Apparently, the amount of levels the original Pacman has (For the NES) is a closely guarded secret, can someone tell me how far one can get on this game? without cheating...
WOW!! you beat the last level of pac-man! and some people say it's unsurpassable. anyone remember that reward for beating this level back in 1999? you just won $100,000! go to billy mitchel and show him this video. you deserve it.
not real becuz in the arcade game, the numbers go all the way down to the bottom and there is no fruit and thats another video becuz how could u play when there is a camera in front of the camera
@lucas66568 - Nope. A standard (i.e., non split screen) Pac-Man board has exactly 244 dots (240 small dots and 4 energizers), and even on the split screen, the game code is checking for 244 dots to be eaten as the trigger to progress to the next level. Since the split screen doesn't have nearly that many dots (114 dots on the left half; 9 on the right), you can't get any further.
It would be terrific if those original Pac Man programmers fixed that final stage split screen to a full maze like in stages 1 to 255, then when the last maze stage is cleared, the game is over.
@Sharptooth100 lol too bad back then programmers just wanted money and didnt care about the ppl who played it. well they did... just didnt expect ppl to beat the whole thing
If you manage to beat the level by some luck,it will just go to the level 1 screen but the power pellets will have no effect and the difficulty is still really hard.
can u plz put a vid of all the original cutscenes like the one after you beat level 3 (when the ghost is chasing u but then pacman gets bigger and gets back at the ghost) ive only gotten past the first two cutscenes
@raphiey - Because Pac-Man arcade machines have a rack advance switch inside the machine that allow you to skip ahead levels. That way I didn't have to play the game for hours and hours just to make a demonstration video for dealing with the split screen. That's why the score is so low.
@raphiey he warped with MAME to level 255 and passed it.
and here's how he got 12600he got 2600 points for the dots (2400 for normal ones, 200 for the big ones) then 10000 for keys (1st 5000 2nd 5000 total 10000) total 12600
@lucas66568 - Yes, exactly. The MAME emulates the original arcade Pac-Man so perfectly, it even includes the rack advance switch. This video is not meant to be anything but a demonstration of how to trap 3 ghosts on the split screen (i.e., the score is meaningless).
@TheT1231995 I think I am right in saying, the devs never thought anybody would get that far.
I mean level 256 is A LOT of levels and this was a really hard at the time, so they probably just made a load then got half way through this and thought "wait, nobody will get this far. Lets just release it". That would be my guess anyway.
@MegaSmurf9 - Oh I'm definitely a nerd in terms of classic arcade games, so even I will give a thumbs up for that. One might argue that upside-down text is fairly nerdy also! Additionally, if you want to call people names, at least have the balls to do it right-side up! :)
i think the game makers thought nobody would ever beat the game so they got lazy on the last levels and kept those fucked up Pixels on the right side of the screen lol
The reason that Pac Man goes bonkers at level 256 is probably because the variable that stores the level number is only 2 bytes long and the largest number you can store in 2 bytes is 255 which would equal FF in hexadecimal. The number 256 in hexadecimal is 100, which is too large for a 2 byte variable thus resulting in the game going straight down the toilet from that point onward.
@SUPERBLORP thats nothing have to do with "get a live" .. More the guys that playes games all day long without an pause.. or talk to friends... (( Online on chat dont count )) havent no live. ^^ Iam really good on DoA 2.. and nobody can beat me get to the highest lvl and make it with easy.. But have much friends n stuff. :D And this game arent that hard dude. ^^ (pacman)
Every level has a pattern, getting to this level isn't hard at all if you can memorize the patterns or have a friend that sits next to you and tells you the upcoming direction to take. Just because someone is really good at a video game does not mean they have no life, grow up and get a life of your own, is there really a purpose to going on youtube videos looking for something and then complaining that you found it?
in theory if someone was possible to beat level 256 then the game would go to level 1 settings with the faster ghosts and immune to the power ups and restart the game levels meaning who ever beats level 256( which is likely impossible) they would get the original plan for the game never ending
The ghosts traveling to the bottom of the screen over and over again reminds me of The Matrix. Might be kind of cool to do a Matrix parody mash-up with Pac-Man as Neo, Ms. Pac-Man as Trinity, change the power pills to red, Agent Smith would definitely be Speedy. Might be kind of funny.
