Mistakes Were Made - The Console Security Marathon

[@AlAensland]

Mistakes Were Made: The Movie

[@mehr5821]

LMAO

[@_..-.._..-.._]

The Mr. Beast doc?

[@bmstylee]

Now featuring Starforce drm for your viewing pleasure.

[@shigshug8581]

ConsoleSins

[@Dhaos620]

Most untecipated movie ever

[@Christopher-md7tf]

The laws of KZbin dictate that you have to rename this video "Console Security Fails To Fall Asleep To"

[@dddanmar]

See you in eight hours zzZZzzz

[@weelzneal4768]

Ewww conformity

[@overlordalfredo]

Bro that's super rude 😢

[@weelzneal4768]

@@overlordalfredo nah its cliche and unoriginal

[@dvdtech]

I love DYKG videos because of that lol

[@ClassicGameHacking]

You should release this on physical media.

[@MAWK3]

Mistakes Were Made VHS edition would be dope!!

[@MicahtheDrumCorpsPseudoboomer]

and copy-protect it, too

[@CJinMono]

​​​@@MicahtheDrumCorpsPseudoboomer Is there even an open-source version of Macrovision's APS? I doubt they sell licenses still lol

[@minhcuonghuynh2768]

@@MicahtheDrumCorpsPseudoboomer that would be another Mistake being made about how the MWM VHS tape was copied illegally.

[@ClassicGameHacking]

@@MicahtheDrumCorpsPseudoboomer lol

[@SomeOrangeCat]

I think it can be summed up as: DRM, even the original paper-based copy protection, did nothing but punish the people who bought a legitimate copy of a game.

[@poil8351]

in many ways the old versions were far worse because if the got the code wrong then bad luck or if you unfortunately lost the manual you were basically stuffed.

[@SomeOrangeCat]

@@poil8351 Yeah, like those damned code wheels.

[@ChannelSho]

I liked the approach with Spyro 3: it was basically transparent to legitimate owners and the developers understood that they just needed something to delay cracking long enough for sales to fall off the initial spike.

[@Sekhmmett]

Indeed

[@liqd]

see 13:20

[@AlashAls]

Never thought MVG will release a movie

[@narayanbandodker5482]

Sleep content hype train

[@ameeralm1]

like bro just uploaded a short vid a week ago now a 2 hour vid 😭😭 respect 4 the grind

[@jaz093]

Merge together existing videos, easy content to make

[@MrRichyRich213]

Lol this comment popped up as I clicked on the video to see how long it was 😂

[@oroville12345]

​@@jaz093My thoughts exactly.

[@Sharan25]

The Wii Homebrew scene is just my favourite modding scene

[@dlte239]

Mine is the PSP.

[@YoCroky]

@@dlte239 mine is psp vita and 3ds

[@Genotypic-and-Genes]

Mines the ps2 and psp since these are the only 2 consoles i owned as kid and i still have them until now

[@kenrickeason]

The Wii is my favorite console when it comes to modding.. The Wii U is a close second.. The Wii did things it wasn't intended to do.. Endless amount of emulators, it played DVDs *"Wiis before 2009 had a DVD drive in them while the 2009 and up models had different drives that didn't play DVDs but the alternative to that is buy an external DVD drive that use USB connection"* , a few music apps that let you stream music online or play backup music that you own, LET YOU BACKUP YOUR GAMES THAT YOU OWN and USB loader is just perfection.. The only thing I hated about the Wii was that it wasn't HD..

[@kneel1]

it was so much fun, i got the wiikey as soon as it was released. I sadly sold that wii but softmodded my next one and the wiiU of of course too

[@RenHeika]

It's crazy to me how people even figure these things out. I love hardware and coding but the ingenuity and understanding of these systems is crazy impressive.

[@MIDNITE69]

Finally embracing those of us who wanna sleep with Modern Vintage Gamer EDIT: As in "fall asleep to"!

