Biggest CHEATER in Pokemon Speedrun History Was Just Caught

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Speedrunners You SHOULD Check Out
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(Pokemon Diamond/Pearl)
Rubentus - / rubentus
minnowSR - / minnowsr
scoagogo - / scoagogo
uwsellan - / uwsellan
crafted - / craftedite
bounxii - / bounxii
Alw0 - / alw0
TTS - / tts4life
(Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow)
Grogir - / grogir
Yujitoo - / yujitoo
zinned - / zlnned
KinkMyBoot - / kinkmyboot
MaddiicT - / maddiict
Pokeguy - / pokeguy
(Pokemon Sapphire)
MachWing - / machwing
WaveWarrior - / wavewarrior
bounxii - / bounxii
BluMagma7 - / blumagma7
Truely28 - / truely28
Keepingiticy - / keepingiticy
Headbob_ - / headbob_
Footage Used
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MinnowSR - • Why Jadiwi's Chimchar ...
Pokeguy - • Pokemon Red Any% Glitc...
Rubentus - / @rubentus-
scoagogo - / scoagogo
WaveWarrior - • Pokemon Sapphire Any% ...
Special Thanks!
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​WaveWarrior
Wartab
MinnowSR
MachWing
Rubentus
The PSR Programmers
The PSR Moderators
The PSR Meme Creators
The Entire PSR Investigation Team
Everyone who provided me screenshots/evidence! (There were a lot of you and I can't thank you all enough!)
Music In Order
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Persona 5 - Interrogation Room
Three Chain Links - It Can't Be Bargained With
Persona 5 - Reminiscence
The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles - The Great Verdict
Home - Release (W.I.P)
The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles - Baron Van Zieks ~ The Reaper of the Bailey
Mass Effect - Galaxy Map Theme
Persona 3 - Tartarus Floor 6
Phoenix Write Ace Attorney - Questioning
Persona 5 Royal - To Another World
Phoenix Write Ace Attorney - Pressing Pursuit Cornered
Undertale - CORE
Undertale - Last Goodbye
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[@PulseEffects]

Just need to add a bit of context towards Jadiwi's 1:01:19. We're not sure if that run is spliced just yet, but apparently the Chimchar in that run has been confirmed to be legitimate, so any comments I make towards that specific run should be put towards his Sub 1 hour speedrun instead! However, everything else in the video is correct! Many apologies for the mistake, I seemed to have read a Pastebin on this information wrong.

[@lonetomfoolery8762]

god damn you made me click the timestamp thinking the vid was an hour long 😭

[@Zer0_days_Offical]

​@@lonetomfoolery8762 SAME LMAO

[@BARBERSHOPP]

nah he cheatin lmao

[@Terranovasaurus]

Yeah just because we haven't found the spot where he cheated, doesn't mean he cheated. Most likely a cheater is a cheater in every run.

[@Gamer3427]

@@Terranovasaurus To be fair, also, the evidences of his cheating were largely circumstantial or required looking pretty in depth into mechanics. As a result, it's clear that he was good at splicing his stuff together to make it seem legitimate so it's entirely possible that his run doesn't have anything in it to conclusively prove it's cheated, even though it most certainly is.

[@Levi_The_One_The_Only]

"My computer can't run an emulator" is probably one of the worst excuses I've ever heard you can run a GB/GBA emulator on just about anything lol

[@PopcornMax179]

You can run gen 1 pokemon on a fridge

[@BlinkingTwin]

You can run a GB emulator on a shitty smartphone lol

[@yeahokumm]

ive played all of pokemon emerald on a school laptop lmao

[@zachh9791]

@@BlinkingTwin Absolutely. I played a translated ROM of red or blue on my PC in 1997. I think the first GB emulator came out around 95.

[@KevinDiaz2000]

People can run those emulators on FUCKING CALCULATORS LMAO

[@thebadshave503]

The fact that the community can bust out entire software to analyze individual code elements of a run makes it abundantly clear how suicidal trying to cheat in that community is.

[@jackbrooks3713]

I always wondered how runners identified/searched for seeds for RNG in research runs, it's super cool how it works!

[@An4lAvenger]

That's the funny part. The speedrunners know these apps exist, because they need to use them to find good seeds and such. The cheater obviously didn't know enough to even route his own run (like finding a good seed) or he would have known that people would be able to reverse engineer their runs.

[@aquilleswinkler5051]

@@An4lAvenger At the end of the day, a game is simply code, every number, every seed lines up to known visual data. He really thought people weren't going to check his runs this deep? By virtue of being a speedrunner, the willingness to run years of the same game day in and day out, he really thought they were too lazy too take some hours out of their day to check his runs?

[@sabotagefate69]

It also shows the level of psychotic the community is and that most likely there are many cheated runs that can never be found. If they can make systems/ai to find cheating then most likely someone's done the same for cheating ten fold

[@jackbrooks3713]

@@sabotagefate69 I wouldn't call it psychotic, a lot of long-standing speedrunning communities also go into such an exacting level of detail. There's most likely a few runs out there that are cheated though just down to numbers alone

[@Arthur-ux9ez]

Shout out to the pokemon speedrunning community for not having any major cheater for a decade, and especially to the runners for being so good without cheating

[@ShawFujikawa]

Absence of evidence is sadly not evidence of absence, important to remember that.

[@iss2075]

It is possible there have been other cheaters, just they haven't been caught yet. I hope not though.

