Fake Super Mario 64 World Record Caught After 12 Years 

I've had some time off this month but I've got some really cool vids planned for April. Hope you've all been well. Please go and listen to the amazing series Songs of Chaos: link.michaelrmiller.co.uk/KarlJobst

Mario, blink 2 frames early if you're in a spliced run.

you either die a speedrunning hero or live long enough to see Karl Jobst make a video about you...

Queenpwnsalot simp/husband or w/e: "Why is her blindfold run being looked at with the highest of scrutiny compared to everyone else?" Speedrunning community: Lets take a look at a Super Mario 64 record from 12 years ago and pay attention to the 64th frame blink.

I really love how formal Karl sounds. For me, it feels like I'm in a business meeting and my boss is talking to me about speedrunning.

I giggle every time I see "Billy Mitchell" in the list of patrons.

Dude held his spliced record unnoticed for 12 years. Ghost of Tsukushima

I love the phrase "SM64 scientist Pannenkoek". So absurd-sounding, such a perfect descriptor.

"Looking for anomalies in the" -Splice- "audio track." I saw what you did there. I appreciated it.

Maybe the real cheated speedruns were the frames we spliced along the way

Cheater: You can't defeat me. Audacity: I know, but he can. Mario: *blinking*

Love the word choice “ancient” for gaming context. For historians we use approximately 2000 years ago

I love how pannekoek is referred to as the residential sm64 scientist lmao

I see ‘Fake World Record’ , I click

If shigeru has been proven to not splice his runs, and he achieved tsukishima cycle shortly after the faked run, i think we should call it shigeru cycle from now on!

I'm a Show-off, I love showing off my Ability in something... the thought of faking it and then putting my performance out to the masses to see "My Achievement" makes me physically ill.

Bro literally got caught by the old "Blink twice if you're held against your will"

I bet when making Super Mario 64 that whoever was involved with making the blinking animations thought it would just be a cool little detail that might not be noticed or appreciated. Only to have it be the key detail that exposes Speed runners decades after the games release.

its nuts how people know so much about this game that they now have an essentially bulletproof way to detect splicing based off of the player character blinking. insane.

Its nice to see a sponsor thats actually good. I loved the first 2 books in the series and ill read book 3 soon.

i’m afraid of people who can memorize frames and compare it to gameplay even if i am doing nothing wrong

There's going to be a point where cheating detecting is so advanced scores from the 1800s are going to be absolutely pounded

Quite litereally a "blink and you'll miss it" way to find splices.

Was literally thinking earlier today how I hadn’t seen a new Jobst video in a while and here is a new video! Great insight as usual, who would’ve thought the way they programmed Mario’s eye blinks would be so important nearly 30 years later!!

I was waiting for when you covered this discovery, it amused me how such a small animation detail can uncover so much in the case of cheaters.

At this point ways of catching cheaters in speedrunning has become an art in of itself.

It’s like cracking a cold case. They think they can get away but someone’s always watching.

Man, even though I knew about this method I still watched the whole video and the 12 minutes flew by. That's why you're one of the very few channels that I'm subscribed to and have "rung the bell" so I see every video you post. I've literally watched every video on your channel and I consider it time well spent. Also, big congratulations on 1M subs - I don't remember how many you had when I initially subscribed (I want to say I remember it being sub 100k? I remember I first started watching when you did your first Doom Eternal video and then uploaded a Celeste video next and from there I was hookeD) but that's an insane milestone and you 100% deserve it. All the best from across the gap in NZ, Ashfold.

Glad you're back. I was just checking yesterday to see if I missed anything and saw that it had been a while.

Drogie: I'll protect the cheater's privacy and call him Hasu64. Karl: *TSUKISHIMA*

This is the speedrunning equivalent of genetic genealogy being used to solve 50+ year old crimes. Fascinating stuff.

