10 Speedrunners Who Were Caught Cheating

There has been a lot of discussion lately about

cheating

in sprinting. I did some research and was very surprised by not only how easy it is, but also how many people have been discovered. I would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has helped expose these fake races. All of the resources referenced in this video will be linked in the description and I suggest you review them yourself if you want more detailed explanations of what I'm going to go over now without further ado. Are here. 10 Speedrunners Who Were Caught Cheating Todd Rogers is the first paid professional gamer to join the US national video game team in 1986.

He is known for holding many video game records, including the highest score for Centipede. His most controversial record is a 5.5 win time in dragster, a game for the Atari 2600 that he set in 1982 and which he has yet to achieve. be tied to this day this time was verified by a referee there is no video of this record this time was especially impressive because the developers simulated the fastest time was 5.54 and the fastest tool-assisted speedrun is only 5 points 5 7 claims Todd He achieved this time by shifting into second gear before the race even started, which doesn't seem to be possible.

The omnigamer decided to investigate the validity of this race, reviewed every line of code in the game and from this created a spreadsheet showing all the possible times you can obtain. He discovered that there was no way you could get 5.5 wins during normal play. I contacted Todd and he told me that omnigamer was using incorrect numbers, but he did not elaborate when I asked if he would be willing to do an interview, he stopped responding in an interview with Kotaku that he wrote. If he bases his spreadsheets and changes on a particular pattern, then that's pretty ignorant and closed-minded because you're not taking into account the human element of how the game works. he would respond that a formal dispute has now been filed on the Twin Galaxies website and many believe it is not legitimate this time.

If you watch this clip of Todd playing dragster recently, he doesn't seem like the most honest guy now that the cameras are showing him. I'm actually doing this, this is quite strange because, like what people do in interviews or in the media, it's like a perverted little five eight four four five, but in my opinion, this is the smoking gun. Todd made this post on an Atari message board claiming to have gotten a five. point five four, which is impossible. I imported the photo into Photoshop to take a closer look. You can see that the entire image has this clear checkerboard pattern.

Here's a closeup. Now let's look at the numbers. You can see the checkerboard pattern on all sides. of the 5.54 but the 5.54 itself looks completely different than the rest of the photo. Looking at all four you can see exactly the same thing and just to be 100% sure I took a look at player two's numbers at the bottom of the screen. and indeed you can see that the checkerboard pattern is present. I can say with certainty that Todd manipulated this photo to claim that he got a five point five four and if he is willing to manipulate the evidence, he would be willing to lie about getting a five. point five one earlier this year retro made a really good video on

cheating

and i suggest you watch it during this video.

It talks about Aki Khan and the white heiress, who were

caught

splicing sixteen starting runs. Both were

caught

due to edits you could. look in the audio, but these are not the races I want to talk about. The retro video got hundreds of thousands of views so this topic was fresh on many people's minds shortly after Retro made this video, Cheese got his 139 out of 120 stars and someone. by the name of Holy Moley left the comment of him in the video of him, yes, honey, you can play very impressive tasks in 2004. he held the world record of 16 stars for several years.

Holy Moly, a prominent Mario racer, gothiclogic saw this comment and decided to do some research. He found the race he was looking for and when he boldly analyzed the audio using the spectrogram screen, he found exactly the same blatant splices in the audio file that the white heiress and Aki Khan had been exposed to for years. This one makes me laugh because he had gotten away with it for almost twelve years, no one would have questioned him if he had kept quiet, but no, he had to go around and randomly brag about his fake time on someone else's video, the videos They are still available, but now everyone knows.

Dude is fake, there was a time when TSA was one of the most respected Zelda

speedrunners

. I found races of his dating back to 2004, when almost no one had any idea what sprinting was, but in 2011 it was exposed that a lot of his sprinting was. In fact, they were not single segment executions as he had said, but spliced ​​segments. I was able to find one of these runs on his time ocarina, any percentage run in 5 hours and 4 minutes, when you pause this game it will remember which screen I last looked at it on, so when you pause again later you will see the same screen, but if you restart your game to try a segment over and over again, the pause menu will no longer align with the last point you paused at, this is what TAS exposes.

As splices and not the single segment executions they claim to be, there were also some pretty clear cuts that anyone could notice just by looking at the execution. tsa responded to the accusations on the SDA forums, of which I will now read a portion. I didn't cheat. In speedrunning or fake runs I once had to listen to a group of Zelda

speedrunners

explain my item drops and other inconsistencies prove that I used what they called splice and save to make what amounts to a segmented Ron masking is a single segment, This is not true, I will give you the full explanation of why this is so, as I explained to Radix over six years ago.

I didn't have a good PC or capture card. It couldn't capture beyond a certain time limit. runs would end due to a capture issue and I was fed up, yes I could have used VHS or DVD but the SDA people back then convinced me that capture cards were the way to go so I just threw in an SD to the bus for no reason. Before sending it to SDA, I sent all my runs to VHS and the camera in Twin Galaxies. There was no way I could have cheated with the set if it was required. It was all on tape capture with camera footage to prove I played the game.

