The Worst Fake Speedrun on Youtube

Hello absolute legends, as I said before, cheating exists in all competitions and

speedrun

ning is no exception. We've even covered some examples of

speedrun

ners doctoring videos and demos to try to trick people into believing their claims of what may seem impressive feats. Counterintuitive, but you'd be surprised how often it is some of the best players who inevitably try to

fake

careers. You might think that having the talent to achieve a world record would make someone less susceptible to cheating, but it often works against them. To make people feel entitled, they feel like they deserve the world record and when the game they play doesn't give them the luck they need, they get more and more frustrated.

Additionally, having talent and deep knowledge of a game makes you a better cheater. You know what tools to use and how to hide your edits. You understand what makes or doesn't make sense. What is or is not possible and what is credible. When top players cheat, it is almost always detected by other top players who look much deeper than a normal spectator. In Super Mario 64, several world record holders may have been caught splicing together performances using audio analysis combined with a healthy knowledge of what the Nintendo 64 can and cannot produce, but these performances went unnoticed for years because the discrepancy is so slight that to any normal viewer, it looks exactly the same as either series.

The fact that better players are better cheaters means that arguments like he is such a good player that he has no reason to cheat are fundamentally wrong. When Billy Mitchell and Todd Rogers were exposed as frauds, this was one of the most common arguments that his defenders tried to fencing. Having a better understanding of a game makes you even more likely to cheat, which is why at the higher level testing standards are so important. I could create a

fake

speedrun myself that I'm sure 99.9% of you would completely miss because I know enough about the games I play to make it believable, but what if I tried to fake a speedrun for a game I don't did I play?

This would make it much more difficult. Doing so would perhaps make it impossible if you don't play the game, you'll probably have to steal other players' images once you've done it, you'll have to combine them in a way that looks unique, but then you're exposed to continuity errors as a speed racer. I generally know what splices should or shouldn't be, so I could make some pretty fantastic edits, but I'd have no idea if what I'm splicing does anything. What if you weren't a speedrunner at all but we're still hell-bent on trying? to fake a speed race?

Well, it just so happens that we have an example of this very thing and it is one of the

worst

abominations of a sprint of destiny. In general, I've ever seen some random newbie trying to look cool by editing a fake speedrun together, it's not that interesting, but the monstrosity we will examine today was created by a YouTube channel with over 14 million subscribers and the video in question has millions. of views the video contains all the sins Under the Sun stolen speedruns impossible gameplay terrible and disconcerting editing it is truly a work of art and today we will break it down the video in question comes from the Mexican channel from Dublin it is one of the largest channels on YouTube with more With 42 million subscribers according to their Wikipedia page, they specialized in creating original and viral content.

Keep the original word in mind throughout this video. On December 17, 2017, they uploaded a video titled asunder Super Mario and Five Minutes, which translates to pass. Super Mario in five minutes says the description, join us to see how our friend Tavo Betancourt in a relaxed and fun way incredibly plays this legendary Super Mario video game from the 80s in just five minutes it has a quite nice design that contains the essentials such as a stopwatch and a heart. speed monitor I wonder where he got the inspiration to include them. The premise is simple. Taro will finish Super Mario Brothers in five minutes, which honestly isn't that crazy of an achievement.

More than 100 sprinters have already done it, so it's really nothing either. Awesome, but the problem is that Taro is not a speedrunner and, despite it not being incredibly difficult to beat Super Mario Brothers in five minutes, it takes him some time to learn how to do it. Taro has his own YouTube race to worry about and his personal channel has almost 5 million subscribers so I guess he's pretty busy, as I mentioned above if you're not a sprinter and want to try simulating a sprint race, your only option is to steal images from somewhere else, which is exactly what Thabo does when choosing images.

However, it doesn't seem to make much sense and this could be because he has no idea about Super Mario speedrunning but chooses a tool-assisted speedrun. The TAS was manufactured by KLM Z in 2008 and from the first moment of speedrun. We find out why it was a bad choice. The test uses a technique known as rapid acceleration that is performed every time Mario starts from a standstill to reach maximum speed in the fastest way. However, the problem with this technique is that the inputs require you to press left and right on this same box, while the software technically allows these inputs to be made, it is not possible to do so on a normal Nintendo controller because to the way the d-pad works, it is for this reason that the technique is prohibited from using speedrunning, apart from the fact that fast acceleration is too difficult to achieve even if it were possible, Tavo is using a normal controller and I wouldn't be able to do it even if I had the talent, this task is just rapid acceleration.

