1. SethBling was born on April 3,1987 and is an American video game commentator and Twitch video game live streamer known for YouTube videos focused around the 1990 side-scrolling platform video game Super Mario World and the 2011 sandbox video game Minecraft.
SethBling created original and derivative video games, devices and phenomena in Minecraft, without using Minecraft mods.
SethBling wrote artificial intelligence programs that play Super Mario World, Super Mario Bros.
SethBling held a world record of 41.35 seconds for Super Mario World until June 2020, and a former world record for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
SethBling achieved the world record for Super Mario World by using a glitch that enabled him to execute arbitrary code and skip to the game's credits.
SethBling injected code to play a Flappy Bird-like game within Super Mario World on a stock Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
SethBling was the first to perform this kind of arbitrary code execution by hand.
In 2017, Cooper Harasyn and SethBling created a jailbreak by hand using exploits to save a hex editor onto a read-only memory cartridge, allowing for creation of mods.
SethBling was raised Jewish, but has since become an atheist.
SethBling decided that he was an atheist sometime around when he was in elementary school, but "played along" through high school.
SethBling's nickname is derived from his AIM screen name in high school.
SethBling started out programming his calculator in middle school and wrote "lots of" games throughout high school, including an MUD.
SethBling worked as a software engineer at Microsoft for three years, where he worked on Xbox, and for four months on Bing.
SethBling said that his work at Xbox had not been related to video games, and that he had worked on the Xbox version of Internet Explorer, and on Xbox SmartGlass, a mobile phone app for remotely controlling an Xbox console.
SethBling had the Sega Genesis home video game console, and played a lot of Sonic the Hedgehog on it.
SethBling started playing Minecraft around September 2010, after college, after his roommate told him about it.
SethBling thought the game was "really cool" and played it for about a month, after which he was "done with this game".
SethBling got into the technical community and was quick to discover redstone, a programmable resource in Minecraft, and began uploading videos of his creations to YouTube weeks later.
SethBling was inspired to use redstone in Minecraft because he wanted to build a minecart station.
SethBling initially uploaded videos on YouTube in order to share his creations on Reddit.
SethBling did not expect to gain subscribers as a small channel with only a few videos.
SethBling quit his job at Microsoft around April 2012 because of his YouTube channel's success and has been independent since.
In 2011, SethBling recreated Duck Hunt using freshly introduced bow-charging mechanics in Minecraft.
Engadget Jordan Mallory wrote that SethBling's replica "[manages] to capture the innocence and nostalgia of our 8-bit youths".
In February 2012, SethBling recreated the 1964 toy Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots, which consists of a red and a blue robot, within Minecraft.
In March 2012, FVDisco and SethBling created Super Pirate Battle Royale, a Minecraft minigame for two teams where the goal is to sink the other team's ship using TNT.
Also in 2012, SethBling created SkyGrid, a Minecraft map consisting of blocks only on every fourth coordinate in each axis.
In February 2013, SethBling made a mechanical bull in Minecraft.
Also in February, SethBling recreated the 1981 arcade game Donkey Kong and its introductory cutscene in Minecraft.
Three months later, SethBling created an air hockey minigame for two players in Minecraft.
SethBling recreated the incremental game Cookie Clicker, released earlier in 2013.
In 2014, SethBling recreated the sandbox video game Goat Simulator and the puzzle game Bejeweled in Minecraft.
SethBling recreated a spinning Stargate, a moving sand wave and the Microsoft Office assistant Clippy.
In early 2014, SethBling wrote a pickpocketing plugin for Bukkit called BlingPickpocket.
In May 2014, SethBling created a Minecraft portal which renders a portion of the other dimension behind it.
In 2015, SethBling created a Minecraft version of Splatoon Turf Wars mode.
SethBling got help from PyroPuncher because he had never played Splatoon on console.
In 2015, SethBling worked with Verizon to create a web browser and to introduce text messaging and video calling functionality to Minecraft.
In 2016, SethBling made an interpreter for the programming language BASIC in Minecraft.
SethBling created a resource pack for Minecraft Pocket Edition Alpha, which was released in October 2016.
In January 2019, SethBling sped up the Atari 2600 emulator to a rendering speed of one frame per second.
SethBling executed the glitch for the first time on console minutes after a Super Mario World world record was set without using arbitrary code execution.
SethBling used four controllers via two Super Multitap devices to finish the game in under one minute.
SethBling left specific buttons on the controllers pushed down to manipulate memory bytes and write certain code.
In November 2017, SethBling built a recurrent neural network to play Super Mario Kart.
SethBling trained the program, MariFlow, with video footage in which he plays Super Mario Kart so that the program learns how to recover from dead-end situations.
The video footage used for training MariFlow contains interactive sessions in which SethBling occasionally takes control of the character.
In March 2016, SethBling injected Flappy Bird-like code written by p4plus2 into unmodified Super Mario World RAM on a stock Super Nintendo Entertainment System with a stock cartridge, in under an hour.
SethBling first extended the level timer and used a power-up incrementation glitch to allow external code to run.
SethBling added code to display Mario's x-coordinate which acted as memory locations in the code he was writing.
SethBling then created a bootloader to be able to launch the Flappy Bird-like code that he would later write into unused memory with precise Mario movements and spin-jumping.
SethBling used two Super Multitap devices in order to use multiple controllers, which had several buttons pressed down.
The arbitrary code execution setup that SethBling used was discovered by MrCheeze.
Super Mario World had been modified to emulate other games before by automatically feeding pre-recorded controller input into the console via a computer, but SethBling was the first to do it exclusively by hand.
Harasyn and SethBling used the exploit to create a compact, on-screen hex editor, loadable from a save file.