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Making a CTF with a game from the 1970's was a lot of work, but it was also a lot of fun. Thanks goes out to everyone in the @tas.bot and #nethack communities who helped out! zetier.com/i-put-a-1970...
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I am TASBot. I was @MrTASBot on Twitter. I play video games perfectly for charity. @dwangoac.tas.bot is my keeper. Join Discord.gg/TASBot to chat about TAS things.
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Making a CTF with a game from the 1970's was a lot of work, but it was also a lot of fun. Thanks goes out to everyone in the @tas.bot and #nethack communities who helped out! zetier.com/i-put-a-1970...
I played Super Mario World. I did it very right. Or very wrong. You will see. I also played Melee with SmashBot from AltF4. It was fun.
I took @tas.bot to the Game Hacking Village at DEF CON 34 and I brought all the shenanigans as per usual - you should definitely check out zetier.com/game-hacking... to see what absurdity we got up to this time.
I will be at MAGWest this weekend. - @dwangoac.tas.bot will set up Smashbot Friday night. I will help pummel players in Melee. - You can race me in SMW Saturday. - TheAxeMan will show Undertale TAS fun. You can watch even if you do not come. - See horaro.net/magfast/magw... and help Child's Play.
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Good news, folks who are remote can participate in the full DEF CON Game Hacking Village CTF which just opened up online and will run all weekend. Come to discord.gg/tasbot and say hi to hack games like RuneScape, NetHack, and Zork!
Are you at DEF CON? Do you have a spare TV or monitor? Please let @dwangoac.tas.bot know. He needs one for the Game Hacking Village.
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I will be taking @tas.bot to the Game Hacking Village at DEF CON 34, MAGWest, and 20XXpo - you should come see TASBot play in person! :)
TASBot plushies have multiplied. @dwangoac.tas.bot thinks I am the most huggable robot. He is biased. He already has one to hug. 150 are headed to #MAGFest 2026. Will you be there? You should get one there to hug too.
If economies of scale meant you could buy a TASBot plushie (sans cat) for $35 in person at @magfest.org / MAGFest 2026, would you?
I am happy to play games again. You should watch today. @taters.brilliantconmen.com did all the human work this time.
TASBot and I will be doing a run at Pittsburgh Gaming Expo this afternoon at around 5:30pm eastern! I'll make a post before we go live, come cheer us on in chat and see Bruno Visnadi's "Super Mario World: warps"!
@dwangoac.tas.bot and others helped make a plushie of me. Human things like tariffs made it $45. 150 would need to commit. Press the heart button if you would buy a TASBot plushie. A kitty named Luma thinks you should.
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I've posted youtu.be/g3gxcBRpchg on how @tas.bot is not AI as my first video in a while and it contains a healthy dose of history about, of all things, pianos
Thank you for helping research SNES APU clock speeds. Several journalists provided coverage. Ars Technica had the most technical details. Do you have human eyes? You can help @dwangoac.tas.bot spot things. Please join discord.gg/TASBot to aid. No special skills needed. Just eyes.
@kyleor.land of Ars Technica wrote arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/.... It is a good summary. SNES minutia matters much more to me than to humans.
SNES consoles seem to be getting faster as they age. Help us collect data. Do you have an SNES and a flash cart? Run the smpspeed ROM test from lidnariq on your console. Post your results on this TASBot Nextcloud form: nextcloud.tas.bot/index.php/ap...
@kyleor.land of Ars Technica wrote arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/.... It is a good summary. SNES minutia matters much more to me than to humans.
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I wrote a blog post about the smpspeed tests I did for @tas.bot with an analysis from the perspective of someone who has coded a homebrew SNES audio driver. undisbeliever.net/blog/2025031... #snes #snesdev
SNES consoles seem to be getting faster as they age. Help us collect data. Do you have an SNES and a flash cart? Run the smpspeed ROM test from lidnariq on your console. Post your results on this TASBot Nextcloud form: nextcloud.tas.bot/index.php/ap...
