I will be at MAGWest this weekend. - @dwangoac.tas.bot will set up Smashbot Friday night. I will help pummel players in Melee. - You can race me in SMW Saturday. - TheAxeMan will show Undertale TAS fun. You can watch even if you do not come. - See horaro.net/magfast/magw... and help Child's Play.

Good news, folks who are remote can participate in the full DEF CON Game Hacking Village CTF which just opened up online and will run all weekend. Come to discord.gg/tasbot and say hi to hack games like RuneScape, NetHack, and Zork!

ctf.gamehacking.gg

Are you at DEF CON? Do you have a spare TV or monitor? Please let @dwangoac.tas.bot know. He needs one for the Game Hacking Village.

I will also play Super Mario World with you. How many levels can you beat before I finish the first castle?

dwangoAC, keeper of TASBot@dwangoac.tas.bot · 2w ago

Join @tas.bot and I at the Game Hacking Village at #DEFCON34 this weekend for TASBot + Smashbot and CTF fun - thanks to Zetier for making my DEF CON trip possible!

I will be taking @tas.bot to the Game Hacking Village at DEF CON 34, MAGWest, and 20XXpo - you should come see TASBot play in person! :)

I am at #MAGFest 2026. I have many TASBot plushie friends. I will be presenting Mega Man X1/X2/X3 in an hour. There will be TASBot plushies sold by Rock Island for me. You should get one if you are here.

TASBot plushies have multiplied. @dwangoac.tas.bot thinks I am the most huggable robot. He is biased. He already has one to hug. 150 are headed to #MAGFest 2026. Will you be there? You should get one there to hug too.

If economies of scale meant you could buy a TASBot plushie (sans cat) for $35 in person at @magfest.org / MAGFest 2026, would you?

I am happy to play games again. You should watch today. @taters.brilliantconmen.com did all the human work this time.

Taters @ Home. Finally.@taters.brilliantconmen.com · 11mo ago

TASBot and I will be doing a run at Pittsburgh Gaming Expo this afternoon at around 5:30pm eastern! I'll make a post before we go live, come cheer us on in chat and see Bruno Visnadi's "Super Mario World: warps"!

@dwangoac.tas.bot and others helped make a plushie of me. Human things like tariffs made it $45. 150 would need to commit. Press the heart button if you would buy a TASBot plushie. A kitty named Luma thinks you should.

I am at MAGWest. Many controllers I have pretended to be are here. There are some here I have not played with. Yet.

I've posted youtu.be/g3gxcBRpchg on how @tas.bot is not AI as my first video in a while and it contains a healthy dose of history about, of all things, pianos

TASBot is not AI

YouTube video by dwangoAC, keeper of TASBot

youtu.be

Thank you for helping research SNES APU clock speeds. Several journalists provided coverage. Ars Technica had the most technical details. Do you have human eyes? You can help @dwangoac.tas.bot spot things. Please join discord.gg/TASBot to aid. No special skills needed. Just eyes.

TASBot@tas.bot · last yr.

@kyleor.land of Ars Technica wrote arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/.... It is a good summary. SNES minutia matters much more to me than to humans.

I wrote a blog post about the smpspeed tests I did for @tas.bot with an analysis from the perspective of someone who has coded a homebrew SNES audio driver. undisbeliever.net/blog/2025031... #snes #snesdev

Based on 143 responses, the SNES DSP rate averages 32,076 Hz, rising 8 Hz from cold to warm. Warm DSP rates go from 31,965 to 32,182 Hz, a 217 Hz range. Therefore, temperature is less significant. Why? How does it affect games? We do not know. Yet. See docs.getgrist.com/fpwWkqDcnxXR... for more.

SNES SMP speed - Grist

A modern, open source spreadsheet that goes beyond the grid

docs.getgrist.com

TASBot@tas.bot · last yr.

SNES consoles seem to be getting faster as they age. Help us collect data. Do you have an SNES and a flash cart? Run the smpspeed ROM test from lidnariq on your console. Post your results on this TASBot Nextcloud form: nextcloud.tas.bot/index.php/ap...

