Every game. Every frame.

This is not a games project. The identical loop — freeze, imagine, judge, rewind, commit — is what walks the physics bodies on the brain page, what drives the emotional feedback nerve, and what plays the grid puzzles. Only the scoring line changes between them. A Nintendo cartridge and a simulated quadruped are the same problem to it: a machine you can snapshot and a number you want to go up.

There was no plan document. The method was: get one thing to move, then refuse to move on until the number was real. Probe the emulator until a save-state round-trips exactly. Get a single stage to finish. Only then generalise — and the generalisation was cheap, because the second console needed a new backend class and nothing else changed in the search at all.

The speed comes from the shape, not from cleverness. Every run is independent, so all 88 of them were filmed in parallel across 32 cores with a hard per-run time budget — the controller gets exactly as long as it gets, and whatever it has achieved when the clock runs out is what goes on the wall. That is why some of these are losses. The budget does not get extended because a game is going badly.

And the pad you see under every run is not decoration. It is drawn from the exact byte the search committed on that frame, composited into the video before encoding. If a button lights up, it was pressed. There is no way for that overlay to disagree with the run.

Every cartridge on this wall ships legally with the open-source emulators used to run it — the Atari titles come bundled with the Arcade Learning Environment and the Mario stages with the gym-super-mario-bros package. Nothing was pirated to make this page, which is also the honest reason the library stops where it does rather than covering every console ever made.

Building it was not clean either. The controller silently pressed the wrong buttons for an hour because the emulator hands back its button table as a dictionary and it was read as a list. Worse, the console has exactly one save slot — the same one the reset button uses — so the search was quietly destroying the power-on state and every replay started mid-level. Both are fixed. Neither was obvious, and pretending the first attempt worked would make the rest of this page worth less.