[@overlordh1254]

👀 sounds fun

[@ipeed]

lol

[@James-gj8rn]

i actually think i'll binge all these again now that a compilation exists this is still the BEST series on KZbin!!

[@somebody1930]

Its always interesting to see how big companies security which millions were invested in is defeated by hobbyists

[@garystinten9339]

Clearly either secure enough to be found out or sheer incompetence

[@GNUGradyn]

It's definitely a result of the fact that the hackers basically have infinity fuckups as they can always try again vs the security developers who get 1.

[@ToxicMothBoi]

Meanwhile the xbox one is still unhacked somehow???? I'm still so confused about thw XBOX being the o ly unhacked console so far

[@SweBeach2023]

@@ToxicMothBoi Microsoft knows A LOT about security.

[@SweBeach2023]

It's very hard to protect against an attack if the attacker have full physical access to the system.

[@UntLion]

A compilation episode? Hell yeah! I need to get some popcorn.

[@Sir_Uncle_Ned]

I would like to see a "Mistakes Were Made" video on the Nintendo Switch. There is a rather large hardware exploit in the launch model thanks to the Tegra RCM functionality being left enabled.

[@LEMONedOblaat]

One of my first jobs as a young teenager was working at an "anime store" I spent pretty much the entire day installing mod chips and mod switches on Playstations. It was a good gig, first pick of alot of Japanese games that came through too!

[@spladam3845]

This video is a treasure of video game history, thank you Lantus.

[@ChannelSho]

The bit about an ARM processor in the Wii highlights a sort of dark age of computers: in most modern computer systems, the main CPU doesn't control the system. It's a microcontroller somewhere else that decides when you can power on, when you can boot, and when you can use it. On the flipside, if you can control said microcontroller, you basically own the system. So it's just kicking the can down the road.

[@eldarkojim6062]

Hi! I'd like to inform you that there is an italian channel called "DallaTV" that is bringing the same format as yours about how consoles were hacked in the first place, and it is using parts of your videos. I don't believe that you authorized him, and I don't believe that this could be called fair use. Just tought you might find it useful

[@AthanImmortal]

This series is by far my favourite of yours. Hopefully putting them together in a single video nets you some more views on these great deep dives. I still think the Wii Tweezers was my absolute favourite.

[@franciscosoares2440]

It had me wiizing

[@RunningMan1414]

Everybody going with the new youtube meta of long compilation videos after Spiffing Brit's findings 😂

[@komidanohitouko]

Good! (autistic me likes long form videos, thanks Spiffing Brit!)

[@TheGentleCreepers]

*"MISTAKES WERE MADE."* My Dad to Me.

[@potatoMethod]

Now this is what I needed today since it is "main room + server cable management" day!

[@sjoervanderploeg4340]

That library day rental fee paid itself back so fast in high school :D

[@looneyburgmusic]

Would think by now there would be a law that modern consoles, which are actually dedicated computers, can't be locked down forever by the manufacturer, that causes stupid levels of E-waste which is simply unsustainable.

[@kenrickeason]

In the states they have a law that companies can't lock their phones down forever.. They must unlock them at a certain time frame.. I think it's time for a law for consoles and home PCs to do the same..

[@mattymatt2323]

Pirating games back in the day was far more fun than playing them

[@mwitters1]

Fantastic video! I've been modding my consoles since I paid the guy who ran my local video game rental store to instal a Magic 3 mod chip on my phat PS2., it was so sick, no swap and capable of playing any burned games discs. You could rent PS2 games and use any old burner to make a direct copy and it just booted right up it was incredible. I went from paying $50 a game and only able to play a few games, to being able to rent games for $2, and burn the game onto a DVD. I had every single PS2 game out there. It was "magical" lol. I've since modded a gamecube, wii, switch, saturn (saroo), and wiiu. But it was the PS2 that was the coolest by far.

[@widrolo]

Man, i always loved the mistakes were made videos. Thanks for this movie.