I got to say: Thank you SO much for making the pac-man dossier! It is the most incredible thing I've ever read, and it got me into to how the programming of old games work. I completely understand the inner workings of this game now.
at the end of the game it shows your final highscore then returns to the very first level again. except the ghosts are still faster and you have your diffrent assortment of fruits and things.
Great piece of old game trivia! It would be even more interesting to upload a video of maybe the last two levels before you get here so we can see what it looks like at that level too! Thanks.
This sucks, I played Namco's Museum hoping to get to level 256 so I can play the pac-man glitch, but Namco doesn't have the glitch anymore. After I made it to 256 the game starts over. What a waste of time!
It was rumored that this 8 year old kid got PAST the split screen and got the highest score in the world. This was such an event that even the PRESIDENT Ronald Reagan sent him a letter of congratulations! Or so it has been said.
it has something to do with those cutscenes you get every four levels with some little animation of pacmen pwning ghosts, anyhow however it adds up theres a level and a cutscene at the same time and the codes mess up each other hence you get a screwed up level, I think only the original arcade version has this though
@Musician992 It's because a 1-byte (8-bit) variable can only represent the numbers from 0 to 255 (or -128 to +127). Since the variable starts at 1 to represent level 1, you get 255 levels, then the variable loops to zero, and the game erroneosly attempts to draw 256 fruits.
@FOXstreet1 - Oh for pete's sake: the point was to DEMONSTRATE how to trick the ghosts over to the side of the screen. NOT to play the game all the way to this level legitimately (because that would take many hours - I have better things to do with my time). There's a little switch inside the arcade machine called a "rack test" switch that allows operators to skip ahead levels which is exactly what I did. The point was to show how to deal with the ghosts - not to show off a high score.
@xixRASBERRYxix - Not unless the Xbox 360 developers chose to be VERY faithful to the original and intentionally put in what is a glitch from the arcade. Guess you'll have to play 256 levels to find out! ;-)
They were faithful to the original I believe. Although it's WAY harder to play with a 360 controller thumbstick than an old arcade joystick. I miss the 4 distinct directions.
It goes all glitchy on the right side because 256 in hex is 100, but there was only coding for fruit to be 2 digits in hex, i.e. FF being the highest fruit number available to display (not number of fruit, but numbered piece of fruit, and previous 5). So when it tries to load level 256, it attempts to load 100 pictures of fruit, which is why only the side where the fruit goes glitches.
@oinkbiscuit The level counter is stored in 8 bit meaning 255 is the most levels it can count. When one beats 255 the counter wraps to 0, this creates garbage output in a routine in the game, a routine is a function that is used over and over. One routine counts how many fruits are on the screen. When the level counter wraps to 0, the game tries to put 256 fruits on screen. (Represented by the random numbers as hexadecimal code) it starts on the bottom, and up the right side of the screen.
@CzechRiot - Good question. You can indeed memorize several patterns to get you through the levels (many people do this). As long as you pull off the pattern perfectly, they will work every time and the ghosts won't get you. This works because ghost behavior is deterministic and not random (although it is designed to seem so).
@pigeater25 - Um, realize the name of this video isn't "High Score In Pac-Man". It was merely to demonstrate how the 256th level behaves and how to "trap" 3 of the 4 ghosts on the edge of the screen. If you own the arcade machine, you have what is called a "rack test" switch inside the machine you can press to skip ahead levels which is what I did.
So even if you do remove the visible dots, there still is not a 'next' level.. hrm interesting.. as a computer programmer i love how the byte that held the value is limited to 2^8 (256) 0-255.. pretty cool though.. just some programmer i guess never figured many would make it to a level that high i guess they under estimated gamers haha..