[@XParasiteOctoling]

*cough cough Minecraft

[@ThylineTheGay]

Seems to be one of those communities that so many people have more time and knowledge than they know what to do with lol Pokemon nerds (positive connotation) are truly something

[@tails183]

Shoutout to all the speedrunning cheaters for not being this dumb for a decade, and especially the runners who are one and done with cheating.

[@Heriarka]

There's just something poetic about being caught being a villain because you wouldn't talk to your mom before going on an adventure.

[@Pyxis10]

Mooooooom I'm trying to cheat my way to a World Reeeeeeecord. Ugh, you never let me have any fuuuuuun.

[@VeilsideTofu]

Godzilla had a stroke trying to read this

[@unnamedperrson]

@@VeilsideTofu least obvious way to say you cant read:

[@bruzzunathtuch]

Lmfao "Your mother's worried sick about you, you monster"

[@atomdecay]

​@@VeilsideTofu It is perfectly 100% grammatically correct.

[@mattpostingcinematicuniver7920]

"Bro you talked to your mom wrong 😂" is the funniest statement out of context

[@rdrrr]

Be a good boy and talk to your mom when dinner's ready. Don't make her walk up the stairs and knock on your door. It's inefficient play, bro.

[@JacksHardenedLiver]

Ever more when a cheater got caught because of how he talked to his mom!

[@SpectroliteDS2400]

I've heard a saying in regards to dealing with cheaters: "If you give a liar enough rope, eventually they'll hang themselves". Even if they're good enough to not immediately expose themselves, sooner or later they're gonna make that one fatal mistake.

[@PaulDk]

theres survivorship bias at play though, as you have no way of knowing how many liars didnt go too far and never got exposed

[@failegion7828]

​@@PaulDkThe thing is closer you are to a spot that matters, than you'll have more eyes upon you, and thus chances of you being found out are near certain. So sure if you're not a top spot there's a good chance you can get away with it.

[@darionblack4434]

fatal? nobody is dyin lmao

[@thesalinator3557]

@@darionblack4434 My man's never heard of a turn of phrase.

[@PaulDk]

@@failegion7828 again we have no way of knowing whether the chances are near certain. it does seem like it, but we can never know who cheats and isnt found out about - maybe everybody cheats and we just cant tell (i dont actually think so).

[@kit6024]

My brow absolutely shot up at the suggestion that his computer was unable to handle a GB emulator. Speaking as someone who's used crunchy computers before, GB and GBA emulators are some of the lightest and least intensive emulators you can get...

[@thesuntitan]

I was playing Gen 3 on emulator back in 2002 before it released in EU lmao, what an absolute clown indeed

[@y8knsnsnzmzz]

Even on my potato computers with the worst processors, a GBA emu would run like a dream. DS emus were really not useable for me on those tho. The fact his was good enough for a DS emu but he was saying it wasn't was a clear tip off.

[@D3sdinova]

Was thinking the same thing. It could easily handle DS, but gameboy is just too powerful to emulate.

[@VortexMagus]

There are GBA emulators that run on phones from 10 years ago. The idea that someone can't handle a GB emulator but can talk on discord is hilarious.

[@D3sdinova]

@@VortexMagus there was a GBA emulator for the N-gage which is a phone from 2003. You could also play 3D playstation games on it.

[@sunblade704]

Even as someone who knows very little about Pokemon speedrunning, this many PBs and "world records" in such a small amount of time in such a competitive speedrunning community is super suspicious to me

[@stigmaoftherose]

PBs aren't that sus if you are just starting out and getting good, but anyone who just starts out and gets WRs in very competitive speed game without some super strong evidence is super duper sus if not just evince itself.

[@sunblade704]

​@@stigmaoftheroseTrue with the PBs. Reading back my initial message also sounded like I was blaming the moderators for this situation which wasn't my intention at all D:

[@stigmaoftherose]

@Monsikatzi I didn't read that in your comment at all don't worry. And if anything I would blame the mods for being too trusting and doing some of the things I've seen other speedrun communities do like video direction to check the audio and what not for splicing.

[@Thisdude850]

Yeah no offence to the admins/mods there is trusting but how can you be so stupid? It was kinda obvious he was cheating from the start, i am amazing it took them that long to figure it out.

[@hat-desu]

​​@@Thisdude850I think it's much more obvious condensed in a video that already has "he was caught cheating, here's how" as a premise. We have the benefit here of focusing on one person's actions all grouped up, when to the community it was mixed in with anything and everything else at the time. Hindsight is 20/20 - and as stated, they weren't exactly vigilant against every minor red flag in a community relatively free of cheaters.

[@shangerdanger]

i was running a GB emulator on a computer in like 2000 wtf is he talking about looool

[@Solaceon]

Even a Windows CE netbook or PDA can run GB emulators. Honestly, what a joke!

[@jaimereupert4247]

Not to mention, if you have Internet on your phone you can run emulators. I know, it's how I play all my games.

[@SEMIA123]

I was running a GBA emu on an Asus eeepc

[@spoonfulofbeez]

I ran a GBA and GB emulator on a CHROMEBOOK.

[@katieg1071]

Right? If your PC can't run a Game Boy emulator that thing is being held together with hopes and prayers.

[@djinn9504]

You know someone faking when they hit you with the whole script for the LOTR movies as a reply to "Can I see your splits?"

[@Pyxis10]

Tricksey speedsrunners. They wants my precious spots.

