10 NASTY Ways Video Game CHEATERS Were Punished (PART 2) 

Honestly the guy that creates the csgo mod that hurts cheaters is a madlad and a genius

My favorite way cheaters get punished is when someone beats them legitimately. It's so satisfying to see them lose despite cheating.

The cloaking thing mentioned in number ten cracked me up. I just have this image in my brain of the cheating player appearing in a level and seeing everyone else cloaking predator style and just thinking “oh sh*t”

I remember the Martin Fury shirt. The thing is, he didn’t only use it in Raids but also PVP. We were so pissed because he would just walk across the map and we were all instakilled almost the moment he came into our line of sight. Was so glad to see that PoS banned

ScriptKid is proof that not all heroes wear capes, I hope they're doing well wherever they are. Also the people that download the "cheats" are lucky he wasn't malicious about it and only pranked them because someone with other intentions could have definitely wreaked some havoc

Fromsoft also did make cheaters only match with others. The problem was that their anti-cheat was bad and didn't detect most of cheaters 😅

I really miss cheats in single player games! Whether it was a spot you just couldn't get past or you just wanted to mess around, having the option really improved games.

Other game companies: Cheating? Your account has been suspended. Hoyoverse: Cheating? Your LIFE has been suspended!

I still really love how Game Developer Tycoon dealt with pirates / cheaters: in-game you'd go bankrupt because your game would be pirated so much it was impossible to make a profit. Led to a lot of people complaining online it was "impossible to make money because of pirates" and such and the developers literally laughing at them.

Doing the lord’s work. Cheaters getting what they deserve is so satisfying

I've been the one to vote a bot out of RuneScape. It was definitely a bot. So I got to choose from the punishments. It was fun.

The more creative the punishment is, the better it is, especially if it ends up here for everyone else's enjoyment.

If only more devs did this on all platforms, dealing with hackers that aren't even on your skill level, is just sad. No heart at all

Script kid is a diabolical genius. Love his videos

the bad egg isnt just for cheating it also happens when the code of a random pokemon becomes corrupt which is why it causes saves to get corrupted

Separating toxic\cheating gamers into their own crap servers is perfect. You put them all together and let 'em bother each other and the regular servers stay clean. The trash takes itself out.

I don’t think I’ve encountered any cheaters in MW2, and if I did i didn’t notice so they were either removed or penalized in some way. Ricochet seems to work

A sequel after 7 years ! Thanks for that 🎉🎉🎉🎉

I love that topic! There are so cool things like in the Serious Sam series and many more!

Honestly, the amount of bots in Runescape (Old School in this case) is unimaginable... since the in-game economy is player driven, the bots actually have a huge impact on it by farming loads of high value items, saturating the market, causing the prices to go way down. It might seem like a good thing if you want to buy a certain item and you're not rich, but the way to make money in this game is to actually grind for such items so you can sell them for profit. In the end, it makes the grind even more tedious.

I get punishing people for cheating in multiplayer games. I really get that. Don't cheat in multiplayer games. That, big a-hole move. But... single player? Really?

Oh yeah, I remember seeing Scriptkid's videos. It was very funny. Not only is he cracked at making fake cheating softwares, his editing skills are on point too.

There should be a feature in games where if someone tries to cheat in multiplayer all their cheats and stuff is removed from their account and they have to start over, same should happen to leaderboard cheaters and tjey get removed from the leaderboard entirely

00:06 Oh, you don't say.. Where? In video games? He said it twice in 7 seconds 🤣

A cheat streamer got hit by ricochet and it does exactly what it says it does, also entertaining to watch him AND his friends go from laughing at it to rageing

Just blows my mind how u can come up with such quality lists every single day almost for YEARS.. never have gotten bored with your content .. I’m sure everyone agrees .. we look fwd to your video drops more than most lok

cheaters should get kicked to a easy bot lobby so they don't suspect anything.

Now I want to see "List of games humiliated/banned you from using their own cheat code in single player game"

Falcon: "Until we hear about a cheater and a firing squad..." Blizzard employee: "Urgh, firing squad, of course. Hey Bill! Put away the guillotine!"

Another Sunday treat from gameranx

These type of videos are so interesting to watch, you learn something every day for someone that loves video games.

You're creative ❤️ keep it up bro❤️

Last time I used cheats was in GTA San Andreas. I got to the mission with Madd Dogg on the roof and the game kept crashing. I had already did ALL the spray tags and gang territory takeovers. Literally lost a 40 hour+ save file..I learned my lesson the hard way SMH

Cheater - “What are you in for?” Criminal - “Murder, you?” Cheater - “I created cheats for a video game.” Criminal - “*gasp* you monster! Stay away from me!”

The Gameshark scenarios kinda showcase another reason why disc games were superior to cartridge games. You might lose a save but you can't mess up a disc for using GS. With cartridge not only will you end up losing a save, you can brick the entire ROM. Heck I didn't even use GS and my Zelda Link's Awakening is bricked because of an existing exploit within the game, so now textures are corrupted and deleting saves made no difference

"Botany Bay. Botany Bay! Oh, no! We've got to get out of here now. Damn!"

