10 Times Video Games Hackers GOT TOO CREATIVE

Sometimes video game hardware hackers do really amazing things. Here are some of our favorite examples of brilliant gaming technical trickery.
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[@princeofpersia6000]

Fun fact: in my country (Iran) there was almost no copyright rules and every game on ps1, ps2 and even Xbox 360 was copied and each game costed only $1. Good old days

[@IcaroenEspanol]

Brazil?

[@Mrdeathxv]

bro i know even now it's getting copied .... from your name i can say it's iran

[@farzin4947]

@@Someone-wn9hx yep, for ps4 and 5 games they are selling hacked acounts

[@farzin4947]

And becus there is no Official way for buying games here, many people just pirate

[@warindark]

Algeria?

[@wcsoblake85]

When I was in middle-school is when CD/DVD burners were cheap enough for regular consumers to afford. I can remember this one guy would buy all the newest PS1 games, make copies, and sell those copies for $10 a piece. He made a lot of money! And he would tell everyone how to get them to work. Kids would save their lunch money up for a week or so just to get bootleg copies of the new games.

[@time_lapse9296]

Yep back on the 360 I use to chip them for like 50$ and if they wanted games I'd ask for 1$ per game

[@domiller14]

Mix in a certain rental service for increased profit margin

[@nathanh2917]

@@time_lapse9296 Fuck when i was in foster care I would just steal mechanical pencils and sell them for like a dollar less than the store did lol. Better than walking all the way to the other schools cafeteria for shitty public school food. God i did stupid shit back then. The family was mormon was like going to church with a cult. The previous family the dad was a doctor and we had a pool.. managed to get in touch with them their lovely people. :D im out

[@VencedorGamer]

And I was the kid at my school that knew how to fix PS1 and PS2 laser/scanner mechanisms from not sticking without replacing them.

[@insanejughead]

That's a properly scaled economy!

[@bdekw]

I did this so you don’t have to: The QR code shown at 4:14 and 4:38 links to a vid playing the All Stars montage from Shrek.

[@preexisting154]

Beautiful

[@riversider2506]

Noooooice 👌

[@SchvennMeister]

Yup, first thing I did was scan them. :)

[@pedromauricio360]

I did it too LoL at least it wasn't Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up

[@Whobghilee]

The new Rick Roll

[@YuKheThai]

I remember the PS1 exploit. Every kid in my school knew about it. We would trade bootleg copies of games. Good times.

[@SolidSnake_]

Why would i use a copy if a have an original, which is needed to use the copy? i dont get that lol

[@Razzlion]

​@@SolidSnake_ Different times dude. Bob owns the OG copy. He takes it over to tim after school, they do the exploit, then Kim comes over to tims house and picks it up and does the same thing to her PS1 etc. then you just have to not turn of the game and you're good.

[@FailWhaleGamer]

@@SolidSnake_ You wouldnt. Youd make copies for other people and theyd make copies of games you dont have.

[@tatienouorest3358]

@@SolidSnake_ you just needed 1 original ps1 game (any game) to unlock all others!

[@SolidSnake_]

@@Razzlion i see, thx m8

[@BaraIsrael]

You just had to make dust 2 look ultra realistic

[@krokodilpil8335]

I used to specifically downgrade my visuals to strip noise out so that I can see enemy movement in FPS easier. Also use colorblind color options to make tags stick out easier.

[@vickihutchason9640]

Legend.

[@jafsterlordbib]

Filthy cheater

[@unlimiteddd]

It is nice "accessibility options" right there! ʕᵔᴥᵔ࣢ʔ

[@KanyeNorth100]

smort

[@skullyrodger]

I remember that WoW incident, bro.... The amount of bones scattered in SW and just the general confusion and panic was insane...

[@maximvsdread1610]

That must'uv been awesome. 'The Great Catastrophe' People must'uv been shitting themselves...lol...

[@SuperZombiepimp]

i came in and was like hhhmmm intersting funny thing was for some reason it had no effect on me but i believe I came in while it was being fix

[@skullyrodger]

@@maximvsdread1610 was pretty trippy, I was freaking the hell out.

[@itzjay2002]

As long as there’s no hackers in online I’m fine

[@user-uq7yz1or2c]

All thanks to **worldhacker01* on IG, he's the bestest hacker ever in all kinds of recovery

[@BunkerghustVA]

Or if they are doing it against other hackers.

