Kid Icarus ※ Cracking VG Passwords S3e3

In the advent of 1990 I played NES games a lot. Knowing nothing about programming but being geekish by nature, I obsessed over cracking the password systems in those games. In this series we will study some of these systems. Become a member: https://youtube.com/Bisqwit/join My links: Twitter:   / realbisqwit   Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/Bisqwit Steady: https://steadyhq.com/en/bisqwit Patreon:   / bisqwit   (Other options at https://bisqwit.iki.fi/donate.html) Twitch:   / realbisqwit   Homepage: https://iki.fi/bisqwit/ 0:00 Video introduction 0:15 Game introduction 4:00 Password system introduction 5:42 How BASE64 works 6:40 Game state contents 14:26 How password stores game state 17:07 Program module and parameter 19:08 PRG0 versus PRG1 22:03 Security analysis and edge cases 29:28 Program module and parameter revisited 31:02 End greetings Password encoder/decoder code is available at: https://github.com/bisqwit/password_c...