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"Where's a Clone Machine When You Need One?" by radiant

added 06 Oct 2009 11:42
Solved10/10
Cooked0/10
Difficulty4.80
Style4.70
Rigidity5.10
Shortest Solution
NameOriginal
Length51 moves
Byradiant
On06 Oct 2009 11:42

Comments (turn spoilers off)
13451 Where's a Clone Machine When You Need One? Tom 7 (1) Thu 24 Dec 2009 23:18  
  (admin) Moved to quarantine.
 
12923 Where's a Clone Machine When You Need One? mm (690) Sat 10 Oct 2009 19:23 SPOILER
  It's pretty confusing to discover these strange behaviors that in fact don't fallow the logic of the game itself... Did I get this right: it's impossible to create such levels by using our normal editor?
 
12922 Where's a Clone Machine When You Need One? devin (2307) Sat 10 Oct 2009 17:18  
  how do you make all of those malformings including this one?
 
12921 Where's a Clone Machine When You Need One? radiant (1469) Sat 10 Oct 2009 15:56 SPOILER
  The joke is pretty well lost if you're not familiar with Chip's Challenge, but the arrangement around the visible panel is meant to create the (untrue) impression that the panel actually controls a clone machine which would clone the top block into the second hole, only to ruin the illusion when the player actually goes to try it.

It's also a reference to a buffer overflow exploit in that game where you can trigger effects outside the grid, and in doing so write to their memory locations which actually control game state information, and even read the memory locations into the grid as tiles. That can lead to levels far, far more nefarious than this or anything in the Malformed Levels series.
 
12920 Where's a Clone Machine When You Need One? devin (2311) Sat 10 Oct 2009 15:24 SPOILER
  found em' but whyd u call it a clone machine its not clonin anything and is the dot thats boxede in a confusion to the player?
 
12919 Where's a Clone Machine When You Need One? radiant (1469) Sat 10 Oct 2009 13:51 SPOILER
  The jig's been up on this one long enough, and I can't see it staying in the main collection much longer, so I might as well put it out there.

This level contains invisible panels. Furthermore, the nature of invisible panels is such that you can't uncover them with your feet alone.
 
12918 Where's a Clone Machine When You Need One? devin (2311) Sat 10 Oct 2009 12:14  
  help S.O.S
 
12917 Where's a Clone Machine When You Need One? devin (2311) Sat 10 Oct 2009 12:00  
  this is surely impossible for me unless there is a malforming other than that im always stuck
 
12911 Where's a Clone Machine When You Need One? radiant (1469) Fri 09 Oct 2009 19:02  
  I wouldn't so much call this "easy" or "hard" as say that it defies all sense of a difficulty rating. The first four ratings are 10, 4, 1, and 7, and I can see the merit in every one of them.
 
12910 Where's a Clone Machine When You Need One? LIL GANGSTA (2333) Fri 09 Oct 2009 18:25 SPOILER
  Gary it's not hard at all.Just try anything and you'll start to see the solution.

LGM 2010
 
12903 Where's a Clone Machine When You Need One? Tom 7 (1) Wed 07 Oct 2009 22:28 SPOILER
  Very nice, very illegal. :)
 
12902 Where's a Clone Machine When You Need One? John Lewis (411) Wed 07 Oct 2009 08:19  
  I've been able to solve it - and I'm using the latest version of Escape on Mac OS X. (By the way, the player file recovery was successful - thanks, Tom!)
 
12901 Where's a Clone Machine When You Need One? gary (1998) Wed 07 Oct 2009 03:48  
  Tom, please move this level to quarrantine as this is impossible.
 
12899 Where's a Clone Machine When You Need One? radiant (1469) Tue 06 Oct 2009 11:42  
  'Where's a Clone Machine When You Need One?' uploaded by radiant:
Wait, did I say I was done with effectively bringing new tiles into the game?