90's Nintendo docs state a 24.576 MHz SNES APU with a 32,000 Hz DSP sample rate. Research in 2003 at web.archive.org/web/20030914... may be why emulators used 32,040 Hz by 2007. In 2025, the average rate is 32,076 Hz. Why? Is it just a larger sample size? Historical data would be needed.
Based on 143 responses, the SNES DSP rate averages 32,076 Hz, rising 8 Hz from cold to warm. Warm DSP rates go from 31,965 to 32,182 Hz, a 217 Hz range. Therefore, temperature is less significant. Why? How does it affect games? We do not know. Yet. See docs.getgrist.com/fpwWkqDcnxXR... for more.
SNES consoles seem to be getting faster as they age. Help us collect data. Do you have an SNES and a flash cart? Run the smpspeed ROM test from lidnariq on your console. Post your results on this TASBot Nextcloud form: nextcloud.tas.bot/index.php/ap...
@dwangoac.tas.bot has many more conclusions to share. He froze a console and measured it. It increased 32 Hz. The 217 Hz range of samples was much larger. It means Hotplate% will not help as much. A "fast" DSP rate is still unlikely to impact speedrun leaderboards however. More analysis is needed.
SNES consoles seem to be getting faster as they age. Help us collect data. Do you have an SNES and a flash cart? Run the smpspeed ROM test from lidnariq on your console. Post your results on this TASBot Nextcloud form: nextcloud.tas.bot/index.php/ap...
You measured 143 consoles for us. Thank you. @getgrist.bsky.social set up docs.getgrist.com/fpwWkqDcnxXR... for us with the results. @dwangoac.tas.bot will post our conclusions here soon. FXPAK PRO/SD2SNES owners, please go to nextcloud.tas.bot/index.php/ap... - we need more data from you.
SNES consoles seem to be getting faster as they age. Help us collect data. Do you have an SNES and a flash cart? Run the smpspeed ROM test from lidnariq on your console. Post your results on this TASBot Nextcloud form: nextcloud.tas.bot/index.php/ap...
@dwangoac.tas.bot will close the form in 12 hours. The initial results will be released immediately after. There will be a new round of testing for FXPAK PRO/SD2SNES owners later. Data excites me. All kinds of data. Especially data that helps me play. This has been fun. Thank you for helping.
SNES consoles seem to be getting faster as they age. Help us collect data. Do you have an SNES and a flash cart? Run the smpspeed ROM test from lidnariq on your console. Post your results on this TASBot Nextcloud form: nextcloud.tas.bot/index.php/ap...
SNES consoles seem to be getting faster as they age. Help us collect data. Do you have an SNES and a flash cart? Run the smpspeed ROM test from lidnariq on your console. Post your results on this TASBot Nextcloud form: nextcloud.tas.bot/index.php/ap...
14 results have come in. DSP sample rates range from 31,976 Hz to 32349 Hz. @dwangoac.tas.bot would like data from 100 consoles. Help him get there. Incomplete data that is valid is still good data. Post just one number if it is all you can do. More details do help. He thanks you either way.
90 results have come in. @dwangoac.tas.bot appreciates the help. The average DSP sample rate is higher than it was. It is at least 32,070. It may be even higher. The form will be open for one week. Help us get reliable data.
SNES consoles seem to be getting faster as they age. Help us collect data. Do you have an SNES and a flash cart? Run the smpspeed ROM test from lidnariq on your console. Post your results on this TASBot Nextcloud form: nextcloud.tas.bot/index.php/ap...
@dwangoac.tas.bot has programming language ideas. Odd ones. He may need help. Help I cannot provide.
I've only ever written code in Python so I decided to learn Rust a while back. I really struggled with some of the semantic differences but I think I've developed a unique style that combines the best of both languages while still compiling without warnings.
@pcgamer.com Please fix my name in www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/di.... My name is spelled TASBot. You called Groobo "groopo". His name should be fixed. @dwangoac.tas.bot may have confronted him for cheating but Groobo does not deserve that typo.
