Cosmic Ray Manipulation

Cosmic Ray Manipulation is the process of manipulating Super Mario 64 by using Cosmic Rays to flip certain bits within the games code. It was first discovered it in 2018 after Creamer77 tried to claim the $1 bounty set by rennenhoek1991 for the Tick Tock Clock Upwarp. Creamer77 learned how to manipulate the RF shielding in his console in order for gamma rays to hit specific parts of the N64 Motherboard, letting him control what bits get flipped.

He then released a video on his youtube channel explaining how he did it.

The strategy was banned in 2020 after it was determined that it qualified as hardware manipulation.

Gamma Radiation

A gamma ray is a penetrating form of electromagnetic radiation arising from the radioactive decay of atomic nuclei. Chemist and physicist, Paul Villard, discovered gamma radiation in 1900 while studying radiation emitted by Radium, unfortunately, this discovery was directly responsible for his death 12 days later.

Here is an example of gamma radiation:

${\ce {^{227}_{90}Rn->^{227}_{90}Rn + ^{0}_{0}\gamma}}$

A Radon atom emitting gamma radiation (not to be confused with Radium, which cannot be a lone atom).

~ Paul Erich Villard (1860-1900)

   RN ⟶ RN + γ↓