I Raced My 1st Hacker in Mario Kart...

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe booster course pass wave 5 dlc rebalanced the game again with vehicle parts, characters and the way items work online. Today we're playing online against our first hacker who has the ability to obstruct other player's screens.
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[@TWD98]

Has this ever happened to you?! 13:20 is where the madness starts Also, recorded this before wave 6 trailer so it'll be the last vid with the funky kong outro (IT WORKED TY)

[@Thegodgamer602]

Nahhh

[@ChristianJosephOfficialYT]

I think I've encountered a hacker before In Mario Kart Wii back when I Had CTGP Revolution. But I don't Remember what day that was when I encountered one?

[@mrdecember6598]

Yes i was racing with hydreix and one player made everyones screen a single color

[@thunderplus1]

FUNKKKKKKKKKKKKKY KONGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

[@thisusernamewasnttakensomehow]

I raced against a MK8DX hacker only once before, on Mount Wario. They spawned in whatever items they wanted throughout the race, at any time. It was jarring to jump off the helicopter at the beginning and immediately hear the roulette sound lol. But hackers are quite rare in MK8DX so yeah

[@pizapocket477]

It looks like it's tied to his flag/name. Like, a character that he can type or a custom graphic that's just HUGE. The layering behind people ranking lower than him in races, it only happening when his name pops up. It's probably a custom graphic flag.

[@ethanhopper2467]

This is definitely it, you can see the amount of the screen covered changing as he moves left and right on the screen

[@itsadivad]

I thinks it's most probably the name. Every time he used that screen effect it was blank. I'd guess he can control the color of the smear by changing it in his name

[@galadinowo]

i doubt it's a custom flag, what i thinks happening is his name is just *really* big all of his other hacks have to do with his name, he's likely just messing with that the whole time, and notice that his name is "blank" when its the red square

[@worldsboss]

I’d also say there’s a chance that he didn’t even realise what it was doing to other people’s screens. Probably just wanted a fancy-looking name.

[@LiamDeege]

@@worldsboss Yo worldsboss what's up?

[@KidCoyle]

The obstructive red thing is probably an enormous character in his name, since it seems to be coming from his direction. I would guess it's a giant text character on display.

[@AD-tw1do]

This is the correct answer. All of this "hacking" is just the guy putting invalid unicode characters into his name, and the game having a stroke trying to display them.

[@My14thAccount]

@@AD-tw1dothe game isn’t having a stroke, literal markup language in the same code as the name 💀

[@starrykitties]

Pay attention real closely at 21:49, the hacker is the one who blue shelled Troy from 2nd place after using a bullet.

[@Barak925]

That can happen

[@Cobalon]

hi honey

[@vicktane]

I Did that once so.....

[@starrykitties]

@@vicktane I just thought it was a funny coincidence that’s all

[@vicktane]

​@@starrykittiesAll good, It definitely throws you off tho (No time to prepare)

[@worldsboss]

I think that what impresses me the most is that he recognised the Belarusian flag.

[@dorjgothegreat2740]

And Nigeria, dude is a vexillology pro

[@STIKYE07]

It was actually kinda funny he recognized that

[@raringrph1560]

@@dorjgothegreat2740I was actually surprised to see the Nigerian flag on the video thumbnail since I’m from there 😅

[@amengodisgood]

lmao the belarusian one is one of my favorite flags

[@sediew]

Troy likes to travel around the world so I’m not surprised

[@LiamDeege]

MKWii racing online from 2008-2014 in a nutshell. 10/9/23 Edit: No one will care at all, but 16 days later and this is my first comment on KZbin to reach 1,000 likes.

[@Barak925]

You just made me realize that MK8D could’ve had its online shut down by now

[@swirly3643]

lol that brings back some bad yet funny memories

[@LiamDeege]

@@swirly3643 When I was a young boy growing up in the late 2000's and early 2010's, I used to sit back and watch my brother play online races and half the time at least, the rooms would have a hacker in them and it really made him mad.

