Hacking Minesweeper to be IMPOSSIBLE
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 มี.ค. 2021
- fun fact: now that i know how to play minesweeper, i really like it
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I thank you, my friend, for making a version WE CAN ALL PLAY!
You made me feel so much better about myself ;D
I mean less 'play' more 'insta-lose'... but still, at least it's an even playing field! 😂
@@YoshiToMario lmao
I love the background on your PC desktop. Is there a place one could get that?
@@GyroDragonaPlays Haha love to hear it! Yeah it's just one of the available options on 'Wallpaper Engine' on Steam :) If you've got it, search for 'Yoshi's Island' and you should definitely be able to find it!
@@YoshiToMario haha
If I'm not mistaken, you've actually made the easiest second try minesweeper game. Game 1: lose and see it is all mines. Game 2: Flag every tile and win.
You probably have limited flage but I don't remember. The question mark things are probably limited.
I thought you win minesweeper by revealing all of the empty tiles and the flags are just tools to help you remember which ones you know are mines
@@TinyDeskEngineer I wonder if it checks the win state after you click, if it was just clicking every empty tile you'd win immediately.
@@TinyDeskEngineer you win by either revealing all empty tiles, or by having flagged every mine
@@weberman173 no. Flagging every mine does not win the game, since then with only a few tiles left you could just start flagging randomly.
Would love to see a modified version where the number of mines is unchanged, but your first click is always a mine. So it shifts/generates the map when you first click a tile to ensure you always fail on turn 1, the opposite of what it does now.
that would actually be better as april fools since you could just say you removed the safety check and 'your luck's just really bad'
I recall playing that on some web browser parody site
Aaand time to learn hex code
I’ll trade you April fools minesweeper for a g boy
Jkjk
*unless?*
Okay leave
The game was rigged from the start.
heheheh that would have been a funnier April fools joke. Someone should do that and just see how long people play it before quitting in frustration
"we end up in this kind of limbo state where all the tiles are both mines and not mines"
My man has created Quantum Minesweeper Processing
Schrodinger’s Mines?
@@Jay-S04 😳😳😳
*pannenkoek music starts playing*
Whoa whoa this brings Schrödingers cat to a whole new level xD
Quantum Processing by Riot
An actually good Aprils Fools video, what a treat. Not just talking nonsense for some minutes.
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I would have liked to see if there was a way to hack it so ONLY the space you click on is a mine, every time you start a game.
Wow I want to see that too now lol
Do you realise you just gave Matt a new idea for a video?
@@MattKC Windows 93 has something like that.
That's what I say expecting to see here actually; would be more suitable for an April fools joke as the average player wouldn't know it's a prank hahaha
great idea now he must make it
Now all we need is minesweeper where every tile is safe, except the one you click on. Then then nobody will be safe
(don't give him any ideas)
@@styno9295 (he's full of ideas and there's nothing you can do about it)
what about flags
exactly, totally aggre
Nothing better than waking up to a matkc vid
yup
In germany it’s 4:30 pm now lol
@@blackbird1665danish here 4pm as well my sleep schedule is just fucked
@@blackbird1665 Costa Rica pog
Nothing better than waking up.
"No infinite loop, not even any noticeable slow down. Just..."
*ad starts to play*
NEW POWERFUL NERF ACTION!
It would've been funny to make a version that specifically makes it so your first click is always a mine but the whole board still generates
There is a funny parody project on Scratch which does exactly that
Sadly I think that project got taken down
The maximum number of mines in a 'normal' Minesweeper appears to be (h-1)*(w-1), where h and w are the height and width of the board size, respectively. (Haven't proven this, but seems to be the case from the examples you showed; Expert mode is 16*30, and 15*29=435.)
Ahh I think you're right, I just tried a 30*24 playfield (the largest possible) and the mine count was 667 (29*23). I was wondering if it was some kind of percentage or fraction but I couldn't get anything consistent; your formula seems to be correct.
@@MattKC Could it be patched to h*w-1, thus making the game an instant win.
P.S. Has anyone tried restoring the original hard core version that wasn't in any windows release?
Which is why it's limited to 64 in beginner mode because 8^2=64
4:35 Schrödinger's tiles
Amazing!
Thanks for sharing it too!
How does this have 2 likes?
now 5! sup hugh?
Hello, Hugh!
How did you get here lol
Hugh! You’re here!
I made a Minesweeper clone for the Dreamcast a few years ago with the goal of making it as faithful as possible to the Windows 2000/XP versions. I also realised a simple formula for the mines cap, I think it was a certain percentage of the board must be non-mines or something.
However, there was one thing that I couldn't recreate faithfully because I didn't analyse the code, that is the initial mine placement. I actually went with the first method you said where I go over each tile left to right, top to bottom. I thought about the "Pick a random tile" option, but it just seemed bad, after all for a big board with lots of mines, wouldn't it fail a lot of placements? Its kind of funny to see that's exactly what they did.