[@dinosaurtimeandfunnyvideos]

"gg, quite impressed with the effort to find out how I cheated." Bro out here with the villain monologue.

[@FlameSR_]

I was one of the 2 persons who did the race with jadiwi when he did his 59:46 on DP Any% Manipless(i'm the comparison on livesplit). I was never that disgusted by someone before we learn that he cheated and faked his reaction to us. Moreover, it was one of the person that helped me a lot when i grinded DP Any% so i was shocked when minnow's evidence was released.

[@PulseEffects]

I'm so sorry you had to find out this way. 😔

[@nickname_presentable]

well a least he made you become a better runner, to become what he wasn't

[@FlameSR_]

@@nickname_presentable i've boped him on DP Any% with manips, so yeah we can say that x)

[@gabrieldevoogel6225]

@@FlameSR_HA! Nice, kicked him down a few pegs before he ever got dethroned by this new stuff

[@nickb220]

never that disgusted by someone before? you need to get out more man

[@TheZackofSpades]

Throwing the Phoenix Wright music in when the facade starts to crack was truly inspired. I also love the notion that these cheaters operate like serial killers…they get that first “taste” and just go bigger and more outrageous with the crimes😂

[@Joe4evr]

Different Phoenix Wright tunes are actually going through the entire video, but yes.

[@TheZackofSpades]

@@Joe4evr okay so Pursuit, specifically. Absolute banger.

[@moonsigil]

I've seen tons of videos do this. I think it's a trend/meme

[@YourUpperLip1]

It’s all done for attention.

[@cocoabeanzwantstopuzzle]

serial killer of the fun of games?

[@PulseEffects]

Getting lucky is not a crime. 💀

[@PlatyRush]

As a french who learned about this yesterday on a french youtuber’s channel (Fildrong), I knew this was this guy. I can’t believe that someone would act like this, even if money makes people mad. (Plus, not a good advertisement for the french speedruning community… 😓)

[@PulseEffects]

@@PlatyRush It's truly a sad situation. I hope nothing but the best for the French speedrun community after all this!

[@randalleatscheese6644]

Now I'm sus 😭

[@PlatyRush]

@@PulseEffects thx man, apreciate it.

[@Orion582]

fun fact, he got contacted for a video by a big french youtuber who talks about the strategic aspect of pokémon who was like "wow that's awesome" and recently did an apology video saying that he shouldn't have been so naive and talk about a domain he didn't knew much about since he couldn't verify if it wasn't fake also since he edited for a couple of french youtuber he had experience in the domain of seemless splicing

[@KiuhKobold]

Seeing the Speedrun community as a whole analyze every detail to determine a cheater or not reminds me of the Olympics and their approach to doping. I extend my genuine respect to these people, the dedication is heartwarming.

[@YourPalKindred]

Speedrunning should become a genuine eSport. Maybe not Olympics level but it 100% deserves a bigger event than GDQ (not that GDQ sucks or anything)

[@KiuhKobold]

@@YourPalKindred While I agree it deserves a better audience and I wish it to be seen as more than "play the least amount of game possible", I think Speedrunning is good like the niche it is. You start turning games into competitions and it loses the magic. I don't want my Sly 2 Speedruns to be sponsored by Gatorade and ruined by it. Lets just be our lil nerdy enjoyers and keep going as fast as we can

[@YourPalKindred]

@@KiuhKobold That's a good point I didn't consider. If it were larger it would be inevitably corporatised beyond recognition. Growing the sport is a double edged sword.

[@murlocmaster6192]

thats every speedrunning community. Those minecraft dudes can pluck out a pixel and tell if a run is legit or not cuz of it

[@murlocmaster6192]

went on Jadiwis twitch and theres a message on it saying "We don't know much about them, but we're sure Jadiwi is great!"

[@penitente3337]

Just from reading the start of that Pastebin doc, I love how the moment he got caught, Jadiwi went full villain mode. When he quits, he goes on to do a very long and sentimental talk, and when he's caught he's like "good game, I'm impressed with your skills..." Not within the community but videos like this are very interesting to watch, nice work!

[@craigyeah1052]

Just from what I've seen with videos like these, it's typical, like they're trying to maintain some level of dignity. Actually crazy how similar it seems to the last one where they lie again about their intentions claiming why would I lie now, I'm caught, so believe me (please).

[@CloudianMH]

it's a typical coping mechanism from young teens who believe themselves to be smarter than other people.

[@ashleyneku5432]

Years of LoL have entrenched me in the "you guys are such tryhards" line.

[@Toug413]

I legit LOL'd at the 'One does not simply let Mom see you' meme. That shit is gold.

[@Condetg]

When you see the time it takes to a guy like Werster to get a WR, there is no way you could pull out so many in this short amount of time. Good catch, as they say in Pokémon...

[@Vanessomatic]

Hell, it took like 2-3 weeks for him to really nail the new Raikou strat and he still loses at least one WR pace run to the E4 or Red every few days. Rarely if ever makes any gold splits unless he had several other WR pace splits contributing to better conditions going in to the new gold split. He might save a few seconds in a week of multiple full runs a day but the odds of that happening is so very low at this point because he's at the point where any hiccup that snowballs within the next 5 splits tends to just mean an instant reset if he's not already in the second half of Kanto.