[@mrwang420]

Time splitter was such a good game. Especially with that map maker. Icing on the cake.

[@slapnut892]

The more secure something is, the more likely someone will try and break in.

[@Psxpirate1]

LANTUS! I've been following you since the O.G. Xbox. Thanks for all your contributions to the Xbox and gaming community! Long Live Xbox!

[@ploed]

Love it! Please more of those long Videos. Plainly Difficult does also this, where he puts his entire Videos made in a Year to one Video.

[@309electronics5]

Its relaxing to watch this video menawhile with all the controversies and cancelling going on in the background on youtube. No troubles, just a movie about pirated games and consoles and hacking attempts! Perfect to watch when i am bored or have a long Travel

[@DrakeDaraitis]

Love this. Seen more of them individually but all together in order is awesome.

[@5speedfatty]

ive seen all these as individual episodes... but I needed some long form stuff to listen to while doing file operations on a server today, and im all the way to the Saturn! MVG never change brother, never change.

[@hollowneedles]

Thank you SO much for making this. I love having long videos to listen to while I'm working.

[@BradMurphy0]

Watched this over a time period of not quite 24 hours in segments, well worth the watch, thank you. Kind of upset that the Switch was not covered, but it's all good, this is an excellent look back at console hard and soft modding for homebrew and rips. Thank you!

[@mastropieros]

To honour this episode, I will use a downloader to get an offline copy of it and then share it vía the eDonkey network as a DVD-R iso

[@andresbravo2003]

Sometimes, you just Prepare for Disappointment.

[@greycluttereddesk9254]

Oh man! I remember doing the swap method, hahaha. I used a toothpick to hold that button down.

[@richie7425]

Brilliant video!! Spent all day hammering an aweful bug. This got me through it!

[@johnaraya3761]

what i love about how you make your vids and info boss-man is that their timeless, like it your info will never go old. Thank you for many years of learning from one of the best there is!

[@vanguardian3439]

words cannot describe how long ive been waiting for this video, thanks mvg

[@tim3172]

To quote the Baz Luhrmann Great Gatsby Movie: "The ban on alcohol had backfired; making the liquor cheaper. The tempo of the city approached... hysteria."

[@j.a.8224]

"Mistakes Were Made", AKA "Our security will stop reverse-engineering"- Every console manufacturer CEO

[@kbramlett6877]

The one thing that has always amazed me about MOD chips is that there are a zillion solder points on a system's motherboard and how it was figured out which ones needed to be connected to the MOD chip.

[@309electronics5]

People do literally everything just so they can play their pirated/burned games. Crazy right?!

[@KegRaider]

These same people approach anything with the same curiosity. "How does it work?". They then proceed to either removing components from the circuits or tapping into the data flow. Older gen stuff was LOT easier to bypass clearly, but in the end they want to know what makes it tick.

[@rusi6219]

All you need is the chip documentation and then apply boolean algebra

[@balakehb]

I usually watch these back to back anyways, having it in one massive video is amazing!

[@nobotious]

fairly certain I've watched all of these parts on their separate. love this kind of content!

[@uhoh4961]

This is amazing. Thank you so much. More mega mixes please 🥺

[@jolness1]

Have watched all of these multiple times. Still watching again. Such a great series.

[@DarkH4X0]

Now I'm waiting for "Mistakes were not made: Xbox One story"

[@CleetusTheGamer]

This entire series is perfect to watch. It’s interesting to see how much money these big gaming companies put into there security yet they still get cracked. Fantastic series mate, cheers !

[@Zarnubius]

58:03 what a legendary time to witness, I remember following it religiously on qjnet from 1.50 thru 3.71. It was so exciting to keep up and be witness to it, not knowing how big a part of homebrew history was being made. I remember for what seemed like forever, we all thought that the homebrew scene was locked out to only those who were committed enough to never update and miss out on new game releases, until the tif/png exploit. thank you to all the OG's who were there and made it happen. As a dirt poor middle schooler living in a trailer and constantly lonely, it was great to be part of a bigger community and have tons of access to emulators without having to buy more expensive games, it really helped me through a tough time.

