I thank you, my friend, for making a version WE CAN ALL PLAY! You made me feel so much better about myself ;D

If I'm not mistaken, you've actually made the easiest second try minesweeper game. Game 1: lose and see it is all mines. Game 2: Flag every tile and win.

Would love to see a modified version where the number of mines is unchanged, but your first click is always a mine. So it shifts/generates the map when you first click a tile to ensure you always fail on turn 1, the opposite of what it does now.

"we end up in this kind of limbo state where all the tiles are both mines and not mines" My man has created Quantum Minesweeper Processing

An actually good Aprils Fools video, what a treat. Not just talking nonsense for some minutes.

I would have liked to see if there was a way to hack it so ONLY the space you click on is a mine, every time you start a game.

Now all we need is minesweeper where every tile is safe, except the one you click on. Then then nobody will be safe

It would've been funny to make a version that specifically makes it so your first click is always a mine but the whole board still generates

"No infinite loop, not even any noticeable slow down. Just..." *ad starts to play* NEW POWERFUL NERF ACTION!

The maximum number of mines in a 'normal' Minesweeper appears to be (h-1)*(w-1), where h and w are the height and width of the board size, respectively. (Haven't proven this, but seems to be the case from the examples you showed; Expert mode is 16*30, and 15*29=435.)

Nothing better than waking up to a matkc vid

Amazing! Thanks for sharing it too!

I made a Minesweeper clone for the Dreamcast a few years ago with the goal of making it as faithful as possible to the Windows 2000/XP versions. I also realised a simple formula for the mines cap, I think it was a certain percentage of the board must be non-mines or something. However, there was one thing that I couldn't recreate faithfully because I didn't analyse the code, that is the initial mine placement. I actually went with the first method you said where I go over each tile left to right, top to bottom. I thought about the "Pick a random tile" option, but it just seemed bad, after all for a big board with lots of mines, wouldn't it fail a lot of placements? Its kind of funny to see that's exactly what they did. It was really cool to see some of the internals of the original game, nice video :)

4:35 Schrödinger's tiles

4:30 Schrödingers Mines

Woop, Ruffle got a shout-out! Super cool! Glad to see this cool tech is catching on. (I'm still making Flash games as a full time job in 2021!)

For an April Fools' version, it would have been funny if only the first tile you clicked was a mine.

Dave from Dave's Garage (the ex-Microsoft programmer) just shouted you out on his video, where he made a QR code application in Assembly. Collaboration time?

LMAO you have no idea how funny it is when i got an ad right at 8:25 after he clicked🤣

A day MattKC uploads is a happy day.

I'd like to play a version where all the tiles except one are mines, appropriately called "Russian Sweeper".

Might be neat to recode it to always force a bomb to be on the opening move. Having a full grid of bombs shows the player that they had no moves to begin with. Where as spawning bombs could lead them on to think they're just really unlucky. 😅

Love the explanation of how you figure out what assembly language is doing!

the moving mario background, how does one get hold of that?

4:31 so it was schrodinger's mine?

I would make it so there is only 1 mine, but whenever you press you hit this mine.

I think the smarter move would've been to make it so that the first-click-is-safe thing was reversed to the-first-click-kills-u-everytime but with the number of mines still being whatever the user entered or the limit for each window size. That way people would at first think that they were just incredibly unfortunate to have clicked on a mine with their first click and then the realization would slowly set in that they would *_ALWAYS_* end up clicking on mines on the first click no matter how many times they tried. Just filling the whole playing field with mines makes it obvious immediatly that the game was tampered with.

that gag you described also happened in windows 93, it just didn't look like there were mines everywhere, but you were always losing. it was called "troll mode"

This was really interesting!! Thank you for the download! :)

You know, since there's a function in the game that moves mines away from the first time you click a tile, it would be possible to reverse it, wouldn't it? To move away clear spaces and move a mine where you first click. That way, there could only be one mine and you would hit it every single game first click no matter what, would make for a funnier prank than every tile being a mine.

Imagine another version of unwinable minesweeper that always move a mine to the first tile you click.

3:31 bubble wrap

4:20 Schrödinger's Minefield

I always think your video concept will be so boring but your explanation and innocent curiosity is so engaging. Hacking assembly code is just the beginning. Excited for what's next!

The most convincing luckbased one would be one that's normal and safe on the first click, but the second click is always a mine

Oh god, I haven't thought about YoshiToMario in years, I used to dig his Let's Plays for a short while beck in 2012! Great video, btw! Maybe next year you can find a way for their to only be one mine on the board but it's always the first click...: D

I miss the "Subscribe to MattKC" outro. Don't mind me

Idk why but I watch all of your videos at least 3 times. I find them relaxing in the mornings 🌄.

4:32 Schrodinger's mines

This just gave me a great idea... can you make it so the first space you click is always a mine, but every other space isn't a mine?

Lovely. This takes me back to goofing around in my highschool programming class. Not as hardcore as reverse engineering x86 assembly, but I did mess with the teacher as often as I could. My piece de resistance was removing the window decoration and adding a "Close" button on a project that was positioned semi-randomly compared to the mouse cursor after the main program completed. 16 year old me was proud.

"We end up in this kind of limbo state where all the tiles are both mines and not mines." So basically, just by screwing around, you inadvertently created Schrodinger's Minesweeper. Lovely.

It'd be a lot funnier if instead of turning every tile into mines, instead turning whatever tile was clicked into a mine.

I have memories on it and clicking the boxes .

