New Super Mario Bros. and the Single Number Generator

[@ChristopherMoom]

Yo, I've been enjoying these fun side videos, I just have a bit of feedback, I think it'd be nice to list whatever songs were added in editing. I saw that there were a couple people on the last one of these that asked for song names, and I think it's nice info to have even when the song sources seem outstandingly obvious 0:33 Merry-Go-Round - Super Mario 64 0:53 E. Gadd's Lab - Luigi's Mansion 1:43 The Gigantic Weapon - Professor Layton and the Unwound Future 2:41 The Prophecy - OneShot 3:22 Domino Row - Wario Land 4 6:43 Multiplayer Results - New Super Mario Bros. (DS)

[@ChristopherMoom]

​@@Skawo Sweet, thanks for the help! I can't really edit this comment since that'll remove the pin, so I guess I'll leave it in this state

[@ChristopherMoom]

​@@Skawo I made the edit just now :v

[@Flamarix]

​@@ChristopherMoom eh, been a long while since last time i saw one of your comments!

[@ComicBoi11]

ONESHOT MENTIONED ‼️‼️

[@RobertTheFoxxo]

ONESHOT MENTIONED???

[@ShycoWar]

The amount of personality you're able to convey through text and editing alone has truly reached new heights with this new style of video. Major kudos 👏

[@eleronpfoutz7823]

5:00 YOU WANT FUN!? THE WALL OF WARIOS WILL SHOW YOU FUN!!!

[@_darkblue1688]

The Wall of Wario has awoken!

[@toastr1255]

​@@_darkblue1688 Wall of Wario has been defeated! The ancient spirits of Wario and Waluigi have been released!

[@jdh9419]

Ah ******

[@mariosonicfan2010]

5:14 clearly, as punishment for cheating in his casino, luigi has decided to give you the Sans Special Attack treatment. he's decided it's not gonna BE your turn. ever.

[@jdaster64]

The RNG for the DS Mario & Luigi games uses a more bespoke formula rather than a tampered-with LCG, but it has some potential for similar shenanigans. Of the 65,536 possible seeds, a few dozen end up in a loop of 9 or 12 different numbers, which isn't usually going to end up noticeable, but can result in minor oddities like Baby Luigi never appearing when using a Copy Flower.

[@RoadrunnerWMC]

Yeah, endlessly staring at Luigi is absolutely my idea of fun, why do you even ask?

[@theivoryguy2476]

I love learning more about NSMBDS's spaghetti code.

[@splatana6660]

If you manage to get a seed like this, you could very easily troll a friend and claim they are just very, very unlucky. Wish me luck as I generate new NSMBDS seeds for several years! Also, very good video! So much personality conveyed through text, chef's kiss.

[@ReturnoftheNormalPerson]

Luigi: How you keep winning against me? Skawo: I just keep getting 5 of a kind.

[@TheV0idBrush]

HELL YEAH I love Skawo shitposting hour it’s so sill- 0:55 HOLY MOTHER OF GOD WAS THAT A PARALLEL APPEARANCE God I love these info videos of yours and how much personality and effort you put into them! KEEP IT UP!!!!

[@jimboslim]

I can't believe you posted Roadrunner's blog part 2 before he could

[@renakunisaki]

I should make a video on Star Fox Adventures' similarly bugged RNG. Some bright spark had the idea to use floating point math to scale the result, but due to rounding error, that can actually give an out-of-bounds result (think rolling 7 on a d6). Usually that won't hurt anything, but if you're exceptionally unlucky, it could crash the game.

[@azazel831]

Loving these videos a lot. Very informative and very funny in a way only an unattached text box could be!

[@Shantae1188]

0:59 Parallel rolling their eyes at hearing this is funny

[@NobodyYouKnow01]

Bro used Prof. Layton music! GOATED channel

[@RedStoneMatt]

Enjoyed this one a lot! Would really like to see how this breaks NSMBW, too! Never seen someone be this expressive with just text

[@TallyBoi_YouTube]

At least the number wasn't still single.

[@Guyofscience]

Gasp! Tallyboi. I had suspected that you 2 were in cahoots but I had no evidence until now

[@TallyBoi_YouTube]

@@Guyofscience How is this so...?