[@dragonhearted7761]

Then it's just modding tbh

[@BeeHatGuy]

Side note: online games suck, for the most part. They're all designed to get you annoyed with having to grind to level up, so you're inclined to spend money

[@itzjay2002]

@@BeeHatGuy gta online is a good example of that

[@SmallAndSoft]

I remember when cheating and hacking was allowed long as it doesnt effect other online parties or leaderboards

[@Gl-my8fw]

As it should be. There is nothing wrong with cheating or hacking single player games.

[@Sceptre_Ash]

Yes, as it should be I agree. As long as other players arent negatively affected in any way or form, and it doesn't bring viruses or malware etc etc, its creative fun.

[@tusharshende1015]

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[@bgweed5859]

Wait that was a thing

[@TheZoenGaming]

Unfortunately, an argument can be made that Trophies and Achievements are an aspect of single-player games that are competitive with other players. This is especially true when you consider that several developers have had contests to see who could find the "Secret" achievements and trophies first with a cash prize going to the winner.

[@One_vile_gt]

The DNS hack on GTA 5 back in 2014 where players stole millions of dollars worth of in game currency and were able to buy everything in the game to that point.

[@nerd_zombie]

I remember that fondly wish it was still around

[@shannonhoran7583]

🤑🤑

[@ThePopeSong]

Yeah, a friend did that on my account lol Never really played online though.

[@SizzleSack55]

My brother did one where his gun shot a million dollars in store currency online. Got banned until 2030 lol. Every shot was a million dollar wad haha

[@ThePopeSong]

@@SizzleSack55 Yeah I saw that one a fair bit lol My mate just went on to my account and gave me like 10 billion currency straight up. I just bought everything, played about with a few cars and then stopped playing. Never really got in to the Online. Most people just enjoyed him dropping in cars and guns you couldn't get normally though.

[@RealStuntPanda]

My first hack was in the long, long ago when cable boxes used rotary dials to change channels. My dad called the cable company to add a pay channel. They came out, opened the box, did something to the inside of the box and now we had an extra pay channel. That got me thinking. So I tried opening the box but they had those tamper resistant hex bolts. So I found the hex bit that fit them, clamped it into a vice, and drilled out the center. I was in. After examining the box for about 10 seconds I saw that some of the leads on the dial were scraped so there was no contact. I almost just scraped all the leads but thought better of it, what if, when my dad turns in the box later, they notice he has all the channels but wasn't paying for them. This was the light bulb moment, I took an index card and inserted it between the contact and the dial. I now had all the channels. I put the box back together and experimented with bending the index card end, inserting it into the box and pulling it back till I found the exact right position and bend amount to slide it in and pull it back so it slid in between the contact and the dial. It took awhile but when I finally got it working I took a knife and cut the card so it was just sticking out of the box. When my dad came home from work he was turning through the channels and saw we had all of them. He was like, "Oh damn, they screwed up and gave us all the channels!" And I was like, "Cool!" I never told him I hacked the box. I was eleven.

[@mubasshirkhan9449]

😎

[@Talia.777]

Cool Story bro 👍👍😊

[@RealStuntPanda]

@@Talia.777 Thanks bro. I'm a systems analyst now, I design and build computer systems for businesses, so I guess crime *does* pay. 😄👍

[@g.e131]

That's awesome! Lol. I can't believe you were 11 when you did that!

[@HOTDOG401]

Think its bout time to tell your dad....lol

[@inventorS117]

It’s fascinating to see what people think of doing to their systems to get around safeguards and use whatever they want on the system

[@haitex6296]

Ok

[@zwabbah4841]

True lol

[@kulish6]

nobody else like his comment. 69 likes

[@TheDonBro]

GTA 5 DNS Exploit. That shit was crazy! Deffo needed featuring here

[@HawkDonut128]

I don’t got the time or money anymore to play GTA wish there were still easy exploits like that :/ but aye yall hmu if you know of any I be playing series X so I knwo it’s prolly impossible haha

[@L39T]

Yeah I remember robbing a store and getting millions of xp and money lmao

[@TheDonBro]

@@L39T 2 billion dollar bounties on ya mates one after the other and it only costing you 2K hahaha

[@nickmesa2005]

@@L39T then i got put in the "Cheaters Lobby"... I hated GTA for that. I felt like they wanted us to play "GTA: The Sims Version".