[@haidynwendlandt2479]

I read this comment before watching the video and audibly gasped because I thought this was about Werster

[@yurigagarine6998]

Your just mad

[@jaydenb635]

Who in Pokemon has ever said good catch, that's a fishing thing

[@BenjaminHari]

Exactly, it's one thing if you come out of nowhere with a good run on a single game as you could say he practiced alone for months but for that to happen to few more Pokemon games is like....bruuh no way.

[@bobmanperson599]

Even putting aside the evidence that proved prior DS emulation, how bad of a liar must one be to say your PC can't even run a GBA emulator??? Much like OG Doom, basically anything with a screen can run it...

[@MOORE4U2]

Now I want to try running a GBA emulator on GBC lol

[@RobotGuy405]

I've seen GBA emulators run on calculators, much less original game boy

[@FrenkTheJoy]

I'm pretty sure my sister's old iBook from 2004 can run a GBA emulator.

[@flayncele]

are there any more optimized emulators than vba? I remember trying vba on a shitty ass laptop of mine and it was unplayable, so to me it doesn't seem super absurd to have a pc weak enough to not be able to properly emulate GBA

[@LitCactus]

​@@flayncelemGBA

[@simoncrawford7966]

Any idea if he is/was a speedcuber? "Getting lucky is not a crime" is a saying/meme from speedcubing

[@PulseEffects]

Yes he was actually! I had no idea this is where it came from haha.

[@silviocupica2521]

Next video of cubing channels: Biggest CHEATER in WCA History Was Just Caught

[@AlexMaass]

lmao I've heard of you in cubing years ago

[@CloudianMH]

he probably likes to think he is a speedcuber, but he can't get good enough at that either.

[@medea27]

Something tells me that Jadiwi was one of those kids who carefully peeled off all the coloured stickers & re-stuck them on matching sides so he could claim he'd solved a Rubik's Cube. LOL

[@sharkeep4269]

Honestly the way of checking the legitimacy of a run by checking the apparent seed/rng that generated the starter's stats is kind of insane. Never expected to see that really interesting!

[@matohibiki]

Agreed, it's really interesting that they can do that sort of 'fingerprint' test. Too bad this method isn't available in more games, it would make catching cheaters easier.

[@DJFracus]

ngl this was the first thing I thought of checking early in the video when they showed the DP run with the Chimchar's stats on the overlay, mainly because I did some RNG manipulation in Gen 4 for competitive battling and I know that certain stat spreads are impossible if it's not from an egg

[@qbertsandy1367]

It’s very interesting (But like how did that chimchare even appear then….it’s is like highly sophisticated photoshop?)

[@sharkeep4269]

@@qbertsandy1367 my safest bet is that the Chimchar was hacked into the game or just edited to make those stats by a cheating device. since the steps he took didnt match with the rng that's supposed to generate them in game.

[@ReviwerEriyu]

Jadiwi's speed-running career was like a Magikarp trying to tackle a Dragonite, a flop followed by a splash of controversy

[@ItsCenrryTH]

😐

[@autobotstarscream765]

​@@ItsCenrryTHAre you also thinking of Pimpnite's intros? 😂

[@ItsCenrryTH]

@@autobotstarscream765 no that pun was so sad I had to pull up the 😐

[@synister9059]

​@@ItsCenrryTHyou thought you did something

[@luckypikachu4892]

​@@ItsCenrryTH Well, aren't you just a wet blanket?

[@dada78641]

Funny, isn't it, how people who consistently have these weird and unusual technical problems no one else suffers from so often turn out to be cheaters?

[@brodrickflowers117]

Dude legit nearly took nearly 10k in bounties and "didn't think there was an investigation going on?!" 😂😂😂

[@sytherwusky]

I do want to ask as an outsider to Pokémon Speedruning why take the risk?

[@AnsticePalo]

@@sytherwusky Greed.

[@rdrrr]

I'm not involved in the speedrunning community but from an outsider's perspective it seems crazy that Jadiwee should have been under suspicion for his weird runs and lame excuses but was allowed to collect the bounties without some kind of hard verification happening first

[@KerzacTransformed]

​@rdrrr he didn't collect the bounties. Bounties in speedrunning usually have a set date they are released (usually to allow others to do even better and for verification purposes)

[@rdrrr]

@@KerzacTransformed Okay, so if I understand correctly Jadiwee attempted to collect the bounties, was waiting for the bounties to be cleared and _that's_ when he was found to have cheated? In that case, makes sense, thanks for clearing that up.

[@ruily276]

"Getting lucky is not a crime." I guess he hasn't learned from the Dream situation.

[@mathprodigy]

I respect speed runners a lot, I love the communities because they're passionate and dedicated. When people like Jadiwi infiltrate and deceive and cheat, then after it all comes out, they lie some more, I'm telling you I don't know people who have less going on in their lives. It's stunning to see the efforts people will go through to deceive , almost like a challenge seeing how far they can go with it, sometimes it ends up being pretty far. But even more than that, just kills me to death when they keep playing an entire persona and keep acting like it's real, "I've done all I wanted to do when I beat x and x and x". It's so lame to fake something that deeply . They want the feeling of being a winner but don't want to do what it really takes to really be one. Pathetic. Great video PulseEffects.

[@katonnor]

It is bad that it happened but I love how the community bands together and finds the evidence to prove it was fake. They love the challenge and race for the fastest time. So when something is suspicious they come together to look at it closer and go back to legitimate competition. It is really telling that none of the legitimate runners ever asked for detail on the prize money. They were more focused on the competition than the reward

[@talenstout8324]

What’s so wrong?, he won.

