Three plus eight equals Yoshi: How to cheat at Brain Age

by Griffin McElroy on Jul 10th 2010 10:00PM

If you're having some trouble whittling your Brain Age down to that elusive 20-year-old benchmark, a clever player named Ryuto has developed a sure-fire method of lowering that all important number: Cheat. Or, better yet, cheat while drawing fun doodles of Nintendo trademarks.

Using an emulator and a time-assisted tool, Ryuto answers the simple math questions of Brain Age with lightning-quick speed. Of course, just drawing the numbers isn't enough -- he actually manages to hide the correct answers within tiny illustrations. That's great, but we actually came up with our own method of cheating a long, long time ago -- we paid attention in school and studied really, really hard, giving us an above average comprehension of mathematics. That's how you really beat the system.

Via: Wired
Source: TASVideos

Tags: Brain-Age, cheat, ds, emulator, nintendo

Reader Comments (25)

.......This is called cheating?
Amazing nonetheless. How is this guy so precise? I can't even draw half as good as he is on a DS.

@RadioactiveQube First of all he might be using a tablet or SOMETHING, I don't know anyone that can make a pixel-perfect strait line like this guy. Secondly, he just used references or traced them. Anything is possible in the realm of emulation!

Here's a fun game... try to watch and say what each of the items he draws is. The more you know, the bigger Nintendo dweeb you are. I got about a 80%.

@ZaxCG2 I got them all.

The time-assisted tool is called cocaine.

its on an emulator and i think he used a cheat for all answers correct and drew random stuffs:p

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my what uncannily straight lines he draws.

*coughbullsh*tcough*

@Istari Spartan I don't think you quite understand what a Tool Assisted Speedrun is, do you?

Just remember kids, 3+8= Jigglypuff!

@DustbinK I knew my 1st grade teacher was wrong!

@DustbinK Don't forget 10-3.

@DustbinK
You're wrong 10-3 is Jiggly. 3+8 is Yoshi!

@The Aquacharger

The fact that you know that is quite sad.

@Esposch
Or that the picture they used for the post is 8+3 which is Yoshi and the one right after that is Jiggly puff.

@Esposch
Plus if you look at my Big Brain Academy I always max out memory.

Psh, he didn't even get rocket speed.

Half the commenters didn't bother to read the actual post.

I can't tell where the system is getting the correct answers: how do you get 20 from Ho-oh?