[@nanopi]

the most crazy one was the singleplayer speedrun being interrupted by an online player

[@kamari212]

I recall using a Lego Batman game to install the homebrew channel on my Wii. I could watch DVDs and installed NES and N64 emulators. I played Ocarina of Time for the first time, revisited Mortal Kombat 4, Goldeneye, and many more. Good times.

[@Gamerdude753]

Yeah I remember using some game to install the homebrew channel. Then someone updated the system and I lost it. Fortunately they found a new exploit by then. Iirc you enter your wii's serial number on their website and then you'll get a message on your wii which allows you to install the homebrew channel. Good times indeed. Never could get the DVD player to work though. Idk why

[@-games5524]

Fun Fact: one of the first ways to install homebrew on the PS2 was to use a credit card, slip it under the disc tray, hit a latch, and then you could disc swap like with the ps1 method you mentioned.

[@unlimiteddd]

Yap!

[@justinhampel3432]

Make this a series. There are soo many impressive and funny hacks people have done. I don't condone cheating or hacking but the stuff I've seen them do before they get banned has always dumbfounded me. I still have ptsd from infinite falling with my team into burst turret cannon autoaimed sniper shots spawn killing us in Halo. I now just wish I could see the footage again and laugh about it.

[@jamesmurray2690]

Oh I remember number 1 so well. 😉

[@mbank3832]

that was the game within the game back then **wink**

[@MrIpawned]

Whats the point in swapping it out tho, wouldnt you just play the original

[@jamesmurray2690]

@@MrIpawned it didn’t have to be the same game. Any real PS1 game had the authentication strip on it. So for instance you could use a real Wipeout disc, and once it authenticated, swap for a bootleg copy of any other game, such as Tomb Raider.

[@chaseamos9660]

I used to use the inside of a pen for the ps1. Because you could bend it in and it'd hook onto the lid while pushing the motor button down. It was very effective for games that wouldn't read properly, because the light shining down through the disk made it easier for the laser to read. It also kept the system cooler for longer.

[@Muhammad_mujataba]

Hi folks its falcon never gets old

[@riversider2506]

Like Anti-Vax kids 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥....

[@JstormZx]

Guess I'm not the only one who likes to hear it when every gameranx video starts

[@notsure1969]

@@riversider2506 hahaha, oh shit. Savage.

[@maximvsdread1610]

@Santosh Jadhav WTF is wrong with you?

[@JuniAku]

HMMMMMMMMFFFF the Wild Arms clip!! MY CHILDHOOD!

[@user-mb2hw4vm8l]

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[@WillParker322]

My fave is the Unirom hack. You burn a cd, do the swap trick and then the stuff you burned on the cd mods the game shark. That becomes your mod "key"

[@tombrady1434]

I remember doing the ps1 trick using a match broken in half, stuck between the button and the thing that's suppose to press on that same button when the lid is closed. Fun times fun times :) Played through all of Chrono Cross on my European PS1 thanks to that trick

[@Jay0neDE]

@gameranx, if you ever make a part 2, check out how the community around Rocksmith (basically guitar hero with a real guitar) hacked the game to be able to let you play ANY song in the world.

[@thatautogarage3644]

I remember the days of hot swapping disk with the ps1. Life was so much more simple back then.

[@chihebbacha6680]

Back in the days, i remember using cheat engine to hack games on facebook, then feel like a badass hacker. Good 'ol days

[@leopereira4718]

Right?? Those were the days. I wrecked my whole family's empires in those games because I was so overpowered due to Cheat Engine lol Worth it

[@noaimincsgo9349]

fun fact, cheatengine is still used to find specifc values you need to modify and "hack" the game

[@cikicat2922]

Me too

[@robertclarke71]

A mate of mine tried to get me into GTA Online, I gave up on "Waiting in clouds simulator" after a few days. Hilarious that MTs were the cause of the slow loading times.

[@ccio.]

Every time im wondering how do you get the ideas for the videos, every time new interesting top list ✌🏽

[@maximvsdread1610]

He rubs two brain cells together and starts a fire in his cranium cavity.

[@Agju]

i used the PS1 disc swap trick all the time, but the way i was taught was taping down that little tab that keeps the lid shut so that it spun while the lid was open. I played the Japanese versions of Bust a Groove, Pocket Fighters, Rival Schools....i didn't know Japanese at the time, but i even played the RIval Schools dating sim a bunch of times XD

[@tentimestoday1704]

I remember getting my Japanese DBZ final bout running on my ps1 with the spring trick. I was so amazed!

