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What the heck is this?

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I was playing my N64 (Paper Mario to be exact) and this happened:

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So what happened? Did the game just "crash" or something? After it happened I took the game out, put it back in and everything was fine. But it was just weird, I've never had a game crash on me so I was wondering if anyone here could give me info on it. Because now I'm just curious.
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Looks like a load error, or maybe the government taking over... :shock:
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you set us up the bomb!
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What were you doing to make it crash?
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maybe this site can help?

http://tcrf.net/The_Cutting_Room_Floor
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Looks like something didn't load right and the game just hopped into debug mode and crashed. This happens in Half-Life for Dreamcast sometimes, which I don't think has anything to do with it being a burned game it is just a glitch in the programming.
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fastbilly1 wrote:What were you doing to make it crash?
Nothing out of the ordinary. I loaded my game and I was maybe 2 minutes into playing when that happened.
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That looks like a dump of all your registers to me. And it looks like the N64 has a completely separate set of floating point registers, which is kind of cool.
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flojocabron wrote:maybe this site can help?

http://tcrf.net/The_Cutting_Room_Floor
Thanks, I don't see anything about it on that site but there's a lot of cool info there. :)
MrPopo wrote:That looks like a dump of all your registers to me. And it looks like the N64 has a completely separate set of floating point registers, which is kind of cool.
So what does that mean exactly? haha
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harper wrote:
MrPopo wrote:That looks like a dump of all your registers to me. And it looks like the N64 has a completely separate set of floating point registers, which is kind of cool.
So what does that mean exactly? haha
Essentially this is a dump of the current active memory on your N64. A computer has effectively two kinds of memory; active and storage. Storage memory is more nuanced (RAM vs. hard disk vs. CD-ROM) but all of it cannot be directly accessed by your processor. Instead, you must load from storage memory and put it into active memory, which are called registers. So this is a snapshot of the last thing your N64 was doing when it crashed. This is useful when you are doing low-level debugging.
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