[@A_Person_64]

I remember my first time seeing a hacker He ended up stunlocking me in N64 Mario Raceway with Bob-Ombs

[@elijahdoesthings]

Eh Im guessing that the only reason why Nintendo WFC was shut down was because GameSpy was shutting down too but MK8DX doesn’t have too much hackers so that’s a good thing

[@johnnychabin6982]

my guess is that they found the internal endpoint that is used to set the username on a nintendo account, and they call this repeatedly to switch name & flags. it looks like players’ names are updated between races, not during races, which is why the name cannot rapidly change during a race. in addition, many text renderers have special characters added to them, that you can use to change the color, size, font, of text, or add in special untypeable characters. The ONLY hack used here is changing nintendo account information to include too many characters, special characters to change color and font-size (the gradient covering the screen is either text scaled up to large to cover the whole screen, or a very weird untypeable character), and to select flags that are not available in the user interface, but still have names and icons. this is revealing of some of nintendo’s security issues / mario kart internals! apparently mario kart has some of these special characters programmed in (although im not aware of any intentional uses of these outside of the “tilt controls” symbol), nintendo account information is modifiable even after creation (without limit), all of the limits on usernames (name length, which characters are allowed, which flags are allowed) are ONLY defined client-side, meaning a bad actor like this player can override this behavior if they send bad data directly to the server, and (although this is very minor) the render order of UI elements in mario kart is partially shown here, depending on which parts of the screen are covered or not by this hack! very cool.

[@My14thAccount]

Also the screen blinding name is just the Full Block Unicode symbol scaled to the 16bit integer

[@My14thAccount]

0E in Unicode is the start of a set of instructions for text, further information is given on which Unicode values to use to define what keyboard the text is using (system or game) and defining size or color as the user wants, along with the message they want

[@TheSameNameasYou]

The item usage at 21:49 looks like Shock, Bullet, Blue (in second place) from Wario (hacker) in the minimap.

[@nothingboie7329]

@@TheSameNameasYou Actually it's the blue Yoshi in last place that used the shock, Wario just dodged it with his bullet bill, and then chained a blue shell right after

[@renakunisaki]

I wonder what's the longest it will accept? Can you paste in the entire Bee Movie script and lag/crash everyone?

[@renakunisaki]

I love hackers who just clown around instead of actually cheating.

[@pacifistichuman82649]

I _will_ do that if I eventually get hacks. (which is never)

[@ExperiencersInternational]

I've seen hacking in the original Mario Kart 8 (mainly that on the second lap, the hacker would instantly complete the race) but I never thought I'd see it happen to 8 Deluxe. I've heard of hacking tools in Splatoon 2 and Splatoon 3 but most hackers generally play in private rooms to avoid bans which is interesting.

[@crazycanyon3028]

Lots of people have been saying this hack only affected his name and looking closely that is definitely the case

[@YoJimBoHugabaJoe]

There used to be loads of amazing hackers on mario kart DS,they could force the game to play tracks that werent supposed to be playable online or unfinished tracks and stuff.so much fun

[@nickbrine0345]

34:34 has meme potential. Put a random image or video over the green section of the screen and watch hilarity ensue

[@B-ray1802]

The same hack appeared in hydreixs viewer tourneys! You should also collab with him, that would be great!

[@MissDahliaGames]

Didn't Troy already collab with Hydreix or am I maybe thinking of someone else? 🤔

[@B-ray1802]

@@MissDahliaGames hydreix did a collab with jpg, but not with troy yet

[@fabian_133]

Wait you're here?

[@megamushroom]

4:30 poor snow land 5:35 haha they happy the shock happened 9:35 wow that horrible time shock The slow transition from a normal game play too progressively more hacked is pretty cool Hacker wario 28:10 collects two coins but gains three? 28:50 perfectly cut screams 32:50 pony missiles Cool video

[@noam7825]

He collect a coin on the ground that why he gain 3

[@megamushroom]

@@noam7825 oh ok

[@Miquelet12]

My guess is that he is a kid who downloaded a mod to make his name tag "cooler" putting colors, exceding character limit and changing size and what happened is that he just set charater size to maximum and all you could see on his nametag was a huge letter that blocked half of the screen, he thought it was like super funny and left it that way, i dont know if he will get banned for that or no, but if he gets banned nintendo can literally block access to online services from his console, although I don't think that will happen, I would love to see his reaction when he tries to go online and gets the message "nintendo switch online services have been blocked for this console" and see how he desperately tries to change his account and profile but the message keeps popping up.