[@albhapet6088]

i was playing burnt games on ps2 in 2006, you just had to get that tool offline that had a cd with the BIOS on it and had a tool that slipped under the disc tray and move the lock to the left and open it, put the burnt game in, and relock it.

[@maximvsdread1610]

I just went to GameStop and bought 20 used games at a time for less than 50 bucks....eh... that's just me I guess. Still got'em all too. All this hacking stuff...must of been kids without jobs yet.

[@ethanreynolds4942]

Love your stuff falcon.

[@Burn77oas7]

There was also a mod chip that was easily soldered onto the ps1 motherboard to alow for all regions and burned games

[@CasepbX]

#4 all monitors these days have a built in virtual aim point you can enable...

[@natethegreatreviews]

What how??? I have a monitor and did not know this

[@sebastianchibrac4877]

My msi monitor has this

[@DobieMeltfire]

I remember using something similar to the QR code mod for Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate. I was so surprised how easy it was, I couldn't help myself from abusing it. It was fun while it lasted.

[@bigmac6867]

The QR code at 4:38 is to allstars shrek version

[@ProdBy.JayLo3]

Ty 👏👏👏👏👏

[@devapalan5]

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[@murder1625]

Shit tons of bot

[@theotheroneofem4302]

Thing is, with the crosshair thing, alot of gaming monitors have a crosshair toggle button XD

[@davidb2331]

The PS2 hack looks the same as a disc swap, that I used to use where you partly load a game and then you pull the drive out manually and swap the disc back in 2003! hmm, is this not the same?😜😲😁

[@JeffOf813]

I did 2 of these, the playstation thing at the end I did so I could play Japanese dbz games (I had 3) and I also put a piece of tape with a dot for my crosshair on rainbowsix vegas 2... which became neccessary for that game because everyone did it.

[@donbeshire5180]

I remember doing the PSX hack with a match stick. used that because you could jam it open also having a action replay card that you plugged into the back allowed you to play copied games if you jammed the lid open

[@fmg182]

I think this is the Best video of this channel. And I've seen many. I remember doing the PS1 exploit, it was fun and you had to be fast.. for the 10-yr old me, it was really ninja stuff.

[@taylorburrow123]

The last one we called hot swapping baaaack in my days

[@chubbyninjagaming]

jesus i feel old lol never tried it, but i was mainly into N64 goldeneye back in those days lol

[@YouTube-Use-My-Display-Name]

I remember my cousins using the ps2 exploit to play additional songs on guitar hero. it was wild

[@NoJusticeNoPeace]

First hack I ever used was just cutting a notch on the 5.25" floppy to make unwritable floppies writable. Meant you could alter code on games, and a lot of games were written in clear code. The original Wizardry, for example, was written in uncompiled fortran and made changing anything you liked easy.

[@RaptorNX01]

my first was using a piece of tape to make a "protected" vcr cassette able to be recorded over. (cause we had accidentally broke off the tab on a blank cassette so used the tape to cover the whole so we could still record onto it.)

[@downsouthhustla]

I remember a buddy having a PS1 with a game shark and dozens of burned games. It was weird, you had to keep the disc cover open for it to work. I also remember loaning my 360 to a buddy for a couple weeks, he gave it back to me with like 50 burned games. I took it home, hooked it up via WiFi, and my gamertag instantly got banned for hacking the console. After he was like oh dude you gotta plug it in, you can't use wifi. Lol, I laugh now but I was pissed at the time

[@downsouthhustla]

Oh I guess I should've watched to the end lol

[@Xileph410]

Yes Sir I do remember how that spring helped my cousin and me play so many games in the 90s.

[@jeremymills04]

I remember the Microsoft points scheme, people were farming them then selling accounts. I think I got 20000 points ($250) for $20 a few times lol had no idea how it was possible

[@shadowstallion71]

In regards to the literal on screen crosshair, I used that once...on MGS3 when yer escaping from yer cell and the revolver is all you got. Usually not a big deal but I was playing on the hardest difficulty (on the base game, not Subsistence) and I wanted the stealth camo so....out came the sharpie

[@unlimiteddd]

Madman! ʕ-ᴥ-ʔ

[@agostinopique7825]

Every time I watch this video I always get blown away by the small rap that falcon does at 7:10 and have to go back at least a couple of times to listen to it 😂😂

[@aykkara4208]

My father knew someone from work that would solder something into the PS1 so you could just play any game disc. He would give my father a huge list of PS1 games that he could burn for me if I wanted. Like multiple DIN A4 sheets of paper. Good times.