[@alirezaroustazadeh6535]

MVG, please keep using the music at 14:08 in perpetuity in your videos. For me not only its the coolest track that goes perfectly with your content and brings back the nostalgia of my childhood, but also a great standard signature trade mark of your channel

[@ToxicMothBoi]

Thanks now i can learn all this stuff i have already learned, what a blessing

[@ifiig8220]

3ds mod and homebrew scene is the absolute best.

[@voidmain7902]

MVG should absolutely make a video about how 3DS security was defeated in general. He made a video on Cubic Ninja but somehow not a comprehensive review of other interesting developments.

[@QsTechService1]

Awesome video explaining everything brings back so many memories

[@gabscamps1]

eagerly waiting for "Mistakes Were Made - Nintendo Switch 2"

[@SHGames97]

FINALLY, replacing the MVG playlist in random order I made to sleep to with this MVG curated masterpiece. Thank you good sir!

[@christophervillegasmora3031]

MVG, this is one of the best videos of your channel, pretty insightful and interesting !

[@reifzhong4093]

I am happy to see so many Mistakes in a single video 😂

[@PSHomebrew]

i miss these videos :(.. the music kept me hooked in the video..

[@pAirA_]

Mate, I literally fall asleep to these but the videos were too short. Thanks a bunch!

[@etansivad]

Holy shit, this gonna be good. One mystery I've always wondered about the buffer overflow exploit for PsP is why would it work sometimes but not always? Kernel cookies? Memory being in just the right arrangement? Always fascinated me. Thank you for posting this.

[@Roach1]

i love this mvg, do you think you'd be able to make a marathon of anti piracy?

[@rdmrocha]

Love these deep dives, specially for a fellow 80s born dev that also lived through the scene!

[@timwilliams1910]

Oh man... Saw Tmbinc pop up while on the GameCube topic... Talk about unlocking a forgotten memory. Was really big into modding since the OG Xbox , PSP, and Xbox 360. Good to see X-S is still online too

[@AurynTwo]