It is not to be confused with the difficult maneuvers that sprinters actually use in racing, also called rapid acceleration. This is a much easier, though still difficult, set of inputs that is at least possible to execute. One really strange thing about this video is the sound and music. has been presented strangely so it doesn't sound at all like it should, there may be a couple of reasons why this was done, the first being the fear of the music triggering YouTube's copyright protection and the another could be a way to make it look different from the previous one. footage that was being stolen anyway it sounds strange when turbo takes the shortcut in the first level it looks normal at first glance but there's something not quite right I'm going to play the shortcut and then pause it for a few seconds see if you can Identify what is wrong with the race, if you want to try to fix it, you will probably need to watch it several times.

Congratulations to those who managed to solve it. The problem here is that Tavo collects 11 coins in the room but the coin counter goes up 12 for some reason he decided to use images from a different race for the shortcut. My only guess is that he wanted to make it less obvious that the race was stolen, so he thought about joining different races. together it would be less trackable the problem when joining different races is that the points and coins coincided between levels. Tavo was well aware of this, so his solution was to crop the top speed display of the original task for the entire run.

The screen will be from that same TAS, although the cutout was done very poorly and this has some pretty funny consequences, as we will see later. If you're really crafty, you'll also have noticed that the cutout screen includes some of the texture underneath that causes the top. of the graphics appear distorted as they are not properly aligned, if you were really clever you would have noticed the fact that the screen appeared a couple of frames later than it should, the screen should appear on the same frame as the level textures , but in the video it lags behind, if you were really very clever you would have also noticed that the flashing of the coin on the screen does not line up with the coins in the level, these are always in the same cycle, so there should be there is no difference in brightness between the two at any time.

I have an idea where this footage might be, I'll come back to this a little later, at the end of the level the task performs the flagpole glitch that skips the lowering of the flag. The trick is definitely doable by a human and is even performed in the world record. However, the difference is that there is a specific setting that a human must use if they want to get this cheat consistently, the TAS essentially runs it without any settings, which is in no way feasible for someone to play the game in 1 or 2 different sequences stolen again and this time there are some pretty clear artifacts that help us identify exactly where it's coming from as at a couple of moments you can see a line appear.

Controller clicks can also be heard in the graphics throughout the level, indicating that the footage was pulled from live video. The race was stolen from the world record holder at the time known as Darbian, one of the all-time great Super Marios. players specifically is from his four minute, 56 second, and 878 millisecond run set on September 5, 2016. The same lines can be seen in his live footage and the audio clicks are exactly the same. I guess it was this video that fought the battle. the inspiration to make their video given that Derby ins run has millions of views, if they probably saw the opportunity to recreate it and try to make another viral video out of it, that's probably why they also included a heart rate monitor, speaking of which .

Completely useless, it just switches between 85 and 89 throughout the race. I mean, it's obviously fake, but they could have at least tried to make it look realistic The end of 1-2 is where one of the most egregious errors caused by the horribly cropped display occurs when you run on top of the stage to reach to the warp tubes. Mario is completely obscured. This is definitely not what is supposed to happen when he enters the warp tube. The screen at the top disappears before the graphics appear, which again is not normal. the screen should disappear at exactly the same frame as the rest of the graphics level.

The reason they disappear early is because the screen is still timed by the TAS, which performs a much faster strategy for 1-2, therefore ending the level. early causing the screen to disappear, this ends up making load times between levels much faster than they should be as that lost time has to be made up to catch up with the TAS by going back to the 1-1 shortcut . I said I had an inkling that some images belonged to and are probably also Derby ins. The video in the shortcut matches the same race that was used for 1-2, but the control sound and clicks are pretty bad in the Derby ins during race.

The shortcut and I think Butter Burn thought it was too much so they tried to fix it by keeping the TAS audio running during that section. The audio of the coins I collected in the room does not match what it is. is happening on the screen and the audio matches the TAS perfectly. Honestly, the shortcut on homework doesn't even seem inhumane, so I'm not sure why they would have changed it, if anything it seems like they're going to put in the same effort. as much as possible to try to disguise the fact that they are ripping off people's videos, oh and I haven't even mentioned the fact that Tahoe is making fun of all this by drinking coke and eating pizza between levels.

I'm completely sure what the motive was behind this creative choice because one would think that they are trying to make it obvious that this whole video is a joke, but I'm not too sure about that given all the effort they are going to put into making this footage. . They look original and hide the fact that they stole it, it makes it look like they're playing this straight, the original runs were not credited, there was no mention that this was a parody or a fake or anything like that and as you'll see later, He really tries to sell it as real so I can only accept drinking coke and eating pizza while he tries to be under eclis cool playing at such a high level while eating and drinking, in my opinion he just sounds like an idiot. into the race at 4-1, back to original task with same issues including TAS, just quick acceleration and flagpole failure with no setup to illustrate turbos cluelessness before the start 4-2, reaches for a slice of pizza, but doesn't even know if he has time or not, indecision makes his hands go out of control as Mario starts moving in 4-2, steals footage of a different speed runner, this time It's cosmic, another of the best supers of all time.