I’ve seen every video now that you’ve done in the last 3-4 years, at least within 24 hours of the upload. I love your channel

"How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old man?!"

kinda funny that Drogie went out of his way to not name the cheater but then Jobst airs him out without a care in the world.

The weird thing is that Pannenkoek made the blinking video a long time ago, including the mechanics of blinking. Surprising that it took much longer to translate that into an anticheat tool.

Dude! That Donkey Kong Country 2 music in the background was an EXCEPTIONAL choice. Talk about memories…. Thank you so much

Another amazing video, as usual. Thanks for the content!

I read 12 years later My mind: ooh so 2005 Reality: 2011 Me: 😮😮

Far more sophisticated than Billy Mitchell's work

Videos like this are why I love this channel so much. I learn cool new esoteric things about video games and speedrunning that I never even considered before!

I love that the audio was cut together while you were explaining splicing

"Mario 64 Scientist" Now wait just a damn min- "Pannenkoek" P r o c e e d.

Thanks for helping to spread the word on Songs of Chaos, Karl! A big thank you from me to anyone who checks the books out. I really hope you enjoy them :D

Hi you absolute legend..I love your vids but i didnt see any outlat speedrunning videos and i think the scene there really deserves some recognitions

Super entertaining video! Really clever technique, I wonder if there are any other hidden ways yet to be discovered.

Mario blinks every 64 frames. Damn, the devs were really having fun with the hidden references. I wonder how many more values they just set at 64 in the game.

That's crazy to me. Who would think about checking the blinking of Mario of all things to find splices

Keep it up. I heard about this a couple weeks ago. Thanks for the signal boost on some stuff

I love how you break down the cheat and the discovery methods from a technical perspective. Keep doing what you do ♥

“Remember, no speed runner wants to be exposed by Karl Jobst”

What pisses me off the most in cases like this is that the guy clearly had the skill to speedrun at a high level but either got impatient or greedy. I'm sure if there was a solid system in place to easily detect fake runs speedrunning would have another big surge in popularity but sadly we live in a world where Karl Jobst delivers great vids exposing a small amount of the caught cheaters, at least we get that positive out of it.

I can't believe the speed running community counts the number of blinks Mario does an entire run to confirm or deny a world record. That's some next level dedication

excellent video! Its interesting to see how far speedrunning anti-cheat detection has come over the years!

Cheaters don't deserve anything named after them. Remove Tsukishima cycle, and replace it with Blink-and-you-will-miss-it cycle. :)

Tsukishima Cycle? More like Splicer Shuffle

1:39 “Historically, the most common way to detect splicing is by looking for anomalies in the” *audio splice* “audio track.” Very smooth, Karl

Love these! Thanks man!

Just like Link is called Thief once you steal something in the shop, we should call the cycle the "Cheater Cycle" now.

Drogie: “I’m not going to give their name bc they’ve already been punished” Karl: “Yeah so here’s a picture of his house” 😂

Karl, you Absolute Legend. I've started to worry, and just last night found out what you've been going through recently. I wish you the best of health and lots of time to rest up with your family! Thank you for your perseverance and work! Take good care of yourself!

Wait that's actually kinda cool how actual books are giving out sponsors. At first I thought it was just an audible ad lol.

This makes me feel a bit sad, because even though cheat finding methods have been advancing, this shows that even old scores can stick around for this long, and cheating methods themselves also advance. It's important to keep increasing standards for speedrunning and challenge running that makes cheating more unlikely. Finding that stuff from blinking is very genius, really shows how deeply runners understand the games they play. Thanks for the video!

I on and off follow different Speed Runners, but I can't get enough of these dramas. Not especially because of the drama, but because I admire the dedication of the speed running community to come up with all these ideas to fight cheating. The depth of the knowledge is astounding. Just crazy. So inspiring :)

They should change the name to "blink cycle," lol. Great video, as always, mate. Thank you.

"I did not cheat, its bOolshit! Im not a cheater, i did NAHT." "Oh hey karl jobst." *edit* I really can't believe so many of you guys know about The Room. In fact I don't BELIEVE this many people know about The Room

You want the truth? Just look into Mario’s eyes.