@johnathon124 - Indeed it did. I can still remember that Christmas when the 2600 version of Pac-Man came out and every kid in my neighborhood was royally pissed at how bad in stank. But Pac-Man didn't cause the crash all by itself but it definitely was a major contributing factor. Atari's "E.T. The Extra Terrestrial" cartridge did just as much if not more damage. Why do I get the feeling I'm much older than you? LOL!
@jameypittman i know it didnt cause it, but it was a main cause... And you are probably much older than me. i do know these classic games very well, but i didnt actually live through them.. i was born in 96, and as a child, i played mostly the Sega Genesis and later, the first Playstation. i loved all the games released for it, especially Crash Bandicoot games [ which i still play now, since the current ones have transformed into some hot mess ... ]
@jameypittman and i remember all the Genesis games i played as a little kid too.. the Sonic games, those games on the 5 in 1 cartridge, that Wheel of Fortune Game ( which was rather creepy, it had a dark look, no sound, and it allowed all players to be an api player... )
And i remember Namco museum games for the PS1... With emulation i can still play all those games, especially since the PSP has POPS, a built in PSX emulator.. Classics were always the best imo...
Apparently, the amount of levels the original Pacman has (For the NES) is a closely guarded secret, can someone tell me how far one can get on this game? without cheating...
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WOW!! you beat the last level of pac-man! and some people say it's unsurpassable. anyone remember that reward for beating this level back in 1999? you just won $100,000! go to billy mitchel and show him this video. you deserve it.
splintercellz88 1 week ago
Why are the ghosts not going after you?
jonmichaeljordan 2 weeks ago
teach me yhur ways of completion
awkmid86 3 weeks ago
not real becuz in the arcade game, the numbers go all the way down to the bottom and there is no fruit and thats another video becuz how could u play when there is a camera in front of the camera
ultimatelssjgoku 3 weeks ago
Ok now im going to watch censored cartoons
BrettAlperTV 1 month ago
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lucas66568 1 month ago
@lucas66568 - Nope. A standard (i.e., non split screen) Pac-Man board has exactly 244 dots (240 small dots and 4 energizers), and even on the split screen, the game code is checking for 244 dots to be eaten as the trigger to progress to the next level. Since the split screen doesn't have nearly that many dots (114 dots on the left half; 9 on the right), you can't get any further.
jameypittman 1 month ago
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lucas66568 1 month ago
after you beat this did you get the undroppable quarter
rengie123 1 month ago
the orange it's impossible to trap because he is chasing you lesser than other ghosts
lucas66568 1 month ago
that is level 0 because after you finished level 255 it will roll over to zero and this is how it looks like!
lucas66568 1 month ago
Damn ghosts... THEY DIVIDED BY ZERO
famtomerc 2 months ago
I never got why it did this
Nerflover787 2 months ago
@Nerflover787 It's all based on the 8bit chip that Pacman ran on- here is video explaning the binary code behind it and why 256 doesn't work...
/watch?v=umYvFdU54Po
enjoy! :D
FlamingChihuaha 1 month ago
So we meet again 240p
Bighoss2369 2 months ago
It would be terrific if those original Pac Man programmers fixed that final stage split screen to a full maze like in stages 1 to 255, then when the last maze stage is cleared, the game is over.
Sharptooth100 3 months ago
@Sharptooth100 lol too bad back then programmers just wanted money and didnt care about the ppl who played it. well they did... just didnt expect ppl to beat the whole thing
spacethew 2 months ago
If you manage to beat the level by some luck,it will just go to the level 1 screen but the power pellets will have no effect and the difficulty is still really hard.
SuperShyGuy1011 3 months ago
thumbs up if the description of the roblox gift got you here
mickysaaz1 3 months ago
@mickysaaz1 Oh good, I'm not the only one...(:
CherriSodurr 3 months ago
did pacman eat a key?
damprumpan 3 months ago
anyone come here cuz of ready player 1?
lionesskarate 3 months ago
how did you get up to that level? OMG
Crystallian101 4 months ago
LMAO @ 1:21
100ammarrizvi 4 months ago
Thanks for making this clearer! i read online that this stage was unbeatable.. but there IS a way! thumbs up to the video!