[@mathprodigy]

@@katonnor I mean like Wave Runner said, they had very few cheaters as a collective community, so folks got benefit of the doubt. It's really an interesting look inside a speed running community. They're not all the same. If you look at the Goldeneye 007 64 community, they have had a number of cheaters and have very strict standards, and know what to look for in cheating. This community was different, and it got got.

[@bringbackdislikes3195]

@@talenstout8324 No, he's a loser. Both in game and in real life.

[@Crow_Rising]

Most people watch things like this and feel like they would be able to catch cheaters, but I'd just like to take a moment to appreciate the sheer volume of work that judges and moderators go through to examine runs in excruciating detail before making the call regarding any particular run is legit or cheated. I can scarcely imagine how much work they really have to do while going through the verification process, and how much pressure they must feel when passing their final judgement verifying a run or not.

[@tedgrove7775]

I remember hearing about an infamous Minecraft run that was suspected fraudulent. The community formed a committee to investigate the runner. I was amazed at their methods of investigation: a full-fledged study using statistics and probability to analyze the chances of obtaining a crucial item in game. I think it was a Monte Carlo simulation. Nevertheless, they determined that the run was fraudulent. Very cool stuff

[@Crow_Rising]

@@tedgrove7775 That sounds like it might have been the Dream incident.

[@snowarmth]

I know! So proud that they're not trigger happy, cynical masters who assume the worst. I have a wonderful impression of the community simply based on how they handled this cheater~

[@LouX453]

Yeah, I've heard of that guy He's part of the community of the french KZbinr Fildrong who did a video on his speedrun Everyone in the comments was proud of him.... Imagine how disappointed Fildrong was when he learned he was a cheater

[@xanvoir7693]

Fildrong is goated

[@bob69927]

im actually really surprised cheaters arent common in pkmn speedruns minecraft has so many, they've developed literal spyware to ensure you can't cheat

[@CloudianMH]

well minecraft is ran by teens (more often than not, though ofc not always). They are far more often susceptible to the belief they can cheat and get away with it. Even this person was clearly a young teen who thought he was smarter than everyone, giving his hands up "oh you caught me well played" cope that is required too maintain ego integrity and is much easier to do in your teens as you don't understand how transparent it is that you are trying to cope with getting caught.

[@ashleyneku5432]

Splices notwithstanding, Pokemon speedruns are denoted and differentiated by fractions of a second. There are four directions you can go at any time, and every encounter with a trainer, gym, npc or the environment is meticulously mapped out by people who know the ins and outs of everything that can or should happen. There's not going to be a run where someone brings something new to the table that has never been considered. There's no new strategy on the wings. It's down to perfect pathing and rng in fights. Getting a crit when an enemy is low is detrimental because that one text box talking about it takes too long. Minecraft is much more varied and has many more variables to consider. It's about reacting to what is in front of you. People don't cheat in Pokemon by and large because fooling people who know the game's code or can replicate it in software is...difficult. A big reason Jadiwi made any headway at all is a lack of recording. If a mod had asked him to hard reset a prior run, suspicions could have been raised sooner. As the mod here states, the thing that held people back was trust. Not only was it unlikely someone would try, but accusing someone who didn't cheat would taint their potential prospects in future runs forever. Meanwhile, Minecraft speedruns are so thoroughly enamored in scandal that it became necessary to question the run first. This isn't a bad thing, as most everyone is subjected to the same level of scrutiny at high-level play, but it shows a fundamental difference in community. Trust and then verify is a good policy until there's thousands of dollars on the line and someone starts gaming the system.

[@rentorars]

this is crazy, attempting to scam people out of thousands of dollars?? genuinely nuts what people think they can get away with, so glad he was caught! great video!

[@zwingler]

Considering he did something borderline illegal I would say he got away with it.

[@homerman76]

​@@zwinglerNot if he didn't get the money

[@DanHowsen]

And to then have the audacity to claim he didn't actually care about the bounties?! That's a level of narcissism that just makes me want to puke.

[@captain_furret]

Did he get the money or did they not pay him?

[@HighPriestFuneral]

@@captain_furret They didn't pay him because the bounties were still live at the time, his cheating was found before they expired.

[@Ocsttiac]

"I can't run on emulator because my computer sucks" Dude, your computer has to be a fucking waffle iron if it can't run a GBA emulator. Nowadays most people emulate GBA games on phone. Hell, if you can use Discord, you sure as fuck can emulate GBA games.

[@No_True_Scotsman]

You could run a game boy emulator on a dumb flip phone with Java, there were GBA emulators for it before the first smartphone existed

[@TheForeverRanger]

You mentioned patience and that is the one reason why I could never speedrun any of the main series Pokemon games.

[@RJA]

That goes for any speedgame. Pokémon being less physically demanding makes it an easier game to grind than a lot of speedgames too.

[@31redorange08]

Some call it patience, some call it waste of time.

[@youtube-kit9450]

Yeah. While I personally like trying to beat a game quickly or doing small optimizations here and there, I'd absolutely wouldn't have the patience (or honestly, the time) to speedrun in any "professional" or "competitive" format.

[@sabotagefate69]

Speedrunners call it patience, the rest of the world calls it mental illness

[@Dexuz]

@@RJA Honestly, I'd rather get chronic carpal tunnel than failing 95% of my runs due to random number generator.

