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ROM hacking (short for Read-only memory hacking) is the process of modifying a ROM image or ROM file to alter the contents contained within, usually of a video game to alter the game's graphics, dialogue, levels, gameplay, and/or other elements.
Pokémon Platinum Version [a] is a 2008 role-playing video game developed by Game Freak and published by The Pokémon Company and Nintendo for the Nintendo DS.It is the third version after Pokémon Diamond and Pearl and is part of the fourth generation of the Pokémon video game series.
Cheating in video games involves a video game player using various methods to create an advantage beyond normal gameplay, usually in order to make the game easier.Cheats may be activated from within the game itself (a cheat code implemented by the original game developers), or created by third-party software (a game trainer or debugger) or hardware (a cheat cartridge).
The game uses emulator software and requires ROMs of games from throughout the series in order to play, though it alters them to allow for the online multiplayer mechanics. [64] [65] [66] Pokémon Prism: Unreleased Adam (Koolboyman) [67] A Pokémon ROM hack based on Pokémon Crystal.
In 2008 a back-up with the source code of all Infocom's video games appeared from an anonymous Infocom source and was archived by the Internet Archive's Jason Scott. [ 264 ] [ 265 ] [ 266 ] On May 5, 2020, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology uploaded to GitHub the source code for 1977–1978 versions and 1977/1989 binaries of Zork . [ 267 ]
Commands identified by the game engine shown on-screen (right of image) are applied to the player character in Pokémon Red (left). Twitch Plays Pokémon (TPP) is a social experiment and channel on the video game live streaming website Twitch, consisting of a crowdsourced attempt to play Game Freak's and Nintendo's Pokémon video games by parsing commands sent by users through the channel's ...
Due to the programming of certain in-game events, players can encounter MissingNo. via a glitch. It is commonly regarded as one of the most famous video game glitches of all time. Encountering MissingNo. causes graphical anomalies and changes gameplay by increasing the number of items in the sixth entry of the player's inventory by 128.
As the games approached release, from February 27 to March 13, 2010, North American video game retailer GameStop hosted a promotion in which players of Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, or Platinum could use the games' "Mystery Gift" function to download a free Jirachi Pokémon to their game. [15]