Lol I loved my GameShark back in the day! That entry was a POWERFUL shot of nostalgia ♥️

Just a slight note on Bad Egg. I've experimented with them in Gen 3 and 4, and messed around with them in Gen 5. Bad Eggs were more of a programming quirk than an actual cheat detection. They were pretty inconsistent in 3 and 4, even when the actions taken were completely illegal. I spawned in 6 completely illegal Pokemon in my party, and out of 100 spawns I got around 30 Bad Eggs. In the wild it was even rarer, most likely due to the inability to force things like Abilities, Attacks, and such onto the wild encounter. Don't remember too much of Gen 5, but I do remember it has better detection. I believe this was around the time when TPCI got seriously into competitive as well, so it makes sense that they'd want to have some type of cheat detection. A few years ago, Nintendo used the Bad Egg pretty effectively in Pokemon Home. Completely illegal Pokemon, such as Pokemon who were permanently transformed into a special form were detected and made into Bad Eggs to prevent them from ever being used again. Also, Gamesharks and Action Replays of the early 90s and 00s were very dangerous. For example, they had a switch that when pressed up would turn the device on and activate the cheats, while pressing it down would deactivate the device and the cheats. Because of how the Gameboy saved, if you saved your game while the device was active, it would save the data from the device as well, completing destroying the save file. I know this because my copy of Pokemon Blue only has glitchy Mew spawns for every fight. The console versions were a bit safer in general, but the inability to turn off any cheats due to the device being a disc was basically a disaster waiting to happen.

Falcon is the best! Love your vids and your takes!

The only RU-vid channel I don't mind watching ads for

I think the first anti-cheater implementation I saw in a game, was(maybe mentioned here before, sorry if so) the Goblin Bounty Hunter mob in final fantasy XI. Fishing bots were becoming a problem as the game continued, so these nasty goblins were added, to specifically hug the coastline or specific lakes where fishing bots had been reported. Back when they first came out, I remember they were just normal level for the area. However, I recall people didn't like fighting them, so SE eventually dialled back their strength since most bots were hardly strong enough characters to deal with a goblin. That and the player was of course afk running a script. I feel like it was effective too. Mostly I just see bots trying to level up in the starter zones, or yelling about rmt in the big towns. Now why anyone would need to buy gil in a 20 year old mmorpg, is beyond my comprehension... Aside from Goblins, the game already featured patrolling monsters, so being afk or not aware of your surroundings would be stupid and cost you hard-earned experience points and hours of work. It's a nice game, I like it.

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I look forward to these

When me and my brother were little (before we even knew about cheating in games) and played our first Pokemon game - Sapphire - we got a bad egg legitimately. There was a guy in the Sunken Ship that gave us the egg. We thought it was just a spooky thing.

Moral story: 1. Just don't cheat in video games. 2. Having skill issue? Just grind the game better. 3. Don't want to grind the game? Then just don't play it.

How's this for an idea for anticheat? If you're detected cheating, your inputs will become randomized and the randomizer shifts after every input so nobody can learn and memorize the new button prompts.

I absolutely love my action replay and GameShark. Just single player, not hurting no one.

The ricochet system from Warzone is straight up out of Camomo's play book when dealing with hackers

In Battlefield 2042 , we are on PS5 cross playing with PC. The mouse/keyboard problem notwithstanding, we have to deal with cheaters too.

I highly recommend anyone who hasn't seen ScriptKid videos, to go to his channel and watch them. You'll laugh yourself into tears, they're that funny. I've rewatched them all several times and still have to pause the video to catch my breath and wipe away tears from my eyes from laughing so hard. This kid is a genius, and it's beyond satisfying to watch cheaters get what they deserve.

I had a Gameshark and use to get the n64 magazine every month I never heard about the Donkey Kong 64 one, so I doubt that was true and fun fact the expansion pack came with that game. Gamer for 32 years love the vids keep up the great work.

Great vid 😀

been doing Valkyrie Profile 2 during my vacation last couple weeks. i found a couple cheats that were safe, and still allowed me to play normally. only things i did were max money and max crystals, since those are the worst things to farm

Gameranx: Leroy is a popular name in WoW. Captain America: I understood that reference!

Genshin might be a single player game but I'd guess that the cheats they got annoyed about were bypassing the gatcha elements of the game and thats how they make their money.

For DK64, I tried to use Gameshark and it wouldn't even load the game because the Gameshark made the game not able to see the required Expansion Pak. Without that, the game literally could not launch.

I remember way back in MapleStory before Nexon took over from Wizet there was a Ban Wave that happened and if you read the chat it would tell you who got banned and why. It got hilarious because people ended up making sport out of it. My favorite was "YouCantBanMe got banned because we can" I remember just sitting in Orbis tower for an hour just reading these as they came in. Hacking was a huge problem in the game back then, everyone was using vacuum hacks and bots.

Gee I think I’ll watch part 1 before I watch part 2! *goes through 7 years worth of videos*

Number two reminds me of the South Park episode where a single player keeps destroying everyone so the developers give the gang an overpowered sword to defeat him.

this is great stuff

Only thing I’d potentially defend about cheating in Pokémon, is getting event pokemon for events you couldn’t possibly attend.