[@seangunnell9451]

There is kind of one thing that does feel similar to something that happened to me. About 20 years ago at a Yu-Gi-Oh tournament at my local game store, I managed to draw all five Exodia pieces on my first draw, granting me an instant win. However, so many of the the other players there accused me of cheating and acted as if I was worse than Hitler. I took the Exodia pieces out of my deck and tried to play without them to prove I was no cheater, but one of those other players refused to accept anything except that I was a cheater. He took that accusing me of cheating to the extreme. Telling everyone who entered the store that I cheater even if they weren't there for Yu-Gi-Oh, refused to let me shuffle my own deck when paired against me in the tournaments, refused all the evidence I presented to show I was a cheater, and this lasted for over two years. Difference is, I didn't cheat, but this topic just triggers that unfair memory I have. And even though he was wrong about me cheating at that Yu-Gi-Oh, he was staking on his very life that his claim was 200% true.

[@rat-gang-]

holy shit, an absolutely insane pull. i'd be suspicious too, but that dude was off his damn rocker for going at u like that lol. two years of being labelled a cheater because your opponent couldn't handle an insta-loss 😭

[@Only_Nub]

I actually read the google doc on this once it got made public in the discord Shoutout to the mods, it was a very interesting and insightful read

[@chasevegas138]

The excuse of not being able to run a gameboy emulator was such bullshit. I remember back in 2001 running Nintendo 64 emulators on an average household computer without issues. A GameBoy emulator will literally run on a potato.

[@magiwastaken]

What games did you play using the N64 emulator? Like, my PC *now* can't handle N64 emulation, let alone anything we would have had some ages ago, haha, so just curious. But yeah, GB emulation literally is less demanding than Discord (as was also mentioned in the video).

[@chasevegas138]

@magiwastaken mario kart 64. Super mario 64. Goldeneye. Perry much everything worked.

[@angrypicture6155]

Bruh the way he got caught was legendary. This downright efficient level of self destruction, truly one of a kind.

[@surgingchaos]

I was in stitches hearing the Phoenix Wright turnabout music at the section where WaveWarrior demanded a hard reset of the game on the spot.

[@iron___]

Great video as always Pulse! This was a pretty shocking story when it happened, and props to the moderation team for investigating and reporting on this thoroughly.

[@the-renegade]

Like your Insurgence runs.

[@Emel_beba]

Fun fact : he was part of the french youtuber Fildrong's community, so Fildrong decided to make a video interviewing him something around 2 months ago about his achievements. Then when he got caught, Fildrong made a video about it saying he made the video unnlisted and apologized

[@yurigagarine6998]

Frérot, c'est gentil mais on s'en balek.

[@AstralBirthVoid02]

​@@yurigagarine6998 on s'en fout encore plus de tes réponses inutiles et inutilement negative.

[@yurigagarine6998]

@@AstralBirthVoid02 ??? Tu me réponds ça un dimanche à 5 heures du mat ? Mon frère en Christ, tu as besoin de Jésus.

[@Chocolatepain]

​@@yurigagarine6998time zones exist and you were a dick

[@megamix5403]

​@@yurigagarine6998Don't take the Lord's name in vain, Frenchie.

[@PhillyBeatzU]

Not getting caught for so long is crazy!

[@SHADOMEGA7569]

well given the long gap in the community since a cheater was found out i kinda understand why, now when someone starts coming in and taking records on numerous categories would definitely set off a red flag in the community but it took til he got the Sapphire time before things began to raise full suspicion with the admins. i mean once a cheater is caught their records fade away to bring balance back in order. Kudos to wave warrior for spotting all the mistakes in field movement though via cross reference, honestly it should be a norm to cross reference record holders with previous record holders

[@MoLO1991]

What stops him making new accounts and doing it again?

[@SHADOMEGA7569]

@@MoLO1991 the internet. Especially communities, someone will catch on and they'll be banned yet again

[@wolfcl0ck]

The quote at 11:28 was icy cold. Never try to out-special-interest a Speedrunner, they know the game better than the devs.

[@TokuHer0]

I just want to say very well done on this video Pulse. This kind of topic can often steer close to other drama but you presented everything in a way that was informative, concise, and stuck to the facts of the incident(s).

[@DaBrickBreaker]

well, I guess he should have talked to his mum first...

[@Hidden_Fern]

This was a really well made video, hearing from actual WR holders and moderators of the speedrun page via the interviews was great.

[@yendayo]

Sorry I cant do hard reset, my baby is being born My house is on fire I quit speedrun, my alien friend is taking me back to Mars

[@Halvos12]

Team Rocket run, cheat and see how long it takes for someone to figure out HOW you cheated. The person with the longest time going unsolved is number one.

[@J4D3R053]

"getting lucky is not a crime" bro genuinely using the dream defense lmao

[@Jake-rv6yf]

It’s apparently a meme in speedcubing communities, which he was a part of.

[@asuka7309]

"getting lucky is not a crime"... but fraud is

[@wollywog42]

Guys I gotta take a second to brag while I’m here since no one else cares. I set a new pb for Pokémon Red any% glitchless yesterday at 0:00:08. Pretty fast I’d say but I’m trying to shave off a few more seconds

[@halqery]

Very good video! As someone out of the loop on the entire controversy until this morning, this gives massive context and definitely is a good presentation for those wanting to catch up. :)

[@sytherwusky]

But there is still one more question: is anyone else cheating?

