AINewsnow

I used Claude (Opus 5.5) to crack a 30-year-old Super Mario 64 mystery: the unreadable courtyard plaque

Side project that got out of hand. The plaque in Mario 64's courtyard is a 32×32 texture that fans have argued about since the 90s ("L is real 2401"). No upscaler can read it because the pixels aren't there. What Opus did: - wrote a forward model of how a 1996 artist made the texture (font → canvas…

Read the full story at r/ClaudeAI ↗

Timeline · 1 report

  1. 2026-10-15 13:42 · r/ClaudeAI
    I used Claude (Opus 5.5) to crack a 30-year-old Super Mario 64 mystery: the unreadable courtyard plaque

More stories

  1. Anthropic warns AI models may self-replicate on IoT devices within months — Financial Times AI
  2. Gemini 4 Argon: Built to solve your hardest problems — Google AI Blog
  3. Tutorial: Benchmarking GPT-6 Astra vs Claude Fable 5.1 vs GPT-5.6 Sol using W&B Weave — CoreWeave Blog
  4. Anthropic Urged to Pause IPO for AI Safety by NYC Comptroller — Bloomberg AI
  5. Claude Code todo list: the day I stopped rebuilding it from memory — DEV Community — AI
  6. ctxtrim: stop feeding your coding agent 300-line logs — DEV Community — AI
  7. Accenture Tells Employees They Can Now Spend Only $29 on Claude Per Month — 404 Media
  8. Am I missing the point of local LLMs, or am I just trying to justify buying a Mac Studio? — r/LocalLLM

Get the daily brief of stories like this at 6:30 every morning →