I was thinking that as well. Implementing it on the other hand, might take some time, as expected.
Yeah, should I also included a 'suggested fix' for Nintendo
Yeah, should I also included a 'suggested fix' for Nintendo
No trouble! Hopefully it'll be of some use to someone. When the patch does come out we'll obviously do our best to see what it changes, but we'll probably have to crack 5.1.1 first, so it could be some time.
Sorry, what do you mean by this? It's very unlikely anything in the RAM will end up on the wiki as it's not generally needed for creating custom stuff, only the files are.
Oh I see what you mean now. No probably not to be honest, we just found that address in order to look for beta stuff, but now that we've got the file system we can just see it directly. The trouble with RAM addresses in general is that they don't tend to be consistent between regions/versions/courses whereas file structure is, so unless a mod HAD to use the RAM, we wouldn't want to document it.
We're not sure. To clarify; no one else has it currently; we've been true to our word in that we haven't even given the exploit to our best friends. We're not the sort to make a private distribution, so I think if we were to release it would be for everyone. Most likely if it gets to the point where we have a reasonably sized game mod and no other team has made any progress, we'd look at heavily obfuscating our exploit and releasing it as a standalone application with the exploit baked in, to prevent it being used for nefarious purposes. I think that point is still many months away though.
From wiki: "The BYAML file format is a generic data container format used in Mario Kart 8. It is similar in some ways to XML, but it is a binary data format. "
Well, I didn't necessarily say it was made from XML, just that it's similar. It is, of course, perfectly possible Nintendo use a YAML <-> BYAML converter, though the presence of the path nodes makes me doubt that, I suspect it's a custom format, perhaps a variant of YAML. I'm only using XML as an example because more people are more likely to be familiar with it, and I only wrote a BYAML <-> XML converter due to me being familiar with the format, and XML libraries being more ubiquitous.
Thanks for sharing this article. I think Game Genie, Game Shark, or Pro Action Replay would be a better way to conceive of the work that these MK8 mods demonstrate. I find myself disappointed. I buy all of my games and follow the markets. I am disappointed and realize that the old, "Shut up and you do it" reply will be given for my post. I felt excited for the next gen systems to be opened up like the Wii, 360, and later the PS3 were. Even the PSP was fun.