My capture problems. It led me to ask Radix about a solution he enabled: allowing me to capture my runs and fragments; however it would do multiple runs at once and this is where it gets good and despite my best efforts I now know segments from different attempts made it into the radix shipping files so somehow even though it was trying At the most, the different segments were just mixed together and sent as a single run by accident, you can easily say that this means that I picked the best segments and built better runs and that is exactly what I'm saying, ultimately their runs were eliminated and he left speedrunning completely as of 2014.

A runner named Goron Guy was caught faking a 100% run with Majora's mask. This really surprised me, not because he was trying to cheat but because of how terrible he was. In one attempt, all he did was make up fake splits and then start his broadcast right near the end of the race. Another runner named Thiefbug called him out almost immediately and Goronguy admitted it was true. He wrote a pacer in response. He never really apologized or made a lot of excuses for what he had done, this sparked a lot of criticism from the speedrunning community in general.

He still seems consistent and the good news is that as far as I know he hasn't cheated again and after what happened. I doubt I ever will, the damn secret agent is possibly the most frustrating race in Goldeneye. There are four objectives that you must complete, with the goal of rescuing the hostages. Releasing the hostages is not enough. They need to be freed and escape the ship. The problem with this. These hostages run around the ship at random and almost never escape fast enough to achieve a world record with all objectives completed in early 2011, the record unleashed for the race was one minute and one second until a racer named Henning He marked a time of 1 minute. flat the problem with this run right here as the level fades Bond puts away the Phantom but when he enters the boat unarmed he will always put away the pp7 this was evidence of a spliced ​​ending screen and after examining more of his runs , he turned.

I discovered that he had cheated repeatedly over the years, this led to Henning being permanently kicked out of the elite and having all his time taken away from him. Continuing on the theme of Goldeneye, I spoke to another dirty cheater, rwhitegoose, of all the brokers I approached, he was the only one. He was willing to do an interview, so I appreciate his candor. This is what he said about his fake careers. Yes, so I did them all at once. It was like in November 2007, for 1 SS frigate there was first a 1:10 and then, once. If it had been fake, time flew by, let's go to the end, let's go, 107 world record unleashed, there was secret agent 101, so there were 2 unleashed and then frigate agent 23, which is like a multiple record tied and what's free is like it's the level to pretend because a completed race looks the same as a failed race, you get to the end of the jump on the boat, you hope the cables have escaped as you exit the boat and you join the scene and you see it fade away, oh Yeah, what I could have done is Gameshark waited on the boat jumping on 107 with all the objectives complete and now I have a viable 107 n Scream that I can use to edit what I don't.

I mean, this was 10 years ago, the editing isn't as good as I was, I was too lazy, it's like finding the number, I found the number 7 on the final screen somewhere else and just bought it over the last digit, ya you know, and then I just imitated the, you know, because the thing. we call that, that makes it a little bit easier because it will always say the best time, it will say you are the runtime time and the best time, so if you got a legitimate 107 error, you could just copy and paste that part . of the final screen in the best time part and make it look legit, so that's all I did and I did it, that was my standard practice for all of them, it was like the N screen was obviously static, so today Nowadays people do it. a lot of similar movement in the final sequence, not necessarily to prove that it's not fake, but that's where it came from, it was kind of a show of oh look, I can move the cursor in the answer, it's clearly in a shop industry. but at that time the martyr is an administrator, they were the guys that I always talk about these guys and players and Comus or who didn't really care, but the gold mine didn't care, but the rankings that they just wanted them to Like, they kind of expected the site was going to die and they would just hang out and watch the NFL and play poker and that kind of stuff and that's actually part of the reason I put on the face because I wanted to motivate people. to like it. action and like making rules and stuff because they weren't going to do that any other way so I had to play devil's advocate and take drastic action eventually after weeks of a firestorm on the forums I think I'm in a poll which said: Oh, what should we do with you if we ban it?

I think my Times page was frozen for a month or two and I cut it off. It took me two or three months of Gold Night and then when I came back, at the end of January I released it as a legitimate Untied record and I wouldn't say all was forgiven, but we moved on from there. Yes, Chibi is best known for his couch commentary at sgdq2014, but he also has a decent following of his own on Twitch. During 2015 he started speedrunning on Paper Mario, the Thousand Year Door. Here you can do a perfect jump to reach this ledge, which saves a significant amount of time making the jump with a normal jump that you need to enter the fight. the exact peak of Mario's jump if you are outside a frame this won't work look at the first jump on the tv you can see he loses a little height before entering the fight that means there is no way he can jump right now point, but Chibi had used an action repeat to give extra height to his jump, so even with the lost height he was still able to reach the ledge.

