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Smash Bros. Players Getting Banned for 136 Years

Smash Bros. Players Getting Banned for 136 Years

A strange glitch is causing online Smash Bros. players on the DS to be banned for over a century! The game is issuing bans of 136 years to online players, but not even the worst of them. It seems to occur the most when you attack a single player in a multi-player match more than any other. The glitch only seems to appear in group/FFA matches. 1V1 matches do not seem to be effected. If you quit mid-match, you appear to have a bigger chance of encountering the bug.

But what is going on here? Well Reddit user rstevoa thinks he has the answer. Specifically, it has to do with how the 3DS handles data. He believes that the Smash programmers were using unsigned integers when determining ban time. He figures that ban time is handled in seconds, and something is causing someone to be banned with 0 seconds of ban time remaining. When the seconds tick down, they tick over to 4,294,967,295, the maximum value the Nintendo 3DS’s 32 bit processor can handle. That translates to 136 years, 1 hour, 28 minutes, and 15 seconds.

It’s not clear whether or not this is actually what is happening as Nintendo has not yet commented on the glitch. For now, be on your best behavior online, or you may find yourself behind Smash bars for longer than your forseeable lifetime… or the lifetime of the game for that matter.

Source: Reddit

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