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N64 Console Test ROM

Nintendo 64 ROM written to stress test the hardware

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I wrote this test ROM in MIPS assembly to test consoles for various types of hardware faults that I suspected could be the cause of strange glitches people were experiencing. The ROM tests for stuck cache bits, errors in DMA, and CPU instruction errors which were known to exist at one point in the console's development.