[@Guyofscience]

@@TallyBoi_KZbin unless I’m mistaken then don’t mind me it’s just the ravings of a mad man

[@TallyBoi_YouTube]

@ I would not call you a 'mad man' just yet, but very well, then. The most I've ever communicated with Skawo is a heart from him.

[@justsomerandompixels]

so i guess thats why they didnt decide to call the games after new super mario bros nsmb3, nsmb4, and nsmb5 because it couldnt generate numbers well and judging by the fact nsmb2 is after wii, it looks like the ds managed to only generate the number 2 i guess it works out, couldve been new super mario bros 72628 and sound like a bootleg instead

[@TerraKnight27]

this is the first time i have ever heard the multiplayer results song

[@Luigifan4ever11]

Another amazing presented video, thanks Skawo!

[@blue-bg5dg]

I remember the Toad House with all the cards being in order happened to me once as a kid. Now I guess I'll never know if this was the reason. Also, hearing the multiplayer result theme without the point scoring sound effects is weird.

[@Minty_Meeo]

5:15 When you mention 1144735523 and all you get back is that fluoride stare.

[@davinchristino]

I would love to see future videos on the crazy programming of nsmb ds and wii!

[@asra-5180]

This reminds me. The Tales of Graces F remaster screwed up the rng for a minigame. The Carta battle. On hard and easy difficulty you're guaranteed (for atleast 99% of the time) to have the same cards. Obviously that should NOT be the case! It worked fine on the old ps3 version.

[@IllyCat734]

2:56, its so weird seeing the old symbols in a data base lol. Anyways I was curious so I went and looked at the functions for randomness in one of the most recent ghidra projects and damn, thats a weird way to do randomness. Anyways you gotta love the questionable nsmbds programing, especially the bosses.

[@RealPrincessZelda1]

Wait... you're telling me the New Super Mario Bros. series of games are poorly programmed? Color me surprised!

[@jdh9419]

Surprised isn't a color dummy

[@AmiiboDoctor]

good vid, big enjoy

[@bige8293]

1:15 at least you didn’t include the noise of that thing

[@IvanezRus]

Is this the numbers game Jevil had in mind?

[@bige8293]

I love gambling

[@Pitrek1113]

1:15 - what the pope

[@Skawo]

[@celestialTangle]

LOST FUTURE MUSIC?!?!

[@aturchomicz821]

7:15 New Sup 2 Castle tiles copypaste moment😍😍

[@VinsCool]

Does it also work the same in Super Mario 64 DS, considering that a handful of the minigames were identical?

[@Skawo]

SM64DS just uses the normal RNG function, so, it always works properly there.

[@tod0310]

DO NOT LOAD BASIC LEVEL MUSIC

[@foolixthefool8910]

I'm feeling hella lucky, I'm gonna go buy a copy of NSMBDS and see if it's bugged. Wish me luck!

[@Skawo]

It's not a per copy thing, it's a per boot thing.

[@tbtb66]

Good ole broken NSMBDS code I feel like I've seen the Piranha Plant coin thing before when working on a custom level, pretty interesting that it was due to the game failing at generating new numbers

[@splat-a-tat6780]

Does SM64DS have the same modified RNG formula considering all the minigames came from there?

[@Skawo]

Super Mario 64 DS uses the standard unmodified formula: imgur.com/QVCTwtQ

[@FNAFman1983]

5:06 You pick… WARIO!!!

[@ownerofanheartofthesunrise]

More evidence that shows NSMBDS is a very unique mario game

[@KoCat2867]

Wasn't this minigame in Mario 64 DS as well?

[@Skawo]

Yep. Not sure if the RNG is broken there, but chances are it isn't, because despite sharing a lot of assets, these games don't share the engine.

[@Skawo]

Yep, it's not broken in SM64DS and just uses the standard formula.

[@DryPaperHammerBro]

How does this apply to SM64DS's casino?

[@Skawo]

SM64DS uses the normal RNG function, so this doesn't apply at all there.

[@DryPaperHammerBro]

@@Skawo This is a question the most enquiring geniuses do not know the answer to, but I'll ask anyways: What the fuck, Nintendo?!

[@feder28]

Balawo

[@StupidStuff_Flipnotes]

I saw new super mario bros in the title and thought it was a update on Newer DX 😢

[@kitestar]

I’ve always known new soup was bland and not interesting, now knowing _it could in fact get worse_ makes me grateful it peaked at the first game