Massive shoutout, to actually having a sponsorship, that potentially could get some people to read a book (if they dont listen to the audiobook)

Glad I could watch Drogie's video first and then watch this one and get some new things out of it. That's why I like this channel: There's always a proper amount of Karl's own research and explanation put into the videos.

Grats on 1 mill subs Karl!

This is shocking with someone who was supposed to be a foundation for SM64 speed running

Looking at spectrograms of the audio is genius! We use similar tech to detect seizures from changes in brain wave frequencies.

so crazy, it's great to see this stuff coming to light!!

pannenkoek being called a super mario 64 scientist is so funny

It's always fascinating to see how the smallest detail snowballs into the complete deconstruction of a record. Also hope you're doing well after the surgery Karl!

5:40: Audio irregularity in your audio irregularity. Recursion.

thank you for this video karl. im so happy you uploaded

I'm sorry to say Karl, but there is another explanation for Mario's inconsistent blinking. His game cartridge was dirty, and we all know dirty cartridges can cause all sorts of weird scenarios. It explains every single time a "cheated" moment pops up. Ps. This is 100% sarcasm

YAY!! Just noticed the 1 million. You deserve every single one of them with your hard work. Gratz man!

This is awesome!! I love the thinking outside the box!

I rarely ever click on ads, but you got me here. Good sponsorship choice. Never had an audible subscription. Starting the Ascendant audio book right now. Cheers!

12 years without getting exposed is crazy.

cheater: *cheats* cheater when they get caught: guys i swear i wasn’t cheating

Was not expecting a pannenkoek name drop here but hell yeah I’m glad people are discovering him.

the level of commitment, expertise, investigation and detail of your videos (and the entire community) never ceases to amaze me. i always had great admiration and fascination for speedrunners and never realized how deep some of these rabbitholes go. even for legitimate runs, so let alone the cheating part of things. thanks for the outstanding content. you have an extremely well balanced format (in all of your videos) that goes into the lore, detail and history to the point it's understandable for anyone with hardly any prior knowledge like myself.

Always look forward to a video from Karl!

in the current online landscape of streaming and pro gaming being a highly popular and financially lucrative thing, cheating in a game is like robbing a bank with no possibility of jail time. bad people can just cash out big time by being fake (and they are) and theres probably a LOT of people on twitch and youtube cheating right now. some of the biggest creators have been caught cheating, and even in huge tournaments theres people caught cheating.

I’ve been scratching at my arms and pulling my hair waiting for Karl to throw more videos out. These are like Crack, please post more 😭

I saw this Thumbnail, and Karl, and I clicked thinking to myself " oooohh, he got another one." Love it.

Congratulations to 1 mil subscribers. Always enjoy your videos.

whilst it makes sense it was just forgotten due to how short it lasted and such, i do find it interesting this record wasn't mentioned at all in summoning salt's 16 star video, where he specifically said he wouldn't mention cheated runs, yet it of course wasn't known as cheated at the time

Thanks for the upload, most insightful.

I really like that you were sponsored by a specific like book series. That's so cool

My friends, it just keeps happening- Wait, wrong speedrun channel.

I love watching these videos, they are so informative, I love speedruns but I don’t speedrun myself because I lack the skill and patience, but even after watching hundreds of these across the years I still cant really tell if a run is fake or not, it amazes me to see how the community is so dedicated and talented to notice even the smaller details, thanks a bunch Karl you always tech me new stuff.

Missed you, Karl! Great video!

At 10:20 with the healthbar moving you can also see the timer lingering on 36.7 just a bit longer than the other numbers. its a fraction but noticeable.

Here to feel like an absolute legend

Grats on the 1M subs, stoked for you man.

Wow. It's amazing what simple details go overlooked for so long, only to become important later.

I'm glad you're recovering and back to work.