[@leondsouza8598]

Yeah sure a billion dollar company was "UnAbLe" to fix long load times. You seem to be mixing up "unable" and "unwilling to, due to lack of a profit motive"

[@rogen8094]

An important distinction!

[@richardvenables619]

@ummiq My guess would be, since they had no intention of fixing it on their own, but could see a way to profit from this guy's work, why not send him a one time lump sum as thanks? You just know that with the number of people coming back to GTA, that they'll easily make that back and then some.

[@ramiel7666]

@ummiq 10k.....good for the one who fixed the loadtimes, for Rockstar, that's not even pocket change.....

[@Astraeus..]

@ummiq Simple; his fix showed that the problem was actually ridiculously simple to actually correct, and made it fairly obvious that they just didn't do it because they couldn't be bothered to. Them paying him for the work is something like hush money. Not so much for him keeping it quiet, but definitely because the alternative would likely have seen him throwing that info around and the company ending up looking really really bad because of it. It's all just the PR game, and 10k is chump change for them.

[@chrishoffman5938]

Yes because a billion dollar company making games about being a criminal will suddenly come to the light and work for charity out of the goodness of their heart.

[@ramziakas151]

You should have talked about somewhat recent discovery, where speedrunners of some spongebob game found out that filthy discs help in glitches in the run. They literally put tomato sauce and their own sweat on the discs, to find the most strategic places to put them on and help with the run

[@jonathanroberts1045]

We thank you guys for making these videos!

[@Trav2d3dArt]

Dreamcast....download the iso and burn the image to disc, voila you have a Dreamcast game

[@brandonclements5498]

Peeing while holding your breath gets rid of hiccups. Just found this out, most recent video on my feed

[@TheDamnWinner]

Are you promoting a video in which you discover that pissing and holding your breath gets rid of hiccups?

[@MiniMight]

Have you tried it? If so does it actually work

[@MegaHassan3000]

what does this have to do with the video

[@Ge0rge_0rwell]

@@MegaHassan3000 he is trying to be helpful, unlike some people.......

[@TheDamnWinner]

@@Ge0rge_0rwell helpful to who what the fuck are you people talking about?

[@vidiot5533]

When I was a kid, we somehow got our hands on a japanese game for the PS1, and a "translator disc" that would let a north american PS1 play the content. it used the same "Swap the disc mid-use" trickery that the exploit used, except the translator disc actually preloaded some information, stopped loading new info, and told the user to swap discs, then it would load the game. That game was Pepsi Man btw, one of the most memorable games outside my 6 year old obsession with crash bandicoot on the PS1

[@Camallunt]

Had the PS1 spring, it wrapped around the plastic prong the lid used to push an internal button. The end had a straight piece of metal that slotted into a hole on said internal button. It wasn't any old spring but it was easier than the pen trick. That spring along with the device you'd plug into the back of the PS1 to allow modded games and game cheats along with pirated games was amazing.

[@adamelatifi2446]

Gameranx : the ps2 exploit took 20 years to discover Me a moroccan who spent his whole childhood playing all kinds of formated copied flashed and hacked games : WEAKNESS DISGUSTS ME

[@NicoWagner89]

Ah yes, Shrek is a classic

[@marcintosch]

I wonder how many looked it up ^.^

[@mariusbulhhac2940]

Great work to put all this together, some serious crap happend back then ✌

[@terryturner5360]

I remember the hack for PS1, used it a few times. My gaming and computer experience started with a Vic 20 and then a Commodore 64 , which you could use a paperclip to get around game security or if you got it wrong,fry your computer.

[@kingjoe3rd]

Is Falcon a real person or a robot because he pronounces some words as if he is just an alien pretending to be a human.

[@merminotaur]

"We are laymans here"

[@mikle9011]

He’s a real person, his voice is speed up in this video for whatever reason.

