Submission #8982: devwizard, rain, MrCheeze, imglower, Fray, Seedborn, SLD & Morpheus's N64 Paper Mario "bluescreen%" in 15:22.42

Nintendo 64
bluescreen%
(Submitted: bluescreen%)
(Submitted: Mario Story (J) [!].z64 Japanese)
BizHawk 2.9.1
55345
60
0
PowerOn
devwizard, rain, MrCheeze, imglower
(Additionally: Fray, Seedborn, SLD, Morpheus)
Submitted by devwizard on 4/1/2024 7:15 AM
Submission Comments
Like most buggy video games from the '90s, Paper Mario has some bugs that cause BSODs. This TAS demonstrates one of these bugs. Enjoy :)

CasualPokePlayer: Replacing movie file as requested in DMs.

feos: Congrats on finding and pulling this off!
Unfortunately we can't publish this or even sent to Playground, because it abuses an emulation bug that is actually dangerous to users. A movie that escapes the sandbox and executes arbitrary code on the host can do really nasty things without the user having any idea. I didn't even dare run this on my actual OS, I created a Win10 VM, and it did give a BSOD indeed.
Now while I don't suspect the authors in installing viruses on my machine with this movie, if we open the doors for this kind of content, at some point someone may do that, and not everyone is conscious enough to only run it on a virtual machine. We can't risk damaging our users' computers.
Rejecting.
Last Edited by feos on 4/30/2024 2:37 PM
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