[@austin31bennett]

I don't speed run any video games but always watch these videos. None of it ever makes sense to me but it's like my calming white noise that helps me relax. Thank you for the mod team's efforts and you for making this video!

[@stungun565]

These videos hit exactly the sweet spot for entertainment we all needed more of! Great to see you getting a big hit with this one and we hope there's more to come soon!

[@CuriousJack420]

The mechanics behind these Pokeruns are extremely confusing to me. You did a great job explaining them, I'm just stupid. Definitely a community I wish I could be a part of! I love Pokemon so much

[@Sephscot]

"I don't think he was capable of not doing it" is such a bar

[@rainblue4789]

cheating for prizes is such a vile thing, genuinely boils my blood

[@Astar24653]

Thanks for clarifying that he didnt get any money cuz i was totally not putting that together myself

[@Reinoiro]

"Sir what do you do for a living?" "I cheat at pokemon"

[@GigalassII]

Just when you thought the french were finally playing fair, one of them kicks over the sandcastle

[@TheCanadianWifier]

Those quotes are hilarious, glad you guys were able to flush out someone who seems to have zero integrity and can't even admit they were wrong when caught. Gross! hopefully the community becomes stronger through this!

[@yurigagarine6998]

Vive le Québec ! Gardez-le votre anglais.

[@terrancebulong4573]

​@@yurigagarine6998 gross keep eating snails

[@unemilifleur]

@@yurigagarine6998what are you talking about dude

[@yurigagarine6998]

@@unemilifleur dehors les Anglais.

[@unemilifleur]

@@yurigagarine6998 why are you commenting that on an English comment on an English video about speedrunning Pokemon

[@ryguyryziken2541]

"One does not simply let mom see you" rip visitation rights :(

[@HighPriestFuneral]

Geez, I could see a much more clickbaitish title to this, "How being an unfilial son exposed the biggest Pokemon cheater in a decade!"

[@Brancus137]

"many thanks to the people on the screen who made this video a possibility" I was so expecting to see Jadiwi in that list :P

[@Anu_Sol]

I want to cheat in Pokémon so that Officer Jenny punishes me.

[@toronite6244]

I’m a Pokemon TCG speedrunner/moderator and this whole saga really made me be even more careful when examining runs to approve on our leaderboard than I already am (and I try to be very thorough with run submissions) Kudos to everyone who investigated Jadiwi and for PulseEffects for making this video. Hopefully this deters would be cheaters from doing so in the future

[@EeveeFromAlmia]

Dude would have lasted if he just. Shut up. Heads down, close to the top but never crossing it, and NOT taking the money. It’s really not hard.

[@sidosh2229]

Some more info here for the ones interested: On January 7th, we (meaning MachWing, Grogir, Jadiwi and me) had a 50 minute call (which is not publicly available cause we don't feel like showing a KZbin tutorial on how to splice runs lol) where he showed us his splicing and gave us some more insights: - When he cheated his 1:43:52 in Red, he had the OBS setup to hard reset on stream. He mentioned in the call that he actually only had one monitor at the place where he was replaying the vod and that he forgot that phones existed to show the chat. But he technically could have unhid his holder with his actual gambatte (with a save state loaded of the "The End" screen with the correct HP value on Nido) and his actual input viewer and prove a hard reset and could have done whatever chat wanted - He had the stream for the 1:43 delayed by a minute so that in case of an emergency (video cutting to bad cause he spliced badly or whatever), he could have ended the stream and noone would have noticed, afterwards claiming that his PC crashed or whatever All in all, I wanna say a big, big thank you to everyone who was helping us here. This was quite a big community effort and just showed me (and probably a lot of other guys too) what a great place PSR usually is!

[@craigyeah1052]

I mean it isn't my community so I'll admit my lack of investment, but I do feel adding a note like this and sharing his statements is just unnecessary pandering. Man already lied his ass off and got full of himself, doesn't deserve a bunch of people eager to hear how he did it and how much more he could have done imo.

[@sidosh2229]

@@craigyeah1052 My comment is meant to serve two purposes: First it shows how scarily close he was to actually fool us for a tad longer. Second I also like to point out when shit people do good things. And I guarantee you that not a lot of people would have taken their time and help a community after their banning, so I felt like telling at least that (especially since it was said in the video that he didn't provide more insight, which is straight up wrong (nothing against Pulse though because I'm pretty sure he never knew that we planned such a call))

[@Bunndolli]

Bro really thought he could escape the scene intact immediately after pulling the must absurd shit ever, that was the cherry on top of this whole situation

[@shake5121]

Jadiwi's like a melody

[@DEATHbySpNz]

it must be an emotional roller-coaster having your world record beaten by a cheater

[@lolxfps]

Awesome work done on this video as always Pulse & everyone you interviewed!

[@SillyLittleMan55]

I can’t even begin to imagine someone’s computer being “too slow to run an emulator” for a game that can be played on a calculator. Like, WHAT DOES THAT PC HAVE TO BE CONNECTED TO FOR IT TO BE THAT BAD?!

[@endingparasite8]

Great video, liked how thorough it was, glad it got recommended to me.

[@timelink3315]

With the amount of people who cheat in competitive Pokemon, its kind of surprising there aren't more speedrunner cheaters in the community.

[@Okeana_Aster]

Were they any people who were accused of cheating but turns out they weren't and they're actually that good ?