It was really cool to see some of the internals of the original game, nice video :)
I think it was height-1 × width-1. Like 9 by 9 is 81 but there is 64 mi es because 9-1 is 8 and 8×8 is 64
@@_._shinonome_._ Yeah sounds about right, its been ages since I did this so I can't really remember anymore
isn't going tile by tile like very bad? what if you reach the amount of mines your aiming for early? just have a no mines at the bottom? what if you don't reach enough mines? go back and do the other algorithm anyway?
@@jetison333 I had a varying probability. Its "num mines left / num spaces left" so as I iterate over the grid, "num spaces left" always decreases by 1 and "num mines left" will only decrease by 1 if we happen to place a mine on that tile. So if it keeps failing to place mines, eventually the probability would near "1" and so its more likely to place a mine there. Same thing if it keeps placing them, it will near zero so it becomes less likely and eventually impossible.
The fields looks very random so I was happy with this approach. I never got any cases where there were too few or too many mines, nor all the mines bunched together.
@@Protofall ah I see. I suppose that makes sense. I'm going to have to have a think about that as opposed to the other method as they might actually be equally random. Thanks for the answer :)
4:30 Schrödingers Mines
Schrödingers Tiles 😼
Matt: I think someone told me what those numbers meant, but my baby brain decided that it was too much effort.
Also Matt: (Scrambles throuh he assembly code of the game)
Well hes not a baby now
For an April Fools' version, it would have been funny if only the first tile you clicked was a mine.
Woop, Ruffle got a shout-out! Super cool!
Glad to see this cool tech is catching on.
(I'm still making Flash games as a full time job in 2021!)
@Sharma Vivek It still is quite a few ways away from full compatibility but it's a start nevertheless.
I'd like to play a version where all the tiles except one are mines, appropriately called "Russian Sweeper".
That's fucking genius
If you hit the mines your computer actually explodes
Most of the time when playing minesweeper that’s how it feels
A day MattKC uploads is a happy day.
Yes
Dave from Dave's Garage (the ex-Microsoft programmer) just shouted you out on his video, where he made a QR code application in Assembly. Collaboration time?
Yeah I support this :D
LMAO you have no idea how funny it is when i got an ad right at 8:25 after he clicked🤣
the moving mario background, how does one get hold of that?
with "wallpaper engine". Its a few Euro on Steam and let you let .gif and videos as "Dynamic" backgrounds. One of the best pruchaset ive ever made
Perhaps it is also possible with rainmeter (free and open source desktop customization tool).
@@tarsverschelde maybe. Ive never heard of this tool.
@Sharma Vivek Lively is great
@@odeldodelhorst7549 thanks a lot. I have that already, will search for that background.
I would make it so there is only 1 mine, but whenever you press you hit this mine.
Might be neat to recode it to always force a bomb to be on the opening move. Having a full grid of bombs shows the player that they had no moves to begin with. Where as spawning bombs could lead them on to think they're just really unlucky. 😅
4:31 so it was schrodinger's mine?
Exactly what I thought
Love the explanation of how you figure out what assembly language is doing!
Well it's a skill some of us have had for years. I remember doing that to CP/M 2.2 back in the day, learning cool hidden file management features for the CP/M file system that inspired so many successors.
I always think your video concept will be so boring but your explanation and innocent curiosity is so engaging. Hacking assembly code is just the beginning. Excited for what's next!
Imagine another version of unwinable minesweeper that always move a mine to the first tile you click.
This was really interesting!! Thank you for the download! :)
1 day ago?
@@Pokeman_official1 member gets it early
Now that was fun to watch. Nice job!
I have no idea why I love these videos so much, but I do! Please keep making them!
Love your channel man always exited when you post a new video
Oh god, I haven't thought about YoshiToMario in years, I used to dig his Let's Plays for a short while beck in 2012!
Great video, btw! Maybe next year you can find a way for their to only be one mine on the board but it's always the first click...: D
My favorite cereal: "Oops! All mines!"
Lovely. This takes me back to goofing around in my highschool programming class. Not as hardcore as reverse engineering x86 assembly, but I did mess with the teacher as often as I could. My piece de resistance was removing the window decoration and adding a "Close" button on a project that was positioned semi-randomly compared to the mouse cursor after the main program completed.
16 year old me was proud.
You know its a great day when mattkc uploads
Another excellent episode of "MattKC messes with old games"
Explicitly explained and very fun to watched, tho I always wanted a fullscreen minesweeper game never saw if it was possible to do but it would be extremely funny to see all the bombs in a full screen minesweeper game
Idk why but I watch all of your videos at least 3 times. I find them relaxing in the mornings 🌄.
I have memories on it and clicking the boxes .
Love your music choice and source
3:31
bubble wrap
I think the smarter move would've been to make it so that the first-click-is-safe thing was reversed to the-first-click-kills-u-everytime but with the number of mines still being whatever the user entered or the limit for each window size. That way people would at first think that they were just incredibly unfortunate to have clicked on a mine with their first click and then the realization would slowly set in that they would *_ALWAYS_* end up clicking on mines on the first click no matter how many times they tried. Just filling the whole playing field with mines makes it obvious immediatly that the game was tampered with.
