So, two years ago, I bought this cheap MP4 player device in China. I used it for storing my stuff, but once while in file explorer mode, I accidentally pressed the "select" button while one of my old rom files of Zelda was highlighted. Surprisingly enough, the device actually started an emulator program and was able to run the rom file.
Obviously, I was curious, and started searching around for more information, but there was absolutely nothing about this function in the instruction manual nor on the manufacturer's website. so, I decided to play around on the emulator for myself.
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Anyway, after messing around and testing for a bit, I discovered that this MP4 was able to emulate the NES, some old Sega console, GB, and the GBC. The emulation software also seemed to be incomplete, as exiting the emulator after running any Gameboy rom automatically corrupts the rom file, making it permanently unuseable.
One of the other odd things I noticed was that when I created a save state in Zelda, quitted the game, and then tried to reload that save state after restarting the emulator, it would load the graphics of the area I was in when the game was saved, but it would apply the physics/collision detection of the area I was in before the state was loaded.
Eventually, I tried loading the state while on the title screen, and the graphics seemed to load normally, but whenever I walked towards the edge of the map, it moved me into this map below:
(Yes, I realise that it's an imitation iPhone...)
Another photo I took of the area. Note that the bottom quarter of the image is cut by the emulator.
I was just wondering, has anyone ever been to a section of the map like this before? The mountains have correct collision detection (ie. you can't walk through them), but if I walked along the path or the stairs, the map would just loop back to the other side of the same section.
Could this be like a beta world version of the old Zelda game (like in the "Beta World" code of Ocarina of Time)?