I am 50+ years old so my beginnings was on consoles (the Philips Videopac G7000 / Magnavox Odyssey 2) and I even imported games from Japan to play even if I could not read them. I was a collector and then started hording games with piracy in parallel because it wasn't always easy to even get your hands on an orginal and it all started when i got my first Super Wild card for SNES from a friend. Even if i was using (but not owning) PC when i was young I was hearing all the time that you need to update your PC continuesly if you wanted to play the newest games (what wasn't really true) so i never really bothered to play on PC especially because i was happy with my consoles. The advent of CD/DVD started putting a damper on my gaming experience because of the loading times (you can not imagine how i hate the doors in Resident Evil games as example) but still the games was fun and diverse. I then started play on PC and actually never really stopped even if now a day, i really don't know what to play. I stopped buying consoles some years back and i think i will never go back to it. All the installation times, the patches and F stupid programming are putting me of. What i mean with F stupid programming?? I think it was with the last of us 2 on PS4. You have an installation disc and a gaming disc. I put the installation disc in and need to wait 20 minutes to install that. I get the message to put the game disc in, i do so and i see that it is in the wrong language so i change it. What the game tells me?? To insert the install disc and wait 10 minutes more. Then when i want to play, it wants to update. 45 Minutes have passed before i could start play. So for what exactly do i need console?? The best of a console was that you was ready to play a game within 5 minutes including installing the system. Apart that, remember PAL games for SNES or PS1 where one of the first things you see is flags to choose your language?? Why did we lose those starting from PS2? Why is there not an option (to my knowledge) where you choose your prefered language in the menu of the console if it is so advanced? Why did the installation disc of the last of us 2 didn't ask me for that language i want?? Is that too much to ask?? If my memory isn't wrong, when i tried to say not to the update, it didn't let me start the game so why ask me at all?? Nintendo was done with me with the Switch, it is to small (power) for home and to big (size) to be portable so how i travel. It is not about software, it is about hardware. At the moment i have no plans to buy PS5, bought PS4 only for Horizon and Microsoft isn't in my home since Xbox360. Do i mean that those consoles are bad? No, but i don't see any motive to buy a console anymore. You want to tell me about emulation of consoles in other consoles?? I don't know, I think that every console i have apart the PS4 are modded and even if i have the parts to update some consoles or mod the view that are not (saying example i have a PS2 with HDD and modchip already but have the things to mod another with FMB and SDD), i can not really find a motivation to do it. When as example Dark Alex was active, i was on top of the game, i new what would work with that, had the battery in my hands and knew what the newest HEN was, what firnware was possible to use etc.. Now i would need to start over and probably spend a time checking my systems, batteries and study the newest ways to to mod the PSP. Last but not least, maybe a smaller problem but still a problem is game formats and what is the correct one. What i mean is that some emulators want the game in this format but the other emulator what it in the other format. Or example you download a game, check it with a rom organizer or checker like AGBx (the one for x360) and it tells you that it is a bad dump but 1) it works anyway on an emulator or the console 2) it was example from a "good reputation" collection. I think it is just to much time/work for for what you get and even if it would be interesting to see the homebrew games, it is probably even less worth my time. I think that gaming is loosing a lot of "attractiveness" in the past years and especially the consoles. I am tired of my "console" being the center of my home, i don't need my console to have a browser, i have a pc, i don't need my console to be playing DVD/BD, i have a DVD/BD player. Software is not really better, i don't need every game to be open world, i don't need every survival game to be the same, i don't need my game to be 100 hours long for a story you could have told me in 5 minutes. Last but not least, i would like devs to release games without bugs and be ashamed if they need to update the game because it means they didn't do their job right especially in console! Because of all of this, i think that piracy is slowing down as well.

[@GameBacardi]

Peter Jackson would be proud of you @ModernVintageGamer

[@AndrewDasilvaPLT]

Man, I just love that dungeon sounding theme used in his videos.

[@vidman5000]

Over an hour in. Man, this is some great stuff. I never got into the mod scene, but I appreciate those modders that have uncharted new territory and given us some great emulators, in turn.

[@felixpellerin7741]

I don't know why, but I needed this.

[@Jero...]

At the Ps2 Segment , i miss the story about the first original HD-Loader, which was a bootable Disc (for not modded consoles) which allowed installing and booting games on/of the HDD which rises the prices from the lan adapters.

[@lardogaming6942]

Most of these i got to watch as i was having my breakfast this will be really nice to listen through out my work shift

[@DavitTheCore]

The most anticipated movie ever

[@turismofoegaming8806]

I still love the Vita in 2024!!! Definitely one of my favorite Handheld/Game Consoles of All Time!! Got one in 2013-2014 originally and I have loved my time with it!! I now have 3 of em, and would have a few more if I were not so BROKE these days..... Great Video MVG!!

[@nicco1295]

Those were the days... Modding is really a passion that time...

[@WhiteJarrah]

Uploaded 5min ago. Don't usually catch these so early.

[@TacticalBurritoSystem]

FTFY MVG: "While I was involved in the homebrew scene, I cannot confirm or deny my involvement in defeating anti-tamper systems for the purpose of just doing it for fun."

[@neroultimate1]

Perfect video to listen to while I do my route

[@HenrikDanielsson]

And after all this... - Valve: "Here you go, have fun!"

[@DeadSpecimen]

My favorite series on youtube hands down

[@iamyoung4eva21]

Something about MVG on a monday morning with a 2 hour video hits!

[@mordekai_wilde]

Nah, I have a playlist just like this, and you've made it into a full video. You legend.

[@devonwilliams5738]

There's so many games out there that nobody would be reasonably able to play on real hardware without these exploits.