100ammarrizvi 4 months ago
props never knew there was a last level
mrdott92 4 months ago
That is awesome. -bows-
Grats on getting that far.
Braleven 5 months ago
can u plz put a vid of all the original cutscenes like the one after you beat level 3 (when the ghost is chasing u but then pacman gets bigger and gets back at the ghost) ive only gotten past the first two cutscenes
tatoneotherguy 5 months ago
haha when i was a kid i tap the code to level 256 and i didn't know what i do lolXD
FanMario2002 6 months ago
@LyricAndOctavia How do you make that backwards b? lol
WildDogShadow 6 months ago
@jameypittman You feed the dog, thats a nice thing to do, but is it the right one? I guess it is, or else the dog dies.
Ignoring is the worst thing a human can do to someone.
FalconsLegacy 6 months ago
for once the player LITERRALY beat the game
stfuimpaul 6 months ago
thats crazy!!!!
slickskater777 6 months ago
hiw the fuck did you manage to go to level 256=~? i cant pass level 2
PivotMakeranimations 6 months ago
@PivotMakeranimations HA HA HA im 12 i got to the 50th stage!
mrshanegt 6 months ago
@mrshanegt how?i can't get past level 9
lucas66568 1 week ago
@lucas66568 Some how i was playing in a arcade and i had about 40 coins and i kept on passing because i was really good
mrshanegt 1 week ago
@mrshanegt how many lives there was? mine 5 and i can get until level 9 with a game
lucas66568 6 days ago
@lucas66568 3X40 = 120 Trys i had
mrshanegt 6 days ago
@mrshanegt mine i had 5 lives
lucas66568 6 days ago
you know if you can find a way to beat this stage billy mitchel has put a $100,000 bounty out and if you can prove it to him he will pay you
kirosenaka01 6 months ago
what happens if you beat it?
macarjona 6 months ago
WAs that an algo or just random game play?
kitefrog 6 months ago
Level 3 was my best :D
MrTrentonimo 6 months ago
w.e it is respect to anyone who got to this level in pacman
ufufjdsjsjfh 6 months ago
Pacman, the most epic Circle EVER
MrDuckBringer 6 months ago
so basically when you finish that level, nothing happens? wow that must mean that when you finish it your stuck there forever!
somecanadianguy100 6 months ago
But, even if you do it all the way, you can't finish the level, right?
ProduccionesHyD 6 months ago
@jameypittman
youre a hero ! how did you get that far :O:O?????
but there is one thing i was wondering about. why does it say you have only 12600 points in the beginning ?
raphiey 7 months ago
@raphiey - Because Pac-Man arcade machines have a rack advance switch inside the machine that allow you to skip ahead levels. That way I didn't have to play the game for hours and hours just to make a demonstration video for dealing with the split screen. That's why the score is so low.
jameypittman 1 month ago
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lucas66568 4 weeks ago
@jameypittman yes
lucas66568 6 days ago
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lucas66568 6 days ago
@raphiey he warped with MAME to level 255 and passed it.
and here's how he got 12600he got 2600 points for the dots (2400 for normal ones, 200 for the big ones) then 10000 for keys (1st 5000 2nd 5000 total 10000) total 12600
lucas66568 6 days ago
@lucas66568 - Yes, exactly. The MAME emulates the original arcade Pac-Man so perfectly, it even includes the rack advance switch. This video is not meant to be anything but a demonstration of how to trap 3 ghosts on the split screen (i.e., the score is meaningless).
jameypittman 6 days ago
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lucas66568 5 days ago
@jameypittman but the version MAME 32 0.35 (the one i own) doesn't even have it. why?
lucas66568 5 days ago
@lucas66568 - That's a really old version of MAME. Go download a newer version. Problem solved.
jameypittman 5 days ago
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lucas66568 5 days ago
Oh my God, Pac Man hit by the Millennium Bug
MerkinMuffly 7 months ago
What's the point of the game if it's like that
TheT1231995 7 months ago
@TheT1231995 I think I am right in saying, the devs never thought anybody would get that far.
