I love that the default Emacs scratch buffer text got into Mario Golf (GBC) somehow. I wonder if this was a mis-copy-and-paste from a developer, or if it was another case of a compiler taking random memory contents and using them for padding in the ROM...

@Raspberryfloof hee, oh gosh

grabbing random bits of ram in compilation seems hellua-insecure

then again, the only other way i could think of this going down is maybe a developer used the scratch buffer as a scratchpad, and saved it as a file?

@thingywott Possibly!

And it wouldn't be the first time I've seen random data used for ROM padding; there's always the infamous case of DynaMike for GBC...

(cw: nsfw)

tcrf.net/DynaMike

@Raspberryfloof ahahahahah, what the heck??

i'm definitely leaning more towards your RAM theory now though

i mean, if i knew my compiler did that, i would sandbox it so hard! i wonder how much sensitive information has been inadvertently distributed like this?

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