[@WumpusFruit]

I think the red mist might be tied to being close to him or something along those lines, it only really seems to appear when you're in a certain range

[@jamesgotchall7205]

I never race online in part for this reason. I'd rather avoid hacking by playing with friends directly, of which i have none on the switch

[@lefthandedscout9923]

It's hard to tell if the cheater is using item hacks or not - the bullet into blue shell just looked like a smuggle from a shock dodge, but it could've been cheated. I'm going to assume innocence on that side just because if they're being this obvious with the name change cheat to obstruct people's view they'd probably also be way more obvious on other forms of hacking too if they were doing it. It feels more likely to me that either A - they only know how to change their name to add illegal characters like the red overlay thing that covers the whole screen or special colored text and modding anything else would get anti cheat detected and they'd get kicked and banned, or B - they can do other mods but they were just looking for actual races and wanted to show something mostly harmless to the rest of the room. Personally I think having a super long name is funny and distracting, but I'd never blame someone's name being long for giving them an unfair advantage from mere distraction. Covering half the screen whenever your tag displays on someone's screen, though, yeah, thats obviously at least slightly unfair. I do have to wonder what the limit is, though. Like, could you have your name be a whole paragraph, like a copypasta or something?

[@nothingboie7329]

*Racing in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.* Oh damn someones in front of me, theyre gonna win! Wait... what's their name...? Oh... Oh my god... no... Their name: My name is Yoshikage Kira. I'm 33 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Morioh, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I work as an employee for the Kame Yu department stores, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don't smoke, but I occasionally drink. I'm in bed by 11 PM, and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning. I was told there were no issues at my last check-up. I'm trying to explain that I'm a person who wishes to live a very quiet life. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness. Although, if I were to fight I wouldn't lose to anyone. *They then use their hacks to have infinite bob-ombs.*

[@Bubblr]

The green, white and green one is actually Nigeria. Well done Troy!

[@DrHavoc49]

Moonview Highway is the best track to play online. Especially on 200cc

[@NoWayAroundIt_]

I’ve played against Quaashie (the hacker) before in Regionals, never had this happen, but in the selection lobby his name was pretty big and in-game it was pretty small. He always had the flag of Greece too.

[@matt4078]

Honestly impressed Troy knows his flags lol

[@willparrish8474]

he didn’t know nigeria

[@matt4078]

@@willparrish8474he basically did, just wasn’t confident. I’d argue most people wouldn’t even think of Nigeria after seeing their flag

[@grifleep4916]

This is like the least offensive Hacker. It seems like he races as honestly as possible in every manner, just spruced up his name with custom letters and accidentally is obstructing others. It's like using a spray bottle for crimes

[@angrydiddykong262]

I think it's pretty clear it's intentional in order to have an advantage over players nearby that could threaten him.

[@zwillscoopchannel9689]

@@angrydiddykong262well compared to infinite bombs or finishing the race a lap earlier this is tame

[@Ray_2112]

@@angrydiddykong262 Too bad it didn't really help, he usually didn't do well in the races lol. MK players are used to having obstacles all the time, a partly colored screen doesn't make a big difference, it's just like a blooper.

[@DavidRich-bn4kn]

Yeah! A hacker I played with made his name "I have your adress" and another was like "VR9 my F***king a** r****d" 😂

[@metarunnermariokart]

I've actually heard of Quaashie before. I think he might've been in some of Mankalor's videos (or someone else, don't know for sure)

[@MrActiveSkill]

Mario Kart Wii was FULL OF HACKERS! I remember me and my big brother playing online and this player with the balloon symbol suddenly appeared and used the shock... 10 TIMES IN ONE RACE! It was hilarious 😆

[@kenkxb2763]

Troy do you think you’d enjoy doing a video going over your favorite shortcuts and how you do them? Like mushroom gorge gap cut, dk summit double cut, and the infamous bangkok rush and so on? I feel like that’d be really entertaining to watch

[@CandyGaming73]

I literally was in a server with that same exact hacker a couple days ago!! They kept changing their name and country and their name was highlighted yellow too. They kept doing weird stuff and I knew immediately they were a hacker. I’m glad I’m not the only one who found this hacker! Love your video!