Cheating in singleplayer games? Go for it bud! Cheating in multiplayer games? That's just sad lmao.

Leroy got the tshirt from one of the ingame giftboxes, alot of guildmates passed the shirt round to help them complete alot of the harder quests. but yea game gave him the shirt and eventual ban.

Wow. I feel bad just watching walkthroughs on YT. I couldn't imagine this kind of thing.

Can you imagine telling other inmates that you’re in for cheating on a video game? 😂

Omg i thought people forgot about Battlefield 1942, my favorite game of all time along with the Desert Combat mod

Back in the day, late 90's/early 2000's, even cheating in single player was kinda considered taboo or just lame. I remember I had a friend who got stuck in MOH (iirc) the winter map. He was stuck because his computer would just lag out like crazy on that map, it was a very intense map (graphics wise) so I told him to just input the cheat code to skip the level. My roommate was appalled that I would suggest someone ever cheat, but I was like it's single player and he can't progress without it, isn't that what single player cheats are for?

Cheating in videogames should be met with zero tolerance. Instant banning and platforms and companies should communicate with one another banning them overall.

Playing Elden ring my first playthrough loving it got it recently watched ur reveiw , keep up the work

Just what I need a gameranx video to relax and probably sleep laughing cause of falcon

Keep going I love your videos

I heard GameShark ruined games when I was a kid but I never had any problems using one.

Ricochet: battling cheaters by cheating

When it comes to cheats and pirates the developers response can never be extreme enough.

7 was actually very effective. It gave people an obvious showing that something was being done instead of just leaving everyone guessing.

Overwhelming cheating is why I had to quit Warzone. It's another reason why I'm going back to single player offline games after work. Not to include the prices of the skins when I quit. I haven't even played the new map, and won't until they get the cheating in warzone under control.

I think a fun spin off of this video idea would be 10 games that welcomed cheats, like GTA San Andreas, THPS, Time Splinters 2, even Minecraft with it's whole 'cheats' menu.

In love with these videos

DYNG has talked to rare devs and about talked about the infinite health cheat issue in Donkey Kong, so if there was anything confirming it as intentional or not they would have found it. Their sense though is it's a bug in how infinite health affects the save file.

I don't know about the disk base versions of GameShark, but the cartridge base version does make sense. GameShark/GameGenie were designed to rewrite code to create different effects. I suppose with the new age of 3D modeling the GameShark could have devastating effects on the cartridge. Just speculating

*TRIPLE MURDERER* : What you in for Cheater: selling games cheats *TRIPLE MURDERER* : What?

Wow, was about to comment about how COD's anti-cheat sounded like they employed ScriptKid, then the next entry was him. Btw you forgot to mention that the dude paid his own money to get google ads to promote his 'cheat software' as the top result for anyone who searched for CSGO cheats, that's dedication lol

I love ScriptKid, his idea is genius

Not gonna lie I wasn't expecting that as number 1 from you guys. Tho do agree....I highly doubt anybody can beat that as the worst punishment.

Great idea for a video

Scriptkid has me on the floor. The one where they throw nades and they're bunched up in a shed is hysterical

There should be no punishments for single player games, you're not affecting anyone else but yourself and some people just do it to make it easier or to have fun exploring the game in new ways

The story continues

I got my brother's WoW account banned by going to the GM island. It was relatively easy considering videos existed teaching people how to get there. Funny thing is that they could've patched it so nobody could get there, but they didn't, so curious people went there anyway. When I went, there was literally nothing that can be done there, but still if you were caught being there by a GM, you were banned for it.

I bought Donkey KONG 64 off ebay for $120 and it was all bugged out. Now I know why.

As for the RuneScape one. There is/was another method for dealing with bots. Not sure if it was Jagex or the ones who bought out Jagex, but the skills you used while botting, gets reset, all your money vanishes (meaning you have to get it all over again), Spam bots were muted (some were perma muted) and the last straw was perma ban for the account. (been playing the game legit for 15 years)

The donkey Kong dance sent me 😂

Awesome shout out to script kid! His stuff is absolutely hilarious!

Pair cheaters with other cheaters (shadowbannong them essentially) will always be my favourite method of dealing with them. Hard for cheaters to realize since most aren't all that smart to begin with. Thus, it'll be longer until they realize and create a new account. But having cheaters deal almost no damage also sounds like a good option

Isnt affecting other saves similar to malware or some such? if so how was that legal, especially in a single player PS2 game?

Wow. 7 years for Part 2. On the Top Gun sequel schedule I see.

I had that exact copy of DK 64, never had any problems with it

I assume the DK64 gameshark corruption is similar to how the Pedestrian Riot code works in GTA SA, in that it doesn't disable properly when you turn off the game, or the gameshark code is written poorly and it underflows your health and has other knock-on effects

oh botany bay was great! i've seen some of those executions and i thought it was a great idea to give the bystanders a choice of execution... my, that was fun!

Being Sued and Jailed is just waaaaaaaayyyy too much