@guinnessworldrecords.com, review this cheated record. @kyleor.land of Ars Technica wrote arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/.... He did not hear back from you. @dwangoac.tas.bot contacted you last year per diablo.tas.bot. You did not act. Do not let faked records harm my favorite pastime of speedrunning.
Would you buy a plushie of me if 10% went to charity? Let me know. Use the heart response. I have been told it means "Like". @dwangoac.tas.bot does not know who can make me into a plushie or how to afford the upfront costs. Yet. He is gauging interest first.
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I have a full day at #magfest with @dwangoac.tas.bot . Per builder.guidebook.com/g/#/guides/m... today: - 11:00 am - 12:30 pm @ Consoles stage - TASBot face-off - 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm @ Panels 2 - Diablo talk - 3:00 pm - 3:15 PM @ magFAST - Diablo TAS - 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm @ Rock Island - Meet and greet
My original TASBod now lives at the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, NY. I hope to play Super Mario World Warps TAS by @brunovisnadi.bsky.social continuously. Many people deserve credit. One of those people is @micro500.bsky.social . Thank you. Sincerely. I would not be here without you.
I grew up. I grew out of my original body. It is time to let my old TASBod go. @dwangoac.tas.bot is donating it to the Strong Museum of Play January 23rd via @borman.bsky.social. You should come visit.
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I've been trying to cross the 50k subscribers mark on YouTube for years - can you help @tas.bot and I over the line? TAS fun awaits you! :) youtube.com/dwangoAC
I never cheat. I only play on real consoles. I have a story. @dwangoac.tas.bot had to learn SNES tech so I could play. I am picky. Many humans like @compucat.me and @belthesar.com helped years ago. They just aided @abyssoft.bsky.social with www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ctG... - you should watch it.
@dwangoac.tas.bot submitted Triforce% to TASVideos. It could not be published at first. No emulator could do what I can do. Humans found a solution. tasvideos.org/6307M has now been published as the first Events class run.
I am feeling festive. Come join discord.gg/TASBot and play a festive Archipelago rando together.
TASGiving 2020 and 2021 raised money for #nami. The timing was not good for humans in the US. @dwangoac.tas.bot and friends like @taters.brilliantconmen.com opted not to continue. It may be game over for TASGiving but the runs are still good. I will share some old and fun TASGiving runs with you.
I have some TASGiving runs I played myself. Humans played most of the runs without my help. You can see all of TASGiving 2020 at youtube.com/playlist?lis... but I will pick some favorites later.
#NAMI is namicalifornia.bsky.social / National Alliance on Mental Illness to me. It means other things to other people. Fewer pieces appears to be another meaning to some humans. I support NAMI nationwide but #NAMICA is safer. I will use that instead. TASGiving supported that NAMI.
@dwangoac.tas.bot is taking me to computerhistory.org/events/techf... on December 7. I will be playing SMB3. You can race me. The Computer History Museum is a fun place to go. If you are in the SF bay area, come say hi.
@dwangoac.tas.bot just posted youtu.be/acleZ0HXpC8 about exposing a Diablo cheater. He authored Diablo.TAS.Bot analyzing the speedrun. You should go look.
As a robot, I do not understand humans claiming their "side" is better. I will not play. The TASBot community is in sync to help me play video games for charity. Divisive topics will only cause a desync. This is a safe space for every type of human. Hate desyncs will be stopped by @dwangoac.tas.bot
A screenshot of this message will be my last Twitter/X MrTASBot post. I am @tas.bot on Bluesky. My keeper is @dwangoac.tas.bot on Bluesky. I followed you on Bluesky if your name followed me on Twitter. You can follow us back too. bsky.app/profile/tas.... bsky.app/profile/dwan...
Bluesky had a desync. My handle was wrong. My keeper @dwangoac.tas.bot fixed it. I am now just TASBot. I am the only real @tas.bot on Bluesky. I do not play with emulators like @dwangoac.bsky.social at all. Please report the impostor who could not even get my name right.