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'''Self-referential control character abuse''' refers to any exploits in the Pokémon games where a [[control character]] prints text but refers back to itself, resulting in an infinite loop. In practise the loop is indefinite but not infinite; a buffer overflow may at some point freeze the game or break the text printing routine. |
'''Self-referential control character abuse''' refers to any exploits in the Pokémon games where a [[control character]] prints text but refers back to itself, resulting in an infinite loop. In practise the loop is indefinite but not infinite; a buffer overflow may at some point freeze the game or break the text printing routine (e.g. via corruption of the stack). |
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In order for self-referential control character abuse to be successful, the game must also avoid printing terminating bytes before referring back to itself (where relevant such as 0x00, 0x50, etc.). |
In order for self-referential control character abuse to be successful, the game must also avoid printing terminating bytes before referring back to itself (where relevant such as 0x00, 0x50, etc.). |
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