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You can defeat the Dream Devourer from Chrono Trigger using an int overflow

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  1. scaphandre · · focus · HN ↗
    In the soccer management game USM98, there was a textbox to input the numbers the wages you could offer to players and coaching staff. This was sensibly limited to positive integers in $native_currency. If I entered 99999999999999, I would get something close to £32,000 per week, suggesting they were using a signed 16-bit int.

    There was also a button to quickly offer an employee a new 'improved' contract, with something like 1.05x their existing pay.

    That made it pretty easy to make a lot of money quickly :D

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