[@samuelthecamel]

4:21 Sherbet Land is super underrated

[@LeylaYazgan-k5i]

I think that the red screen increases by a radius around him because it only happens when you’re near him. I think it also increases the closer you get to him. (Note: I’m an idiot sometimes so don’t take me for facts this is just what I think is happening)

[@girlmaya6818]

Troy talking down on the first hacker he's ever played against in this game is honestly just sad and I don't think it's just the nostalgia that makes me think he wouldn't have acted like this back in the day or even just a couple years ago

[@5UTH3RL4ND]

It seems to appear when ever he is visible on your screen

[@carlosemilio385]

33:10 bros… the red yoshi literally teleported

[@nathanielbass771]

my guess is that the game checks for variable changes and instead of changing variable numbers and condition checks, the hacker is instead altering their model and camera. I don't know why this would transfer to the other games, but my guess is that when you are in front of the hacker, you receive a red screen because the hacker is projecting an infinite red light in a majority of directions either in front or behind them. This is why sometimes you see it in your rear view camera and others in your front view. Basically think of your screen as a camera. you're looking through the lens, well the person projects a light infinitely on the track in whatever direction they set but it stops a certain distance in front of them so that they can see. It probably has something to do with the flags and characters as well. It's possible they figured out a way to set up a developer mode and that is why their information has no limits, either that or a certain combination of characters, language and location cause some sort of memory problem.

[@Justin__Time4]

Literally never knew hacking MK existed. What a bum lol.

[@llamaboioflusatia]

I imagine he changed his name to a bunch of characters which correspond to the code which makes the screen change colour.

[@stuffenjoyer6677]

The hacker be like “That is but a taste of our fury! Do you yield?”

[@farleighpog]

20:46 translation of the hacker's name: social credit decrease

[@TravelrageJoe]

I was laughing, what a way to throw that out there

[@PINKDIAMOND4000]

First, I´m so happy to see at the beginning a Dominican flag. Now, about the hacker, yes, i have encounter one, this happened on one of my friend´s streams, she opens a tournament every Saturday and everyone can join, the hacker joined and ruined the race, even by blocking them they could still enter the room, so we had to wait for a while and that killed the mood. First was the Chinese flag with a 20 characters name, then it was changing colors and covering the whole screen , but skill is always better than hacking.

[@cjtheracer0113]

13:24 That's scary because that can ruin your race.

[@oEastt]

By the way, at 22:01 it isnt someone behind you stealing the item box, im pretty sure I can see a player with a boo right before you grab it, and seconds later we see someone coming back from the boo item.

[@ScoobyDoo-jf9vj]

any one else see their name? it was at 18:38 so if someone wants to report them they can, it looked kinda long.

[@mrguy3370]

I’ve NEVER seen anything like this, super crazy

[@davidfoley2657]

This is some interesting cheats. The only ones I ever ran into were blatant teleporting around the track and infinite item spamming people they didn't like.

[@Salvator_Satanae]

To be fair there’s websites which change the colour of your names using certain coding so he probably just thought it looked cool and didn’t know it sabotages other players

[@jdiaz4877]

Yo! That hacker was too funny, never seen anything like it before.

[@Tails_Z]

I remember as a little kid when I played some Mario Kart Wii a few years ago on the internet on my Wii. One time I encountered a hacker and he was in Koopa Cape I totally remember that part during my childhood except I did not have footage of it because I wasn’t so used to recording back in the day. He was spawning lots of items and not racing that much having fun spawning so many items using cheats. I also remember seeing him at the end of the Koopa Cape Tunnel where you exit out from. Spawning some items there too! And that was the only time I encountered a Hacker in Mario Kart Wii's WiFi thing.