[@tibbygothic9029]

Ah my bedtime gameranx video is up, thanks falcon ❤️

[@joeysgames1084]

It's 8:33 am

[@tibbygothic9029]

@@joeysgames1084 Not of you live in Germany where it’s half past midnight

[@joeysgames1084]

@@tibbygothic9029 yikes go to sleep damn it

[@SmallAndSoft]

i see sun lol im waiting but had to watch

[@benjaminhaotinlenkipgen7818]

3:16 ➡️ livegirls19. com ⤵️ B.e.S.T f'u"l'l D.a.T.i.n.G h.o.T G.i.r.L's -L-o-V-e-S-e-X---❤️😘 ..👍 !💖🖤❤️今後は気をライブ配信の再編ありがとうです！この日のライブ配信は、かならりやばかったですね！１万人を超える人が見ていたもん（笑）やっぱり人参最高！まさかのカメラ切り忘れでやら1かしたのもドキドキでした,. 💖🖤在整個人類歷史上，強者，富人和具有狡猾特質的人捕食部落，氏族，城鎮，城市和鄉村中的弱者，無`'守和貧窮成員。然而，人類的生存意願迫使那些被拒絕，被剝奪或摧毀的基本需求的人們找到了一種生活方式，並繼續將其DNA融入不斷發展的人類社會。. 說到食物，不要以為那些被拒絕的人只吃垃圾。相反，他們學會了在被忽視的肉類和蔬菜中尋找營養。他們學會了清潔，切塊，調味和慢燉慢燉的野菜和肉類，在食品市場上被忽略的部分家用蔬菜和肉類，並且學會了使用芳香的木煙（如山核桃，山核桃和豆科灌木 來調味g食物煮的時候 1619413276

[@sanrasuzumaki942]

PS1, I did that A LOT, Also it works on PS2 slim, this one has a brake to stop the disk when the lid is open but just move that aside and do the same exact trick and you are golden, just gotta time it right though.

[@EgonFreeman]

As for that PS1 "hack", well - it's a perfect example to use, because it's simple enough that people actually _get it,_ and it still showcases the primary culprit behind security issues: *assuming something is true when it may not necessarily be.* The PS1 copy protection assumed that a) nobody would swap the disk out in the time between checking authenticity and loading the actual game, and b) that it wouldn't be possible to swap the disk out. For all intents and purposes, the "tray" didn't even factor into the equation. And, as it turns out - _it should have._

[@brummiegaming8008]

i used the spring on PS 1 :) Had an Action Replay catridge too, remember those ?

[@sarahsmith2022]

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[@whyjnot420]

#4, the crosshair one, fun fact, I have an Asus VG248 24" monitor and one of the features it has, is literally a crosshair overlay, it calls it "Aimpoint" and underneath the option to select it or rather start to select it as it has several different crosshairs to choose from, it has "(Practice Mode)". (sounds like asus is trying to cover their own ass there) For me this feature is worthless since I simply have no need for it (I barely ever play any shooters and don't give a rats ass about anything for them and could care less about watching someone play them via stream. Because of this, it took me awhile to figure out why the hell this is even a feature. After I did, I wondered how anyone could tell someone was using it and the only thing I could think of would be if someone was streaming and had a camera pointed at the screen. Anyone know any other ways? Another feature it has is a timer overlay that lets you select several countdown times and where to place the timer... this I actually find useful, normally when cooking food, lol. (personally I bought this monitor years ago because it was a cheap 24" 1ms 144mhz monitor, think it was even on sale, probably was, I hate paying full price for anything)

[@TheNorwgianChef]

Dude! The old hot swap 😅 brings back memories ✌🏻 greetings from Norway

[@outlawvayne]

The tainted blood on wow thing was a glitch hunters pets would keep the debuff from the boss and it would spread through the hunters pet no hacking involved just a really minor lack of foresight on blizzards part. I watched a whole video on it the cdc actually want blizzards server data from that

[@unlimiteddd]

I remember the oldest/simplest "hack trick" for my genesis (when i was adolescent) with imported/japanese games... When i bought a fantastic one from a store, i was shocked to see at home that the cartridge didn't fit/slide in the european "socket"... But all games were in fact 100% compatible, and all you had to do is break two corner plastic pieces on the socket... for the game to physically slide & connect internally! ʕ✧ᴥ✧ʔ Felt like a hacker for 15m! hihihi.

[@lil1292]

I have a new respect for hackers now lol

[@joshfeldman7586]

Homie you haven’t even watched the whole vid

[@akarapongboonrat9338]

Are u now

[@thetriborg9588]

No

[@whizxcoffee]

@@joshfeldman7586 lololol

[@BeretBay]

Should depend on what it is.

