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"The breath extension replaces the function at 0x80bb734"

It sounds what Naughty Dog did to get RAM on the PSX for Crash Bandicoot ... they grabbed memory already allocated by the Sony runtime libs and would use it if it not do anything bad.

A crashing game console is not a ventilator but a good hack nonetheless.




It's a standard technique -- binary patching.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patch_(computing)




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