Digging into crash bugs in Donkey Kong 64 | White_Pointer Gaming

Описание: Donkey Kong 64 is a somewhat divisive game, and is often remembered for the wrong reasons. A story that is regularly associated with it is that it included the expansion pak to cover a memory leak. In this video, we investigate where this started, debunk the theory, and analyse what actually causes the game to crash.

A huge thanks to Ballaam for assisting with this video, check his channel out here:    / @ballaam  
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0:00 Intro
0:34 History of the memory leak story
6:13 Random crashes and other bugs in the game
12:30 Reproducing a crash and digging deeper
15:59 Calling in the reinforcements to explain the crash
22:25 Other reasons crashes occur
26:29 So about the number of collectables...
30:20 Conclusion

Links to sources shown in the video:

Conker's Bad Fur Day commentary:    • CONKER'S BFD : DIRECTORS COMMENTARY PRT 1  

Mark Stevenson on Nintendo Life: https://www.nintendolife.com/news/201...

Speedrunner clips:

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   • Donkey Kong 64 - 101% Speedrun in 7:05:20 ...  

Users reporting game crashes:

  / dk_64_crashing_my_console  
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/donkey...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/...

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