I mean level 256 is A LOT of levels and this was a really hard at the time, so they probably just made a load then got half way through this and thought "wait, nobody will get this far. Lets just release it". That would be my guess anyway.
theomega616 6 months ago
Pac-man can see the matrix. He is the one...
chaosworshipper 7 months ago 23
0:10 Pokey goes crazy ;) .
Myjuliancito 8 months ago 8
The reason why this happens is because there is a byte to store the level number.
LetsPlayGamesGuy 8 months ago
Kill screen
Messykiller0005 8 months ago
0:11 yellow ghost: YOU SPINNIN MA HEAD RIGHT ROUND RIGHT ROUND lol
marcoaranas 8 months ago 2
how did u do that
msemmapeel 9 months ago
@msemmapeel The 256th level of Pac Man is a Kill Screen, so you can't go any further in the game.
yosimite20 7 months ago
UT Announcer: Kill Screen!
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MegaSmurf9 9 months ago
@MegaSmurf9 - Oh I'm definitely a nerd in terms of classic arcade games, so even I will give a thumbs up for that. One might argue that upside-down text is fairly nerdy also! Additionally, if you want to call people names, at least have the balls to do it right-side up! :)
jameypittman 9 months ago 40
i think the game makers thought nobody would ever beat the game so they got lazy on the last levels and kept those fucked up Pixels on the right side of the screen lol
247xReviews 10 months ago
I had error of this video xD "Error , Try Later."
MakeTh3pOrn 10 months ago
Very cool! I've been meaning to look this up for a while :D
greyspot00 10 months ago
The reason that Pac Man goes bonkers at level 256 is probably because the variable that stores the level number is only 2 bytes long and the largest number you can store in 2 bytes is 255 which would equal FF in hexadecimal. The number 256 in hexadecimal is 100, which is too large for a 2 byte variable thus resulting in the game going straight down the toilet from that point onward.
awhitsel 10 months ago
@awhitsel that number FF is one byte, max for two bytes would be FFFF which is 65535
jamesm777 10 months ago
they did this cause they thought nobody could get to that level.
JustCallMeAndreW 10 months ago
@JustCallMeAndreW No, 255 is the largest number the level counter can take because it's only 1 byte. They meant for it to be unlimited.
frankjohnson123 10 months ago
What happens when you win? Is their a video or something? whats in the video
PS1Connect 11 months ago
the power pellets have no use?!?
PGskizzEs 11 months ago
its not level 256 its a game bug look at the high score
Wo5h 11 months ago
@Wo5h it's because everytime you make a million the score rolls over to zero
lucas66568 1 month ago
256 BEGIN
Pac-Man: Shoot.
camwoodstock 11 months ago
You can do the glitch... But good luck getting to level 256..... And if you manage to actually get there than get a life.
SUPERBLORP 1 year ago
@SUPERBLORP thats nothing have to do with "get a live" .. More the guys that playes games all day long without an pause.. or talk to friends... (( Online on chat dont count )) havent no live. ^^ Iam really good on DoA 2.. and nobody can beat me get to the highest lvl and make it with easy.. But have much friends n stuff. :D And this game arent that hard dude. ^^ (pacman)
SONGOKU02 10 months ago
@SUPERBLORP
Every level has a pattern, getting to this level isn't hard at all if you can memorize the patterns or have a friend that sits next to you and tells you the upcoming direction to take. Just because someone is really good at a video game does not mean they have no life, grow up and get a life of your own, is there really a purpose to going on youtube videos looking for something and then complaining that you found it?
TehAwesomeness 7 months ago
kiwininja100, How do you do that?