I miss the "Subscribe to MattKC" outro. Don't mind me
Gonna try this out fast, while it's still April 1st
4:20 Schrödinger's Minefield
That's amazing man!
No idea you had that skill
It'd be a lot funnier if instead of turning every tile into mines, instead turning whatever tile was clicked into a mine.
The minute you said just and paused an advertisement came up with fit perfectly with your vid congratulations for the vid man
that gag you described also happened in windows 93, it just didn't look like there were mines everywhere, but you were always losing. it was called "troll mode"
You know, since there's a function in the game that moves mines away from the first time you click a tile, it would be possible to reverse it, wouldn't it? To move away clear spaces and move a mine where you first click. That way, there could only be one mine and you would hit it every single game first click no matter what, would make for a funnier prank than every tile being a mine.
"We end up in this kind of limbo state where all the tiles are both mines and not mines."
So basically, just by screwing around, you inadvertently created Schrodinger's Minesweeper. Lovely.
Im excited!
I really enjoyed that 👍
I love april fools videos that actually have some intelligent content instead of just some bait or trolling. Thank you very much! ^^
This is what TH-cam is supposed to be for, a completely pointless and silly idea turned into an entertaining video. Well done as always!
The man the myth the legend
Bruh you made this too good that I don’t understand a second word every time
One time at summer camp I did minesweeper and was so pumped that my not-fast self could help in a relay race. I was not only disappointed that it was on easy, but I was surprised that people were surprised I finished it in under a minute
Okay that was awesome.
I can't believe that you actually went through assembly just for that.... I had assembly x86 in uni and it's freaking hell
I love mine sweeper. It's such a fun and easy game.
I recently did a slight hack to the original Windows Entertainment Pack version to remove the menu. With the menu present even the window with the basic 8x8 grid is too large to fit on a 640x200 CGA screen. After removing the menu now I can comfortably play on my HP 100LX Palmtop. I also added extra keyboard shortcuts to access the functions which are normally only available from the menu.
In my video about attaching a mouse to the Palmtop you can see what the unpatched version looks like. I made the patch after recording the video and the patched version is the one in the thumbnail.
The most convincing luckbased one would be one that's normal and safe on the first click, but the second click is always a mine
God dude I never knew how to play it until I taught myself through sheer bored energy so I could play with all my friends at work
Hey sir I love your videos. How is the screenshot at 1:06 is possible knowing that is the first move the player picks turns out to be a mine, it autoselects another square until a free spot is selected?
Hello Nice work man!
Yay yay aha new video!
Ahh, intriguing
Matt, can I just say thank you for recommending Olive, it helped me with my videos.
8:05
I watched this like five times already and I can't stop laughing XD
You should port this to the Wii and utilize motion controls somehow. Maybe something like try to keep the Wiimote steady or the game ends.
"Educated guesses and luck" IS Minesweeper
I'm not a real programmer (tm) but this is an interesting window into reverse engineering/rom hacking. Starting from first principles and reading assembly, then climbing your way through to find context based on available resources/tools until you recognize what the program itself is doing
8:17 WAIT WHATS HIS WALLPAPER I WANT IT HELP PLS
Wallpaper name: yoshi's island
This is a certified minesweeper moment
I really wanna see more videos like this one
I thought this would be a version so that it choose the placement of the mine on the fly so that you always have to make guesses and that the guesses will always be wrong.
But this is good too.
4:32 Schrodinger's mines
I was about to write this comment 🤣
This just gave me a great idea...
can you make it so the first space you click is always a mine, but every other space isn't a mine?
Windows 93 (when it still worked, but does not work correctly) had a minesweeper mode that the first click was ALWAYS a mine (but not the impossible mode) called "Troll mode"…
fun fact: windows vista/7 games have built in cheats, you can enable them with resource hacker or with the windows games tweaker by door2windows
Uploaded a day ago?! * rings the bell * Ahh, that’s better...
Running program that friend sends you in sandbox is very clever thing, +1
I love your wallpaper
Just what I needed for april fools! A nice reverse engineering video
what an enticing idea
Just a Minesweeper way to keep it up!
this all went over my head higher than the space station
I have no clue what is being written in these videos but I like it.
“Some friends!”
[one friend]
5:18 Truth is, the game was rigged from the start
I love that windows background, does anyone know where to download it? Thanks!
Would it be possible to make an even more cursed minesweeper where only one tile is ever a mine but it’s always the tile you first click?
I liked this video just as I saw the description
Huh. It's kinda weird how well I was able to follow along with this after playing TIS-100. The registers and math are legit!
Wow... making geek look so easy, maximum respect
I don't understand anything. But enjoyed it anyways. Your voice is so relaxing. More videos please
You could just make it from scratch. have a few selectable grid sizes, a top layer, which is remeve when clicked, an a bottom layer, which is just a grid filled with mines, and the tile closest to the click gets highlighted in red. That's basically it.