Every Nintendo Switch appears to contain a hidden copy of NES Golf

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Tangentially related, a thought just popped into my head: is there a Code Golf Golf competition? That is, who can write a functional golf game using the least amount of code?

I suppose scoring would be somewhat subjective; an interactive text-based golf game would be very short, but not very "golf".

That's unusually hard to Google for :)

I did find one example: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/74767/code-golf...

http://golf.shinh.org/p.rb?FizzBuzz

That's just fizzbuzz.

If codegolf.stackexchange.com is any proof, it will probably be a couple of characters from one of the higher Unicode planes that don't even have a symbol in most fonts, in one of those languages you've never heard of, that were created mainly to skirt the code golf rules.

Or a builtin Mathematica function for it

I wonder whether they still have the Golf source code or patched the motion control support into an existing ROM through disassembly.

Most likely the emulator will translate the motion to old school button input and the ROM is unmodified.

I'd imagine that if they have the source that it would be 6502 assembly anyway.

With old-world (and modern low-level embedded) programming, the "usefulness" in having source code came more from having comments and non-stripped symbols. Reverse-engineering is still necessary even to get (readable) ASM.

I loved playing golf as a kid. I think it influenced almost every major golf game that followed.

It's probably in left in there for TDD.

Every NES game could use motion controls if you plugged in a PowerGlove :P

The game you play when you retire, get the lowest score.

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