An expert on Malaya's past game was watching in the chat and knew something wasn't right, so she confronted Chibi and he admitted what she had done. Chibi then responded to this and it shows that he learned his lesson. I don't think she was a bad person and this is just an honest mistake. About a year ago, a user named Flying posted a San AndreasHe ran with a time of 4 hours, 1 minute and 13 seconds. Someone named KZ made a video showing how to use both splices and scripts during his run. If you want to see the video of him, it will be in the description.

Well, it's pretty easy to splice. Any game script is usually only used for PC games, what it allows you to do is execute exact inputs so you can get perfect gameplay. This is similar to how people create tool-assisted speedruns, except they are mixed in with normal gameplay to make it look like. a legit race, the most obvious evidence of dashing is during this section, notice how quickly and perfectly he lines up his first targets, it doesn't look like a human being moving a mouse at all, but if you have any doubts, watch the gunshots he fires a few seconds later when you turn off the script it's much smoother, you can tell these shots were made by humans and here you can see an obvious spot.

First notice that the time on the top right is 10 18 when you go to save, you click save. then there are three frames where the game fades out here there is one here there are two here there are three notice the direction you are looking and that the clock is still at 10:18 now we go to the next frame and it's not even close the splice is clear To this day I never found an official response from him and he has since disabled ratings and comments on his video which is always a sign that someone is hiding something.

Just a week ago it was discovered that EXO SDA is the Super Meat speedrun of 2012.Boy in 1839 spliced ​​this surprised many because this race lasted over a year just when speedrunning was really taking off so it was this race that inspired many who run Super Meatboy today between level transitions, the bandaged girl icon will appear at the bottom. On the left side of the screen, the animation of her arm runs in constant 40-frame cycles. He holds his arms up for 20 frames and then down for 20 frames. Now the number of frames left on the screen varies, for example when entering a level you can only see it. keep her hands down for 15 frames, that means the next time you see her, she will keep her hands down for only 5 frames before raising her hands again.

When the moderators discovered this, they made these tables analyzing many high-profile executions. This table shows data. From the current top 5 races, you can see that all the values ​​add up to 20 up and 20 down. Now, if we look at EXO's career, you will see that it is nowhere close and there is clear evidence of manipulation. Now let me read you his response. When I was running Super Meatboy my goal was for him to have posted in SDA which required footage other than just the stream recording, however I had a lot of trouble recording those footage with fraps, the main issue was that the game and the recording freezes at random intervals for up to 10 seconds after a few minutes due to the horrible PC I had at the time, this led to me not being able to record full runs of the game which I ended up working on almost every day for about a year in total restarting recording mid-run was not an option, as that led to the game also stopping, usually for even longer periods of time after countless runs were ruined by these random freezes.

I just had enough and ended up stopping the game and the fraps after each chapter. Just so I could record an entire run while reading this I realized that this was extremely similar to the excuse the TSA gave years before, so I guess great minds think alike as soon as I made a mistake that I felt was worthy of reset, I stopped it. recording and deleted the saved game to start from the beginning, this is of course the critical part that you either believe me or not and I don't after this discovery obviously EXO's race was deleted and all races must now show the bandage. girl icon in the corner of the screen right now, with everything I've learned.

I'm going to try something that may make some people angry. I'm going to do my own spliced ​​run and see if I can check it out on the quick run. Don't worry, I'm going to do a false achtung of the time in any % of the race because it's short and easy. I have divided the race into different segments between each loading zone. I will make sure there are no irregularities on the pause screen like there is with TSA. I've also kept careful track of my heart and rupee counts to make sure they stay consistent between segments.

Okay, now I recorded each segment. I needed this to work pretty bad for a splice. Brown in 1804. I just brought us together quickly, but still. better than anyone should be able to get on their first run, so hoping this raises a lot of red flags on a new account, I made a big mistake and that is my left audio channel went out while recording on my final segment, so I condensed both audio channels into one. If anything catches me, it will probably be this bug, but I think I can still get by. I made sure that each segment is perfectly framed, so there should be no way to know that the execution is fake. just from the video now i'm going to export the audio to audacity i'm going to use the noise removal feature to remove all the background now i'm going to re-import the audio and overlay my own seamless main song to cover any evidence of splicing in the audio here's a example of a splice without any other editing and this is what it looks like after using noise removal and overlaying my own background hum.

Now I'm going to export this entire clip and send it to speedrun comm and see what I was pleasantly surprised when I woke up this morning and saw that my run had been rejected for being too incomplete. I'm not really sure what that means, but they're not wrong, it's false. I figured I wouldn't look into this race. too in-depth, but I was clearly wrong, so big kudos to the ocarina of time moderating team and specifically link brave for bringing this to my attention. I feel a little bad trying this again since I've already been shut down.

I'll do one more race together. and look what happens, okay. I did another run on 1837, this time without any audio issues and the frame rate remained constant throughout the run and was verified on the leaderboard, so there you have it. I am now a verified cheater even though I came close. The first time, I think my second run should be impossible to detect as a splice and it really wasn't that difficult, which makes me think that with so many people who have already been caught, there are probably many more who haven't.