[@jarse1991]

Great video guys! Great reminder of all these awesome games 👌👌

[@TheZoenGaming]

Yo, you forgot the magic swap for the PS2! it basically worked the same as the number one did for the PS1. Remember how the OG Fat PS2 would occasionally destroy discs? Yeah, I had several of my games ground up. Well, the magic swap made it so you could use your backup copies without modding the mobo of your PS2. First, you had to remove the DVD tray front cover, which was easy enough since they tended to pop off on their own. Then you put the Swap Magic disc in and load it up to bypass the copy protection, you use the Slide Tool to pop out the tray without pressing the eject button, put the backup game disc in, push the tray closed, and then use the Slide Tool to lock the tray. Voila! Your backup is now playing. They also made a version for the PS2 Slim that replaced the drive lid called PS2Cover so you could open it without pressing the eject button.

[@chrissinclair4442]

#1 to this day we get things like PS5 jet engines starting in the middle of physical copy games to remind and annoy us over our insolence.

[@afibuffygirl]

I will like every video falcon does as soon as I hear his voice.

[@nohulse]

They say GTA loads 70% faster since that hacker trick was implemented by Rockstar, yet I haven't noticed a difference in load times. It still takes way too long to load.

[@bulletinmyleg]

the psone trick takes 2 different cd swaps not 1. its a 2x cd player you wait for the speed to change then swap until the logo and sound plays then when the cd slows again you switch and boom. we made special springs with weighted end on it to hold open.

[@BlueLightningHawk]

Getting tired of hearing about the "GTA V load time reduction" story for the 30th time lol

[@killerdeamonking]

Lol i find it annoying because they claim 70% faster yet it still takes ages to load in.

[@dremora2232]

@@killerdeamonking if taking a shit takes longer than a loading screen, there's an issue.

[@jojipoji2322]

HYOIN KYOMAAAAAAAAA

[@kriscynical]

I'm living for that image of Reggie as a ninja. I recently found out that he was the keynote speaker at my alma mater, Ringling, in 2018 because his daughter graduated from the illustration department that year (which was also my major so _yes, represent)_ so the school was giving him an honorary game design degree, I believe. I was so hacked. Back in 2007 when I graduated we just had the head ad exec for Target.😡

[@indigOwO]

for that last one in the list, my dad and i did that to play the JP version of Tekken 2 on an NA PS. so works for not only bootleg but also bypassing region locks

[@Vaze23]

I wish I knew the first one when I was young lol. I actually just took my cousins ps one which had a mod chip and switched it with mine. Damn lol

[@n3gi_]

The only hack I can do is "Cheat Engine" on pirated games.

[@JoshuaJacobs83]

*stolen games

[@Charkel]

Never heard about the PS1 thing. My dad was able to solder so we just soldered a chip for like 30 bux.. had like 40 games to that thing. Good times

[@davidfrazier8320]

I used to use a spring to be able to play DBZ Games from Japan on my PS1, a friend at school showed me the trick one day. After that you could literally play any PS1 game no matter where it was from.

[@andrews6013]

1

[@SaintCloudyy]

No

[@leonh8829]

2

[@Daydne]

Homeboy is actually first I respect the hustle

[@andrews6013]

Barely, but I didn't populate first

[@ScotsmanGamer]

first at being a full time youtube loser nobody likes fill the comment section with pointless attention seeking!

[@SpiderWaffle]

10:00 I heard there was a CS "pro" of some sort that, put a mirror (or two) above his monitor and a some kind of magnifying lens so he could look at this apparatus above his monitor to see zoomed into without using a scope.

[@Danfrombackhome]

I had a gameshark type deal that came with a spring for burnt games. Worked perfect. Had to start up with a demo disc then swap it out. The good old days

[@CrippledMerc]

Up until recently I still had a piece of clear tape at the center of monitor with a dot where my crosshairs were. Pretty useful in a lot of games since I’ve been using that for almost 2 decades and I was use to it being there all the time, even when I wasn’t playing games.

[@D0S81]

i used the PS1 trick so many times. but we did it with the spring so that when the lid is opened, the button at the back that the lid that pushes the button down when the lid is closed, stays pushed down even when the lid is open. you just have the spring attached to the thing on the lid that actually pushes the button down, and have it long enough to constantly push the button. eventually. and i think i still have it somewhere. i got a game genie box looking thing that you plug in the back, that will automatically stop the legit game spinning after the copy protection, so you can safely swap discs without doing it while its moving. btw, this technique also works with PS2 games, as its how i used to play my gta san andreas after my disc got too scratched. but with that you have to take the cover off, unscrew the draw, and remove the magnet/plastic disc holder. and just use that by itself to hold your disc in place. i put the legit scratched disc in, and once it loaded up, i could swap it with a copy of the game to play it perfectly fine. whereas just trying to put the copy version in doesnt work. its not really a hack, its just handy if ya discs got too scratched to play, for some reason my dvd rewriter could still copy al the data to a blank dvd just fine, and i could just use that instead. but like i say, you have to load the game up using the original disc.

