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  2. MissingNo. - Wikipedia

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    Due to the programming of certain in-game events, players can encounter MissingNo. via a glitch. It is commonly regarded as one of the most famous video game glitches of all time. Encountering MissingNo. causes graphical anomalies and changes gameplay by increasing the number of items in the sixth entry of the player's inventory by 128.

  3. Delta timing - Wikipedia

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    Delta time or delta timing is a concept used amongst programmers in relation to hardware and network responsiveness. [1] In graphics programming, the term is usually used for variably updating scenery based on the elapsed time since the game last updated, [2] (i.e. the previous "frame") which will vary depending on the speed of the computer, and how much work needs to be done in the program at ...

  4. Attack-time delay - Wikipedia

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    In telecommunications, attack-time delay is the time needed for a receiver or transmitter to respond to an incoming signal.. For a receiver, the attack-time delay is defined as the time interval from the instant a step radio-frequency signal, at a level equal to the receiver's threshold of sensitivity, is applied to the receiver input, to the instant when the receiver's output amplitude ...

  5. Frame rate - Wikipedia

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    Frame time is related to frame rate, but it measures the time between frames. A game could maintain an average of 60 frames per second but appear choppy because of a poor frame time. Game reviews sometimes average the worst 1% of frame rates, reported as the 99th percentile, to measure how choppy the game appears.

  6. Glossary of video game terms - Wikipedia

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    See frame rate. frag To kill or achieve a kill in a game against a player or non-player opponent. [66] See also gib. frame rate A measure of the rendering speed of a video game's graphics, typically in frames per second (FPS). frame-perfect An action that must be performed within a single frame for perfect execution. free look 1.

  7. Twitch Plays Pokémon - Wikipedia

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    Commands identified by the game engine shown on-screen (right of image) are applied to the player character in Pokémon Red (left). Twitch Plays Pokémon (TPP) is a social experiment and channel on the video game live streaming website Twitch, consisting of a crowdsourced attempt to play Game Freak's and Nintendo's Pokémon video games by parsing commands sent by users through the channel's ...

  8. File:Pokemon Type Chart.svg - Wikipedia

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    To determine a type's effect on another type, follow the attacking type from the left side of the chart to the column of the defending type. Damage is doubled for green "super effective" attacks and halved for red "not very effective" attacks. Black attacks do not affect the defending type. Data sourced from Bulbapedia.

  9. Critical hit - Wikipedia

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    In many role-playing games and video games, a critical hit (or crit) is a chance that a successful attack will deal more damage than a normal blow.. The concept of critical hits originates from wargames and role-playing games, as a way to simulate luck, and crossed over into video games in the 1986 JRPG Dragon Quest, [1] set at a fixed rate of 1/64 (~1.56%). [2]