in-game timer by holding your finger on the chip of the second controller

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