[@jonhoyles714]

going back some years i used to grab a lot of games from usenet servers as backups and also used the swap magic on the ps2 slim with a small plastic part to allow the drive run with it open sure i had a shoe box full of backups lol :) fun times iam sure i even had all the tools to rebuild a iso to swap magic format :)

[@thecastiel69]

No mistakes were made here until..... There will be a new Mistakes were Made video

[@superqaxclub]

But this is not new, it's just compilation of old videos

[@minhcuonghuynh2768]

Now we need Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5 (and maybe Dreamcast) to complete the list.

[@tearedcrystal2318]

​​@@minhcuonghuynh2768I believe he already did a video about the Dreamcast and how homebrew/piracy was easy due to the MIL-CD oversight

[@doigt6590]

@@minhcuonghuynh2768 The dreamcast will be very short: "oops mil-cd" is basically the whole story

[@imperia777]

Dr. Abrasive - absolute genius

[@quecreations3244]

31:48 - Swap Magic sounds very similar to the GameShark swap trick before the Messiah chip came out. The only catch was that the game had to be on a CD-R, so many DVD games were modified to fit on a CD. Those were fun times!

[@sylvainc8146]

6:14 I knew about the PlayStation Hack, but not this one! However, I remember a documentation with the Scrambler/De-Scrambler source code for the PlayStation 2, the author only managed to make a dump, but not to reproduce in burning, but this documentation was very informative. For the Playstation 2 and the Boot of a KELF, all this started with the release of the Memor32, I still remember this teasing with this small 36cm cathode ray screen and an original memory card "with a modification containing a tablecloth". I remain convinced that they had known about this possibility for several years, but they preferred to wait until the end of the console's life. jimmikaelkael being French, I still remember the hours of exchanges on MSN and first test on carrying out an encryption/decryption of a KELF, I could even complement this superb video of how they managed to do it !

[@NeedlefishGames]

A feature length video about console modding? Glorious

[@michaelmayhem350]

Already watched all of these individuals but imma watch this entire thing anyway because he makes great content so gotta support with the watch time.

[@user-mw1li1jk8h]

Nice. I always used to come back to these videos. One thing tho: You should have included the Star Force and SecuRom videos in here, for sure. As a "Honorable Mentionş" at the end of the marathon. You could have also included all the "sketchy" security measures on the Amiga and C64 etc..... But I guess that is up for another marathon video.

[@kota5437]

Really awesome video, i love Marathon video as i can watch them throughout the day even if they were watched already. Did you plan to do marathon video based on gaming system ?

[@tnaplastic2182]

35:20 It is NOT "patched to be multi-session", but the "UDF-Tree" is patched to contain DVD-Video-content (first IFOs) - which the ESR spaghetti code rebuilds during runtime from the ISO9660 Tree - as well as the "+NSR-Sector" (LBA25), to differentiate between Video-DVD and ESR-Disc. The newer FDVDB-ESR-Patcher-GUI actually includes FDVDB + an ESR-Mini ELF as the Video-DVD files, to achieve Autoboot-backups running from disc without any other exploit being required!

[@kingpolt98]

Awesome video as always! Thank for all the work you put into this! It nice all this history is being preserved in your videos.

[@charleecee6201]

One of the absolutely best Channels. Thank you for your content. You have a great talent

[@methos4866]

CFW was the whole reason i even bought Lumines on the PSP. Got lucky and managed to fish it out of a bargain bin at a toy store for €10 back in the day.

[@メ̈̇̃]

When you hear that background music that's when you know that it'll be a good video

[@sp5141]

A quick little video to watch while I eat my dinner. Really slow. Thanks!

[@michelle5for]

MVG King of my bed time stories hahaha.

[@paulriddell6512]

Great binge watch whilst at work!

[@realitygamer3524]

already watched all of these, and loved all of them. i'm absolutely going to use this to fall asleep later