Mario players, the race that was taken was cosmics 456 point 9 9 4 set on May 30, 2017 again, we can hear the audio clicks of thecontroller cosmics when the video was pulled from the live stream in a couple of moments there are some pretty strange things happening on the screen a coin here a brick there this is because the task hits a block of coins here and a brick here the task finishes 4-2 times faster because it uses a much more complicated strategy to change Mario's position, allowing the Warp bug to be performed, you can see how far ahead he is due to how quickly the screen disappears compared to the level's textures.

When Mario appears in the warp zone, we return to the original tasks and the loading time between 4 - 2 and the warp zone. it's much faster than it should be from - 1 to - 8 - 3 it's just the test with no other races mixed in. The funny thing about 8 - 2 is that Mario is looking back all the time to be able to do this. to make a perfect frame to jump into every time he lands, it's a little baffling why they would go to the trouble of attaching realistic runs for other levels but keeping 8-2 of the tasks when it's so obviously unrealistic but also includes a crazy wall . jump right before the end, finishing 8-3 with 244 left on the clock, something that is impossible to do without in TAS, just a quick acceleration at the beginning of the level when entering Bowser's Castle.

His heart rate is still a chilling 85 in comparison, when Darbian reached this stage of the race, his heart rate had climbed to 130 in the first three rooms. of Bowser's Castle are just Derby ins run again, all the previous problems appear due to the cropped screen, it appears and disappears at the wrong times and you can even see the top of the flying fish that appear when it reaches the underwater part to which that returns. the tasks this is also quite funny because Mario's sprite is messed up, this happens when TAS is only used fast acceleration underwater Mario is stuck in a state of looking left and right and we can maintain that state for the entire duration of swimming because you don't actually need to hold your ground to maintain your momentum underwater and Ruiji hilariously demonstrated this by juggling while swimming during a race agdq heading to Bowser, the TAS looks back until you press the bridge switch while holding the perfect frame jumps.

To do this, his heart rate shoots up to 95 beats per minute. Then, when Mario reaches the princess, there is another splice in the footage. I'm guessing this was because they needed to extend the ending screen so Tava could milk his reaction as much as possible by talking about Tavo giving one of the best performances I've ever seen. I'm confused, is this supposed to be a casual career or a great achievement? Why play it cool by eating pizza only to have it later? act like you've done something amazing, the whole presentation is so incongruous, what's possibly the strangest thing of all is the fact that the timer ends up being 5 minutes and 12 seconds even though the actual performance time was of 4 minutes and 54. seconds, since that was the last time for the TAS.

I have no idea why the timer doesn't match reality. One reason could be that it's obviously just a self-made timer and it sucks at being accurate, that's probably the case. The other. The reason is that they knew that the real time of the TAS race they were basing the exhibition on was faster than the world record and they thought that beating the record by 2 seconds would make the fact that the race was fake too obvious, but that is evident. to the question: if the final timer was so slow, why did they use such fast races? They could have simply stolen hundreds of runs that were faster than 5 minutes and 12 seconds and simply used an accurate stopwatch.

This would have been really believable, another strange thing. What I think about the video is that it doesn't even start or stop a stopwatch. You clearly haven't seen any speedruns and have no idea how the speedrun actually used your timers. The whole video is very strange and strange and its cluelessness just makes it so. The strangest and saddest thing about all of this is that if the channel had actually made a video celebrating and explaining real speedrunners and their achievements, they probably could have gotten similar views or even more. A few months later, speedrun in bismuth made a video on

youtube

explaining the world record and his video received double the views, he didn't even have the millions of subscribers but Abun had, instead, he chose to steal images from legitimate runners who actually did the work and tried to claim them as his own there.

No credit was given, it was just a shallow and pathetic attempt to create a viral video. Original content. Believe it or not, real speedrunners still get comments on their videos suggesting they stole bada-boing footage. It's crazy even though the creators of this video thought everyone would take it as a joke, they still should have given credit where credit is due. I really think this was an honest attempt to try to trick people to get views. Now I want to say a big thank you to cosmic for helping with this video. I found out about this video because cosmic tweeted about it after receiving another comment suggesting that he stole bata blonde's career.

If you want to watch a legit Super Mario game, you should definitely follow cosmic on Twitch. and subscribe to their YouTube channel. I'll put a link to the cosmics and Derby ins channels in the description. Go and support real speed racers. Thank you very much for watching your legends. I hope you're having a fantastic day and I'll see you there. next video you