[@PulseEffects]

Yes! ExarionU did offline Emulator speedruns until they got good enough to world record in Pokemon Red, then eventually submitted a World Record run with commentary over it explaining the details of the run. This caused the community to ban Emulators, but Exarion was so good that he soon came back with a console world record. 😂

[@Okeana_Aster]

@@PulseEffects Nice 👍

[@GuanlongX]

@@PulseEffects what a chad

[@Dragonatrix]

Speedrunning, especially Pokemon/Minecraft/Mario/etc, is very much a "if you're NOT well known you're presumed cheating until proven famous enough to be innocent now" and "if you ARE well known, you're presumed innocent until proven guilty about 3 million times".

[@YourUpperLip1]

@@Dragonatrix🎯

[@morganfreeman123ify]

The worst thing about this story is that the cheater actually won. Yeah he got humiliated online but nobody really knows who he is so he was able to dip with a half arsed apology along with nearly $10000. I don’t know how bounty systems work in speedrunning but I just feel bad for the ones who had their money stolen.

[@nightskylerj]

In the video it said he didn’t get any money because of the expire times on the bounties

[@TheVnator]

Despite there not being any cheaters, the fact that the mods have access to these cheat checking tools and knowing how to make use of them is amazing! Good on them, and I think this community looks really great!

[@StonySheep]

"My computer cant run an emulator." Bro, I can play Pokemon Emerald on my phone.

[@Pyxis10]

Prepare for trouble, I'll make my time double. To "outrun" the most pateint, to blindside the people's within this nation. To denounce the records of the truly loved, to extend my reach to the spot above. I am, Jadiwi! TEAM RACKET SPLICES VIDEO AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT! SURRENDER NOW OR PREPARE FOR FLIGHT!

[@tarotdactyl752]

What an incredible amount of time you must have put into researching and editing this video... Super well done! I really enjoyed this!

[@milohdd]

The p5 interrogation music is so perfect for this kinda KZbin video, I'm amazed I've not seen anyone use it for this before!

[@Fuhrious]

I heard about this. Guy had a secret power granted by the Gods that allowed him to change video game reality. Destroyed his heroes. Faded into the night, leaving the rest of us to wonder if he was the real deal Pokemon Trainer ...

[@jays9869]

The Speedrun Community is legit more diligent than the FDA is with drugs in sports.

[@elcidthehero7797]

I watch this video a lot, and the moment he says "Now I'm sus." lives rent free in my head.

[@lasmirandadennsivillia5048]

Scary thing is that he got approved world records and then got caught later. I mean, isnt it possible that someone does the same but not as hilariously stupid?

[@papahusky1263]

Watch Karl jobst, people do this all the time

[@selfselected]

Saw this randomly when browsing the speedrun subreddit the other day, I always love some subreddit drama and I knew someone would do a nice video breakdown. Never seen your channel but thanks for the work on this, very informative!

[@steinschlange1457]

Bro got that dream luck I guess.

[@pchurch692]

Jeez,wild situation... thanks for the content Pulse!

[@drygnfyre]

So what I learned from this video is Pokemon speedrunners do a more thorough job solving cheating than do most police forces regarding crimes.

[@Emerldd]

This video was dope! I was super invested in the story the whole way good stuff man 😎 getting lucky is not a crime!

[@GameBoiLight]

pogU

[@sigurdtheblue]

Jadiwi when he fails to use pickup lines on your mom. "Getting lucky is not a crime."

[@cheminee9416]

The biggest french pokemon strategy ytber made a video adressing this and calling out the cheater as well as apologizing for putting him under the spotlight because he made a video about him where he interviewed him (before he was caught). The entire french community was so proud of him when that interview came out. How can you lie to the face of so many people like that...

[@3possumsinatrenchcoat]

this is extremely well edited! but also what the actual heck is wavewarrior's icon supposed to be on those discord interviews 😭

[@Retalorate]

dude the part where the investigation ( 18:50 ) is using stats comparison and seeding blows my mind!! I never knew u could actually do that damn

[@aquietone2895]

It seems like speedrunning is a competition to see who can cheat the most egregiously without getting called out for it.

[@Brianycus]

15:59 Pulseffects became the Pokemon Attorney holy. Music was perfect in this bit

[@AvalancheEz]

I will NEVER believe someone who says they can't play on emulator because their PC sucks. I was literally playing pokemon on an emulator back in early 2000's, the shittiest computer nowadays is miles better than a gateway work station was back then. It ran fine; because well, the gameboy and the games on it require very little to actually run.

[@Antholography]

Very sad to see that someone took advantage of the PSR community. I hesitate to call myself a "member" of this group - more like a passer through. I am an admin in a former runner's Twitch. I have very few runs to my name - only a couple of twitch vods; but to say that the community was extremely welcoming and open to newcomers is an understatement. Those guys are sincerely one of the best video game communities out there for speedrunning. That someone would take advantage of their generosity, welcomingness, and kindness is unbelievable. It is a shame that any new players will have their image tainted by people like Jadiwi immediately.

[@ThatOneShortieHo]

I'll be honest, no matter how many times I watch this video, I keep thinking the "pokemon speedrunning takes a lot of time and skill" bit to direct into a SkillShare sponsor

[@couragerocks290]

Talking to Mom is probably something Jadiwi hasn’t done much.

[@forgottenpygmy]

"Setting world records" without even bothering to learn how to play optimally was hilariously bold of him. What a dummy 😅