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SaintWacko

4:00 PM

Oh, that's gone now

OrigamiRobot

It is a useless question.

SaintWacko

Yeah, doesn't look like a good question, but I don't think too broad fits

Grace Note

...that's such an odd thing to have a code for.

FEichinger

@fbueckert The question has a very distinct goal and theoretically has a very distinct answer. It's a stupid question, sure, but there's nothing broad about it.

fbueckert

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A: What are your thoughts on AR code requests?

The biggest problem I see with AR and Gameshark codes is that there are billions of variations possible for each game, and much of the point of the devices was doing amateur programming by trial and error. I think that might make some questions about them "too localised" or "off topic", but I do...

Grace Note

4:01 PM

Oh, wait, Wario's actually playable on the DS version, so I s'pose it's the kinda thing that probably exists in some fashion.

fbueckert

> The biggest problem I see with AR and Gameshark codes is that there are billions of variations possible for each game, and much of the point of the devices was doing amateur programming by trial and error.

Sterno

Having billions of possibilities doesn't really seem like a problem if you only want 1

Grace Note

...under what circumstances, though?

SaintWacko

Off topic?

Grace Note

@Sterno Aye t'this.

fbueckert

4:02 PM

If it's even possible for that to work.

Sterno

You're also pointing at an accepted answer that has less votes than the contradicting answer. Yay meta!

fbueckert

I mean, it's theoretically possible, however incredibly improbable it is to find it.

I've reworded the question to not automatically assume it needs an AR code to do so.

Sterno

Besides, I don't see a "this is a bad question" close reason, which seems to be what the answer proposes closing it as

fbueckert

That should hopefully make it better.

Grace Note

If it's something one might have legitimate expectation that people would delve in to do, that'd be one thing (like your traditional garden variety of codes that most people divulge for invincibility and infinity and unlocks and the like). If the task is something that is entirely esoteric and left field, that is a sort of problem that goes more around what we wants to do (and, more relevantly, what we as a community can reasonably answer).

I, however, want lunch.

FEichinger

4:06 PM

@GraceNote It's not too broad, it's in fact too narrow - it's a single unique case that takes tremendous effort to reproduce and/or solve.

fbueckert

@GraceNote I'm not sure I follow that last statement.

We want the esoteric and left field questions when it comes to memory editing?

Sterno

Actually, now that I read that answer closer, it seems to be "Ignore the fact that it's an AR question. That has nothing to do with if it's closeworthy or not. Judge it on other merits."

Whereas I originally read that as "close them all!"

fbueckert

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Q: Walwigi CODE Super Mario 64 DS

I am looking for an action replay code to play as walwigi. It does not have to be perfect, as I know he is not in the game, but somthing to make a charecter look like walwigi. P.S. I am using Super Mario 64 DS version 1.1

ds super-mario-64

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Lazers

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Q: Is there a way to make Wario's face show up where Peach's is?

I'm trying to change the icon on Peach's castle to be Wario instead of Peach. Is there a way I can do that?

ds super-mario-64

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Q: can't clone a map in minecraft

I have read the wikis and know the recipe for cloning maps (one piece of paper next to a map) but when I put them in their associated slots, there is nothing in the 'created' box for me to get. There is supposed to be 2xmaps in that slot so that when I click on it, I get my map and a duplicate. ...

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Q: Walwigi CODE Super Mario 64 DS

I am looking for an action replay code to play as walwigi. It does not have to be perfect, as I know he is not in the game, but somthing to make a charecter look like walwigi. P.S. I am using Super Mario 64 DS version 1.1

ds super-mario-64

Grace Note

@fbueckert No.

Sterno

4:09 PM

Honestly I'm not sure I see the problem other than the fact there might be no answer.

Grace Note

Something that goes around what we do is very much not what we go int...

Sterno

And that's something we deal with on a lot of questions.

fbueckert

@Sterno It's in the same area as lore not addressed in canon.

Grace Note

@Lazers See, that second question now kinda points at the more problematic kind of thing I was alluding to. We're not the right community to do custom hacking.

fbueckert

There needs to be a reasonable expectancy that what is being attempted is possible in game.

Sterno

4:11 PM

If it's off-topic because we simply don't think we're experts on it, I'm behind that.

fbueckert

I've re-worded both of them to be more like, "I want to do this. How can I do it?"

Sterno

But just about any other reason we invent seems forced to me. This is the type of question which actually seems to fit the SE model just fine. Distinct question with (1 or more) distinct answer(s).

fbueckert

If custom hacking is outside of our scope, I'm on board with that.

We need another answer on that Meta post.

@GraceNote Ah, I misread your statement, then. It sounded like these were exactly the types of questions we wanted to keep.

Grace Note

@Sterno This is the direction that is preferable. I think that AR codes as a whole spectrum is not entirely something we need to concern ourselves about when the more relevant problem is probably something else (in this case, what the AR code is for).

fbueckert

And he rolled it back.

Grace Note

4:15 PM

When you're essentially trying to rebuild a game to what you want it to be, rather than, say, unlocking something expected to be in the game, that's not too much what to be we are in the doing of.

@fbueckert I would've, too. The edits essentially changed the question to something different.

fbueckert

@GraceNote Really? It still made it possible to perhaps get what he wanted, without requiring an AR code to do it.

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