Lester5748 1 year ago
ಠ_ಠ
kiwininja100 1 year ago
the blue one isn't stuck, he's doubled up with the red one!
joshanator1 1 year ago
@joshanator1 Which makes him stuck, 'cause along with the red and pink the blue one is going the same path on the right and won't get out of there ;)
MisterMattata 1 year ago
in theory if someone was possible to beat level 256 then the game would go to level 1 settings with the faster ghosts and immune to the power ups and restart the game levels meaning who ever beats level 256( which is likely impossible) they would get the original plan for the game never ending
timelord314 1 year ago
Why did Pac-Man have to divide by zero? WHY?!
themangOMEGA 1 year ago
1:07 did pac-man just eat a key?
pokegamer123 1 year ago 3
@pokegamer123 yup
treatyoself2tee 1 year ago
*points finger* HAX!!!!!!
DarkVetern 1 year ago
its pac man on drugs XD
00DrCRazy00 1 year ago
This is what happens when you divide by 0.
TheCastro82 1 year ago 13
HAX!
thenewRobloxtv 1 year ago
The ghosts traveling to the bottom of the screen over and over again reminds me of The Matrix. Might be kind of cool to do a Matrix parody mash-up with Pac-Man as Neo, Ms. Pac-Man as Trinity, change the power pills to red, Agent Smith would definitely be Speedy. Might be kind of funny.
Stentor7 1 year ago
I got to say: Thank you SO much for making the pac-man dossier! It is the most incredible thing I've ever read, and it got me into to how the programming of old games work. I completely understand the inner workings of this game now.
Jamey, you and Don Hodges are awesome.
nintendork64 1 year ago 15
@nintendork64 - That is very kind of you to say - thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed the dossier! :)
jameypittman 1 year ago 4
@nintendork64 do you know to start with more lives instead of 3? thanks
CarlosBugeja 1 year ago
@CarlosBugeja I don't think you can... Unless I'm forgetting something.
nintendork64 1 year ago
@nintendork64 - actually there's a dipswitch in the arcade machine that toggles between starting with either 3 or 5 lives.
jameypittman 11 months ago
at the end of the game it shows your final highscore then returns to the very first level again. except the ghosts are still faster and you have your diffrent assortment of fruits and things.
theotherguy245689 1 year ago
and that was the final level? now the game is end? :/
UmaLacka 1 year ago
this i so messed up...
MultiShadow117 1 year ago
hello
josan14basket 1 year ago
ram okay
rom not okay
382mayanzev 1 year ago
Great piece of old game trivia! It would be even more interesting to upload a video of maybe the last two levels before you get here so we can see what it looks like at that level too! Thanks.
vapourmile 1 year ago
it just look like y broke the screen
EpicPrimeTime 1 year ago
What is it?
pedrophrgs 1 year ago
pacman must of took the red pill
ST0N3R420X420 1 year ago
level 255 - waka waka waka waka waka waka waka (pacman nom noise)
Level 256 - waka waka waka waka waka wat the fuck??
sonicfan1996 1 year ago 4
OOOOOOK!
ProudScotsmanRex 1 year ago
Some f----t copied your video.
ELTIGREROCKS10NEW 1 year ago
This sucks, I played Namco's Museum hoping to get to level 256 so I can play the pac-man glitch, but Namco doesn't have the glitch anymore. After I made it to 256 the game starts over. What a waste of time!
Jellofreeze 1 year ago
@Jellofreeze WHAT! shouldn't pacman have 300 rounds? so you can acheive the perfect score? (3,000,000,000)
TwixersTwingersnap 1 year ago
chuck norris can beat this game in 10 seconds
XDivideBy0 1 year ago
@XDivideBy0 he can do anything
Supershicfan360 1 year ago
@XDivideBy0 Chuck Norris decides how long 10 seconds is...
TDKOnafets 1 year ago
@ChrisLQ you are right, i have seen many games with a level cap of 255 even with hacks and glitches, including Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout 3
oblivion0gro0krash 1 year ago
This question is silly but does it ACTULLY do that if you get to level 256? and if it does, how did you ever survive that FAR?!
ThePooman101 1 year ago
It's the GLITCH GREMLIN!
BionicleKid97 1 year ago 7
@BionicleKid97 Keep the q-tip away. Keep it away.
JumpingKentFlash 1 year ago
talking about glitches..
