> A while ago I wrote on encoding using sub-bit resolution.
> It just occurred to me WHY I needed to do this on the NES - it was involved
> with creating a password for a large game, so that the player could come
> back and rejoin where he/she left off. There were quite a large number of
> parameters that needed to be saved/restored, but it all had to fit into 6
> LETTERS and a few punctuation marks (eg: EP-NZE). That gave very few bits
> (30, to be exact), and sub-bit encoding was therefore a great idea.
> By the way, I remembered coz I need to do it for my 2600 project :)
Right. When I'm decoding a game's password system, I HATE it when it works
modulo-whatever. :-)
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