[@professorowblock7812]

okay the 37:15 tactical smart steering is kinda genius

[@Marshco36]

4:34 RIVERSIDE PARK like All the new gba tracks are amazing but it seems like riverside park has gotten no love in online since it’s released

[@AronLichteFilm]

i guess it's his name + he scaled up the font to make it really giant. Cause he made his name green or red before and the name was always missing when the color blocked a large part of the screen

[@ilikepurper1160]

thats actually crazy the red screen of death was literal i thought it was just a bunch of red and green shells

[@ehx3419]

33:25 You don't even know how right you are. This shortcut in particular has been the bane of Time Trial records for quite a while.

[@starflymkw]

This makes me kinda glad that I live in the wiimmfi era and not the wfc era.

[@kulvib4601]

Thanks for making this video! I enjoyed watching it! I can't wait for the next one!

[@RickyPWiiSports]

I remember when I ran into 2 hackers on the original MK8 and it was in battle mode with them spamming bullet bills & blue shells

[@vnusfmtv]

This is crazy because I was playing yesterday and thought something was off and thought I saw a hacker but the screen change was crazy I’ve never seen anything like it

[@AndrewNineTen]

I like that the hacker played as Wario for most the time, it's very fitting

[@desmond1164]

17:39 triple greens perfectly counters triple reds

[@MrSmbai]

Seems like the red screen is based on where he is on your screen. It starts on the right and if he is on the far left of your screen, it covers all of it

[@spaced8641]

3DS Rainbow Road, Moonview Highway, and Koopa Cape are all the bomb imo. I also ran into hackers in a North America regional room. One was constantly changing his name to long twitch URLs, and the other was using some kind of picture to text for his system name. His name would block out the half of the screen whenever I was behind him trying to pass. They weren't using any item or speed hacks, just names. They were still very annoying though.

[@spaced8641]

Also the second hacker had the same Mii as the one you faced, so he could also be using a VPN or a hacked game. Thanks Nintendo for not implementing a report feature in a multiplayer online game :D

[@TheLovedGuy]

I like how he said funky kong won’t be added to Mario kart 8dx but I honestly don’t care and he has already been confirmed for MK8DX

[@SweetJP.]

Sir. The obstruction isn't something he's controlling :P. it's obscructing the right side of his character. If you stay on his left side, you'd have a lot more vision.

[@moth_farmer]

I've actually raced that guy before! He sent me a friend request and had an inappropriate meme as his profile picture. Nintendo should something about this...

[@weirdpersonv]

I actually fought against this guy once! His name keeps changing each race (and I think his flag aswell) Basically it either gets bigger/smaller or changes colour or both

[@fiodena8980]

9:53 I met this guy too, his name was giant compared to the others, but he didn't do any other strange things

[@blockmath_2048]

This is how Bloopers were intended to be

[@justinbremer2281]

I like how you aren't one of those streamers who throws a whole fit over anything but 1st

[@mariovenom3009]

Yeah I remember this hacker now when I encountered him He use some kind of hacks where every other players gets good items on item boxes

[@bangles7437]

Haha! Reminds me of being in servers with hackers on mkwii where you'd get hit by lightning a million times in a row. Pretty sad life you must have though hacking in a Worldwide server on Mario Kart 🤷

[@PikachuLover0927]

The fact that his name keeps changing makes this feel like a creepypasta

[@SqweegeeYT]

14:15 They’re called ‘Stilt Guys’ in Yoshi’s Island.

[@jacekmma]

Bruh I just made a video on my KZbin channel very recently (ok maybe not "very recently" but it was around this month I'm sure) about this incident. This time it was a different person with the same hacks. (Name and color hack).I think its cool but very irritating for people ESPECIALLY in a worldwide/regional where you gain vr for how well you do and then all of a sudden, some jerk completely tries to mess up your screen with a random color so that they can get a good spot because they think they are funny, very annoying. I really hope Nintendo responds about this, still, really good video!

[@ccost]

People are correct that its the name tag, in some text fields you can use code to make coloured names, kind of like minecrafts coulored text, he is using this code to make a huge gradient, it is actually just text. I wouldn't really call it a "hack" but it does give an unfair advantage.

