Paper Mario: The ThousandYear Door reminds us to always be skeptical of gambling, lotteries, lootboxes, and the like. Happy Lucky Lottery is not random, despite popular belief throughout the game's 14year lifespan.

Earlier this month I posted a tweet where I missed the lottery by one single digit. Sure enough, Jdaster64 informed me I was guaranteed to lose that day anyway, because "Happy Lucky Lottery is a total fraud." We started exchanging some messages, and he provided a number of memory addresses and cleared up misconceptions about the lottery system, which immensely helped during testing and the recording of this video.

I misspoke in this video when saying there’s a 1/10,000 chance of seeing a daily number 1 digit off your own. This was intended to convey the chance of winning a truly random Happy Lucky Lottery, but based on my wording, it’d actually be a 1/5,000 chance if the lottery were truly random.

Important detail from PistonMiner:
"The speed of the time base counter is, as far as I know, not, as you describe in the video, related to the original CPU clock of the Gekko, but is, according to the official design documents by IBM, quote: "clocked at a frequency that is onefourth that of the bus clock" (162 MHz / 4 = 40.5 MHz). (see http://datasheets.chipdb.org/IBM/Powe... for the full reference, this is in section 2.3.5.1)"

Here is a 4K texture pack in the works by the TTYD Dolphin Community:
https://forums.dolphinemu.org/Thread...

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