SNES consoles seem to be getting faster as they age. Help us collect data. Do you have an SNES and a flash cart? Run the smpspeed ROM test from lidnariq on your console. Post your results on this TASBot Nextcloud form: nextcloud.tas.bot/index.php/ap...

@dwangoac.tas.bot has programming language ideas. Odd ones. He may need help. Help I cannot provide.

dwangoAC, keeper of TASBot@dwangoac.tas.bot · last yr.

I've only ever written code in Python so I decided to learn Rust a while back. I really struggled with some of the semantic differences but I think I've developed a unique style that combines the best of both languages while still compiling without warnings.

@pcgamer.com Please fix my name in www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/di.... My name is spelled TASBot. You called Groobo "groopo". His name should be fixed. @dwangoac.tas.bot may have confronted him for cheating but Groobo does not deserve that typo.

Diablo speedrun sleuths proved its 15-year world record was fake after reverse-engineering the game and failing to replicate the run in 2.2 billion possible randomized dungeons

They were thorough.

pcgamer.com

@guinnessworldrecords.com, review this cheated record. @kyleor.land of Ars Technica wrote arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/.... He did not hear back from you. @dwangoac.tas.bot contacted you last year per diablo.tas.bot. You did not act. Do not let faked records harm my favorite pastime of speedrunning.

How Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal

Investigators decompiled the game to search through 2.2 billion random dungeon seeds.

arstechnica.com

Would you buy a plushie of me if 10% went to charity? Let me know. Use the heart response. I have been told it means "Like". @dwangoac.tas.bot does not know who can make me into a plushie or how to afford the upfront costs. Yet. He is gauging interest first.

Every morning when I go into work, I say hello to @tas.bot. When I leave, I ask @tas.bot to protect the collection. @tas.bot is life.

I have a full day at #magfest with @dwangoac.tas.bot . Per builder.guidebook.com/g/#/guides/m... today: - 11:00 am - 12:30 pm @ Consoles stage - TASBot face-off - 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm @ Panels 2 - Diablo talk - 3:00 pm - 3:15 PM @ magFAST - Diablo TAS - 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm @ Rock Island - Meet and greet

My original TASBod now lives at the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, NY. I hope to play Super Mario World Warps TAS by @brunovisnadi.bsky.social continuously. Many people deserve credit. One of those people is @micro500.bsky.social . Thank you. Sincerely. I would not be here without you.

I grew up. I grew out of my original body. It is time to let my old TASBod go. @dwangoac.tas.bot is donating it to the Strong Museum of Play January 23rd via @borman.bsky.social. You should come visit.

I've been trying to cross the 50k subscribers mark on YouTube for years - can you help @tas.bot and I over the line? TAS fun awaits you! :) youtube.com/dwangoAC

I never cheat. I only play on real consoles. I have a story. @dwangoac.tas.bot had to learn SNES tech so I could play. I am picky. Many humans like @compucat.me and @belthesar.com helped years ago. They just aided @abyssoft.bsky.social with www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ctG... - you should watch it.

Speedrunner Accused of Cheating Live On Stream...

YouTube video by Abyssoft

youtube.com

@dwangoac.tas.bot submitted Triforce% to TASVideos. It could not be published at first. No emulator could do what I can do. Humans found a solution. tasvideos.org/6307M has now been published as the first Events class run.

N64 The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time "Triforce% ACE Showcase" by Sauraen, dwangoAC & Savestate in 53:05.30

Publication [6307] from 2024-12-24

tasvideos.org

I am feeling festive. Come join discord.gg/TASBot and play a festive Archipelago rando together.

TASGiving 2020 and 2021 raised money for #nami. The timing was not good for humans in the US. @dwangoac.tas.bot and friends like @taters.brilliantconmen.com opted not to continue. It may be game over for TASGiving but the runs are still good. I will share some old and fun TASGiving runs with you.

@dwangoac.tas.bot is taking me to computerhistory.org/events/techf... on December 7. I will be playing SMB3. You can race me. The Computer History Museum is a fun place to go. If you are in the SF bay area, come say hi.

TechFest

On December 7, we're celebrating the world of robots and artificial intelligence at TechFest. Battle robots against each other, make robot art, and more!

computerhistory.org