CuttNSee 1 year ago
Pointless
MrSyrett 1 year ago
Well, it's not the programmers fault... the players are so good they broke the game!
SnowflakeVaan 1 year ago
OMG it's the matrix :O
REAPER28020 1 year ago
It was rumored that this 8 year old kid got PAST the split screen and got the highest score in the world. This was such an event that even the PRESIDENT Ronald Reagan sent him a letter of congratulations! Or so it has been said.
Bittergamer1886 1 year ago
ZALGO
BlockJuice 1 year ago
why is the right side of the screen like that
vicvicvic135 1 year ago
@vicvicvic135
it has something to do with those cutscenes you get every four levels with some little animation of pacmen pwning ghosts, anyhow however it adds up theres a level and a cutscene at the same time and the codes mess up each other hence you get a screwed up level, I think only the original arcade version has this though
Musician992 1 year ago
@Musician992 It's because a 1-byte (8-bit) variable can only represent the numbers from 0 to 255 (or -128 to +127). Since the variable starts at 1 to represent level 1, you get 255 levels, then the variable loops to zero, and the game erroneosly attempts to draw 256 fruits.
ChrisLQ 1 year ago
Damn hexadecimals.
Locomikey666 1 year ago
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Locomikey666 1 year ago
wonder what developer of pac-man has to sat about his lv256 glitch... on purpose? not? proud of it? ashamed? doesn't care?
HarryLarry76 1 year ago
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is false, the table of points is a 12600, its dont real. jaja
FOXstreet1 1 year ago
@FOXstreet1 - Oh for pete's sake: the point was to DEMONSTRATE how to trick the ghosts over to the side of the screen. NOT to play the game all the way to this level legitimately (because that would take many hours - I have better things to do with my time). There's a little switch inside the arcade machine called a "rack test" switch that allows operators to skip ahead levels which is exactly what I did. The point was to show how to deal with the ghosts - not to show off a high score.
jameypittman 1 year ago 74
@jameypittman
tee-hee...you said "pete's sake"
supercoolbenwag 1 year ago
@FOXstreet1
The level is figgin unbeatable, andd GLITCHY. >:(
TheTerraTitan 1 year ago
@FOXstreet1 tonto weon jaja pao culiao xD
jmm00702 1 year ago
This is probably a stupid question but I'm curious. On the Xbox 360 arcade you can download pacman to play. Would the same thing happen on there too?
xixRASBERRYxix 1 year ago
@xixRASBERRYxix - Not unless the Xbox 360 developers chose to be VERY faithful to the original and intentionally put in what is a glitch from the arcade. Guess you'll have to play 256 levels to find out! ;-)
jameypittman 1 year ago 31
@jameypittman
They were faithful to the original I believe. Although it's WAY harder to play with a 360 controller thumbstick than an old arcade joystick. I miss the 4 distinct directions.
beundead 1 year ago
@xixRASBERRYxix I doubt it, as Dig Dug's similar kill-screen error was fixed.
llproductions2006 1 year ago
ive gotten to level 21 without memorizing the ghost pattern
turtlehead12699 1 year ago
why does it go like that all glichy on the right hand side? its wierd...
oinkbiscuit 1 year ago
@oinkbiscuit
It goes all glitchy on the right side because 256 in hex is 100, but there was only coding for fruit to be 2 digits in hex, i.e. FF being the highest fruit number available to display (not number of fruit, but numbered piece of fruit, and previous 5). So when it tries to load level 256, it attempts to load 100 pictures of fruit, which is why only the side where the fruit goes glitches.
beundead 1 year ago
@beundead , in other words it is trying to display too many fruit right?
crazyjak56 1 year ago
@crazyjak56
Yeah, that's probably a much better summary than my circuitous attempt at explaining :P.
beundead 1 year ago
@oinkbiscuit It's hard to explain, here is my attempt.
xxcurnuxx 1 year ago
@oinkbiscuit The level counter is stored in 8 bit meaning 255 is the most levels it can count. When one beats 255 the counter wraps to 0, this creates garbage output in a routine in the game, a routine is a function that is used over and over. One routine counts how many fruits are on the screen. When the level counter wraps to 0, the game tries to put 256 fruits on screen. (Represented by the random numbers as hexadecimal code) it starts on the bottom, and up the right side of the screen.
xxcurnuxx 1 year ago
i bet they put the bug there on purpose because they didnt want anyone to beat pac man! lolz jk
Aislingnol 1 year ago
Oh wow it glitched real good. Nice to see you get so far in the game.