Windows 93 (when it still worked, but does not work correctly) had a minesweeper mode that the first click was ALWAYS a mine (but not the impossible mode) called "Troll mode"…

My favorite cereal: "Oops! All mines!"

Explicitly explained and very fun to watched, tho I always wanted a fullscreen minesweeper game never saw if it was possible to do but it would be extremely funny to see all the bombs in a full screen minesweeper game

I have no idea why I love these videos so much, but I do! Please keep making them!

Love your channel man always exited when you post a new video

Now that was fun to watch. Nice job!

I can't believe that you actually went through assembly just for that.... I had assembly x86 in uni and it's freaking hell

The minute you said just and paused an advertisement came up with fit perfectly with your vid congratulations for the vid man

This is what UKposts is supposed to be for, a completely pointless and silly idea turned into an entertaining video. Well done as always!

I'm not a real programmer (tm) but this is an interesting window into reverse engineering/rom hacking. Starting from first principles and reading assembly, then climbing your way through to find context based on available resources/tools until you recognize what the program itself is doing

I feel like the joke would have been funnier if you hacked the game so that the first square you always click on is a mine. But it still shows the amount of regular mines there are in the game.

Love your music choice and source

8:17 WAIT WHATS HIS WALLPAPER I WANT IT HELP PLS

fun fact: windows vista/7 games have built in cheats, you can enable them with resource hacker or with the windows games tweaker by door2windows

8:05 I watched this like five times already and I can't stop laughing XD

Another excellent episode of "MattKC messes with old games"

You know its a great day when mattkc uploads

That's amazing man! No idea you had that skill

"we end up in this kind of limbo state where all the tiles are both mines and not mines" So.... Quantum Minesweeper?

I recently did a slight hack to the original Windows Entertainment Pack version to remove the menu. With the menu present even the window with the basic 8x8 grid is too large to fit on a 640x200 CGA screen. After removing the menu now I can comfortably play on my HP 100LX Palmtop. I also added extra keyboard shortcuts to access the functions which are normally only available from the menu. In my video about attaching a mouse to the Palmtop you can see what the unpatched version looks like. I made the patch after recording the video and the patched version is the one in the thumbnail.

Gonna try this out fast, while it's still April 1st

One time at summer camp I did minesweeper and was so pumped that my not-fast self could help in a relay race. I was not only disappointed that it was on easy, but I was surprised that people were surprised I finished it in under a minute

you shouldve let one space unmined but still removed the safety check on the first click so you just have to guess where the free space is

I love april fools videos that actually have some intelligent content instead of just some bait or trolling. Thank you very much! ^^

i still wonder who made the chiptune music or is there any link for it... oh well it's nice having a MattKC video for april fools tho

my personal favorite custom minesweeper level is a 50x50 grid with 2498 mines, in short it's pure luck lol.

bro really woke up 2 years ago and made the most realistic game ambiented in bosnia

I swear this game is literally my childhood Ahh this brings so many memories back ❤❤❤

You should port this to the Wii and utilize motion controls somehow. Maybe something like try to keep the Wiimote steady or the game ends.

Hey sir I love your videos. How is the screenshot at 1:06 is possible knowing that is the first move the player picks turns out to be a mine, it autoselects another square until a free spot is selected?

It would be even more evil if you had a normal amount of mines but just replaced the first place the person clicked with a mine so it seems like they are just getting super unlucky every time

Didn’t expect to stumble upon Schrödingers Mine lmao

this guy could work for a cool assembly programmer but he hacking minesweeper and show it for us. respect

Id be interested in seeing a more subtly impossible version, something like it forcibly shifts a mine to be under the spot you click after a certain point

"Educated guesses and luck" IS Minesweeper

Old mattkc: video's every two weeks New mattkc: f*** IT video's every month

Huh. It's kinda weird how well I was able to follow along with this after playing TIS-100. The registers and math are legit!

5:18 Truth is, the game was rigged from the start

1:00 the max number of mines you can get is simply (width - 1) x (height - 1)

You could just make it from scratch. have a few selectable grid sizes, a top layer, which is remeve when clicked, an a bottom layer, which is just a grid filled with mines, and the tile closest to the click gets highlighted in red. That's basically it.

This is neat and all but can we make it so it looks like a normal game of minesweeper (ie. not every space being a mine) with the exception that your 1st or 2nd move is always a mine, that way the illusion that it is winnable is still there ensuring much more frustration.

Have you thought about making making version of this on Windows Vista version of the game? Having all tiles being mines on this version will create a wave, which starts from the tile, which had the mine when clicked on.

I thought this would be a version so that it choose the placement of the mine on the fly so that you always have to make guesses and that the guesses will always be wrong. But this is good too.

I love mine sweeper. It's such a fun and easy game.

I need that yoshi island desktop screen.

Ah yes, Minesweeper - The Definitive Edition!

Bruh you made this too good that I don’t understand a second word every time

4:30 schrodinger mines

The better prank would've been to make the FINAL square the one that's guaranteed to be a bomb. Would have to force an uncertan situation where the last blank would be in one of two locations and make the clicked one to always be the bomb

When I was young and had no idea how to play, I used to just press the buttons. But one day I managed to get the sunglasses smiley and had no idea what I'd done.

The man the myth the legend

Hey! Would you mind sharing where you get that windows 10 wallpaper? That looks so cool!

7:20 nop

The best trolling hack solution would be to have 1 mine in the whole grid but clic it on your first attempt. I wonder if this would require to track the cursor position or have it de-facto trigger the on first clic.

How many mines do you want? Matt: Yes

It's Schrodinger's Minesweeper!