Posted: 5/18/2014 5:47 PM
Post subject: Brute-Force script?
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Matriks404
Joined: 7/10/2013
Posts: 33
Location: Małopolskie, Poland
I searched everywhere and i didn't found any brute-force script. Can someone make a script for VBA-RR on which, it search for solution (inputs) by brute-force for RAM address values (i know it is slow :D), it would be cool if it would have also possibility of limiting it to only few memory addresses, and forcing some addresses to have given value (therefore cheating :P). offtopic: with todays computer powers, isn't it possible to brute-force completely A2600 games? PS. Sorry for bad english
Posted: 5/18/2014 8:09 PM
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Derakon
Joined: 7/2/2007
Posts: 3960
This comes up every once in awhile; we've had several threads on the topic. Short version: you don't know just how slow it is. Long version: The GBA has 8 inputs. That's 2^8 possible combinations of inputs every frame. If you prevent the script from searching more than 15 frames away (i.e. a quarter of a second), then that means you have to search up to (2^8)^15 = 2^60 ~= 1 quintillion combinations. If your script can test 1 billion combinations per second, then you'll be waiting for a billion seconds for the script to finish -- about 32 years.
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Posted: 5/18/2014 10:01 PM
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Zarmakuizz
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Posts: 279
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The GBA has 10 different inputs, which makes it even longer. The GB has 8 inputs.