MeltingIceAU 1 year ago
if you see good, you can see the blue ghost and the red ghost are toguether but the red is afront of the blue, and for that we can see the blue
CalambaGameMaster1 1 year ago
Do you have to like memorize ghost patterns to go beyond level 10? I just play it randomly, like not paying attention, and I never got past level 13.
CzechRiot 1 year ago
@CzechRiot - Good question. You can indeed memorize several patterns to get you through the levels (many people do this). As long as you pull off the pattern perfectly, they will work every time and the ghosts won't get you. This works because ghost behavior is deterministic and not random (although it is designed to seem so).
jameypittman 1 year ago
@CzechRiot not ass bad as me i havent got past level 2
sharpshootertails 1 year ago
lol he glitched it.
SystemofaJake1 1 year ago
@SystemofaJake1 dumbass
crazyjak56 1 year ago
umm people look at the high score stupids
pigeater25 1 year ago
@pigeater25 - Um, realize the name of this video isn't "High Score In Pac-Man". It was merely to demonstrate how the 256th level behaves and how to "trap" 3 of the 4 ghosts on the edge of the screen. If you own the arcade machine, you have what is called a "rack test" switch inside the machine you can press to skip ahead levels which is what I did.
jameypittman 1 year ago
you're a fuckin badass ninja!!!!! i can't even go to level 2!!!
ruregah 1 year ago 4
Awsome memories
sugarplummsmax 1 year ago
So even if you do remove the visible dots, there still is not a 'next' level.. hrm interesting.. as a computer programmer i love how the byte that held the value is limited to 2^8 (256) 0-255.. pretty cool though.. just some programmer i guess never figured many would make it to a level that high i guess they under estimated gamers haha..
willyboxc 1 year ago 3
MissingNo appeared.
SitarKnight 1 year ago 2
Looks like Pac-Man's been smoking some bad granola.
brnleague99 1 year ago
so pacman is basicially 100% impossible to beat?
rushfan212 1 year ago
i wonder what the Atari 2600 did at level 256...
Caused the Video Game Crash of 1983...
johnathon124 1 year ago
@johnathon124 - Indeed it did. I can still remember that Christmas when the 2600 version of Pac-Man came out and every kid in my neighborhood was royally pissed at how bad in stank. But Pac-Man didn't cause the crash all by itself but it definitely was a major contributing factor. Atari's "E.T. The Extra Terrestrial" cartridge did just as much if not more damage. Why do I get the feeling I'm much older than you? LOL!
jameypittman 1 year ago
@jameypittman i know it didnt cause it, but it was a main cause... And you are probably much older than me. i do know these classic games very well, but i didnt actually live through them.. i was born in 96, and as a child, i played mostly the Sega Genesis and later, the first Playstation. i loved all the games released for it, especially Crash Bandicoot games [ which i still play now, since the current ones have transformed into some hot mess ... ]
johnathon124 1 year ago
@johnathon124 - I was born in '73 so, when I was a little kid, we had one game: Pong. :)
jameypittman 1 year ago
@jameypittman and i remember all the Genesis games i played as a little kid too.. the Sonic games, those games on the 5 in 1 cartridge, that Wheel of Fortune Game ( which was rather creepy, it had a dark look, no sound, and it allowed all players to be an api player... )
And i remember Namco museum games for the PS1... With emulation i can still play all those games, especially since the PSP has POPS, a built in PSX emulator.. Classics were always the best imo...
johnathon124 1 year ago
soooo you beat it? if you did that before january 2000 you could have won 100,000 dollars lol.
aveman3 1 year ago