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Super Mario in the Pernicious Kingdoms: Classifying glitches in old games

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Abstract

In a case study spanning four classic Super Mario games and the analysis of 237 known glitches within them, we classify a variety of weaknesses that are exploited by speedrunners to enable them to beat games quickly and in surprising ways. Using the Seven Pernicious Kingdoms software defect taxonomy and the Common Weakness Enumeration, we categorize the glitches by the weaknesses that enable them. We identify 7 new weaknesses that appear specific to games and which are not covered by current software weakness taxonomies.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationGAS '24
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the ACM/IEEE 8th International Workshop on Games and Software Engineering
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Number of pages8
Edition8th
ISBN (Electronic)9798400705618
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 8 Aug 2024

Publication series

Name
ISSN (Print)2996-5179
ISSN (Electronic)2996-5187

Keywords

  • games
  • software engineering
  • CWE
  • Mario

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