[@truss2005]

Dreamcast I vaguely remember something like the ps1 where you open it and swap the discs and something with the game card thing you plugged into controller

[@dyllonpifer1719]

My older brother taught me how to do the PSone hack 🤣 I remember trying to swap games fast enough

[@christopherlind]

Love the video keep up the great work

[@tylerjankovich9248]

The ps1 option was called hotswapping which I use to do on the 360 as well it was easy for iso mods etc

[@hitsuokinawamura]

Imagine how Ubisoft developers would react on discovering the increase of price on a old forgotten 3DS game?

[@rich1051414]

How buffer overflow exploits work: Lets say you have data that is assumed to be no longer than a certain length, so the program only allocates that much memory space. If the actual data writes more than the expected amount, it can begin overwriting other memory directly next to that memory. If crafted correctly, it can overwrite future code with new code this way. This is called 'arbitrary code execution' via a 'buffer overflow exploit'.

[@UnderSkys]

As in my carrier, we manage to wrote down own Cube2 or Sauerbraten game client. We insert there, marching cubes algorytms, some annoy preventing machine. (in cooperative build mode, people not only could delete your work, but also running around killing everybody, even in the coop-build mode, when you turn on play mode, to check that everything is fine. So we do - corruption prevention that allows you set borders where's no one could rewrite your doing. Set other players damage to zero. Or even drop player or whole server from the game =) by sanding them model that beyond array. and crash it totaly. we manage to insert lua scripting in the game console, that allow you to change gamemechanics on a go. Or even create new types of gameplays, like hide and seek, etc.

[@aaronkemp7789]

I did the PS2 softmod (#10, similar to #1 on PS1) on my PS2 slim. It was actually very ingenious. You had to burn a DVD copy of "007: Agent Under Fire," which has a driving sequence during its second mission. You have to replace this driving section of code with different code that you want the PS2 to run. Before booting up the game, you had use some tape in order to trick the system into thinking the lid was closed, otherwise the system would restart when opening the lid. Once you boot up the game and beat the first mission, you have to open the lid, remove the spinning disc, and replace it with the burned disc. This was a very tense moment! After you hot swap the discs, you progress forward to the "driving mission," which then starts running custom code. You can now copy Free McBoot to a memory card. If this memory card is inserted when you boot up the PS2, you'll be in "hacked" mode. What's great is that the PS2 will function normally without the memory card, so it's a great solution. Also, once you do the hot swap once, you never have to do it again.

[@Zinthos.]

The PS2 one just sounds like swapmagic (worked similar to the ps1 hack and got you past the copyright and you could then swap discs to a bootleg)

[@evernewb2073]

back in Star sonata the game made a point right from launch to be friendly with it's hacker population, the devs made a habit of being in-game and solving problems fairly often and when someone thought they could actually help out? they went ahead and let 'em! up to and including just straight up handing them an admin login to work with. it did not take long before half the games moderators were known hackers and even into the twilight years of the game it was not uncommon at all for someone to be asking for help in chat and to end up with a hacker working on the problem within seconds instead of needing to get ahold of a mod or a dev. it led to a bizzarely stable game that ran smoothly on an ancient computer and dialup internet, update patches that took less than a minute of server downtime, and a freakishly friendly and supportive community in a game that consisted of roughly 99.5% open-pvp areas and literally constant warfare involving the entirety of the playerbase. through all that the only known abuse of power by the hackers in question was to occasionally hold random game events whenever they thought up something cool or occasionally when they had went and built something beforehand. as far as I know the game had a total of 1 actual attack on it in it's lifetime and...well, you can kinda guess what happened when the game had literally hundreds of hackers who had been taking care of it and it's playerbase and personally involved in it's development over the years. ...on a side note it's kinda surprising how common it is for hackers to be artistically inclined, a loooooot of the game's resources were "hey, hey greg? I made a thing :)".

[@DocMufasa]

Those Wild Arms clips. Jesus that's a throwback!