[@Nick-yq5uz]

I wonder if he’s messing with the name size with some type of markup and that’s how he’s able to obstruct the screen with the red

[@Felipera_]

I play with that Brazilian Lim >_< all the time in regionals! Granted, as a Brazilian I play with the same 30 people basically every day I click Regional lol

[@aytelonne6866]

when you have the red screen, it looks like its part of his name, the fade start to the right of him (so the most left he is, the more the screen is red) and when he is behind you or he's to far to render his name, it disappear

[@Mr.Meme--AmityTheOctoling]

I have never encountered a hacker in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, although I've seen a player with a long name in a regional room, I have only seen a hacker in Mario Kart Wii like over 10 years ago. BTW I have been watching you since early 2013!

[@sunnyptc5083]

gotta respect how Troy knows his international flags

[@MissDahliaGames]

For real! 👏🏻

[@Rollergold4]

The Drybones Combo reminds me of POW 😁 @9:53 I've played against that person, he like to show off his exploits, seen him on other streamers streams, blocked him after the first race, I hear the exploit he is using isn't patchable but I wish Nintendo would drop the ban hammer on ass hats like them. You want to mod/hack your switch & game? Go for it AS LONG as those mods don't effect my gameplay, what that person was doing can & will affect other players in a negative way and he should be banned from online play as such.

[@ESaniX]

Definetly rosalinas ice world, so underated.

[@LadyNoriko]

Hackers are a pain in the ass, but at least they give you funny content lol

[@Juicer554]

4:22 I always pick Kalamari Desert but no one else seems to pick it

[@sqmicah6453]

22:50 as he says it's been nothing too crazy the hacker happens to jump from last to first on the mini-map

[@nickperez2438]

Not like 90% of the people he races uses subtle hacks just to keep up with him

[@Gooooooomba]

Yo Troy have you seen the world records on Mario kart 8 from the Wii? All the ghosts are hackers beating the race in 0.00001 seconds! You should make a video reacting to this! Guys like so he sees this if you want that video! 😊

[@TropicalFoggg]

the hackers who spam drop op items for everyone to use are fun af tho

[@Xyriizo]

his name was quashiee and that is a mk8 wii u time trialer hacker maybe its him

[@accountid9681]

nintendo needs to get their shit together when it comes to name length exploits. I would've thought they learned after twilight hack busted the wii open

[@VoxelPrismatic]

This appears to be a special character that affects the text rendering engine of MK8dx. Of course Nintendo does not clean these characters because you are never supposed to be able to type them anyway. The red filling half the screen was just a very large character of his name, which is why it only happened when his name was on screen.

[@jennifersheaknox1843]

That gives a new meaning to Tokyo blur

[@thatcriticvideo]

Bruh, the screen on my phone turned all green shaded and started flickering after you said "red and green screens of death" in the intro and i thought your video was some weird, corrupt thing. Turns out my phone was just bugging but still, WEIRD

[@danieester2788]

When wave 6 drops its gonna be only funky 😂😂

[@thedaychr]

That screen felt like having a concussion while driving.

[@65435]

Villagers Stats are better than Yoshis cause weight>traction

[@16ktsgamma]

This video was about the Dry Bones meta until I saw this hacker dude.

[@YaYoshi81_YT]

the hackers irl name is Jack he got banned from CTGP and midnight kart hopefully he can get banned from mk8 live, (I know him bc of twitch)

[@comet.x]

if it's just a name hack they might noy even know they're doing it

[@kaidyer8761]

Back then it was cool but now it just ruins the fun for everyone

[@starrstruck]

After everyone saying "It's only when you can see the hacker" I'm not so sure but it seemed like the red on the screen was following Troy's stick movements. But that might just be because the hacker was taking the same lines.

[@arshkhanlm3086]

Nintendo can take down fan made mods and rom sites for 30 year old games which they don't sell but not cheaters bruh

[@autumn7]

my guess is since the red shows only when he's nearby and on the course select whilst he has his name set as blank, is that its tied to his name?

[@OlaAremu]

I respect that the hacker played Wario!