Nope, he's playing with original hardware, the screen shot is a reference to what was a speed running bounty. There was a streamer playing that part of Super Mario 64 and he glitched straight up, if it could be repeated it would be a great time save for speed running. After years of investigation the community decided that it was caused by a bit flip probably caused by cosmic radiation. You can't get that bit flip on an emulator.

[–] Stoneykins@mander.xyz 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Hey so the cosmic ray thing was a really popular meme but the glitch was probably just a crooked cartidge. It's funny to imagine a cosmic ray doing this but the odds are so low as to be functionally impossible, and this kind of glitch can happen with dirty or loose connections.

https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/8767558

Someone else already linked this video so here is a link to their comment

[–] Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

True or not, this meme doesn't make sense if you don't know about it.

[–] Stoneykins@mander.xyz 1 points 8 months ago

Oh absolutely.

You just seemed like you were trying to provide info, so I added the last bit to... Add more info.

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